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Joey

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Overview

Joey is the clerk at Corner Convenience Store in Present Uptown. Her current route includes Talk, Perfume, a Reading People lesson, a Perception reward, six personal automatic encounters, three evening Heart-to-Hearts and four dates. A shared café scene with Emily connects the later conversation chain. This guide keeps the personal story outcomes out of the walkthrough and flags the current unlock limitation below.

Quick Stats

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 26 / Present / Neutral
Location / portrait and store hours Corner Convenience Store, Uptown; 7 AM–11 PM every day
Favorite stats Communication 65; Charm 55; Ability 58
Special relationship skill Reading People
Talk 15 minutes; 1 base point; four per day
Gift Perfume; Known; 10 minutes; 8 base points; twice per day
Lesson Reading People; Known; Communication 35; no fee
Stat reward Counter Instinct; Friend; Communication 45; Perception +1
H2H chain Late Shift Quiet → The Missing Years → No Counter Between Us
Dates Fair; Win Her a Prize; Boardwalk Sunset; Stargazing
Current route limitation The Missing Years can remain locked after Emily's Missed Call; see below
Favorite stat thresholds improve the shared relationship calculation, and Reading People doubles the multiplier. Affection listed below is base points unless marked direct or final.
  1. Visit Corner Convenience Store, 7 AM–11 PM, and use Talk, up to four times per day. No tutorial scene or affection stage is required to start talking.
  2. At Known, give Perfume, up to twice per day, and return 10 AM–8 PM for Inventory Rush. With Communication 35, choose Learn Reading People, costing 150 minutes, 35 Energy and 20 Calm, with no money fee.
  3. At Acquaintance, return 8 AM–6 PM for The Regular. It does not additionally require Inventory Rush.
  4. At Friend, choose Late Shift Quiet during 8–11 PM. With Communication 45, choose Counter Instinct once for Perception +1 and 8 direct affection. Take the Fair Date, starting 11 AM–3 PM, and the separate Voucher prize date, starting noon–6 PM.
  5. Reach Emily Friend and Joey Known, then visit Café Interior, noon–5 PM, for An Old Friend Walks In. Afterward, with Joey Friend, return to the store 10 AM–9 PM for Emily's Missed Call. Both encounters complete once.
  6. At Close Friend, after Inventory Rush, return 4–10 PM for Double Shift. After building Diane's Boardwalk, take Boardwalk Sunset Date, starting 5–9 PM.
  7. The authored next H2H is The Missing Years, at Close Friend, 7–11 PM, after Late Shift Quiet and Emily's Missed Call. Check the current-code limitation below: completing the call scene can fail to satisfy this action's unlock check. More affection or replaying dates does not repair that mismatch.
  8. For saves where The Missing Years is available or already completed, at Crush choose No Counter Between Us, starting 8–11 PM, and return 6–11 PM for Old Number. Take Stargazing Date, starting 7–11 PM; Stargazing is independent of the blocked H2H chain.
  9. For saves with the later chain completed, reach Romantic and return 9–11 PM after Old Number, Stargazing Date and No Counter Between Us for Late-Shift Light.
Her four dates have their own stage and location requirements. They do not require completing every earlier personal encounter. The Missing Years unlock limitation affects the later H2H chain, Old Number and Late-Shift Light, while her first H2H, ordinary interactions, lesson, stat reward and four dates remain independent of that gate.

Current Unlock Limitation

The intended prerequisite for The Missing Years is Emily's Missed Call completed, together with Close Friend and Late Shift Quiet. In the current game code, the call scene records completion in the plot system, while this H2H's unlock check looks for a separate completion value that the ordinary scene completion does not set.
As a result, The Missing Years can remain unavailable after you meet the visible story prerequisites. Existing saves that already carry the required unlock value or completed later conversations can differ. The later content is documented here with its authored requirements, rather than presented as guaranteed progression from a fresh save.
If you have finished the call scene and Late Shift Quiet, reached Close Friend, and returned 7–11 PM, a still-missing button is a current-code limitation, not another hidden gift, date, communication stat, or affection requirement. Continue the independent dates and daily interactions as desired.

Daily Interactions and Reading People Lesson

Use Joey's portrait at Corner Convenience Store, 7 AM–11 PM daily.
Action Requirement Cost Reward / allowance
Talk No minimum stage 15 minutes 1 base point; four per day
Give Perfume Known 10 minutes; one Perfume 8 base points; twice per day
Learn Reading People Known; Communication 35; skill not already learned 150 minutes; 35 Energy; 20 Calm; no fee Reading People learned; 10 base affection; once
Talk and Perfume have separate daily counters. Their handlers use −1 base points with shared over-limit handling when the allowance is exhausted; costs still apply. Perfume is the exact consumed inventory item.
The lesson uses the shared skill-learning handler. It disappears after you know Reading People, including if learned elsewhere. Its 10 base affection is calculated after the skill is learned, using the shared relationship calculation. Joey's current lesson and personal date actions do not add a paid-version or recent-code requirement of their own.

