The Closing Shift STORY & ENDING EXPLAINED

[@qokoa]

While I was watching I realised something. Remember the lady with a baby that jumpscares the MC and scolds her when she leaves home on one of the days? When she came in for coffee couple of days later, she was crying and her stroller was empty. Could it be that the stalker kidnapped/murdered her baby? It's not uncommon for violent stalkers to 'punish' those who 'wronged' their 'beloved', even if it was an accident or just something minor that any normal person would've brushed off. I just feel like that detail wasn't added to the game for no reason.

[@undertale__miss6808]

oh that's sickening to think about

[@yaboinoodle6878]

Aaaand now I feel my skin crawl

[@danielmick5236]

The accident maybe minor, but what she says and how she says it maybe hurts some people alot. Which is why we must be careful what and how we say something.

[@Ch50304]

That is sick.

[@songs-rk3nl]

Time stap?

[@wisygirlywopitty770]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="328">5:28</a> ACTUALLY. That man stared at the creepy stalker behind the protagonist. Because yes he was there the whole time.

[@coldhaixx1905]

DAMN thanks for pointing out. At first I thought the guy was just being creepy

[@ajstudios9210]

That's what I was thinking, too.

[@Пинагод]

Thought it was just the protag becoming even more conscious that she starts having delusions, because one - That guy doesn't look like the stalker who we find out was on the bus with us too. He also didn't seem threatening, and I as well stare at random people for random things as well, so I felt bad when people assume he was a creep, unlike the actual creep. But this would make a lot more sense.

[@brimlin7960]

I thought about that! I was wondering if the stalker was behind her and I was so anxious because we couldn’t turn around (or I didn’t see anyone turn around)

[@LonewolfID]

No, the Stalker is just get in bus after the MC left, the stalker are using MC's car (that sabotage by him) to drove to the cafe.

[@rhiannonhamilton4427]

it's so easy when someone says to you 'why don't you just leave?', 'call the police', or 'just change jobs/living space' But that comes from someone who has never or rarely had anything bad happen to them. Moving costs money, changing jobs is not easy, homes and apartments aren't cheap even the affordable ones, and the police won't help you unless there is proof and witnesses, and depending on where you are don't want to get involved at all (Sadly for me my police sucks. Like I had called for domestic abuse of a friend of mine and had them tell me point blank that they Don't want to deal with it). And even if the police do help and you press charges, hiring a lawyer costs money! And don't get me started on the entirety of the legal system! It's a sad reality that people who experience abuse/and or stalking situations that they really CAN'T do anything about it! They would have to live with it the best they can and pray that it stops, fight back and WIN, or just LOSE all together.

[@K.Marie119]

Yeah, it's incredibly infuriating. I volunteered as a victim's advocate for a local domestic violence/SA crisis center. I was called in, along with a specially trained nurse, whenever a victim presented to one of the several hospitals or PDs. My job was to help victim's get access to the resources they needed. I originally signed up because I needed volunteer hours for medical school, but I continued for almost a year after I was accepted. It kind of became a sort of "atonement" for me; a way to ease my own guilt and shame for not speaking up until over 10 years later, thus letting my abuser get away and possibly hurt others. Anywho, even when you know what you're doing, the system is harder to navigate than the Marianas Trench without a light source.

[@EaszyInitials]

they gotta listen to yb

[@fathurrachman9498]

the best way to deal with it is to bring some self defense item such as pepper spray(if you can't quit your job). Waiting for authority protection is useless and therefore you are on your own to deal with it. I do really know what the victim have been through and relying on someone isn't going to help for them since city is full of egoistical people.

[@brookiecookie6675]

💯

[@luckisluck]

Better idea pepper spray cheap gets the job done.

[@ZeroDim]

I wish there were multiple endings like grabbing the phone getting suspicious and locking herself in her car and calling the police

[@v3xyiwnl796]

Havent watched the video yet but there is 3 endings and all of them are bad idk if he will cover them all

[@SaulBadWomen]

or other then calling the police after dropping the brick on top of the stalker's head you can decide to grab some rope or tape trapping the stalker so they cant escape

[@geardog24]

That would've made more sense, but the creators of these games love their shock endings.

[@erindaprimasari5861]

@@v3xyiwnl796 are you sure three endings???

[@PuffySZN]

@@erindaprimasari5861 there’s one where you get in your car at the shop and he’s in the back and he kills you. One is the one where u get killed making a break for the car. One you go home, get the phone outside, then get killed after he gets in the apartment

[@crazygamer_1082]

I had a stalker in high school for two years and it was miserable. He was incredibly creepy and kept trying to get my number and be alone with me outside of school. Even when it was obvious I had no intention of getting to know him or even be his friend. I should mention the reason why he freaked me out so bad was because in class he said that women deserve to get raped with such confidence and didn’t back down even when everyone was against him. He even took pictures of girls on his track team, sent random girls in his class creepy, sensual messages (keep in mind he DID NOT know them), and tried to have sex with them. So I was incredibly scared and when I reported him and told them I wanted to remain anonymous for my safety: the Dean of Men said “No, we’re gonna bring his parents in with him and tell them your full name. As well as show them the evidence you gave us”. I literally couldn’t go back to school after that and missed out on all my Senior events and graduation, I even I had to change my identity after high school because that’s how bad he was stalking me. So sadly this stuff still happens a lot to women and it still isn’t taken seriously

[@sxatcychan1988]

Hope you would be able to sue the school for some monetary compensation, but I'm super petty about these things.

[@cjgamecreator]

wow your principle is stupid, how the hell did he get the job

[@machi_ato2184]

That's frightening to think about...I hope you're safe now 🙏

[@medusathedecepticon]

Dang it that's horrible. The ones who handled the situation were stupid as crap to share you name. People need to handle these situations seriously.

[@aria7447]

That’s sad and frustrating hearing how your school responded. They most definitely did not have the right to give away you’re identity like that especially in disregard for your safety. Hope everything has gotten a lot better for you!

[@WeeHooTM]

As a guy who doesn't understand how girls felt being stalked by some creepy dude, playing this game really make me realise how scary it is.

[@hutao.h1258]

The is it free or we should purchase it

[@pickles7168]

Now you know. This is how we all feel when alone at night. At least you understand now, because a lot of guys are like "why are they so worried it's not a big deal"

[@WeeHooTM]

@@pickles7168 I have near heard from any guys that said “what’s the big deal” about being stalked at night. It’s unfortunate you probably met someone like that. My point is I have never experienced the feeling of being stalked hence can’t fully relate. Not saying I don’t understand the danger or seriousness.

[@pickles7168]

@@WeeHooTM yeah I get what you mean. I have encountered many guys who said just that about being stalked, it's honestly sad 😕

[@zazzaz8103]

Ikr. Being a girl means you're physically weaker and automatically the victim with no choice to fight back but to outsmart. The vibes really made me feel helpless.

[@necroticdemonart]

I was stalked in high school and it scared me cause I had no idea who it was and then it just mysteriously stopped when I ended up switching schools.

[@qokoa]

Thank god it stopped 💖 stay safe 🙏🏼

[@Ghozts2]

Thank god ur safe hope that never happens to anyone again or ever

[@moonaerith]

*God

[@jorgyt754]

@@moonaerith ..what?

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

@@jorgyt754 God should be capitalized, it's not only a proper noun, but it's one of the most important proper nouns.

[@HeyMishkaTV]

This game is extra creepy. It reminded me of a teenage girl who was killed working overnight at a fast food place in Manhattan. She told her family she didn't feel safe but they needed the money and encouraged her to keep working. The same day she told her mom she wanted to quit, she was killed by a man who tried to rob the store. I can't imagine how women working late-night/overnight jobs feel, especially with the pressure of providing for their families.

[@ahoy9831]

i think this happened recently, wasnt this about the girl who got killed in burger king?

[@HeyMishkaTV]

@@ahoy9831 yes, that's the incident 😔

[@ahoy9831]

@@HeyMishkaTV Thats devastating i feel really bad. she told her parents she didnt feel safe and they didnt care.. what a world 😕

[@123us3rname]

@@ahoy9831 im sure the family cared (hopefully), its just that the situation was bad. the family needed money, asking if she can just do 1 more night probably. but the girl got unlucky and died the same day. a lot of people dismiss their gut feelings and just go with their planned schedule. though, the family can check up on her and visit while she works from time to time, like wait for her outside when it's her closing time or something. the open world is scary, sadly

[@jamangel]

@@HeyMishkaTV poor lady ☹️

[@doritopuffs1226]

I used to work at *big brand* grocery store. Every now & than you'd get guys that flirt right or just act a fool. But I remember a few times that there were men that would go through self checkout a few times specifically during my shifts to see me there. I didn't realize it at first until one guy came up to me & ask me how did my morning shift go... It was about to be 3 pm. So this dude had been coming in & out since OPENING to the AFTERNOON just to speak to me. Another time we had to close Customer Service early because we had a guy watching us & trying to get too close. Men that think this is cute, IT'S NOT. My fellow ladies, be careful.

