This page is a claim, not a confirmed ending.
A written guide dated in public discussion to 2 October 2026 describes a linear escape:
- You spawn in the parking lot and enter through sliding doors into a lobby of overturned carts.
- The retail floor has checkout lanes, a central corridor, and a customer service desk.
- An access card is tucked behind that desk. Take it when the Locust's patrol leaves the corridor.
- The card overrides an electronic lock on a staff door at the back of the public floor.
- Staff rooms lead to maintenance corridors.
- Entering the last corridor starts a scripted chase through collapsing hallways.
- The run ends by sliding under a closing security gate at the loading dock.
That guide also says a careful player who already knows the layout might finish in about ten minutes, and that hesitation mid-chase is the usual failure. Those timing and failure notes belong to the written route. They are not a measured length of a shopping day.
What recordings show instead
Shopping footage starts and ends days at the front checkout. Players cash out in a safe zone they call a green square. They are still shopping on later days, including a Black Friday rush and at least one day five. None of the gameplay accounts gathered here show the card, the staff door, or the dock.
The map page can still use the front half of the description, because recordings do show the parking lot, lobby, retail floor, produce, deep aisles, frozen aisle, and aisle 9. Treat everything past the locked staff door as unverified layout. Do not skip a cash-out because you are hunting a card the round may not contain.
If a future update adds this route, the October 2026 game-page publishes did not say so. They had no changelog at all. Recheck the staff door in game after a patch rather than following this list as required progress.