About the Game
Fix up a haunted ghost town!
Befriend terrifying monsters!
Solve lots of puzzles!
Listen to over 30 ridiculous original songs to learn crafting recipes!
Get your fortune told by a sandwich!
Mayor May Knott is a “creepy-cozy” 3D adventure game about a shy girl who accidentally becomes mayor of a haunted ghost town.
Initially, May runs in fear from the monsters lurking about! But as she explores the town, solves puzzles, plays minigames, and fixes up houses and buildings, she becomes more confident, overcomes her fears, and discovers that the monsters are actually all very friendly and would love to help May around town!
Eventually, with the help of her newfound friends, May turns the abandoned ghost town into a thriving community, filled with a variety of delightfully creepy creatures.
Over 30 Unique Characters!
Repair machines with Grandfather Clock, the clockwork retired rapper. Join Reel McKoi in fishing junk out of the polluted lake. Get your fortune read by the mysterious, sandwich-headed Madame Pastrami. And get insulted by Dick Tater, tyrannical owner of Glitzberg, the seedy apartment complex next door.
And that's just in the first 5 minutes!
Over 30 Ridiculous, Original, Professionally-Produced Songs!
Throughout the game, you'll find "records" to play on the Edjukebox in the Hall of Records. Those records teach you new recipes by playing original, professionally-produced songs spanning a huge range of genres -- from rap to rock, country to punk, girl-band to boy-band, and beyond!
Talk To Ghosts!
Early in the game, May finds and fixes up a device for talking to ghosts. An “Ectophone” if you will. With the Ectophone, May can talk to the many ghosts haunting the houses around town, and try to help them remember their names.
Listen to Records on the Edjukebox!
Once May knows a ghost’s name, she can find their “record” in the Hall of Records, a combination record store and city archives. The Hall of Records is also home to the “Edjukebox”, a machine used to play the original, professionally-produced song on each record!
By listening to a new record, May learns a new crafting or cooking recipe! This is called “Edjuke-ation”.
Cook and Craft!
Armed with the recipes from the Edjukebox, May can cook and craft exactly what each ghost needs to move on, leaving behind the key to their house!
Invite Monsters to Live in Your Town!
The game cycles between day and night, and monsters have their own schedules of things to do. Sometimes the secret to making a new friend is to catch them at the right time, meet them in the right place, or build up the courage to talk to them!
By getting house keys from ghosts, and giving them to the monsters you meet, you can make them permanent residents of your town! Each new resident helps out around the town in some way, and as you add them to your town you gain new options and opportunities to meet new ghosts and monsters, solve puzzles, play minigames, and explore new areas!
Solve Puzzles!
Mayor May Knott is brimming with puzzles and minigames, whether it’s a puzzle to deduce the name of a ghost, a quest to find ingredients for a tricky recipe, or a minigame to befriend a new monster.
There’s even a spooky abandoned mine / bowling alley, a haunted mansion full of puzzles, and a creepy endless hallway stalked by a terrifying creature!
Build a Thriving Community!
As you unlock new areas, repair houses and buildings, and move new residents to your town, you breathe new life into your abandoned ghost town, turning it into a happy thriving community.
Perhaps eventually you can convince all of the monsters to live in your town… even the tyrannical Dick Tater!
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
minor update 1.3.5
fixes:
fixed gap where player could go out of bounds
update 1.3.3
this is a big one!
behind the scenes this is a really big update, because it updates the game from Unity 2021.3 to Unity 6.5!
There are also a lot of player-facing changes:
fixes:
finally found and fixed the memory leak that was causing the game to stall when saving after playing for a long time! It was the mooooon!!
fixed stat achievements not tracking correctly
fixed hall of records ladder bypassing mixer to play super loud
adjustments to shadows and lighting
fixed audio mixer volumes not getting set correctly when the game starts
fixed bug where answering the repeating hallway phone and then leaving the hallway made the phone stop working until player reloaded the game
fixed nav issues caused by setting nav agent destination every frame, even if unchanged
fix for showing furniture position
improvements:
added control look sensitivity slider
adjustments to quality settings and shadows
added discord icon to title screen
improvement to tater house fortune
added wake moon fortune
ran light string to pan-tree
set pan tree to give resident item it has the most of rather than the first item in the list
changed popcorn to not require plate
changed station announcer voice again
update 1.3.2
this update replaces the build 1.3.1 on the feature-test branch, and will be merged into the public branch once it's been tested a bit.
bugfixes:
fixed stat achievements not tracking
fixed hall of records ladder bypassing mixer to play super loud
adjustments to shadows and lighting
fixed audio mixer volumes not getting set correctly when the game starts
fixed may getting stuck if she tries to nav to the same place twice in a row
update 1.2.5
fixes:
fixed game sometimes crashing after credits
new build v 1.2.3
fixes
fixed town hall roof bridge end showing over broken covered bridge
fixed frame missing on unrepaired hall of records back door
improvements
better station announcement voice
simplified junk metal model
replaced glass junk in oak house with scrap metal
removed an extra step from getting g clock to help you move bell
added a line to wilbur's corn dialog pointing out that may can also make something with corn to get a cob
changed description of outacite
lowered reel's scariness to 10
added outlines to items in recycler UI
sitting on bench no longer mutes music
v 1.2.0 notes
note that this build is only on the feature-test branch, and will go live on the default branch once it's been tested
fixes:
moved ivy's clinic position so she can't trap may in corner
fixing residents walking through operating table
made restaurant stove wait to consume fuel until may finishes interacting with it, to prevent being able to put in and take out fuel and run stove with no fuel
Fixed Cliff name in bug bait request
improvements:
added g clock request to deconstruct something to teach player how to deconstruct things
minor changes to north cliffs to make stars easier to see
new marquee on jeans splicer
removed label from splicer box
changed tulip dialog to also unbox splicer if may is ready for pants on body builder
added other supporting dialog about it
set dialog UI to replace straight quotes with curly quotes
Changed tawny waypoint from booth to glitzberg entrance, and created new waypoint for her in front of hall of records
Put hoopjoob and spikes on town Hall roof
v 1.1.8
minor fixes:
fix for moon disappearing near midnight
fixed texture on the hole in zojiro's log
update 1.1.7
fixes:
fixed stuck check erroneously firing when something is touching the top of may's head
fixed being able to walk along the cliff wall over the UFO area
improvements:
replaced more terrain with cliff geo in UFO area
update 1.1.5
fixed residents only bathing while may is in the bathmat
update 1.1.4
lots of changes in this one, albeit mostly behind the scenes:
fixes:
fixed the long freeze that sometimes happens between the ending and the credits and during "save and quit". It's still sometimes noticeable, but much less noticeable now.
fixed bathmat windows exterior being transparent if unoccupied
fixed some buildings' internal lights being on when may is outside
fixed tater going through all pending remarks before may can complete his request
removed unnecessary shadows from lights
improvements:
implemented framerate limiting (should fix wildly fluctuating framerates and overheating graphics cards)
setting stone floor and wall repairs to give scrap concrete
improved time sun's shadow turns on / off so it's less jarring
stopped pop bottle automatically fueling juggourd with bottles from rack
made fountain dialog interactable, so player can hide clown head, and also empty water bottles
feature-test update 1.1.3
(only on special feature-test branch)
fixed tater going through all pending remarks before may can complete his request
removed unnecessary shadows from lights
stopped pop bottle automatically fueling juggourd with bottles from rack
made fountain dialog interactable, so player can hide clown head, and also empty water bottles
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Uploaded Aug 10, 2026
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