[@King_Flippy_Nips]

men don't think it is cute, delusional people out of touch with reality and who have no experience in socializing or have no social skills or may just be straight up sociopaths may think its cute or they may not think anything at all or may not care if its cute or how it makes the other person feel, but anyone who is capable of rational thought and empathy will be able to realize its wrong and makes people uncomfortable.

[@deardaezie]

i used to work at a grocery store, too, and have my fair share of stories. the most recent one was about a week before i left for uni. two of my (~1-2 years younger) coworkers were out on their lunch break, grabbing food from a mcdonalds or something nearby. they were catcalled by a man who was parked across the street. they were reasonably pissed and yelled back at him, which made him REALLY angry. he basically floored it and chased them all the way back to our store - calling out something else when he saw me unlock the employee entrance for them. he circled our parking lot for 3 hours until their shifts ended, but returned about an hour later and entered our store. i was the only one left in the department since it was close to closing, but i worked in the back so he didn't see me. i had to call my boyfriend to pick me up since, after the store closed, he waited in his car in the parking lot in front of the employee exit.

[@rinyeongi6322]

@@deardaezie that's so fucked up wtf is wrong with people, no women can feel safe with this behaviour. I wish and pray for your safety ma'am, please take care and always carry a pepper spray

[@vshatriya5254]

That's just weird, and seriously I desperately hope that these people genuinely have mental issues. Because if they don't, then those are their natural actions done by sane minds. The same Sane Mind that would willingly protect a puppy from the cold rain, could be the same Sane Mind that has obsession over a girl or boy and is willing to even kill and commit crimes over them.

[@artemis1993]

@@vshatriya5254 You know very well they are not mentally ill. When are you people going to learn human beings are evil by *nature???*

[@moonieland]

This game really hit home for me. I was never stalked but I've known women who have been and I've definitely had my fair share of men who are absolutely terrifying. Despite the fact that Chilla's Art love their shock endings and not wanting to give the main protagonist a happy ending (which unfortunately is extremely realistic), it's still so terrifyingly accurate. I'm glad they made this game because not only is it good, but it really helps people understand why women are so scared.

[@WWEWomen-g2d]

i'm gay and have a lot of female friends, and i'm really worried when we go out at nights i always try to send them home cause i have a motorcycle. even though we're three people sitting in a two seater motorcycle, it's better to be caught by the police and pay a fine than let them walk in 2am where God knows what people might be lurking in the dark streets.

[@davidlilley2736]

Chilla's art are legends putting out a message all the while making games that are on real subjects and very impressive definitely fear inducing it's a very clever idea it's like putting out warning as well as making an extremely fearing but good game decent horror it's rare to be able to say that about a game of Horror usually just non-stop jumpscares but they're there games haven't found 1 I dislike yet so it's good to hear somebody else not putting them down for it

[@independentmissile200]

yeah no one cares. hope make women get stalked

[@h.c5824]

This hit hard for me as well, I am not a woman but I have many friends that are women, I’ve always had more woman friends than men and I have more female relatives than male, and knowing things like this happen every day makes me so scared for the women in my life

[@h.c5824]

And my sister has had things like this happen to her. Not things exactly like what happened in the story but she’s had stalkers and men stalk her and I feel so bad for her and women that suffer from things like this.

[@amandahelen2013]

I think what really scared me about this game is when the protagonist dies and you get a kind of blurry vision and some weird sounds and you can see that he did something to her body

[@verum9]

das dat necrophile type beat

[@simoneidson21]

Well, the stalker was fully clothed and what kinda rapist makes monkey noises when he rapes someone

[@verum9]

@@simoneidson21 its called a video game dude, did you expect the creator to depict it better by searching up audio of "moaning" and clustering it with terrified screams? also have you ever thought of the possibility that he has THUMBS and other FINGERS to TAKE OFF those clothes? find better proof if your gonna retort it. besides its already been confirmed, so bite me.

[@jaydeb.6451]

@@verum9 I guess the person you were responding to deleted their comment but I agree with you 100%!!!

[@verum9]

@@jaydeb.6451 thanks

[@Joynauti]

Personally, I think the ending was a vivid hallucination/Nightmare that the protagonist was experiencing due to the whole ordeal. There's no way anyone could sustain the impact of a literal block of concrete to the head just to get up and retreat before the police arrive. What I like most about this theory is that it doesn't make the ending look anymore hopeful than the original. It cements the idea that while the Stalker was dealt with physically, the effect the Stalker had *mentally* causes the protagonist to suffer paranoia even after the event. In a way, the stalker got what he wanted as his memory will live on in her head forever.

[@medussy7033]

Tbh the stalker could be a ghost. For example on the bus, he’s just standing there, and multiple people ask if she’s haunted. It’s definitely a possibility. Tho I think this could link to how many stalker cases are just tossed aside and aren’t taken seriously by police, so it almost feels like they’re imagining it tho it’s very real.

[@King_Flippy_Nips]

you could survive a block like that hitting you on the head, it would compress your neck and spine horribly though, it looks like it only dropped about 4-5 feet tops before it hit him, that is not a lot of time for it to to build velocity, if it had of been 10 feet or so it would have ended him probably, but say the block weighed 20 kg's and fell for 0.5 seconds that is only 17.5 km/h it would have been moving, so enough to knock him out and give him a concussion but he could get up and walk away, and you figure since she didnt have her car keys in that ending so she would have to get over her nerves of her thinking she just killed someone and then she would have to walk to the police station and it would probably take quite awhile for them to calm her down and take her information and get a statement and then go back to the scene, so your looking at anywhere from 30 mins to an hour probably, if he woke up after 15 minutes that would leave him 15 minutes to drag the dead body and himself away from the scene.

[@Joynauti]

@@King_Flippy_Nips ^^ Was thinking about mentioning something like that in my comment but opted to just leave it out as it would’ve made my theory all the more flimsy. I’m willing to concede that there’s a good chance that he could’ve survived the impact. That along with the couple days he had (presumably) to recover, it’s not unlikely he’d attempt to get revenge by attacking the protagonist in her home. Even if he was still injured, he probably would still be able to at least harm her through shear will.

[@thatssocyrillo]

@@medussy7033 actually the guy on the bus is staring behind you because the stalker is behind you on the bus

[@medussy7033]

@@thatssocyrillo yeah I know that it’s just a possibility

[@krvgames9258]

Man, that is a depressing way to end a video game about stalking. The only good thing I can think of is that the protagonist escaped the stalker and made sure he had no way to escape so he could get arrested.

[@springsnapped5435]

Ikkkrr

[@DoseOfMaurice]

I mean how tf u drop a whole brick on a man HEAD nd he survives with no injuries

[@krvgames9258]

@@DoseOfMaurice I don’t know, but the stalker must have been very resilient.

[@DoseOfMaurice]

@@krvgames9258 💀💀💀 bro had a metal helmet

[@krvgames9258]

@@DoseOfMaurice Well I don’t think the stalker was wearing a metal helmet when he was hit on the head with the brick. He is resilient like Marv from Home Alone 2, who took FIVE bricks to the face, and was knocked out, and was dazed when he regained consciousness.

[@Ok-vx7cb]

I remember story from reddit about a guy and girl. The story as i remember goes like this. The guy is tutor for the girl and he asked for her to stay in her house because he had some troubles with his apartment. And she said okay but also said that he can sleep only on floor cause there aren't anywhere else he can. He of course agree. So everything was set up. The two of them already starter sleeping when suddenly guys asks her to go out to eat at some place. She said that she has food in the fridge but he insisted on going to somewhere they debated like for about 5-8 minutes untill she agreed. When both of them got outside guy said that there was some dude under her bed fortunately he didn't saw him or just didn't care. Guy got arrested appearantly the stalker was her group mate

[@dorky007]

wtff

[@meowsterperson4483]

Man the tutor guy did a good thing n made sure to not alert the stalker thats good

[@panicatthefallout7710]

That's a very common urban legend. I first heard about it on a Japanese podcast. The original story was about two girls and strawberry milk.

