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In The Closing Shift, you take on the role of a young female barista working the night shift at the local Starbucks knockoff, Chilla’s Coffee. Our heroine is habitually late to work and doesn’t have the best relationship with her senpai who works the shift before her. On top of that she’s concerned that she might have a stalker — particularly once some of the customers in the coffee shop start talking about rumours of suspicious individuals in the area.

But she has a job to do — and so do you. Similar to how The Convenience Store had you performing mundane tasks in a static location as the narrative gradually revealed itself around you, The Closing Shift sees you spending the majority of your time actually taking orders and serving drinks. This is done in a pleasingly interactive manner similar to what you’d see in games like Coffee Talk and the legendary VA-11 HALL-A, only from a first-person 3D perspective rather than a simple menu-based interface.

Thankfully, you’re not thrown in completely at the deep end for this side of things, as in the back-of-house area of the coffee shop, there are some short videos you can watch showing you how to serve hot and cold drinks plus food items, and a convenient whiteboard lists all the ingredients required for any drinks the customers in the game will ask for. There’s also no penalty for failure; attempting to serve an incorrect drink will simply result in an unsettlingly loud farty sound effect, and all you have to do is try again.

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