Surviving Aisles Of The Locust Chapter 3 requires quick cart handling, sharp spatial awareness, and a clear understanding of the hostile entities stalking the Hemlig showroom. You are tasked with gathering specific homeware items across multiple workdays while avoiding lethal supermarket stalkers in the dark.
Every shift increases your shopping quota and introduces harsher store conditions, including sudden blackouts, explosive floor hazards, and aggressive mannequins. Managing your cart stamina, stocking up on essential perks between runs, and knowing how to counter each monster will keep your lives intact.
Aisles Of The Locust Chapter 3 Walkthrough Guide
Lobby Preparation: Unlocking the Jack-o’-Cart
Before heading into Hemlig, you can grab an exclusive event cart directly from the chapter lobby. The Jack-o’-Cart requires you to track down eight glowing orange pumpkins placed around the hub perimeter.
Look around the pumpkin patch near the scarecrow, beside the outdoor market stalls, along the benches near the global party rings, behind the daily leaderboards, and inside the fenced graveyard display. Once all eight are gathered, open the Cart Shop menu to equip the cart for your run.
Shift Mechanics and Homeware Scavenging
Each day presents an order list at the top of your screen, requiring you to collect homewares such as ceramic vases, wall clocks, radios, stock pots, and desk fans. Interact with highlighted items to load them into your basket, keeping an eye on your stamina meter as you sprint through corridors.
Showrooms are labeled by room type and floor area, ranging from cozy dining setups to expansive 42-square-meter master bedrooms. Scattered across dining tables and counters, you will occasionally find hot red peppers. Eating a red pepper grants a temporary speed boost and ignites fire breath from your cart, giving you a quick escape burst.
Once your quota counter hits the required maximum, an objective marker directs you back toward the store front. Park inside the bright green checkout zone and wait for the countdown timer to finish your shift.
Upgrades and Between-Day Store Purchases
Completing an order rewards you with cash to spend in the end-of-day shop. Upgrades last for your entire run and significantly tilt survival odds in your favor.
| Upgrade Name | Base Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth Sense | $60 | Increases heartbeat detection range by +30% per tier to detect nearby threats early. |
| Ramming Bar | $40 | Reduces speed needed to ram obstacles and entities by 15% per tier. |
| Energy Drink | $65 | Boosts cart stamina refill rate by +30% per tier and starts regeneration sooner. |
| Dark Glasses | $65 | Gives ghost shoppers +50% longer reaction time before noticing your cart. |
| Heavy-Duty Batteries | $60 | Extends showroom flashlight reach by +25% with a broader light beam. |
| Spare Uniform | $180 | Grants +1 extra life to prevent an early game over. |
Prioritize Energy Drinks and Heavy-Duty Batteries during early shifts. The extra stamina allows you to outpace stalkers in long hallways, while extended flashlight reach becomes mandatory when lighting cuts out later in the chapter.
Surviving Hemlig’s Hostile Entities
The showroom introduces multiple threats that react differently to movement, vision, and sound. Memorizing each creature’s behavior prevents avoidable deaths.
Sunman
Sunman is a tall, dark-bodied stalker with a glowing sun mask that hunts primarily through sound. Crashing your cart into walls or display cases creates loud noises that draw him straight to your coordinates. When you hear him nearby, release sprint, sneak using your crouch key, and immediately turn corners to break his search path.
Ghost Shoppers
Ghost shoppers mimic normal customers by pushing carts through showroom corridors. Staring directly at them triggers an aggressive state where they charge your position for eight seconds. Always keep your camera tilted slightly away when passing them in tight doorways to avoid breaking their calm demeanor.
Death screen showing the Ghost Shopper after maintaining direct eye contact
Landmines
Starting on Day 5, the store floor contains buried landmines marked by faint red pressure plates. Stepping on a mine flashes a bright red warning on your interface reading “DON’T MOVE.” The explosive only detonates when you lift your foot or roll your cart off, so keep your speed controlled in narrow corridors to avoid driving over them.
The Angel
The Angel is a stitched cloth mannequin that moves exclusively when unobserved. If you turn your back, it closes the distance almost instantaneously. Maintain direct line of sight while reversing down hallways, or consume a red pepper to burn the mannequin to ashes with flame breath.
The Angel mannequin lunging from the side of a bedroom doorway
Mid-Game Quest: Assisting Yusuf the Electrician
During Day 5, entering an interior showroom triggers an encounter with Yusuf, a maintenance worker dressed in a hardhat and high-visibility vest standing by an exposed circuit board.
Talking to Yusuf beside the open electrical breaker panel
Selecting dialogue option 1 accepts an extra quest titled “Stay with Yusuf while he resets the board.” Yusuf warns you that the breaker takes forty-five seconds to reset and creates loud electrical sparks that summon nearby roamers. Stay parked next to his station, monitor both connecting doorways, and use red pepper flames or cart ramming to fend off encroaching hostiles until power stabilizes.
Warehouse Aisle Extraction and Conclusion
Later days force you out of decorative living spaces into the towering metal shelves of the back warehouse. Massive, long-limbed stalkers roam these high-ceilinged rows, requiring you to peek around corner palettes before grabbing heavy items like step stools and folding chairs.
Check your top shopping list constantly to confirm every homeware item is packed. Once complete, make a straight run for the green entrance boundary to complete your shift, cash out your tokens, and secure your survival receipt.