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This $2 Japanese horror game about a haunted convenience store really got under my skin | PC Gamer - santiagoalayeaker1985

This $2 Japanese horror game near a haunted convenience store really got under my skin

The entrance to a convenience store
(Image credit: Chilla's Art)

The Convenience Store is a low-significant revulsion game about a girl working the late shift at a store in a small Japanese town. Most indie horror games are set in flea-bitten old houses, dingy hospitals, and other similarly overused locations. But this combined takes station in a brilliantly afire store, which immediately grabbed my attention. You spend very much of the halt just on the job: serving customers, restocking shelves, attractive out the scum, and acceptive deliveries. It's slow and repetitive, perfectly capturing the tedium of a retail gig.

If that sounds irksome, it is. You stand behind the anticipate watching a client slowly wander the aisles, pick upwardly instant noodles and potato chips, then serve them when they're done. But what this does is make the moments where scary shit starts happening more effective. IT's a game with long, drawn out stretches of nothing, then pint-sized, sharp blasts of understated horror. You'll wonderment why the automatic doors continue starting and shutting when no same's there. Then you'll view them through a fuzzy CCTV feed and…

(Image cite: Chilla's Art)

Information technology's clear away this is a ground-hugging budget game, only the lo-fi nature of the visuals adds to its eerie, unsettling ambience. The compounding of simple 3D models, pic-supported textures, and unclean VHS distortion is an effective peerless, with echoes of the original Silent J. J. Hill and the Temptress serial. Artistically information technology's nowhere near the quality of those games, but the vibe is there, and sometimes that's enough. The audio design is great too, particularly the way information technology uses the shrill beeps of the door sensors to gnaw away at your nerves. Is that a customer or... something else.

I'm honestly surprised by how shuddery The Convenience Store is. I've played a great deal of indie horror games, and very a few actually monster me taboo. Thither are a few scares in here that are such J-repugnance cliches that I didn't much as flinch. But other, more impalpable moments really got under my skin. Chilla's Art, two Japanese brothers who improved this and a depository library of other horror games, cause a tangible bent for well-read when to turn back and form anticipation before dropping a scare. And the fact everything is happening in a titanic, bright board lit aside headache-inducing fluorescent lights is surplus impressive.

(Image credit: Chilla's Art)

There are two endings, the second of which I found the nigh impactful. The first one finishes the story cancelled with an overlong gyre of text, and just kinda fizzles out. But the game is only around an time of day long, so sightedness both of them isn't overmuch of a chore. Or you could just watch it on YouTube if you'Ra lazy. You can buy up The Convenience Stack away directly on Steam, and it's currently 20% forth in the summer sales agreement, making an already ridiculously tacky game even cheaper. If you're into horror games, it's utterly valuable the spare change.

Andy Kelly

If it's set in blank space, Andy will probably write out about it. He loves sci-fi, adventure games, taking screenshots, Twin Peaks, weird sims, Alien: Isolation, and anything with a good account.

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