PlayTrail Guide

Evenin' Shift Endings and Achievement Guide

Learn the choices, item purchases, and gate decisions required to unlock every ending and achievement across five nights.

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A dimly lit night-shift guard booth with a desk, telephone, monitor, newspaper, and a view of the road outside.Official artwork for Evenin' Shift.

Priority Checklist: Evening Shift Endings and Achievements

Goal

Follow one complete Day 1–Day 5 route to finish the required nights and reach the selected ending. The Day 4 visitor decision determines which sacrifice route is available when the cult arrives.

Prerequisites

  • Use the exact daily choice sequence for the selected route.
  • For Proper Collector, purchase the listed desk items and buy every knick knack for the desk.
  • For the sacrifice outcomes, make the specified Day 4 decision before the cult arrives.

Steps

Night-completion achievements

Completed night Achievement
First night First Shift
Second night Back Again
Third night Settling In
Fourth night Strange Folk About
Fifth night Seasoned Guard

Richard’s Reckoning

  1. Day 1: choose In you go.
  2. Day 2: choose In you go, then On your bike.
  3. Day 3: choose On your bike, then In you go twice.
  4. Day 4: choose On your bike twice, In you go three times, then On your bike once more.
  5. Turn Richard away on Day 4.
  6. Day 5: choose The Crowd, then In you go.
  7. When the cult arrives, Richard confronts you, and you are sacrificed.

Joan’s Sacrifice and Proper Collector

  1. Day 1: choose In you go. Go to the shop and buy Music box + Brooch.
  2. Day 2: choose In you go, then On your bike. Buy Trophy at the shop.
  3. Day 3: choose On your bike, then In you go twice. Buy Bobble at the shop.
  4. Day 4: choose In you go, then On your bike, then In you go three times, and finally On your bike.
  5. Buy Singing Fish + Egg Pendulum at the shop on Day 4.
  6. Buy every knick knack for your desk.
  7. Turn Ben Jones away on Day 4.
  8. Day 5: choose In you go.
  9. When the cult arrives, let it through the gate.

Buying every knick knack awards Proper Collector. With Ben Jones turned away on Day 4, letting the cult through results in Joan’s Sacrifice: Joan is sacrificed, and you survive.

Ben’s Sacrifice

  1. Day 1: choose In you go.
  2. Day 2: choose In you go, then On your bike.
  3. Day 3: choose On your bike, then In you go twice.
  4. Day 4: choose In you go, then On your bike, then In you go four times.
  5. Let Ben Jones through on Day 4.
  6. Day 5: choose In you go.
  7. When the cult arrives, let it through the gate.

This produces Ben’s Sacrifice: Ben is sacrificed, and you survive.

The Closed Gate

  1. Day 1: choose In you go.
  2. Day 2: choose In you go, then On your bike.
  3. Day 3: choose On your bike, then In you go twice.
  4. Day 4: choose In you go, then On your bike, then In you go three times, and finally On your bike.
  5. Day 5: choose On your bike.
  6. When the cult arrives, refuse to open the gate.

The result is The Closed Gate, and you are sacrificed.

Expected Result

  • Completing nights one through five awards First Shift, Back Again, Settling In, Strange Folk About, and Seasoned Guard, respectively.
  • Turning Richard away on Day 4 leads to Richard’s Reckoning when the cult arrives.
  • Turning Ben Jones away on Day 4 and allowing the cult through leads to Joan’s Sacrifice.
  • Letting Ben Jones through on Day 4 and allowing the cult through leads to Ben’s Sacrifice.
  • Refusing to open the gate for the cult leads to The Closed Gate.