In Part 12 of my Horror Escape Game series in Unreal Engine 5, I build a proper Day Screen UI and hook it into a clean respawn flow. The goal is simple: when the game starts (Day 1) or when the ghost kills the player, I show a full-screen black overlay with “Day 1 / Day 2 …” and a “Last Day” message on Day 5. I create the widget from scratch (canvas, border, centered text), hide the text by default, and then drive everything through Blueprint so the UI only appears when I want it. I also set up fade animations for both the text and the black background using render opacity, then trigger them from custom events like Start Day Screen and Fade Black Screen. In GameMode, I track an integer DayNumber, expose it to spawn for the widget, and update it through an interface function (Update Day) so my Character can call it on death. After the day updates, I reset the player by destroying and respawning at PlayerStart, possess the new pawn, and reset the ghost by teleporting it to a random explore target point (with a +50 Z offset to avoid getting stuck). Finally, I handle the “Day 6 = game over” check (UI comes next part) and disable debug traces in the ghost sensing logic.