[@user-bf3yh6ue7p]

There are many stories similar to this, this is an urban legend or a creepy pasta i think

[@BeanSprouts02]

@@panicatthefallout7710 two girls and a strawberry milk…

[@XerXens]

I don't know if I had a stalker back when I was in college but this one senior of mine from the same major was coincidentally everywhere I went. Going to class, he was nearby. Taking the elevator, he was there. Having lunch, he walked right up to me when I was alone and tried to have a conversation. I just brushed it off but was very creeped out. He even liked my post on social media and tried messaging me a few times which I didn't bother replying to. One time I was going to the cafeteria with my classmate after school and he was there. He walked up to me and talked to us as if we were close. He then touched me inappropriately and I was too shocked to move until I looked at my friend for help and he intervened, my friend had no idea at first since I never told him. I never reported him since I was scared of him. But that's been a few years now, I haven't seen him since.

[@just2183]

I'm glad you haven't been bothered by that creep anymore and I hope it stays that way

[@m4niw4ni]

ive had a similar situation happen to me just a few weeks ago. im in highschool, this person goes to my school currently which made it a lot harder to avoid him. i was under the impression that he wanted to be friends, should have known that wasn’t the case after he said he wanted to “talk to me” somewhere private. he had been trying to get at me since the beginning of the school year, and followed me on my social media. i hadn’t realized it was him until a few days after we were casually talking. when he took me to this “private” place, this was where he touched me inappropriately. this happened for at least 5 minutes, i wont go into detail. i was shocked aswell, couldn’t move and just stood there looking at him, feeling disgusted for letting him do it and wanting to say something. i eventually managed to work up the courage to tell him im not comfortable w this and he left me alone. he tried to start conversation with me once or twice after the situation but we never talked fully since then. it was all just so weird, i havent told anyone other than my friends about this, but its sad to see how many people experienced something like this before. hopefully he hasn’t tried that with anyone else, but the way he felt comfortable doing that to someone he didn’t know gives me the impression that it’s happened. i didn’t report him either because i dont want to cause trouble. im just glad im left alone by him.

[@kieranzx]

I'm so sorry this happened to you, you didnt deserve that to happen to you. Even in general no one deserves this to happen to them 🫂

[@verum9]

Its kind of obvious bro was stalking you I don't know how or what is making you unsure of whether he was or not. Especially if he touched you inappropriately. Answer's obvious to put that in a nutshell but yeah, Sorry that happened.

[@quincy3367]

ayo hyper potions prof pic 👍

[@GarbageEmpire]

I've had some odd stalker like occurrences as a dude working in retail. Worked at a gas station with those massive ceiling to floor windows. I actually started there when I was 16 and came back when I was around 18. When I was 16, I had a major incident where someone pulled their vehicle up to the window where the service counter was and despite their windows being almost illegally tinted like a limousine style, I could see the flash of a camera and a red light blinking. They sat there recording me for a bit over an hour, maybe an hour and a half. I called the store the gas station was a part of and asked what I should do. Got told not to worry about it twice. Eventually it got brought up in conversation with a store manager about a week later. I swear she looked like she saw a dead body and she started drilling me for details. Never had any sort of follow ups on it. Another time I had a guy who I know for sure was on the registry who came in and just stuck around the store for an hour. He got kicked out/told to finish up his shopping pretty fast when I said something that time. Worst one tho was this old creepy lady who acted weird. She'd just wander around the store for like 20 minutes and I'm decently sure she was a shoplifter. She tried to get me to climb into her jeep to plug in a portable charger for her. I told her if she handed me the charger and the port I would. She grumbled for a minute then gave me both. Said thanks and left. Saw me walking across the parking lot on my break one day and flatout hauled ass and almost caused a crash trying to do the same thing yet again. I said no that time. Never seen her come to the store or gas station since I brought it up with the managers. Only other time I ever had to worry about a stalker was one night after a homecoming game back in highschool, (I'd gotten off of work late and walked all the way to school to catch the ending before walking home), someone I didn't know on Snapchat added me and sent me pictures of me walking at various points on my way home. Wouldn't have terrified me as much but it was almost pitch black outside and the way I walked home took me behind a storage warehouse next to a YMCA. Some minor Woodlands, the warehouse and then a Burger King on Main. The moment I got the first one I looked behind me and picked up to a light jog. The moment I got the second I was sprinting the rest of the way home. Can't exactly say I can entirely relate to the story entirely cuz I'm a dude, but the experience of getting stalked is not pleasurable in any circumstance and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

[@reitty9586]

I hope you’re safe now and never have to experience something like that ever again tho

[@mili1309]

Its a good thing that I was born with a older brother that is almost the same height as slenderman and big, wide as a gang leader He's taking up fighting classes which I already consider overkill for anyone that tries to pick a fight with him which his looks alone already give people a run for their money If I'm ever reborn I would like to have exactly his features and height *(I'm a girl btw, I know I'm surprised too)*

[@mili1309]

But anyway I hope you never have to deal with that again and hope you have a wonderful day, stay safe especially at night of course I never understood how ANYONE could walk out at night by themselves especially even WORK at night To all night people I both respect you and also think your dumb No offense unless your really confident 👌

[@DabisDinerDelivery]

I've never been stalked, but I have a feeling I will be eventually.

[@mili1309]

Don't forget to get pepper spray You know for when you need it just in case I'll use my birthday wish to wish you never get stalked or just pray I never experienced stalking either just only flirting from older men here and there which isn't daily luckily 🤢 But anyway stay safe👍

[@EndyJR]

Something else that caused me extreme discomfort was the death sequence when the stalker would catch you. What was happening? the screen would pulse with blood and some strange screams or moans kept repeating. I can't explain it very well so you need to see it for yourself. Does anyone have any idea? was she being r**ed???

[@vi2984]

I’m hoping not, but with the disturbing sound sequence it does seem like it.🙁

[@mewkychu4348]

yeah i think she was. really horrifying way to die

[@rougestarlight4308]

It gave me that impression too

[@raizynx_4841]

think she was being hit by the baseball bat?

[@mewkychu4348]

@@raizynx_4841 nah..i feel like it she was being yknow becuase of the animal sounds implying that he was being an animal ina way and the dude wouldnt be able to imflict blows that hard that quickly

[@jamesporquez3682]

What's more unfortunate is in irl stalking are rising up like the sun in Japan and the police ignore the reports nor the sign of stalking which is also the same in my country

[@LTJProductionOfficial]

Now i know how my cousin feels when she was being stalked to the point her undergarments are constantly being stolen from her hostel. I didn't believe her at first, but i was also taking precaution to make sure she is just overthinking. I'm thankful that I did. I let her stay with me instead throughout her entire uni life, pretending to be her boyfriend to keep her safe, to the point she wanted me and her classmates to act out a scene where I was over protective of her and wanting to get into fight with her friendly classmate. GoPro did helped me to film moments where her stalker tries to jump on her inside school compound. Footages which evident enough for the school to call for authority to lock that fellow in jail of another state. My cousin is now married, and with 3 happy over-energetic kids.

[@kk28262484]

The fact that the game has no good ending fits the reality so well (at least in East Asian region). There is very few things the victim can do to protect themselves. The thing about stalker is that there are limited laws for protecting victim BEFORE they get assault. Police can't do anything before there is an assault case. A lot of time when victim reports to the police, they are 1) dismissed by lazy cops because they don't want to handle it, or 2)got told there is nothing they can do because the stalker hasn't committed illegal act. There are a few famous stalker cases in Japan that results in the victim being murdered by their stalkers. In these cases, the police blamed or ignored the victims until the victims got murdered. (If anyone is interested, they can read about the investigative journalist shimizu kiyoshi who found out the truth about a stalker case and exposed the police force for victim blaming) Japan passed some anti-stalker ordinance a few years ago but it hasn't really been better because the situation is more a cultural and weak police force thing.

[@cavallinofluttuantemaggico6309]

Even worst,in One of those true stories (I don`t Remember the name of the girl) The poilce station started a campain of disinformation making the poor girl Who was killed seem like a pristitute

[@mycharredrose]

This game is also just generally like the anxiety women go through. Men don't suffer from it as much (still happens), but women go through it all the time. The feeling of someone following them. The feeling of being watched. Constant paranoia when they're just working, people being creepy at them JUST because they're women. The ending where you get knocked down and just hear those "squeeks", yeah, think about what that is more likely... and suddenly you realise how much more sickening it is.

[@bitviper3430]

You’re the only person in this whole comment section to mention that this could also happen to a man.

[@mytime4798]

@@bitviper3430 No they're not, read the comments are again

[@bitviper3430]

@@schmidt188 I know that the majority of it happens to women, it’s just that the male side of it never gets any attention. I personally know a friend who has been stalked and almost raped by a female. I try to help spread awareness due to this friend, but I just come off as an asshole. Sorry if I offended you in anyway.

