BODY: The graveyard shift at a Japanese convenience store is one of the loneliest jobs in the country. Chilla's Art turned it into a horror game — and as of today, it's running on Switch 2.
Publisher Regista launched the Nintendo Switch 2 version of 夜勤事件 (Yakin Jiken, released internationally as The Convenience Store) on September 24, 2026. To mark the debut, it's discounted 30% to ¥690 — roughly $4.60 — putting it well under the price of an actual konbini bento.
The Switch 2 edition isn't a straight port. Regista has added a new ending to the game's branching conclusions, plus a collectible system built around Chiramaru, the Chilla's Art mascot. Find the Chiramaru figures scattered across the map and the interior of the store itself begins to change — a neat inversion of the original's core tension, where the store's unchanging fluorescent sameness was exactly what made every small anomaly terrifying.
Yakin Jiken casts you as a part-timer working nights at a rural convenience store: restocking shelves, facing products, running the register, and gradually noticing that something about your shift is very wrong. The game first appeared on PC in 2020 and became a streamer staple, with playthroughs from Japanese VTubers and Western horror channels driving far more attention than its tiny development team could have bought.
Chilla's Art remains a two-person operation — a pair of brothers working in a deliberately rough, low-poly PS1-era style that has quietly become its own genre. Regista has been steadily bringing their catalogue to Nintendo hardware.
The insider take
What Western players read as "atmospheric" is, for anyone who has worked a konbini shift in Japan, uncomfortably procedural. The tasks in Yakin Jiken — facing the drink cooler, swapping the bento labels at changeover, the door chime announcing a customer you can't see from the back room — are the actual job, rendered with enough fidelity that Japanese players recognize the muscle memory before the horror starts. That's the trick Chilla's Art has built a career on: the dread isn't imported from Hollywood, it's domestic, and it lives in the fifteen minutes after midnight when the last customer leaves and the store is yours alone.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).