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Players mop floors, restock shelves, clean restrooms, refuel cars, and take coffee or cigarette breaks. Then a voice in their head tells them to kill the customers.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnives, shotguns, and pistols appear as weapons, and victims\u0026#39; bodies keep visible wounds and reactions. Before dawn, players clean the blood, bury the bodies, and destroy the evidence, then return to the routine. Defying the voice is also possible, and the voice then turns on the player. Dany Rexton, the creator, is not comfortable with horror games, so the horror expression is kept restrained despite the violence.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"SANKAN's up-to-three-player co-op sits inside a night shift where a voice pushes players to kill customers. 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