[@MAISON41]

I prefer to believe that the screams are of pain and terror

[@spring0h430]

@@MAISON41 same…

[@finnthebeefyhuman2174]

Gotta be pretty resilient to survive a cinderblock to the head and get up quick enough to run away before the cops show up

[@leolionheart3982]

Yea, the game relies on horror logic a little much right at the end

[@Пинагод]

@@leolionheart3982 It's what bothers me a little in Chilla's art games. They setup a realistic atmosphere then just completely dodges it by the end for the sake of a scarier ending, when realistically no one could've survived that hit and the stalker would've probably ended up severely damaged. It would've been even more terrifying to keep it realistic. While the guy is severely hurt/dead, we still see protag hallucinating about his appearances in jobs, and she's constantly assuming every guy to be a stalker, to the point that she thinks every person out to form an acquiantanceship with her is an attempt to give information to the stalker, or that they themselves are stalkers.

[@chrystales6169]

@@Пинагод Great take.

[@rinyeongi6322]

@@Пинагод this is it

[@vshatriya5254]

@@Пинагод Or, that there could be the possibility that there were two stalkers. And the second stalker took away the body to hide the fact that there're two stalkers.

[@toriandm5779]

Back in college, I had a stalker who would always run to wherever I went. There was one time, my friends and I were in the rooftop of our university while people were partying inside (It was like an acquaintance night party for freshmen and every year was invited to welcome them). My group stepped out of the party scene for a while to get some fresh air while a friend of mine and I went inside to get some drinks and some snacks for all of us. When we came back, my friends clung to me, telling me what had happened while we were gone. Apparently my stalker went outside to the rooftop a few minutes after I went inside to get our food. The stalker approached my friends who were sitting in a circle and opened the flashlight of his phone and asked where I was, pointing it one by one to their faces. My friends got so angry and chased the stalker away. They all vowed that at least 2 of them would accompany me through the night or everywhere I go. After that as well, one of my guy friends who were like a big brother to me would always drive me home instead of my daily commute, fearing that the stalker might follow me to my home. The same stalker also kept using different fb messengers and would drop: "I LOVE YOUs" after graduation and even sent porn links. I made sure to block everything.

[@WWEWomen-g2d]

i hope that guy doesn't bother you now, i wish these kind of people doesn't exist. i mean why would someone put so much pressure and anxiety to another person, it's unbelievable! you have such wonderful friends and i wish you and your friends all the best ❤️🥺

[@toriandm5779]

@@WWEWomen-g2d Thank you so much 🥺 Luckily the stalker stopped a year after graduation. It was hella annoying and scary but since he has no way of contacting or seeing me anymore, I'm glad he's out of my life 😔✊ And yes! I love my friends so much. I would do the same for them in a heart beat!

[@tsukighost7227]

@@WWEWomen-g2d The worst is that in the stalker's head he thinks he is not doing anything wrong... When you think about this they are "just" people who are sick in their head and I don't mean it as an insult because anyone can be mentally unstable/sick. I feel like mental health is not highlighted enough and a lot of things could be prevented if for example in schools and works they would have mental health check sometimes. There was a thing like that in my previous workplace, at one point in the week you could (if you want) talk to a psychologist for free. I tried it a couple of time and it was not bad. In the other hand, the problem is there are always sly b*stard pretending to be mentally unstable to do bad things and then go away with what they have done and it is really difficult to diagnostic mental health problem...

[@roarnell]

So there are a few more things: I believe the ghosts or hauntings are just a red herring. I believe she had two stalkers. I do not think that they could be working together. December 5th, stalker one is the guy who is outside at the protag apartment who takes the phone from her. On the first night working when the power goes out the protag goes to turn the breaker on in the storage room. Once the lights are on you see that there are cartons of milk on the floor from the second stalker hiding in the back of the storage room. On the second night, November 15th, you can see the second "stalker-ish", the guy with the hoodie, outside. He walks off before the old man talks about someone being outside the window, and once the old man leaves the second stalker comes inside the store. He orders milk which means he could actually be the one hiding in the back in the storage room. Another thing is that he leaves a picture on the table that he sits at in the back which solidifies for me that he is the one hiding in the back storage room as there are pictures in there. Once it is time to clean and you take out the trash the back door is left wide open, as stalker two went into the back storage room. He might not do any harm as he is homeless and not aggressive, but I still wouldn't trust him. The first stalker who knows where the protag works is watching her from a car - when taking the trash out - which could possibly be the car seen at her apartment. On the third night, November 27th, the protag is almost ran over by the woman with a baby stroller. I don't think that the second stalker knows where the protag lives, so, for sure the first stalker had to have seen that encounter as his stalking procedures are more aggressive than the first homeless stalker-ish person. On this night, the first stalker stands in the drive-thru which can be seen from the television monitor. It's difficult to tell, but the build between the first and second stalker is different, he's so big that it has to be the first guy and he leaves a creepy letter at the order kiosk. Through the letter, it tells that he had been stalking her ever since he first saw her. On the fourth night, December 5th, the protag gets another letter from the first stalker saying he knows her best; he has been stalking her for a long time and it's their anniversary. I don't know if he had anything to do with her car but she uses the bus this time to go to work. She freaks out when the guy in front of her stares at her as she thinks that this is probably the stalker, but it's not. Once she gets off the bus she gets a feeling that she's being watched. It's the first stalker, standing up watching her in the back of the bus through the window. The protag never looks at the back of the bus while riding so he had to have been there the whole time. The first stalker comes in the cafe, sitting within her view, staring at her but leaves once a woman that offers a rosery comes in. The dancing man is a red herring. The protag is very frightened as a nightmare simulator - with her alarm clock counting down - starts. In her nightmare, it could mean that any of the customers could be the stalker. He could also be in the back storage room. On the fifth night, December 17th, the homeless stalker is probably the one watching the protag, taking pictures of her as indicated by the first two customers. The detective returns from the first night to check the place out. This same night she sees the woman she almost ran into in October, but this time with an empty stroller and sniffling. I assume the first stalker has had to have done something to her baby as he is the more aggressive one - he stands in the drive-thru, leaves letters, stares at her on the bus, sits within her view at her work and stares, leaves when someone comes inside the cafe. There is another woman who says that she saw someone on the roof, which could have been the homeless stalker trying to get back into the back room but the rope he was using broke. I don't know why this time he was using rope to get back to that room, but I guess it's because he got accidentally locked out. I also think he didn't kill the detective but instead probably ran away at this point because he isn't the aggressive one, the first one is, and I don't know exactly why the first one decided to act on this night aside that her coworker didn't work that day, but he for sure killed the detective and got rid of the body when the protag left as he has a car. I noticed the music would sometimes change but I haven't gotten a conclusion on that yet. I also think that her coworker is not the first stalker as he's not tall enough or has the build or even is stalked her at all because there is no way that he could afford two cars. I also think that the coworker could hear the homeless stalker in the cafe which is why he runs away on the fourth night as he's freaked out. I don't think that she has more than two stalkers. I also don't know how her phone ended up outside or who would have called it at that time she was looking for it for the first stalker to get inside her apartment.

[@leniishkaa]

I agree, i tried watching closely and noticed that they are not the same guy.

[@leniishkaa]

Also, when we see someone standing on the tv, mc goes there to check and finds a note. Its written as “ first time we met, at chincilla’s. “ she actually met with the stalker on her way to job, when she gave him the phone. He came to chincilla later just to sit and watch her so this makes me sus abt two stalkers too.

[@leniishkaa]

Also also, when she’s having the nightmare, orders were just latte. I’d say its bcs stalker ordered latte before but i dont remember him ordering latte, do u have any ideas abt this

[@roarnell]

@@leniishkaa I don't know why it's only latte. I don't remember who ordered only latte, but if I were to have a nightmare about work, the orders would be complicated as heck and some of the ingredients wouldn't exist. So it could be just to be easy?

[@notyugy1452]

Everyday while serving customers theres a car in the street that go and come back multiple times and i noticed while im playing then in the ending the character finds a phone on the ground and the same car i saw on the street is next to the phone sooo i thought that car was the stalker's car because the time i came with the bus i didn't saw it and he was with me in the bus that mean he was behind me all the time not only while in the cafe shop or at the house even when iam in the cae he was following me

[@shxx25]

I watched the gameplay and i would say that the dancing man freaked me out the most 😭

[@roninsleepin]

Bro was wavy af lmao

[@uhno7500]

It was so funny😭😭

[@springsnapped5435]

Fr the way he was twisting💀 but he didn't seem to mean any harm

[@this_my_sausage8491]

he was literally the comedic relief of the game in my opinion 😭

[@springsnapped5435]

@@this_my_sausage8491 Ikkrrrr

[@t.n.7197]

This game reminds me of my own experiences when i was working in a coffee shop three years ago. I thought it to be important to share cause this fictional thing can really happen in real life, especially to women, like me. My coworker was telling me there was a man who was commenting my appearance towards him. He wouldn't buy anything, just sitting, reading newspapers, sometimes looking in our direction. The next time he came, he wouldn't buy anything either, i was panicking because he would follow me with his eyes everywhere i went, my coworkers also noticed and he even came up to them when i was working in the back room for fear of him, he asked them where i was. In that moment i felt like losing my mind, i began to cry, feeling paralyzed. Fortunately my colleague called our manager to come. They were talking to him, and that man soon left our coffee shop. My sister had to pick me up from work that evening. That experience was so horrible, i decided to quit. It's terrible to feel this helpless as a young woman in front of a male person.

