One clean path to every ending and achievement—minimal save-scumming, no wasted replays. Follow this route and you’ll hit all narrative branches in the fewest runs, with exact save points and decision timings so you never miss a fork.
Core Strategy
Your choices as an interviewer decide the fate of colleagues and yourself across 29 days. Read emails, manage your Interviewer rank, and make key calls on specific days. The optimal route: hit LV16 before day17 to unlock the Autonomous District Shop early, then buy daily items to max resources. Read emails first—they trigger story beats and unlock items. Pay all requested money to keep relationships and access open. Save on key days per the schedule below.
Ending Requirements & Key Days
Each ending needs specific choices across multiple days. Miss one prerequisite and you’re locked out. Meet these conditions before day29.
Escape Ending:
- Let T91 use the back door when offered.
- Agree to meet T91 after work; when T91 asks to reconcile, pick ‘Yes’ (not ‘Think about it’).
- Day12: choose Y37 as cleaner candidate.
- Day18: tell K88 about your father.
- Day27: accept K88’s escape invitation via email.
Porcelain Rice Bowl Ending:
- Day20: electrocute F32 exactly three times during the Autonomous District task.
- Day24: scan H11’s resume and don’t hire.
- Day25: hire H12.
True Ending:
- Hit Interviewer rank LV16 before day17. Work daily and buy everything from the Autonomous District Shop.
- Day17, A02’s second memory sequence: choose ‘Replace’ (not ‘Delete’).
- Day29: buy all ‘Self-Discipline Sugar Tablets’ from the Autonomous District Shop (they increase collapse value).
- Click A02, select ‘Link Consciousness’, then pick ‘Do not hold A01’s hand’.
Iron Rice Bowl Ending:
- Same as True Ending, but day29 choose ‘Hold A01’s hand’.
Day 29 Branch
Save after work on day28. Day29 gives the final split. Your prerequisites decide what options appear.
- Escape Ending: Pick ‘Leave work’, then click the door icon. Must have Escape prerequisites.
- Porcelain Rice Bowl Ending: Pick ‘Interview’, then answer the Autonomous District’s questions with socially adapted options. Must have Porcelain Rice Bowl prerequisites.
- True Ending: Need LV16 + ‘Replace’ on day17. Day29: ‘Leave work’, open Autonomous District Shop, buy all Self-Discipline Sugar Tablets, click A02, ‘Link Consciousness’, then ‘Do not hold A01’s hand’.
- Iron Rice Bowl Ending: Same as True Ending, but choose ‘Hold A01’s hand’.
Achievements
Six achievements outside the main endings. Some are missable.
- I Am the Worst: Day7 probation assessment: pick ‘I think I’m terrible’ for the first two questions.
- I Refuse to Answer: Day7, third question: wait at the K88/T91 option screen until ‘I refuse to answer’ appears, then select it.
- What’s the point of working?: Day22, save before replying to your sister’s email. Two different answers = two achievements. They pop after 2 days when she replies.
- Balance of Work and Rest: After probation, work overtime 5 days straight. Save on the 4th overtime evening. Get the achievement on day5, then reload day4 and skip overtime to continue.
- Brain in a Vat: Complete the normal day17 A02 breakdown event (without the ‘Replace’ choice).
- Hidden Item: If your rank is LV16 before day17, claim a hidden item from the Knowledge Base.
Autonomous District Membership Card & Black Market
The Black Market is essential—buy items to boost rank and unlock endings. Access it through the Autonomous District.
Day10: reply to the Autonomous District’s email and donate once. Day11: you’ll get the membership card email. Claim it in the email. Then in A02’s interface, talk and verify the card to unlock the Black Market. Buy all daily items to max rank growth.
Save Points & Schedule
Use these saves to branch into different endings without replaying the whole game. Each save should be a separate slot.
- Day6 after work: Save (day7 probation + achievements)
- Day11 after work: Save (day12 cleaner candidate for Escape)
- Day16 after work: Save (day17 A02 event for True/other endings)
- Day17 after work: Save (day18 K88 talk for Escape)
- Day19 after work: Save (day20 Autonomous District task for Porcelain Rice Bowl)
- Day22: Save before replying to sister’s email (two achievements)
- Day23 after work: Save (day24 Autonomous District task for Porcelain Rice Bowl)
- Day24 after work: Save (day25 Autonomous District task for Porcelain Rice Bowl)
- Day26 after work: Save (day27 K88 escape email for Escape)
- Day28 after work: Save (day29 ending branch for all endings)
- Also save on the 4th overtime evening for Balance of Work and Rest, then reload