Counter Instinct

At Friend and Communication 45, choose Counter Instinct from the store portrait. It completes once, taking 45 minutes, and gives Perception +1 and 8 direct Joey affection. The affection is direct, rather than multiplied like ordinary Talk, Perfume or the skill lesson.
The action advertises 12 Energy and 5 Calm. The current one-time reward handler returns before the ordinary relationship resource deduction, so it does not actually deduct those two resources on completion. Allow for the displayed requirement when checking whether the action is enabled. The reward is a stat improvement; it does not teach another skill or award NPC intimacy experience.

Automatic Encounters and Best Replies

All scenes below trigger once. An Old Friend Walks In takes place inside the café; the others listed here use Corner Convenience Store. The store is normally open 7 AM–11 PM.
Automatic scene Location Requirements Base reward
An Old Friend Walks In Local Café (Interior) Emily: Friend+; Joey: Known+; noon–5 PM 4
Inventory Rush Corner Convenience Store Joey: Known+; 10 AM–8 PM 4
The Regular Corner Convenience Store Joey: Acquaintance+; 8 AM–6 PM 5
Old Number Corner Convenience Store Joey: Crush+; The Missing Years completed; 6 PM–11 PM 10
Joey Puts You to Work Corner Convenience Store Katie Explains Jobs and Gifts completed 0
Emily's Missed Call Corner Convenience Store Joey: Friend+; An Old Friend Walks In completed; 10 AM–9 PM 6
Double Shift Corner Convenience Store Joey: Close Friend+; Inventory Rush completed; 4 PM–10 PM 8
Late-Shift Light Corner Convenience Store Joey: Romantic+; Old Number completed; Stargazing Date with Joey completed; No Counter Between Us completed; 9 PM–11 PM 12


Scene Best reply / bonus Total base Joey affection
Inventory Rush Any of Caring, Funny or Flirty +3 7
The Regular Any of Caring, Funny or Flirty +3 8
An Old Friend Walks In Caring or Funny +3 7
Emily's Missed Call Caring +4 10
Double Shift Caring +5 13
Old Number Caring or Flirty +5 15
Late-Shift Light Caring or Flirty +6 18
Joey Puts You to Work No choice affection reward configured None
An Old Friend Walks In also gives Emily 4 base points; Caring adds 3 to both, Funny adds Joey 3 / Emily 2, and Flirty adds Joey 2 / Emily 3. No additional minimum Emily affection is imposed by the later Missed Call scene once the café scene has completed.
Old Number needs The Missing Years completed. Late-Shift Light additionally needs No Counter Between Us, Old Number, Stargazing Date and Romantic. The current Missing Years unlock limitation can therefore affect both automatic scenes.

Three Evening Heart-to-Hearts

All three start from Joey's store portrait, finish once, and use their own starting windows. Late Shift Quiet is selected before the store closes, despite the older internal name referring to after closing.
H2H Stage / completed prerequisites Starting window Cost Best ordinary base affection
Late Shift Quiet Friend 8–11 PM 60 minutes; 15 Energy 70
The Missing Years Close Friend; Late Shift Quiet; Emily's Missed Call; current unlock caveat applies 7–11 PM 75 minutes; 20 Energy 92
No Counter Between Us Crush; The Missing Years 8–11 PM 60 minutes; 15 Energy 100

Late Shift Quiet Best Answers

Late Shift Quiet

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I like seeing you when the counter is not between us. 9
2 I notice you, not just the performance. 10
3 Who notices when you are lonely? 11
4 Then I am asking now: what do you need? 12
5 I am staying for the real version. 13
6 I will call you back to yourself whenever you need it. 15


Heart-to-heart choice points accumulate and use the shared relationship calculation at completion. The listed points are base values, not guaranteed final affection gains.
There are six rounds. The best ordinary total is 70, or 72 with the Communication 45 special answer in round 2.

The Missing Years Best Answers

These answers apply when the conversation is available in your save; see the unlock limitation above.

The Missing Years

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 I am here for the story you could not tell then. 13
2 You survived more alone than you should have had to. 14
3 You deserved someone picking up for you. 15
4 Shame can make a locked door out of anything. 15
5 I do not think you are breakable. I think you are brave. 17
6 I will be around. For all of you. 18


Heart-to-heart choice points accumulate and use the shared relationship calculation at completion. The listed points are base values, not guaranteed final affection gains.
There are six rounds. The best ordinary total is 92, or 94 with the Reading People special answer in round 2.

No Counter Between Us Best Answers

No Counter Between Us

Round Highest base-point choice Base points
1 It feels different to me too. 15
2 I have wanted to be more than that for a while. 17
3 I like you more honestly now, not less. 19
4 Come closer, Joey. 23
5 meet her halfway and kiss her like you mean it 26


Heart-to-heart choice points accumulate and use the shared relationship calculation at completion. The listed points are base values, not guaranteed final affection gains.
There are five rounds. The best ordinary total is 100, or 101 with the Reading People special answer in round 3.