[@jesssilvamillionclover7918]

Your not useless, you just didn't know what to do, to be honest I'm going to get a job one day and I'm scared it might happen to me too because I'm a 18 year old girl and I just graduated a few months and I'm scared too, but again it's not your fault remember your strong and men can't take us women our dignity because we're all strong together.

[@pessimiistme8544]

I have mad respect for you This game is so brand new and it's so admiring to see your dedication 💖

[@gamersault]

thank you, comments like yours encourage me even more to create content :D

[@theunknown3269]

@@gamersault Could you make Story Explained video for the horror visual novel called “Tiny Bunny”?

[@beashufrancis3760]

@@gamersault your the entire reason why I understand the lore of nun massacre and now that I know the lore it made my better understand everything about the endings in game

[@Bob.Roberts]

Only one of the three endings discussed? IMO, this is the least believable ending, though it is the longest. The antagonist has seemingly superhuman stamina to be able to survive his neck and spine being crushed by a heavy cinderblock dropped on him from a height of over ten feet. Not just surviving, but also removing all evidence of his presence at the store, including the dead body of the PD, all before the police return to the scene. This could be a continuity error, but doesn't the store have recorded CCTV tapes that could have been viewed by the police? The hoodie stalker was shown on the camera at least once and would have been seen leaving that creepy note. He's not the one responsible for the MC's fates, but it should at least be enough to prompt an investigation.

[@verum9]

hooded guy didn't leave the notes, the one that actually does the attacks does.

[@romanlibrada7891]

man, If ever I get to own a cafe I would never let a single person manage a whole shift even if its a guy or a lady everything alone.

[@bloxdubyt4843]

I feel both scared and sad for women because most are "defenseless" it makes me wonder why stalkers do what they do. Our main character i feel got um.. *Raped* as much as i HOPE that's not true. There should really be no reason to stalk someone no matter what... feeling watched is one of the most horrifying things that happen on our planet. I take this game seriously and in perspective. Despite me being male, it makes me go into POV of what happens to most women in our world. This lore is honestly cool though in all, I still think the ending puts it in the state of mind that women who get stalked are like- defenseless... stay safe everyone. Always watch you're back.

[@MrJingles4577]

Anyone can be stalkers even women but that dosent change anything

[@uwumarii]

I was watching coryxkenshin's play through and I felt dread when the protag runs out of the shop to the car and gets caught by the stalker then the weird distorted sound/music kicked off while she's "dying" . I felt disgusted and disturbed. I think the r-word actually happened to her right there

[@bloxdubyt4843]

@@uwumarii God i hope not, that type of stuff scares me more then anything. Believe it or not a kidnapping just happened yesterday near me, so thats what startles me more then snything.

[@maymunaraj8511]

@@uwumarii Yeh same and he thought she got beat up, I was like no😭😵‍💫😵‍💫.

[@elososupremo7821]

@@maymunaraj8511 If you pay attention to the part where the protagonist drops the block at the stalker you can notice that he has a metal bar so yes she probably got beaten to death

[@sunnyshad0w308]

The thing that makes this scary for me is that this could really happen in real life. There are no magic, no supernatural entities, just natural actions of normal or strange individuals. There are billions of people in the world, and some could be weirdos as well. Many don't even understand or know what is happening, so putting this game into light would project well on what women go through in the modern day. Stalkers exist, and they can't be stopped... But they we can grow aware of this, for example, The Closing Shift. Anyway, this is a great game, surpassing The Convenience Store for me. The ashtethic and modern-day aspects are truly what makes me love the game.

[@jaydenlobbe7911]

"No magic, no supernatural entities" Dude literally had a cinderblock dropped on his head and he got up just fine, then hid the body of the Private Investigator without getting caught Bruh

[@GTSE2005]

This game is so new and you've already made an in-depth analysis on it. Mad respect

[@SuperLovelessgirl]

Great explanation, this game truly is terrifying because it can actually happen and to anyone. Also you forgot the part on the first night where the protagonist finds the phone outside her apartment and the creepy guy startles her and she gives it to him. Clearly he knew exactly which apartment she lived in. Furthering the fact that he's always known how to get inside. Again making this game a true nightmare come to life 😱

[@purpleghost6859]

the fact that there is actually two stalkers making me even more sad

[@boptice]

At least one isn't a rapist.

[@purpleghost6859]

@@boptice yeah..

[@pucca95776]

yea phone guy and milk guy

[@ScarletCandlelight]

The lesson of the day is don't victim blame, be respectful, and understand stocking is not an easy thing to get away from and many are powerless to get help

[@206Zelda]

These things do happen, in all ranges of severity. Just the other day, my husband heard from a coworker that his wife had noticed someone scoping the house for a couple of days before trying to break in the night before. It gave her quite a fright, but didn't paralyze her from action. He was jostling the doorknob, trying to force it open. The wife, thankfully, was armed with a weapon and was on standby near the door. The state-law dictates that unless someone forces their way into your house and you feel threatened, you are not allowed to kill them even if they storm onto your property and intend to do you harm. They could even be aiming a gun at the window and you wouldn't technically be 'allowed' to defend yourself since it isn't 'in' the house (which is total -horseshit-). She was ready to throw down and was almost hoping the intruder would enter the house just so she could end a threat entirely without them ever bothering other folks again. Whether he lost interest or gave up, he simply left and nothing else happened. There are good people, and then there are bastards that need punishing. That kind of justice won't happen in my lifetime, I reckon, but I'm just glad she's okay.

[@WWEWomen-g2d]

i wish i will never experience that in my life, that must've been so suspenseful and i might die in a heart attack 😭

[@DarkerGames]

Very interesting and terrifying, Incredible in depth explanation GamerSault of Closing Shift have a great day

[@candypillz7670]

I really love how open everything is in this game, like some things are deliberately left with zero explanation making great fuel for theory crafting e.g the guy who mentions paranormal shit, the mother with the baby, the three girls who come in and talk about stalking cases ect

[@MultiplesofNico]

Whenever I work at, I always get a guy I can’t get rid of. I have no idea why but it’s weird how some guys don’t respect, when women say no.

[@patchyi853]

cuz many mens (not all of them) having a "alpha complex" its may help when u get a male co worker to work besides you in your shitf's to brush this guy off or mention u have a boyfriend even its not true or just say your father is something high to scare them away. Make them clear that your are not available to them. Make up a lie/story to get rid of guys who cant accept a no is better then being all "nice" and ending up as a victim.

[@HalcyonCompanyZen]

As a Starbucks employee, that works night, and walk a 20-30 minute walk home, this hits horrificly close

[@foxzero99gaming16]

Either in the end she got mrd3r3d since she hurt the stalker or something else that got the stalker mad Or she got r8p3d, since some stalkers are disgusting This is what I think happened, also the little encounters when going to work is a liitle fun

[@speedburger5410]

What's sad is police in Japan won't do anything against stalkers unless the stalker actually does something, in that case it would already be too late.

[@alidycepaisley3829]

Just a couple of observations: I. It appears there may be two people eyeing Protagonist-Hottie. One is the Creepy-Admirer who takes the photo and leaves it on the table, the other is the Deranged-Violent-Guy who attacks her in the end. I don't think these are both the same person: A. Deranged-Violent-Guy is the one searching for the missing object in the beginning. Protagonist-Hottie hands him the flip-phone she found. B. The Creepy-Admirer seems mostly harmless. At the very least, he doesn't act out aggressively during the game sequence. But he does follow our protagonist hottie home repeatedly. 1) That's his van parked outside Protagonist-Hottie's flat every morning. We know this because the guy that left the pic on the table exited to the van outside when he was through. 2) In the bus sequence, if you look at the rear of the bus as it pulls off, Deranged-Violent-Guy is sitting in the bus. But Creepy-Admirer passed the bus in his van while the bus was driving down the street. 3) Despite his proximity to her flat in the beginning of the game, Deranged-Violent-Guy has nothing to do with Protagonist-Hottie's encounters involving the van parked outside her flat. C. Creepy-Admirer is the one who is squatting in the back of the coffee shop, not Deranged-Violent-Guy. We know this because of Creepy-Admirer's obsession with milk: 1) That's the one who orders two additional, plain milks with his coffee. 2) We see a shot of a carton of milk near the makeshift bedding in the inaccessible back room and there are always cartons of milk inexplicably strewn about the accessible back room section. 3) Thus, we can conclude he's the one squatting back there, not Deranged-Violent-Guy. 4) Deranged-Violent-Guy doesn't seem to like coffee or milk. At one point, he comes in and sits for a couple minutes before leaving, never having ordered anything. - Despite his obsession, Creepy-Admirer never white nights for our gal and it seems she ultimately pays the price. It's not even clear he realizes he has competition in the form of Deranged-Violent-Guy. II. One additional observation that isn't really pertinent to the plot but that I found interesting - Protagonist-Hottie is yearning for a little sugar: A. The encounter with the topless exhibitionist occurs within the same sequence of events eventually revealed to be a dream sequence when she awakens in bed. B. This means she dreamed a customer showed up half-naked and danced lasciviously for her in public. 1) That makes this dream sequence part erotic dream 2) Kinky That is all.

