Indie Horror Game The Closing Shift is Grounded in Real-World Fears
The horror game scene has been pumping out quality work for a while, especially since the resurgence of indie developers. This subgenre of horror is vastly different from its AAA counterparts, more often than not packaged as short-form content that aims to tell a quick but impactful story. Usually, indie horror games like The Closing Shift take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours to complete, and that’s often enough.
Recently, indie horror games have been moving away from supernatural elements and are focusing, instead, on real-life horrors. An excellent example of this is The Closing Shift by Chilla’s Art. The Japanese two-person team uses their game to highlight a very real fear: being stalked.
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In The Closing Shift,a horror game recently released on Steam, the player character is a young woman working the late shift at a coffee shop. Everything starts off relatively normal, with her having to take orders and make drinks for customers. However, things start to get uneasy when the protagonist finds photographs of herself and strange notes. The notes are disturbing as they speak to how the protagonist and the undisclosed writer are in love. Of course, the protagonist has no idea who the writer is.
As the protagonist goes about her shift, serving customers, she starts hearing more about local stalking cases with a strange man who has been lingering outside of the coffee shop where the horror protagonist spends most of her time. At one point, she even sees this man standing next to the building through a CCTV camera. These unsettling events continue until the protagonist decides to try and expose her stalker.
The Closing Shift delivers a chilling narrative
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