The Karaoke

The Karaoke | ヒトカラ is a video game of psychological horror genre developed by Chilla's Art and published by Chilla's Art. It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on February 4, 2023.
== Premise ==
 The Karaoke | ヒトカラ is a Japanese horror game about a high school girl at a Karaoke. You play as Mira, a basketball player, who decides to go to karaoke with her friend, Moeka. You stayed for extra practice but got caught by the coach, who tells you to go home. Moeka stays to clean up, while Mira goes to karaoke.
== Gameplay ==
=== At School ===
The game begins when Mira and Moeka practice free throws in the school gym during afterschool hours.
* If Mira realizes that they've lost track of time after seeing the clock, she will remind Moeka and they will mop the school gym and change their clothes together afterwards.
* If Mira continues to practice basketball with Moeka, they will be found by the coach who will tell them to go home. Moeka will tell Mira to go ahead while she cleans the gym alone.
You prepare to leave to karaoke and get your bike from where it's parked on school grounds. 
* If Moeka is still with you at this point, she will forget her bicycle keys inside her changing room locker and return to the school building in order to retrieve them. You will have to go on alone.
* If you took Moeka's bicycle keys from her locker while you were changing together, you will be able to go to the karaoke with Moeka, this will immediately lead to Ending #2.
On the way to the karaoke, Moeka will give you a call to tell you that she was stopped by the coach and that you would have to book the room and sing without her, saying that she would catch up later.
==== The Changing Room ====
While you can immediately change your clothes and leave to the karaoke, you can also get different endings if you go on ahead to change your clothes alone and find the camera from under the bench in the girls changing room. While you investigate the camera under the bench, the coach will find you and ask why you are still there.
* If you say that you're going home, he will let you leave and you can run to the nearest police station. Arriving without getting caught will give you Ending #3.
If you tell him what you found under the bench, he will ask for the camera and say that he'd report it to the school. When you ask about Moeka, he will say that he'll call another teacher to send her home. Then, he will ask if you told anyone about it and offer to give you a ride home. He will tell you to go wait in his truck and give you the keys. You will have to move your bicycle to the truck and then enter.
* If you sit quietly in the truck until the coach comes, you will get Ending #4
* If you check the glovebox in the truck, you will find an album that's filled with photos of the girls from the school. You will have to run to the nearest police station, this will lead you to Ending #5
=== At the Karaoke ===
Upon arrival, Mira books a room for karaoke and gets Room 12, on the way there, she will get a unsettling call from a terrified Moeka although Mira wasn't able to hear her.
==== First Incident - The Drinks ====
She chooses a song through the tablet on the desk and starts singing first. After the first song, Mira will feel thirsty and leave the room to get a drink from the drink bar. She gets a cup from a tray, adds ice, and fills her cup.
* If you walk around the halls, you will be able to see a man with a striped shirt (Yutaro) stare at you, and he will disappear if you try to find him a second time.
When Mira returns to her room, she finds that there is already a cup on the table, she drinks from it and continues to sing a second song. During the second song, you will see Yutaro, a character that seems to be stalking Mira from outside the door.
==== Second Incident - The Food ====
After the second song, Mira thinks that Moeka should arrive soon and decides to get snacks for the both of them. She orders food through the room intercom and proceeds to sing a third song while waiting for it. She finds that the food has not arrived and calls up the karaoke employee to ask if the food's ready yet, but no one answers, she decides to go to the front desk to ask about it in person but no one was there. 
She goes into the staff room when no one answers her knocking, the karaoke employee was on her phone when Mira comes in, she informs Mira that her food had already arrived in her room. When Mira left the staff room, she sees Yutaro rush out of the room, shrugs it off and finds that they got the order wrong, and she also assumes that Yutaro was one of the workers. 
Sitting down to prepare the next song, Mira eats the food and finds something inside of it: a note with an e-mail address. 
She takes the note off the tablet screen and finds only one option for a song, labeled "??????". As she sings, the tv screen glitches in static. Mira then gets a strange call from Moeka.
==== Third Incident - The Nightmare ====
After the call, Mira goes outside the room, everything was dark, there was no power and she had to rely on her cellphone's flashlight. She discovers Moeka's phone ringing on the floor. She then goes on a hunt to find every phone. As she finds the final phone, a demented version of Moeka walks up to her and cries.
Moeka staggered and walked backwards, disappearing into the darkness. Someone attacks Mira as she enters her booked room and she wakes up in shock. She then gets a phone call from Moeka.