[@nasirbarnes5494]

I'd be willing to believe that since it would explain a lot.

[@OrphanedBee]

Wow the IIB sure uh, explains alot....

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

That last part though... 🤨

[@alidycepaisley3829]

@@clow199x Yet, that is pretty much what happened. The entire shift with that customer and the dark figures appears to be a dream sequence. It's not real. Once it is completed, the player instantly reawakens in bed, the usual exit via the car never having been made.

[@lollabunny1728]

were i live thank god we arabiens dont face stalking but i think this is a cry for help because many poor girls in japan died from stalking when will this pathetic behaviours of stalkers gonna stop there its sad not just in japan many euroupien and the west too :(

[@shmarkpark5268]

Yeah it feels like the law protects stalkers in every place of the world >:[

[@jackiej6233]

The man who gets on the bus in front of the protag is staring at the stalker, not the protag, but the girl is so paranoid at this point that she assumes his gaze is on her. It's not until we're off the bus that we get some immediate, unsettling clarification.

[@pastelfurby2991]

I once had a um.. “stalker” I guess if you would? Although I don’t consider him one since I managed to get out of the situation without getting police involved. It was a man I met online when I was young (I was a dumb kid ok?) and he moved to a closer city to drive by my house sometimes. He even admitted to driving by just to see me. Thankfully the threat of my moms “biker friends” (they’re actually all sweethearts but he didn’t need to know that) he backed off- I couldn’t imagine living like this.

[@himasan2941]

I've been stalked before two times by two different dude.This seriously triggered me.I swear these stalkers are all the same ,fucking narcissistic and self centered.Thank god i have my family and friend who cares for me i eventually make them lost interested in me before it gets too creepy or dangerous.

[@necordektox879]

This is why when I met a very sweet girl working an ice cream stand all I felt was sadness because all I could think of is some creep is going to take her kindness as an invitation for sex. It's really so sad.

[@schmidt188]

That was all you could think of? Dude, you're a creep, too. Get help urgently.

[@vincentlucario5450]

Plot twist, you da creep.

[@amyyaku5022]

Sad but true. A lot of creeps misinterpret stuff like this and while it's not a comfortable thing to think about, I appreciate that you brought this up.

[@tsukighost7227]

I think my worst fear is to be defenseless that is why this stalker story creep me out a LOT. Want to tell someone ? They will just think it is your imagination or won't care most of time. Want to call the police ? Nothing happened YET so they won't move a finger but you can still try you chance after being raped or worse of course. Want to set boundaries with your stalker ? Then he will just be more aggressive. Want to rub up your stalker the right way because you think it is better to just accept his demands and think he will be bored at some point ? Wrong and his demands will be more and more disturbing. Want to takes things in hand and harm your stalker to stop him ? Then you will be the one to be investigated by the police. If someone has a solution I really want to hear it...In case it happens to me one day.

[@MonsterSlam12]

Become God and overhaul the Japanese police system. In all seriousness though, as a man, I never really thought about this predicament for stalking victims before watching Markiplier play this game and reading this comment section. It's tough.

[@somedude1564]

I hope there will be a part two or some sorts since all the endings seem to go to a bad ending, poor girl :(

[@slidersides]

Lesson learned don’t work at star bucks during the night shift or ya gonna get bodied

[@HanniSeidenba0525]

This is the reason why people is getting less nice to others nowaday. :/ I was once the victim. I was just try to be polited.

[@VVilla-zh5mw]

_Samantha Koenig_ murder case was the first thing comes to mind while watching CoryxKenshin game review , She was only 18 yrs old when her killer kidnapped her while she was inside the coffee shop working closing shift , her killer released a proof of life photo to the media for the ransom money but she was already died ! he just puts lots of makeup and stitched her eyelids open and after that he chopped her body 💔

[@lalramdinavarte4987]

I think the stalker surviving the cement block dropped on his head in the long ending could be because the game's creator intended for it to be one of those lighter cinder blocks that aren't load bearing. So it would make sense from a purely storytelling perspective that he got away. But in reality that would still knock a man clean out.

[@Matagatsu]

I have a theory that the owner or manager of the coffee shop is the creepy stocker, it would explain how he was able to sleep within the store and not being caught but also the collogue brings up the point that the milk is mysteriously going missing, how could he not think to look in to the storage room? so much unanswered mysteries, maybe your coworker knows about the owner/managers strange fetish to follow people around, harm them, and sleep in the store? its so confusing. there also the cause of the creep's obsession, maybe that's when the creep met her when she was being hired

[@UmbraticStickerz]

Dude these are awesome!!! I have a reccomendarion for a game though I do not have Twitter but I reccomend Mario the Music Box and its sequel, they're wonderful games and have a lot of story that honestly I think your videos will help counter any confusion with the endings and storylines

[@dantevalehuntik28]

Yo wait Mario the Music Box has a sequel?? I loved that game back in the day

[@UmbraticStickerz]

@@dantevalehuntik28 yup! Mario the Msuic Box Arc, Takes place with the missing ending and has 2 whole routes There's also an extra update/dlc that will expand one of Mario the Music Box Arc's endings coming out soon. Which the update/dlc is called Mario the Music Box Delirium There's also a wonderland update made for Easter and a undertale reference update made for Valentines day Theres a lot And there's a remastered version of the first game that adds more stuff

[@dantevalehuntik28]

@@UmbraticStickerz BROOOOOOO

[@UmbraticStickerz]

@@dantevalehuntik28 its all really good too,

[@YumiYuna.]

I probably guess she kidnapped since that starker keep saying i love you. And like the case with stay out of the house: night shift, he probably take her somewhere where no one can find her. So for now i don't think she dead yet and if they make sequel, it might be about her trying to escape from him.

[@MAISON41]

Or much more disturbing about the son or daughter of aiko (name I gave the main character) with the stalker

[@YumiYuna.]

@@MAISON41 yea

[@mnmnotaskittleindisguise1939]

Man I hope for a sequel like that, I feel so bad for her :(

[@ElectraPrime]

Earliest I’ve been in awhile! Was just looking for something to watch. Thanks and have a great day!

[@manos3414]

Fun fact: this game is based on a true case that happened on the 26th of October 1999, a woman named Shiori Ino was murdered by a hitman hired by her abusive 21-year-old boyfriend, Kazuhito Komatsu

[@boptice]

Nope. The developer is yet to confirm that. Though, yes - their stories are similiar but it isn't based off of that.

[@HeadRedShot]

i loved this game, especially how realistic it felt. the opening of the game with all the harassment and stuff going around really strikes a fear that we all have in real life

[@CSLucasEpic]

The Closing Shift is probably one of the scariest horror games ever made. Simply because the horror it portrays is absolutely possible in real life. You would never actually expect to see on the news that Cuthulu woke up and is eating people, or that there is a revenant zombie with a hockey mask and a machete murdering people. But someone being stalked and murdered, while those close to her just call her silly and the police doing nothing about it? That is something that yes, you would expect to hear on the news. The game is scary because it is on the realm of the possible.

[@geardog24]

Feels like all of this could've been avoided with working surveillance cameras and multiple calls to the police.

[@shmarkpark5268]

You would think it would but it doesn't, the police doesn't really do anything unless you actually get attacked in a lot of places around the world, it's easier to blame the victim for not taking action than the one who did the damage. Many women have had stalkers and my friend unfortunately still has a stalker who was her ex. Although she reported him many times and showed recorded evidence of him parked by her house at certain times on certain days when she was home they did nothing about it because they can't do anything until he does something that is "dangerous". Only after she was finally attacked by him outside of her work place was she able to report him, but even then, he only went to county jail for 2 days and a fine as well as a restraining order on him, not allowing him to get close to her within a certain range. He is still stalking her but only from a farther distance, she's been living with another friend to try and feel safer. She's rn trying to move states bc it's that bad and hopefully he won't follow her there too. There really isn't much you can do, all you can do is hope that they aren't interested and stop, that is really all one can do.

