You play as Diti, a woman who wakes up on the floor of a convenience store storage room. She quickly grabs a phone and starts talking to her friend, who stays on the line and tries to help her deal with the experience. How everything connects is revealed at the end. The store itself is small, with only the storage room and a toilet besides the main area, but the front door is locked. It also feels like someone else is there.
The characters are voiced in Hindi, but the acting is very stiff and sounds more like lines being read without emotion. There is an option near the beginning to turn off voice acting, but it does not work. Instead, you have to go into the volume settings and lower the voice slider all the way down. Subtitles, however, work just fine.
After the first few minutes, once you realize there is no easy way out, the premise becomes strange. A man with a blurry face appears, and you are told he is your coworker. He only responds if you form words using items from the store. There are five possible words, and each letter corresponds to the first letter of a specific item.
You register a letter by picking up an item and bringing it to the coworker behind the counter. Item names appear when you place the cursor at the center of the screen. The problem is that many items share the same starting letter, and only one of them is correct. For example, there is milk, mayonnaise, and mac and cheese, or spreads and soups, or cakes and crackers. You will likely make mistakes before finding the right item, and these mistakes affect your state of mind.
The state of mind is the main mechanic used to track errors. If you make too many mistakes, Diti faints and wakes up back in the storage room. This mostly wastes time rather than progress, since you continue from the last task. Each time you wake up, you are in front of a board on the wall that gradually fills with new information about the overall story.
You soon learn that you are stuck in the store from Monday to Saturday. Each day introduces a new type of fear along with a new store related task. On Monday, you deal with a fear of strangers by forming words. On Tuesday, the task involves collecting golden stars from customers to soothe a fear of failure. Wednesday focuses on a fear of being watched, requiring you to restock shelves while keeping an eye on your coworker, who slowly approaches whenever you look away. This pattern continues throughout the week.
All of the tasks are annoying, and they get worse with each day. The second task introduces a customer holding either a red or golden star, and your goal is to grab the golden one before your coworker does. The coworker moves only when you move and stops when you stop, but the customer can sometimes walk directly into him while he is standing still at the starting point.
Later, there is a particularly bad section where you see the game from the coworker’s perspective. You must run away from him while struggling with awkward controls and a poor camera. There is no clear objective or direction, and getting caught resets the entire day. This is followed by the worst task in the game, where you must scan items for customers.
Every time you step out from behind the counter, a girl covered in bloods begins chasing you. A single hit resets the entire day, including several completed customers. Of course, if you didn’t memorize where each store item is located from previous days, you’ll have to deal with this problem as well. To make things worse, some items are located near the girl’s spawn point, so you need to rely on her movement pattern or constantly run back to the counter to try again.
The game ends with another frustrating section in which you must lure a killer under a security camera. This is done without any clear logic or real mechanic, relying mostly on random chance that the killer walks under the camera on his own. To make matters worse, you have to keep him there until a progress bar fills, but he often turns the camera off, forcing you to run back to the counter to reactivate it.
Overall, the game is short, but its length is artificially inflated by poorly designed and barely playable ideas. It is possible to finish it with enough stubbornness, but the game then invites you to replay it to uncover the full story, which is not something you would want to do twice.