However, Mira felt sick and had to go to the restroom. She looks at the photo Moeka sent her, revealing Moeka's assaulter and that the coach is not all as he seems. Moeka didn't pick up the phone when Mira tried to call her.
==== Fourth Incident - The Coach ====
Mira leaves the restroom to the front desk but is unable to find the karaoke employee. She is unable to leave as a large truck has completely blocked the exit. She enters the staff room only to find it empty. She then checks the cctv and sees the coach entering the building through the previously blocked backdoor, she calls the police but still has to hide for 4 minutes until they arrive while the coach searches for her. 
* If you get the key from behind the front desk, go into the janitor's closet (blue door), grab the knife, sneak behind the coach and kill him, you will get Ending #1. 
* If you successfully hide until the police arrives, you will get Ending #6.
== Endings ==
=== Ending #1 ===
Mira takes the keys from behind the front desk, takes the knife from the janitor's closet, sneaks behind the coach and kills him. The coach will not survive but Mira will not be charged for murder as it was self-defense. These events traumatizes Mira and as she goes back to her normal days, she is overcome with guilt, haunted by the memory of the coach.
=== Ending #2 ===
Mira looks at the clock and realizes how late it is. She tells her friend, they will clean the gymnasium and change clothes together. In the changing room, you must pick up the keys inside of Moeka's locker. Head to where your bicycles are parked and hand Moeka her keys when she says she forgot them at school, you will go to the karaoke together, blissfully unaware of what could've happened that night.
=== Ending #3 ===
Mira heads to the changing room alone after noticing the time, she finds a hidden camera under a bench in the girls changing room. The coach finds her but she doesn't admit that she found the camera, he will let her leave the school grounds and she will run to the closest police station. He will chase after her she arrives at the station safely. Nothing happens because there wasn't enough evidence for the police to catch the culprit, the coach still assaults Moeka and this will lead to her taking her own life. Mira is filled with guilt because she didn't answer any of her friend's calls that day.
=== Ending #4 ===
When Mira admits to the coach that she has found a camera under the bench in the girls changing room, the coach will offer her a ride home. She puts her bike onthe coach's truck, doesn't do anything inside and waits until the coach arrives. Considering the fact that she now fears men, it can be assumed that she experienced what Moeka did in other endings. 
=== Ending #5 ===
When Mira admits to the coach that she has found a camera under the bench in the girls changing room, the coach will offer her a ride home. She puts her bike on the coach's truck and enters. Inside, she opens the glovebox and finds an album that's filled with photos of the girls from the school, she runs out of the school and makes a run for the closest police station. The coach will chase after her but she will arrive at the station. One morning, Mira and Moeka as well as the other school students watched as the coach got arrested in front of the school. Mira is relieved that there will be no more victims.
=== Ending #6 ===
Mira successfully hides from the coach during the 4 minutes it took for the cops to arrive to the karaoke. The police arrived and arrested the coach after finding out that he had raped more that 10 students. Moeka is slowly recovering but it's clear that she's still very traumatized by the events.
== Characters ==
* Mira (main character) - A highschool girl who wanted to go to karaoke with her friend after basketball practice. She ends up singing alone and received strange calls from the friend who was supposed to accompany her.
* Moeka (Mira's best friend) - A highschool girl who wanted to go to karaoke with her friend but ended up getting stopped by the coach when she wanted to leave, she keeps calling her friend for help and warns her friend of the danger headed her way.
* Basketball club coach (main antagonist) - a perverse teacher who preys on and assaults his students, he hid a recorder in the girls changing room and kept an album of all his victims in his truck.
* Yutaro (Background antagonist) - A man who falls in love with Mira and stalks her in the karaoke,
* Karaoke employee (side character) - An irresponsible employee who is always on her phone.
== Song list ==
=== Karaoke Selection ===
Lost Demon | 迷子の鬼 by 竹之内貴英
Let's walk | 歩いていこう by Atelier ladybird
Rest | レスト by Atelier ladybird
Ripe Fruit | 熟した果実 by ♪takmusic
To the Future | ミライへ by ♪takmusic
=== Other Rooms ===
Sky is the Limit by THESTRAIGHTLINE
One Man Orchestra in your Town | あなたの街の一人オーケストラ by TAKA-CHAN
Fireworks | 打ち上げ花火 by 流星のサイトシーイング
Brand New World by Helios+trope
== External links ==
*The Karaoke on Steam
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