The Closing Shift Walkthrough and Guide

The Closing Shift is a horror adventure game developed by Chilla's Art that places players in the role of a coffee shop employee working late at Chilla's Coffee. This comprehensive guide covers essential mechanics, step-by-step walkthroughs for each of your shifts, and instructions for navigating the game's multiple endings.

Basic Skills and Concepts

Before diving into the shifts, you must master the fundamental tasks required to run the coffee shop successfully:

• Checking Recipes: The whiteboard in the back room displays the required ingredients for all drink varieties.
• Pouring Coffee: Place a Hot Cup or Cold Cup in front of the coffee machine according to the drink recipe.
• 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 the flat surface in front of the blender, open the Ice Refrigerator, pick up ice, use it on the cup, and then place the cup into the blender.
• Serving Hot and Cold Drinks: Place the appropriate cup on a flat surface, add ingredients one at a time, apply the matching cup lid, pick up the drink, place it on the counter in front of the customer, and apply the correct Order Sticker.
• Serving Food: Open the pastry cabinet, select the requested pastry, use it on the bags next to the cabinet, place the bagged pastry on the counter, and apply the correct Order Sticker.
• Handling Mistakes: Throw unwanted ingredients or incorrect drinks into the trash can near the customer counter. You will hear a buzzer if you attempt to apply an Order Sticker to an incorrect order.

Shift 1 Walkthrough

Begin by leaving your apartment, walking down the balcony stairs, and picking up the ringing mobile phone at the bottom. Walk around the back of the building into the car park, give the phone to the man near the bike shed who is looking for something, and get into your car.

Once at Chilla's Coffee, go behind the counter, open the back room door, and put your things away in the right-hand locker. Speak to Funahashi-senpai to receive a reprimand for being late. Afterward, walk back into the main room to officially start your shift, signaled by the background music.

Serve your customers according to their printed Order Stickers:

1. First Customer: Makes a standard Coffee and a Latte.
2. Second Customer: Orders a Chocolate Chip Chillappuccino (listed as "Dark Mocha Chip Chillappuccino" on the recipe board), requiring a Cold Cup, blended ice, coffee, unsteamed milk, chocolate sauce, and cocoa powder.
3. Four Students: Provide the complex order featuring items like a Matcha Chillappuccino, Salted Caramel Mocha, White Mocha, Matcha Cake, Pumpkin Cake, American Waffle, and American Apple Pie. Whipped cream can be found in the refrigerator beneath the blender.
4. Final Customer (Hasaku): A private investigator who orders a Latte via the printer.

After service, take the broom from the left locker in the back room and sweep the dirty spots on the floor until the meter clears. The lights will go out; navigate to the storeroom in the back and flip the breaker switch on the back wall. Finally, pick up the discarded milk cartons from the floor and return them to the refrigerator.

Shift 2 Walkthrough

Leave your apartment, get in your car, and drive to work while noting the strange van in the car park. Apologize to Funahashi-senpai for being late and store your belongings in your locker.

• First Customer: Orders an American Waffle, Caramel Toffee American Scone, American Apple Pie, and a Coffee.
• Creepy Customer: A hooded man enters and orders a Vanilla Chillappuccino and two glasses of milk, then seats himself around the corner.
• Flirty Customer: Handle him by telling him to order a Chillappuccino or giving him a fake phone number to trigger a Caramel Macchiato order.

To end the shift, collect the trash from the back room and take it out the fire exit to the dumpster. Grab the cleaning rag from the left locker in the back room, clean the dirty tables, and pick up the photograph left at the table where the creepy customer was sitting.

Shift 3 Walkthrough

Exit your apartment, speak to the mother at the bottom of the stairs, and drive to work. After putting your belongings away in the back room, your shift begins.

• Three JKs: Serve them a Matcha Chillappuccino, Strawberry and Cream Roll, Strawberry Churro, Coffee with Whipped Cream, and a Caramel Macchiato while listening to their background conversation.
• The Coffee Racks & Paying Customer: A man stares at the bagged coffee racks while another lacks funds. The first man pays for him, allowing you to serve them a Latte and a Vanilla Latte.

Post-shift, grab the cleaning rag from the back room to clean the tables. Investigating a strange noise from the drive-through camera monitor leads you outside to the drive-through menu board, where you will find a "Creepy Text".

Fourth Shift Walkthrough

After returning to your apartment, your doorbell rings, revealing another creepy text. Head to the car park, but since your car will not start, walk to the nearby bus stop and ride the bus to work.

Store your belongings and locate Funahashi-senpai in the bathroom before starting your shift:

• Drive-Through Customer (Car Man): Orders two Caramel Macchiatos and two Caramel Toffee American Scones. Serve these at the drive-through window counter.
• Woman with Rosary: Orders a Green Tea Latte and an American Waffle.
• Idol: Orders a Salted Caramel Mocha.
• Mametaro: Navigate the conversation to get rid of him.

Afterward, take the trash out to the dumpster via the fire exit. Clean the dirty toilet using toilet cleaning products from the cleaning locker, and restock the empty holder with a toilet roll from the stockroom.

When the lights go out, shadowy figures will repeatedly demand Lattes; serve them until the timer expires. Head to the storeroom, attempt to use the broken breaker, and confront the pair of eyes waiting down the aisle near the locked "..." door.

Final Shift Walkthrough

Drive to work in improved weather. Funahashi-senpai is absent, and your belongings are already stored in your locker. Speak with the detective, then serve incoming customers including office ladies, a visibly upset woman without her baby, and Machiko, who orders "the usual" (Salted Caramel Mocha, Caramel Macchiato, and Sweet Red Beans and Butter Bread).

Once Machiko leaves, check your locker to find your belongings missing. Retrieve the ladder from the corner of the storeroom, head out the fire exit, and place the ladder against the debris-strewn wall behind the drive-through road to climb up to the roof.

Roof and Store Operations

1. Examine the open roof vent and climb down into the creepy room to inspect the photographs on the walls.
2. Unlock and open the door leading back into the stockroom.
3. Grab the Product Scanner from the back room table, throw all pastries from the pastry cabinet into the trash behind the counter, and scan all sandwiches around the front of the pastry cabinet.
4. Take money from the till, process it through the cash-counting machine in the back room, and flip the front sign to "closed".

Grand Finale and Endings

Depending on your actions during the final showdown, you can achieve one of three outcomes:

• Bad End 1: Attempt to escape out the back fire exit after your friend appears at the front door. You can retry from the sign-flipping stage.
• Bad End 2: Enter the creepy room out back, pick up the screwdriver from the bedding, use it on the bathroom vent to reach the drive-through area, and grab your car keys from the floor to escape in your car.
• Good(?) End: Retrieve the ladder from the storeroom, use it under the vent inside the creepy room to climb back onto the roof, take a brick, use the brick stack to reach the roof edge, and confront your friend. Afterward, exit through the window to your balcony, retrieve your phone from the car park, and return to your living room.