How to Play The Closing Shift: Walkthrough and Mechanics Guide

Playing The Closing Shift, a psychological horror adventure developed by Chilla's Art at Chilla's Coffee, requires balancing customer service tasks like pouring coffee and steaming milk with surviving a tense narrative. This guide covers core mechanics, drink-making skills, and step-by-step shift walkthroughs to help you successfully complete the game.

Basic Skills and Cafe Mechanics

Before tackling your shifts at Chilla's Coffee, you must master the core mechanics used to fulfill customer orders.

• Checking Recipes: Visit the whiteboard in the back room to review all required ingredients for hot drinks, cold drinks, and food items.
• Pouring Coffee: Grab a Hot or Cold Cup depending on the recipe and place it in front of the coffee machine.
• Steaming Milk: Place a Milk Jug in front of the Milk Steamer, use a Milk carton from the right-hand refrigerator on the jug, and pick it up once finished.
• Blending Ice: Place a Blender Cup on a flat surface near the blender, add ice from the Ice Refrigerator, and place the cup into the blender.
• Serving Drinks & Food: Add ingredients one at a time to your cup, attach the matching lid (Hot or Cold Cup Lid), place the item on the counter, and apply the corresponding Order Sticker from the printer. For pastries, open the pastry cabinet, grab the requested item, bag it next to the cabinet, place it on the counter, and apply the Order Sticker.
• Handling Mistakes: If you mess up an order, throw the incorrect ingredient or drink into the trash can near the customer counter. You cannot serve incorrect items; the game will sound a buzzer if you attempt to use an Order Sticker on a flawed drink.

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Shift-by-Shift Walkthrough

Shift 1

Start by leaving your apartment, walking down the stairs, and answering the ringing phone. Hand the phone to the man in the shadows near the bike shed behind your building, then get in your car.

At Chilla's Coffee, go to the back room, place your belongings in the right-hand locker, and speak to Funahashi-senpai. Once your shift starts, take orders from your customers:

1. First Customer: Makes a standard Coffee and a Latte.
2. Second Customer: Wants a "Chocolate Chip Chillappucino" (listed on the board as a Dark Mocha Chip Chillappuccino), made with a Cold Cup, Blended Ice, unsteamed Milk, Coffee, Chocolate Sauce, and Cocoa Powder.
3. Four Students: Provide a complex order featuring a Matcha Chillappuccino, Salted Caramel Mocha, White Mocha, Matcha Cake, Pumpkin Cake, American Waffle, and American Apple Pie. (Whipped cream is located in the refrigerator under the blender).
4. Final Customer (Private Investigator Hasaku): Serve him a standard Latte.

After serving, take the broom from the left locker in the back room and clean the dirty spots on the floor. When the lights go out, navigate to the storeroom and flip the breaker on the back wall, then return dropped milk cartons to the refrigerator.

Shift 2

Drive to work and clock in with Funahashi-senpai.

• Your first customer orders an American Waffle, Caramel Toffee American Scone, American Apple Pie, and a Coffee.
• A creepy hooded customer follows, ordering a Vanilla Chillappuccino and two glasses of Milk.
• A third customer hits on you; ask him to order a Chillappuccino or give him a fake phone number to trigger a Caramel Macchiato order.

End your shift by taking the trash out the fire exit to the dumpster, using the Cleaning Rag from the back room locker to clean dirty tables, and picking up a mysterious photo from the creepy customer's table.

Shift 3

Head to work after a brief encounter outside your apartment.

• Three students (JKs) order a Matcha Chillappuccino, Strawberry and Cream Roll, Strawberry Churro, Coffee with Whipped Cream, and a Caramel Macchiato.
• Two men enter next; after a brief interaction, serve them a Latte and a Vanilla Latte.

At the end of your shift, clean the tables with the Cleaning Rag. Investigate the weird noise coming from the drive-through camera monitor, then check the menu board outside at the drive-through area to read a "Creepy Text."

Fourth Shift

After receiving another Creepy Text at your apartment, your car won't start. Walk to the nearby bus stop and ride the bus to work. Speak with Funahashi-senpai in the bathroom before starting your shift.

Serve drive-through customers through the window counter:

• Car Man: Two Caramel Macchiatos and two Caramel Toffee American Scones.
• Woman with Rosary: Green Tea Latte and an American Waffle.
• Idol: Salted Caramel Mocha.
• Mametaro: Navigate his dialogue to clear him out.

When your shift ends, take out the trash, clean the dirty toilet with the Toilet Cleaning Products from the cleaning locker, and restock the toilet paper. When the lights go out, shadowy figures will demand Lattes; serve them until the timer expires. Finally, head into the storeroom, try the broken breaker, and look down the aisle toward the locked "..." door to spot a pair of eyes.

Final Shift

Arrive at work where your locker is already packed and Funahashi-senpai is missing. Speak with the detective, then fulfill orders for office ladies, a visibly upset woman without her baby, and Machiko.

Once Machiko leaves, check your locker to find your things gone. Grab the ladder from the storeroom, head out the fire exit, place the ladder against the wall around the back of the drive-through road, and climb up onto the roof. Open the vent, climb down into the creepy room, examine the photo-covered walls, and unlock the interior door back to the storeroom.

Wrap up your closing duties by taking the Product Scanner, throwing out expired pastries from the pastry cabinet, scanning the front sandwiches, counting the cash register money in the back room machine, and flipping the sign to "closed."

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Grand Finale Endings

Depending on your actions during the final confrontation, you can achieve one of three endings:

• BAD END 1: Attempt to escape out the back fire exit when your pursuer appears at the front door. You can retry from flipping the sign.
• BAD END 2: Go into the creepy room, pick up the screwdriver from the bedding, use it on the bathroom vent to escape outside, retrieve your car key from the floor, and get in your car.
• GOOD(?) END: Grab the ladder from the storeroom, use it in the creepy room beneath the vent, climb onto the roof, take a brick from the stack to scale the roof edge, sneak around the side, and confront your pursuer. Afterwards, retrieve your phone from the car park and return to your apartment living room.