The Convenience Store: A Complete Walkthrough

Conveniently Packed with Ghosts!

In The Convenience Store by Chilla’s Art, you play as a college student working in a convenience store in rural Japan. Unfortunately for you, this store is rumored to be haunted. Strange deliveries show up every night, and the homeless man outside claims to know about terrible things that happened here. Are all the people who visit the store customers, or are some of them spirits? And where has the manager disappeared to? As the main character, you’ll have to investigate, even if it could cost you your life…

Prologue

You start the game in the protagonist’s house. Before you leave for work, you’ll need to change your clothes, eat dinner, and grab a flashlight.

The clothes can be found in the wardrobe next to the table.
As for dinner, look in the refrigerator in the main room and pull a bento out. Put it in the microwave to eat it.
Lastly, if you look out the window the protagonist will comment that it’s dark. The flashlight is in a drawer in the hallway.

When all of this is done, head out the door downstairs. Keep walking until you find some stairs on your right that lead to the lower level of the town. Go down and keep following the streetlights. They’ll lead you to a bridge out of town. Cross the bridge and you’ll see the brightly lit convenience store.

Before you go into the store, talk to the homeless guy outside and listen to what he says. Don’t worry, you’ll understand it more later. Head inside and talk to your coworker, Ken.

Afterwards, go behind the counter and into the side room. There is a CCTV which you can watch on the computer here. To get the Security achievement, watch it and then back out by pushing the left mouse button 5 times. You can also read a note left by the manager. He wants you to check one of the shelves for expired items.

When you’re ready, use the punch clock to punch in and start working. You’ll need to look for the expired items on the shelf, which you can throw away in the back dumpsters. However, for the Homeless achievement, make sure you give one bag of expired food to the homeless guy outside. If you look at all items on the shelves, you’ll get the Expiration Date achievement.

While you’re running around, a customer will come in to buy some stuff. Scan his items when he comes to the desk. Once this guy leaves, the automatic door starts going crazy, opening and closing by itself. If you look around, nobody is there.

Eventually, a delivery guy shows up with a package for you. He’ll be back every night to drop off or pick up packages, so you’ll see him often. Take the package and this shift will end.

Night 1

You’ll wake up to your food already cooking in the microwave, and a VHS tape sitting next to the package from work. Play the VHS tape on the TV, then head to work on that unsettling note. It’s much darker out now but follow the same path you took before.

At the store, talk to Ken, who mentions that the door was found to have loose wiring. Maybe it wasn’t supernatural? After talking to him, Ken leaves so you can punch in. In the back room is another note from your manager. This time, you’ll need to spray 6 rats outside. The spray is in the storage room, in a blue basket near the door to outside.

Make sure you don’t miss the old lady with a walker who comes into the store. She hobbles into the bathroom and closes the door. After her, you’ll get this angry guy who wants one pack of cigars and five beers, RIGHT NOW. Yikes. The beers are in the fridges along the back wall, touch the white cans marked “Yuhi”. The cigars are in blue packages hanging on the wall behind the counter. You’ll have to bring them over individually.

After you finish up the angry guy’s order, the old lady will come out of the bathroom. Unfortunately for our clerk, she’s angry too! Apparently, this store used to be her daughter’s house. What happened to her daughter?

Before you can think much about this, she leaves, and the door starts opening and closing again. At this point, go back and look at the security camera. Switch to the camera outside the front of the store. There’s a little boy running around outside, playing with the door. But, if you go outside to find him, there’s nobody there.

After this, the delivery guy comes to pick up a package, and the night will end.

Night 2

Tonight, it’s raining outside. Grab your flashlight and an umbrella, then open the door to head outside. But wait, there’s a package for you on the ground. Take it back inside and open it to find another tape to play. Once you’ve watched it, go to work.

At the store, you arrive to see nobody at the counter. Go to the back room with the punch clock and walk in to start your shift…

Boo! Ken jumps out from the locker to scare you. Personally, this would have triggered my fight-or-flight reaction, and he would be saying “Boo-hoo!” after getting punched. After talking to Ken, he leaves.

Today, the manager wants you to restock some shelves with products found in the storage room. Punch in, then start on your task. Eventually, when you try to leave the storage room, the door will be locked. While you’re locked in, you should hear someone come in the store. But when the door finally unlocks, nobody is here. Just keep stocking the shelves.

Mr. Hamada, the maintenance man, comes in to fix your air conditioner once you’re done restocking. If you follow him to the back, you’ll notice that the area covered with police tape is now open. There’s a storage shed back here. Try and open the door, but the clerk makes a comment that she feels like something is grabbing her. Let’s ignore that for now and go back inside.

Another customer arrives; ring her up, and she’ll give you a protection charm. We might need it. Start walking back to the storage room, and you’ll hear a weird noise coming from the bathroom. Are the skibidi toilets attacking? Go inside, only to get locked in again.

Once you’re out of the bathroom you should notice that there’s stuff all over the floor. Go into the office to check the cameras.

After getting jumpscared by Ms. Tall-Dark-and-Hairy, walk back out into the store. You’ll find some talismans in one of the aisles. These can be placed on the door of the shed to exorcise it. You’ll also need a key. You should find a wrench on the ground left by the maintenance man. Use the wrench on the glowing A/C unit to get the key. Now open the shed.

If you’ve been wondering where the manager was, now you’ve found him! Problem is, he seems to have been murdered in a gruesome fashion. When you try to leave the shed to call the cops or quit your job, guess what? The door’s locked again! This might be a good thing, though, judging by the horrible noises outside. But then the manager’s corpse starts to move, staring you dead in the eye… And things fade to black.

Night 3

At this point, I would have run for the hills by now, but our protagonist is still determined to get that $13 an hour, even if her boss is dead. Maybe the ghosts will start leaving piles of money somewhere? Before you go to your next shift, there will be another VHS tape on the floor. Watch it, then leave the comfort of your home for the cold, dark night.

When you get to the store, you’ll find that Ken is gone, and there is no ticket to punch in and begin working. Since the manager is dead, he can’t leave you any notes either. Walk out from behind the counter, and the store will transform itself, with a carpet of rusty nails and TVs everywhere. It’s like a sadist’s version of Best Buy. Get your tetanus for 50% off!

Since all of the doors are locked, there’s not much you can do other than check the security cameras. Remember that little boy from the first night? He’s clearly a ghost, and he’s back in the store. Pay close attention to which TVs he looks at as he walks around the store. You’ll need to turn them on to unlock the storage room. If you’re confused, watch this.

The first TV is on the top shelf of the back wall, second from the left.
For the second TV, go around the corner from the first TV’s location. It’s on the shelf facing away from the front of the store, on the bottom shelf and second from the right.
The third TV is facing the front of the store in the next aisle. It’s on the middle shelf, third from the right.
The fourth TV is on the top row of the shelf closest to the front door.

Once you’ve turned all four TVs on, go into the storage room and approach the ghost boy. After a short cutscene, you’ll wake up back in the store. When you hear the doors open again, walk over to find a tape sitting outside on the ground. Take it home with you, and you’ll go to the final night.

Night 4

On this night, you’ll be in your apartment. Instead of going to the store, you have two possible choices to consider. For one ending, you can ship the video tape off to someone else, earning the Ending 1 achievement. For the other ending, either watch the tape or throw it away in the trash, which gets you the Ending 2 achievement. You’ll have to replay the whole game if you want to see the other ending, so choose carefully!