[@MariusBoss11458]

Where the fuck did Senpai go!?

[@pullupenthusiast3800]

@@shmarkpark5268 this is partially true, I apologize for whatever you feel about the justice system and how flawed it truly is there are many things you can do concerning the police and not, firstly get a friend stay within groups of people, criminals pick on the weak and the ones that are alone that can’t get help you need to not make yourself a target, also carry some kind of weapon whether it be a blade a gun or some pepper spray, as well when you are walking outside become the danger yourself, if you are walking alone at night wear a hood and cover your face wear baggy clothes and look down, you may think this won’t help, but it really does you’re becoming unknown criminals don’t pick on unknown they pick on targets they know they can handle, as well you can ask the police to watch you or have surveillance, go to a police station and go talk with them don’t call 911 you need to understand that the police are people too, and some can be bad it’s quite difficult to manage who’s exaggerating or not, so prove to them, Ik it sucks that you have to live like this I’m truly sorry, but we can’t expect disgusting people to get better, we need to get better ourselves

[@shmarkpark5268]

@@pullupenthusiast3800look you got the clothing thing completely wrong this just makes it easier for people to rape you I've been living as a woman for years, I know the precautions I can do to not get assaulted. I know you're trying to help but you lecturing me on what to do comes as very condescending and it's it's like you did not listen to what I said. Police will literally not make an effort to truly help with this issue if anything the people you can truly only depend on is your friends and family. And what you're saying makes no sense how are we supposed to get better and not get possible attacked if we truly have no power over what someone can do. One can take as much precautions as they want but for as long as more people are concerned over how someone can avoid the issue then it will only take longer for stuff to actually change. Navigating the world as a woman and being surrounded by women and women telling their many stories about the justice system should tell you there is a clear flaw that doesn't help victims, it sounds extremely done deaf of you to say that there are many things one can do when there really isn't anything that can be done. I don't feel it's flawed, the fact is it is flawed, it has failed victims.

[@pullupenthusiast3800]

@@shmarkpark5268 to act like there aren’t things someone can do just isn’t true tho, and the clothing thing is true, if you do not show that you are a woman why would that make it easier to rape? What that doesn’t make much sense and weapons legal self defense weapons help as well, I read everything you said, staying within groups of people is literally one of the best things you can do to avoid criminals and creeps, and if you know the precautions why are you saying that there’s nothing people can do? It’s like you’re going back on your own word, unless the police is absolutely corrupt wherever you live you can be put on surveillance I hope you know this. And the truth is this will never change this will always be a thing it’s definitely possible to reduce but to eradicate and erase? No because sick people will always exist I feel like you have a false perception that this is only a women problem as well, this is a people problem. Women are in danger of being sex trafficked raped and sexually harassed on a way higher scale then men, but on the flip side men are much more on the higher scale of being physically assaulted robbed and murdered, but the truth is most men are ignorant of this im not trying to say this to say “MEN GO THROUGH THIS TOO” I’m just clarifying that we all go through our dangers, and to act like there’s absolutely nothing you can do is just false even if the options are minimal

[@tt4life74]

I am currently watching a KZbinr play the game. And I was just too curious to not get spoilered. The thing i always found fascinating in this game is despite the characters not being very realistic And the graphics just not up to date, I feel like there have been rarely other games that gave me such uneasy feelings. Idk, I‘m male und luckily I have Never witnessed something like that, but somehow this game makes me feel so scared. It just captures the feelings of the Protagonist very well And just the unsureness of what‘s gonna happen next. It gives me shivers.

[@chipsfreak5070]

My roommate who I shared a dorm room with used to get stalked in college. She was always hanging out at her boyfriends dorm room down the hall so maybe that's why she never got the chance to tell me about her stalker until he showed up at the front door. She and I had come back from classes and she was hanging out in our room bc her boyfriend wasn't back yet. Someone knocked on the front door and we thought it was weird bc everyone else just walks in. I went to check and a young normal looking guy was waiting, asking to see my roommate. I thought nothing of it and said sure, brought him into our room. Her face didn't show any signs of distress (i have autism though so i read it wrong) and she welcomed the guy to have a seat on the chair in front of her. I told her I would just wait in the lobby until they were done and closed the door behind me. Outside some of our friends in the dorm that had noticed the guy on the way in pulled me aside and asked me what I was thinking, inviting my roommate's stalker right into her room. I was completely shocked and started panicking. We decided I would walk back into the room and lie about the two of us needing to go to class now and that he should probably leave. So I went back inside and apparently he had moved from the chair to sitting right next to her on the bed. He had his hands around her neck, not too tightly, but still. Like he was acting out a fantasy or something fucked up. And all she did was just sit there smiling at him, laughing it off. At this point I just wanted to pull him away but I did my best to keep it cool and say my line in a convincing manner. He smiled politely at me and got up, telling his goodbyes and that he couldn't wait to come back. He left quietly and we made sure to lock the front door. I apologized profusely to my roommate but she was just relieved that I got back. She told me this guy had revealed this fantasy of his to strangle her and kept showing up but it was her own fault for not refusing him better, even though she had told him to leave her alone. We assured her there was absolutely no fucking way that his behaviour was acceptable and in fact she should contact the police and tell her boyfriend, but she never did, instead she kept blaming herself.

[@ozanahmetmutluay46]

I feel the goosebumps this is too realistically terrifying as someone living in the middle east these sorts of incidents are more common and much more terrifying than you can possibly think.

[@alkv7604]

Its not good either way, but the way he said on the notes was like was infatuated by the protagonist, so (even thought its still horrible) i hope it was a situation of yandere and their love interest (lets just pray that she wont die)

[@qokoa]

I wouldn't bet on that. He pierced one of her photos with a screwdriver and wanted to beat her with a metal rod when she tried to escape the shop. Some yanderes can be violent towards not only other people, but their object of obsession too :(

[@alkv7604]

@@qokoa Sad... Well, if she did ended up dying, at least she's in a better place

[@neen2660]

Watched Jack play it. Made me so anxious. I’m glad I circled back to this

[@tktvr9703]

Its sad that no matter what ending you get she'll be dead

[@TheMentallySmells]

This game somehow represented How some mens treating womens, I've seen a lot of cases like this in other country. I love how the game spreading awareness and also unlike the TikTok guy just saying "gIrLs iS eAsY, tHeY jUsT eXiSt" like no. Both gender has a hard time,suffering and pain. It's useless to compare Guys between Girls. It's just sickening to seeing how people treating women or men in horrific way, It depends.

[@vincecatubuan7689]

So you're telling me that after this guy gets a cinder block dropped on his head he not only survives, but is able to regain consciousness and clean up the body leaving no trace of anything happening before the police arrive and NO ONE saw him? Either this police force is as dumb as bricks or this stalker guy is a superhuman. Either way, awful writing.

[@shikiryougi7067]

After watching AlphaBetaGamer playing this, I was waiting for you to make this content.

[@KuromiScarlet5030]

having a stalker is having a Tricky suspect impossible to caught and always flee to the scene

[@ArcticuKitsu]

Heard a story about this from a fellow female full time coworker who now works elsewhere. They told me stories how two biker guys tried to hit on her with other coworkers needing to help her. They tried to stalk her, talk to her, etc. I was also told how much of a creep another fulltimer was with hitting on her, other female cashiers, etc while I would always get yelled and and bullied by him. He would always 'bird watch' (watch female customers come in) commentating how he observes female customers entering the store, how he got laid, how he observed other girls leaving 'snail trails' etc. Him and another person eventually spawned a big enough incident he had to flee elsewhere after a big incident while also punishing the coworker who snapped by sending them to another department. He was arrogant, a mess, abusive, and scared girls while they tried to be friendly with them. Always would flirt doing the bare minimum wanting to be a boss to sit on his rear-end. Shame I was naive & oblivious to fully stop it, just enough to eventually spot these things. I however am happy I was made aware of how to be more observant in future cases. The female coworker left after much abuse from both him, higher ups, and other fulltimers. She is now allegedly being in a similar workplace in a higher position. Possibly briefly in another workplace. High turn-over rates for various reasons, including this one. Even read stories how stalkers would fake being representatives to follow female coworkers into coolers in Walmart, etc. Rough.

[@Hoodiekat827]

As a men who was stalked multiple times by a person its definitely scary. The women who was stalking me literally had a small dagger with her. She used to threaten me, but i reported it to police. She is behind bars now but i am sacred that after she completes her sentence she would stalk me again!?

