I'm convinced that Chilla's is just making horror games out of all the jobs he's done in the past as revenge for how boring they were.

I’ve got to give Chilla props on this game—unlike many other of his titles, the ghost isn’t a real ghost; the monster is an apparition of his guilt with the woman our protagonist cheated on his wife with (the Lady in Red). The game is also simultaneously a commentary on work-life culture in Japan (evidenced by the multiple video tapes and interactions depicting harsh “power-harassers” and workloads), and how escaping or prioritizing family is seen as a failure of character. That’s why everyone who goes to the emergency exit dies, such as the two girls in the security cameras (the first of which we see eith our own eyes, the second of which is implied with the maid on 6F, who cleans the blood splatter from the second girl who tripped, the blood which smears all the way to the exit), and also yourself—the police tape around the stairs also implies other employees have been committing suicide by jumping from them, which is also supported by various characters who mention the death of overworked employees and their guilt with the incidents (eg. the woman in the stalls and the security cam notes). The only person who doesn’t exit via the stairs is the Lady in Red, who in a small detail, instead leaves via the elevator after she confronts you in the electrical room.

That’s why the good ending is you remembering your daughter’s birthday and escaping through the elevator rather than running to the stairs; the bad ending includes you rewinding and reliving the same day, over and over again (the Steam achievement has an infinity symbol ♾️ as the badge.) As you could’ve guessed, the protagonist will never get away from the fact that he cheated on his wife, which is why the Lady in Red appears even in the good ending, behind his family—it’s also why there are mutiple instances of women talking about “deviously” seducing a security guard or trying to seduce out your contact information. The game is a story about remembering what’s important, but not forgetting what you did. Also, the Japanese text in the Hell floor says things like “bastard,” “cheater,” “worthless,” and “can’t escape,” which makes sense given that it’s in the same hallway as the Lady in Red jumpscaring you from the TV screen. The game focuses focuses on two themes, basically; work-life balance and cheating. This is a large departure from other Chilla’s games, which usually only have one central motif or throughline (ex. “The desire to rectify the past” in Missing Children, “The fear of being forgotten” in Stigmatized Property, or “The fear of what alienation can compel you to do” in Night Delivery). This was easily one of his most well-developed and brilliant games, and I hope he continues to make games like this in the future.

It’s weird to explain but Gabs playing chilla games bring me such comfort

The real horror of this game is hard working adults not getting paid for overtime. And the horror doesn’t end when you stop playing…

Summary of the story from what I can understand:
Our character worked on an office building as Security Guard, and on the office, we find a note saying that a Security named 'Keigo Ochigi' has gone missing. And that's how we begin our story.

As we explore, we found out that not only there's many ghost activity happening in the building,  there's also a severe 'Power Harassment' case happening in the office as well. An employee that only mentioned as ** (We gonna call her 'Red Girl' going forward) is being abused by her boss and harassed by Seniors, forced to work over-time every day and they always pilled their work at her. Later, we found out that Red Girl has a lover whose work as Night Security (Which is Keigo Ochigi), but one of her senior tried to took that man from her, and at one point the man broke up with her. This caused Red Girl to have mental breakdown and killed herself. Red Girl Ghost then haunted the building and attacked everyone that caused her pain. Her Seniors, her boss, and Keigo. Red Girl then trapped the souls of those people on a Limbo.

On Ending 1, as we tried to escape through the Emergency Stairs, Red Girl Ghost attacked our character and caused him to fall, but instead of dying, time seemingly rewinded and we returned to the beginning of the game. But this time, instead of just showing our character title as 'Security Guard', it showed us our character's name. 'Keigo Ochigi'.

Our character was Keigo all along, and we're trapped in the Limbo. All the floor and incident that we encountered was replaying the pain of Red Girl before she died, in which she was harassed by the seniors and boss, met Keigo during one of her over-night work, and becoming a lover despite Keigo already married, and also replaying the moment where her senior flirted and took Keigo from her. This is why Keigo didn't flinch at all the stuff that happening, and why Keigo didn't hesitate to give the flirty employee his contact number despite he already married. Because it already happened and it's all just a re-telling.

On Ending 2, we managed to escape through the Elevator after inputing the code which is his Daughter's birthday. His daughter is the only thing anchoring his consciousness. Keigo woke up from his coma with his family waiting for him, but the Red Girl appear behind them, hinting that she will always haunt Keigo even if he already out from the Limbo.

The reason why there's a lot of scratched numbers near the place where you input the code is because Keigo already been there many times trying to remember the code and failed, thus he keep repeating it until he get it right.

Chilla’s art protagonists:
They hear noises: “must be my imagination”
They see moving shadows: “i will just continue doing my job”
They see ghosts charging at them: “masaka… i will just pretend like nothing happens and continue doing my job”
They reach final level: “okay this place is scary. maybe i should get out of here”

When Evelien plays a Chilla's Art game: "Let me take a moment to read what all these signs and documents in Japanese say, so I understand the context of the horror!"

