Aisles of the Locust

In Aisles of the Locust you start with a grocery list, a shopping cart, and three lives on normal difficulty, and that small kit matters far more than it sounds. The store is dark, the aisles are long, and the Locust patrols between the shelves while your squad tries to fill an order for Mom without making a sound.

Filling the Grocery List in Aisles of the Locust

Each day asks for more. The HUD list reads like a real errand, with items such as bread, cereal, flour, and canned beans, and the quota rises from 8 groceries on day one to 12 on day two and 16 on day three. Once the list is full, you bring everything to the entrance, cash out, and hold the safe zone until every player is inside.

Beginners rush for the nearest items and sprint across open aisles, which is the fastest way to lose this game.

A better approach is planning a route through the shelves, collecting in clusters, and treating the cart as both a tool and a liability. Bumping it into shelves makes noise that draws the Locust toward you. Co-op groups often split up, with one player scouting while others gather items.

How the Locust Hunts

The Locust ends most runs. A noise meter shows how much sound you are making, and running, crashing the cart, or knocking items increases it.

Light and line of sight matter too. Staying in darker areas and keeping shelves between you and the Locust reduces the chance of being spotted.

By day three, the larger quota means longer trips through dangerous aisles. Solo stealth players find this stage tense, while full squads rely on communication to warn each other when the Locust approaches.

Lives, Difficulty and Team Strategy in Aisles of the Locust

Normal difficulty gives you three lives, so a single mistake is survivable but never cheap. Losing two lives on day one leaves almost no room for the longer, more dangerous trips that the 16-item quota demands on day three. Experienced squads play the first day slowly on purpose, treating it as a chance to learn where the Locust likes to patrol.

Coordinated teams nearly always outperform groups that wander off on their own, because a shared route means fewer cart collisions and fewer surprise encounters.

The common criticism is randomness. Some players feel the Locust occasionally turns up somewhere unfair, especially near the entrance during a cash-out, while others argue that careful noise control makes almost every encounter avoidable. In practice, both are a little right, and that uncertainty is part of what keeps the store tense even after many runs.

Store Questions

How do you avoid the Locust?

Keep the noise meter low by walking instead of sprinting, steering the cart away from shelves, and staying behind aisles that block line of sight. Darker parts of the store make you harder to spot, so plan routes that stay out of bright lanes.

How many groceries do you need each day?

The quota is 8 items on day one, 12 on day two, and 16 on day three. After the list is full, the squad still has to cash out at the entrance and hold the safe zone until everyone is inside.

Can you play Aisles of the Locust solo?

Yes, but it is noticeably harder because nobody scouts ahead or warns you when the Locust is near. Solo players usually rely on slow, silent movement and short trips between clusters of items.

Aisles of the Locust turns a simple grocery run into tense co-op survival, where every cart bump, every item on Mom’s list, and every move around the Locust can decide whether your squad survives three days.