[@annabel33x]

i hope you're alright, she better rot in prison

[@digimonalvatrax2738]

Men being stalked should be taken seriously

[@그저볼품없는]

The stalker might be just an illusion by stress or demon because the private investigator's blood could not be easily clean out if the stalker hit by the brick, so they are all illusions by the protagonist's extreme stress or the demons include the private investigator and the stalker

[@thecatinthehatwithabat9903]

I'm pretty sure it's relatively obvious that the stalker, attacks when Sexually assaults our character, the evidence being the creepy love letters and the fact the man makes ape like noises in one ending where you presumably are nocked unconscious or even dead and then sa's you

[@angryboi595]

Yeah. Since he has a metal bat in his hand in pretty sure he knocks you out and kills you, but in one ending I think he actually does rape you

[@PrincessOfTheNight01]

You also meet the stalker for the first time in the beginning where you find a phone on the ground before going to work and handing it to a guy. Something as simple as returning a phone can turn into a nightmare.

[@softprincesss]

This was a great game! I loved the vibes of creepy and fun! The working at the coffee shop at like midnight gives so much good vibes.

[@Ventiwings]

Employees having to work by themselves on late night/over night shifts are shady as hell.. I get it's either due to safe environments or they can't afford it but come on guys that's so scary shdhfsf

[@lunagunplax8]

Things that bug me why her senpai never check that stucked door? Could he be the Stalker himself? Because he always wearing his mask(Maybe?). If i was the owner of that store i will solve that stucked door instead he did not mind over that stucked door even the owner too, Strange isn't it?

[@this_my_sausage8491]

that’s what i thought too, but i saw a comment saying that on the days that he wasn’t at work he might’ve just left early because he saw the stalker and got scared, or the stalker did something to him. i also never thought about her senpai not checking the stuck door. but the idea of the senpai being the stalker could definitely be true tho too

[@Mii..]

I thought 2 things: The stalker killed him because he thought he was trying to go get in the way of him being with her. OR he left early. I didn't think he was the stalker because THE stalker is extremely tall especially compared to him.

[@matheusmurasaki7189]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="519">8:39</a> she forgot the double tap rule

[@MAISON41]

like any protagonist in horror movies

[@cymarie8640]

Basically I actually think senpai was the stalker, 1.hes wearing a mask and none of the customers wears a masks 2.hes always being mean to the girl And also I think there are two stalkers because from the scene who where there's a man standing on the drive thru he left a note say (I didn't memorized it but it was just like it said)"the day we first met yes at chilla's she smiled like me like a flower just thinking about it makes me happy I hope she's putting on everyone's face just like mine"

[@smiththeinspiringanimator7042]

This actually inspired me to write my story in a cafe or coffee shop!

[@SolarMoonQuartz]

Cory called the game “Women Simulator” and I absolutely agree. A great game portraying the horrors that majority of us women face irl.

[@alekssokoowski5124]

Imagine scene "Can I get a breast milk"

[@Ren-ot5xp]

LOL I wonder who will say that

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

In terms of dropkick levels, we have high dropkick levels

[@kaizablue0412]

They are probably more people the stalker killed not just the detective 1.Senpai-Since the senpai was an asshole to the protagonist the stalker is probably pissed at him and killed him in the process which is why he wasn't there when the protagonist went to work again 2.The other stalker-The hoodie stalker takes picture of the protagonist which made the first stalker mas and killed the hoodie stalker 3.Shoya-When the protagonist rejected him he probably died by the stalker Why the mother was crying and the baby wasn't present when she went to get coffee? After the encounter between her and the protagonist the stalker did not take it kindly so he either kidnaps her baby and forced her to order at chilla's coffee or the baby was killed How did the stalker get inside of her house? After the stalker got away he took her phone and used it as bait (unless the protagonist gets her phone from him but drops it) when she was looking for her phone outside the stalker went in the house and wait for her. Good endings? Since there are no good endings i come up some myself 1. The protagonist somehow stab the stalker with a screwdriver 2. The protagonist drop two bricks at the stalker's head which results to him unconscious for very long for the cops to capture him or led to his death 3. The protagonist accidentally crash the stalker with the car 4.When the stalker comes out of the closet the protagonist quickly grabbed the knife and killed him 5.The brick killed him as it should have (I don't know how he survive let alone have enough strength to escape which the cops should've caught him the head injury could've slowed him down and suffering from pain until he dies) 5.She should've known the stalker is still alive and is now after her when she gets her phone she realize it was a trap and immediately called the cops and caught the stalker

[@enucxus]

Ohhh new video lets go!!! I love hiw the sound is different now sounds great 😊

[@BrutalBasaltConquerer]

The naked man (Sauche man) could be the person in drive-thru camera because they both don’t care that it is cold outside because both of them are seen in broad and less clothes.

[@fizzy6621]

As a guy who has been harassed by a woman for years and years and years, i understand where this game is coming from for people (both woman and men) can both be the victim and harasser, tho i am not saying anything about gender roles and what some people say "oh but what about the numbers of who gets more blah blah blah" like numbers don't matter and nor does gender, what matters is the person who is getting harassed needs help, so with that said i can't somewhat relate to this game and its story but just seen at a male pov

[@ratsso8251]

I don't know if it's stalking but in high school a boy would follow me around and text me on Instagram telling me he loves me in different languages then quickly deleting it. He'd also whisper things like "I'm watching you" while walking past.I used to sit in math during lunch to eat quietly but sometimes I'd see him watching me through the small window in the door and even walk in and sit far behind me. One time I sat at the back of the class with my cousin so he couldn't watch me but he walked up to me and clearly watched me which also creeped my cousin out cause it was so unexpected. Even if I went to other places he'd still find me and he'd sneak up behind and watch me and wait till I notice him. He's also taken pictures of me (I know this cause he showed me his KZbin channel and it was a picture of me reading a book in the library)

[@MonsterSlam12]

That's stalking as far as I can tell. Obviously it didn't escalate like in the game, but that's still kinda messed up

[@ethan2529]

I feel like theirs an undiscovered ending there has to be a way to save her life I was thinking after you use the screwdriver to escape through the vent maybe you can stab him in the back

[@天资]

Spoiler: The vent escape leads to another unfortunate ending

[@polkalamypekopeko2969]

It was all so scary man but I dropped my drink from laughter when I saw rhe guy dancing that scene. When I played this game I did exactly that too

[@Eggpire-278]

love your videos keep them up

[@mtfalpha-1.629]

That shady man was watching the protagonist while she was talking with the old guy.

[@panny8958]

While watching youtubers play this game and get different endings I thought about these few things, the protagonist has more then one stalker. Although only one was "obsessed" the guy at the start who we gave the phone to is the one at the end yeah? He doesn't look remotely similar to the hooded stalker although the hooded stalker reminds me of the first man in the group of men that came in at the start of the game and also the man at the end of the line of that same group. By looking at their faces you can see they have the same or quite similar face and they also have a similar height. I also read some comments on a different video stating that the man on the bus who was "staring at us " wasn't actually. He was staring at the obsessed stalker behind us. He was probably concerned as to why he was sitting or standing behind us. Correct me in replies if I'm wrong but I don't think the discovery of who was living in that back door at the shop has actually found. It could be either of the stalkers but I'm thinking it could be the hooded guy. He was originally the one who was taking the photos of us and the one who wrote the letter about us smiling at him like a flower?

[@MAISON41]

very drugged theory: the aggressive stalker paid the hooded man, the boy who looks like light Yagami and the "idol" to get information such as name and phone number from aiko (I say drugged since in one of the letters he says that he knows "Aiko" much better /name I gave the protagonist\)

[@jaizy3021]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="116">1:56</a> ACTUALLY. There was a man in the window watching her, he was wearing a hoodie and came in the store later

[@sylvialucero5074]

THANK YOU! I was scrolling through the comments trying to find this haha. Love the video overall but felt that was a pretty obvious moment overlooked.

[@jaizy3021]

@@sylvialucero5074 hahaha your welcome

[@cheeryrozetea]

Funahashi Senpai was so mean to that poor girl. He literally said something about her having a stalker for "the likes of her!” This is why you shouldn’t blame the victim, like for example: if I told you that someone was trying to kill me and you didn't believe, then the next the day I was murdered. It’s scary and sad that stuff like this happens in real life, especially to women…

[@shelenaflunkie4494]

I live in a small town, some men (old and young) stare at me when I’m walking around, or hanging out with friends, which scares me sometimes, knowing some rumours about those men

[@magic69blue16]

You my good narrator are one of my favorite KZbinrs 😁

[@StrivingFR]

Yeah it was a good game but as far as reality goes its not a joke.10/10