When Seán plays a Chilla's Art game: "I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!! AAAHHH!!!"

Gab's Chilla playthroughs are my favorite on YouTube! Love her teaching us about Japan!

I work the overnight security shift at a senior living villiage. Its scary as heck considering how many old people end up passing away on campus. I swear i see shadows out of the corner of my eye and sometimes feel like someone is looking at me on certain floors

Gabs, I work night shifts 11pm-7am at a teen/adolescent rehab and mental health center. I mostly just sit in an office in a house full of six kids making sure they are safe, sleep, and don’t AWOL. The house is in the middle of nowhere with serious Texas chainsaw vibes and I put on your videos every shift to have something in the background (even when you play scarier games hehe) and it brings so much comfort and helps me not get scared when the kids sleep talk/sleep yell haha. Just wanted to say THANK YOU, you have saved my nights and make my shifts that much easier.

This game was actually terrifying lol. Probably one of their scariest games yet. 😰

I love when Gab plays Chilla Arts games, because she speaks and reads Japanese to us 🥰

I feel like the guy we play as IS Keigo and he along with the other people within the building are trapped in an endless cycle akin to purgatory. Two of the men say that Keigo keeps reappearing ("You're standing there every time I wake up.") and the woman who propositions him is likely the women who 'stole' Keigo away from the woman in red. (who later exacts revenge, though Keigo is married and likely playing around with both of them). I think the man in the locker was also a representation of Keigo.

He seems to 'come to his senses' (suddenly saying "I have to get out of here" when before that moment he was carrying on as usual, like the other people we see in the building who also act as if everything's normal) after seeing the woman in red's video and is subsequently chased by her. If he remembers his daughter's birthday he's able to wake up and break the loop he continues to be trapped in in the other ending (represented by the rewind) probably in a symbolic way, choosing his family over his philandering or simply that trope of remembering people you love bringing you back to life ("I love...") - However, it seems like the ghost of the woman in red will keep haunting him.

To me it only makes sense that our character is Keigo or else why would the woman in red blame him so harshly for what happened? Saying that it's his fault. Keigo seemed like he was having an affair with the woman in red only to dump her for that other "give me your contact info" lady who was already bullying Woman in Red, piling overtime on her so that she and her friends could leave early. It seems she likely that the Woman in Red killed herself, possibly from a hanging? And then exacted revenge - leading to the deaths of the two gossiping women and the implementation of a 12 o'clock overtime.

That's what I got from the story anyway! It's a bit confusing, especially because there's something going on with time and it's told in a very fragmented way!

In the first ending, the entire game rewinds to start the same night shift over again as the security guard "failed" to break the cycle - he is Keigo Ochigi, a fact he can't remember when he begins the looped shift.

In the second ending he escapes, and wakes up in hospital with his wife and kid. But the woman from before, the one who is dead, shows up behind them, pointing to the fact this isn't real - it's an ending he hopes to achieve, but the reality is that remembering his kids birthday doesn't erase the fact he wronged the dead woman.

When the woman near the beginning tries to force him to share his number, that same force is referred to later in saying she won over some man with her body, that his current partner was no competition.

I'm not sure he actually did cheat on his wife, but this woman was convinced he was now hers, and perhaps in her delusion then saw him as a traitor for not playing along. I wonder if other women staying late were then punished by her, as she was so obsessed with being the true partner of the unwilling security guard.

Maybe people thought she was overworking, but more likely she slipped and fell on the stairs (which are broken between floors), and the girls who pushed their work on her also felt guilty, and we're shunned for it, leading to more misery.

And finally, I thiiiink the man in the locker holding the cable is also Keigo Ochigi. He was killed by the ghost who wanted to spend eternity with him, and now his spirit is trapped in a loop with the woman who still tries to force his number from him at the start of every shift...

Just my theory tho xD

Everybody: "MONSTER!"
Goobers: "What she doing in a mans bathroom?"

You’re always the first person I watch when a new Chilla’s Art game releases, excited for this!

What I like the most is that she doesn't do those stupid exaggerated reactions to the smallest jump scares

From what I understand. The person you play as, is Keigo and the female ghost that is haunting the halls and you, is & was your ex-girlfriend that uhm... unsubscribed from life after an incident that was caught on CCTV. The final ending was to show that you woke up from a coma while wife and kid visited, but the ghost of your ex (who you thought you escaped from) showed up again in the hospital behind them. Showing that the ex is haunting you.

I THINK that is what the story is supposed to be.

Gab: "I wonder if this is how people feel when they meet me?"
Me: "Nah I'm so short that I'm just used to everyone being taller than I am. My head makes an excellent elbow rest."

"No abnormality" my friend, there were at least four