Optional Special Answers

H2H Round Requirement Special answer Base points
Late Shift Quiet 2 Communication 45+ You use jokes to keep people close without letting them all the way in. 12
The Missing Years 2 Reading People You learned to read rooms because your safety depended on it. 16
No Counter Between Us 3 Reading People You are checking whether I still see Joey, not a story I need to fix. 20


With the player's Romantic skill, the shared H2H system adds 25 final affection after calculation. These conversations have no NPC intimacy experience award configured, including the final kissing scene, and do not award player Erotic experience.

Four One-Time Dates

All four start from Joey's store portrait, with independent completion states. The ordinary $150 Fair Date and the Voucher prize date are separate activities.
Date Requirement Starting window Cost / recovery Best total base affection
Fair Date Friend 11 AM–3 PM 120 minutes; $150; 45 Energy 26
Win Her a Prize Friend; one Voucher Noon–6 PM 120 minutes; one Voucher; no extra money or Energy cost 19
Boardwalk Sunset Date Close Friend; Diane's Boardwalk built 5–9 PM 120 minutes; $80; 35 Energy 25
Stargazing Date Crush 7–11 PM 150 minutes; $30; 30 Energy; Calm +10 28
Joey's Boardwalk date is a 120-minute, $80 activity. It does not add the paid-version or recent-code gates used by some other NPCs' Boardwalk dates. It requires the completed Boardwalk construction itself. None of these dates requires a completed Joey H2H as an additional gate.
Date Best reply sequence Base plus bonuses
Fair Sweet or Flirty → Funny → Sweet or Flirty 8 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 26
Win Her a Prize Flirty → Caring → Funny or Flirty 5 + 5 + 5 + 4 = 19
Boardwalk Sunset Sweet or Flirty → Funny or Flirty → Sweet or Flirty 10 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 25
Stargazing Caring or Flirty in all three choices 12 + 5 + 5 + 6 = 28
Scene Highest base bonuses, in choice order
Fair Date with Joey Sweet/Flirty +6 → Funny +6 → Sweet/Flirty +6
Boardwalk Sunset with Joey Sweet/Flirty +5 → Funny/Flirty +5 → Sweet/Flirty +5
Stargazing Date with Joey Caring/Flirty +5 → Caring/Flirty +5 → Caring/Flirty +6
Win Joey a Prize at the Fair Flirty +5 → Caring +5 → Funny/Flirty +4


Katie's Work Introduction and Stock Shelves

After Katie Explains Jobs and Gifts, visit the store for the automatic Joey Puts You to Work tutorial scene. Katie's scene follows Diane's Responsibility Lesson. The introduction has no minimum Joey affection requirement, gives no configured Joey affection reward, and completes once.
Stock Shelves is a separate store location action, available during 7 AM–11 PM with Stamina 10. It does not require Friend, a Joey H2H, or completing the work introduction to appear.
It takes 60 minutes, costs 25 Energy and 10 Calm, and pays effective Stamina + a random $3–$12, plus the shared working-experience income bonus. Easy difficulty applies its shared job payout increase. The job advances your work-experience tracker and is repeatable; it does not award Joey affection. Use Talk, Perfume and her personal scenes for relationship progress.

Current Content and Troubleshooting

Joey's current route has no private relationship animation, ordinary apartment invitation, brothel recruitment, resort portrait, Kupie selection, or KTV/Night Club invitation configured. Her authored current content is covered above; avoid applying another NPC's route requirements to her.
  • Portrait missing: visit Corner Convenience Store in Uptown, 7 AM–11 PM, on any game day.
  • Perfume missing: reach Known and carry the inventory item Perfume.
  • Reading People missing: reach Known and Communication 35; the lesson disappears if already learned.
  • Counter Instinct missing: reach Friend and Communication 45. It is a one-time reward.
  • Emily's Missed Call missing: first complete An Old Friend Walks In at Café Interior, noon–5 PM, with Emily Friend and Joey Known. Then return to the store 10 AM–9 PM with Joey Friend.
  • The Missing Years still missing after the call: check Close Friend, Late Shift Quiet and 7–11 PM. If these are met, the current completion/unlock mismatch can block it; more affection or other dates do not resolve that gate.
  • No Counter Between Us or Old Number missing: both depend on The Missing Years, so the same route limitation can affect them.
  • Late-Shift Light missing: for a save with the later H2Hs completed, reach Romantic, finish Old Number and Stargazing Date, and visit 9–11 PM.
  • Voucher date did not complete Fair Date: they are separate events and completion states.
  • Stargazing missing despite completed earlier scenes: it starts at Crush, 7–11 PM; those earlier scenes are not extra date requirements.
  • Stock Shelves missing: check Stamina 10 and store opening hours, rather than Joey affection.

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