Luis Cammy Finds All Six Needles and Clears the Haystack in Find the Needle Demo

NIJISANJI — Luis Cammy of Nijisanji cleared the small pile in the demo of Find the Needle on Monday, ending the second stream of her series on the factory-building game. Players automate the sifting of a haystack to dig out hidden needles, and she found all six that the demo allows, then cleared the rest of the pile. The game’s clock put the whole job at about 10 hours.

She opened the stream by thanking viewers for her seventh debut anniversary, marked on Oct. 31, and joked that what she had done since debuting was search for needles. She had roughly 2.45 million pieces of hay left to clear at the start. Over the stream she built a second floor for her conveyor lines, added drones to gather hay, and worked through the game’s paper-roll orders, describing her own building skill as below zero. Arms swung close to her as she worked, and she played a cheerful factory boss to her machines, including a long bit about workers wanting to quit.

“In the end it’s work by hand. In the end it’s unpaid overtime.” — Luis Cammy, while hand-feeding the paper-roll line

The needles came in bursts. She found the first early in the stream and had all six by roughly the 9-hour mark on the game’s play-time counter. She then switched off the scanners, which she said made the job far easier, and finished the paper-roll orders partly by carrying rolls herself, saying hand work beat the machines. When the last of the pile was gone, the game had no exit to offer: the door stayed shut and the power was failing, so she saved and returned to the title screen. She noted the demo showed no credits.

Afterward she said the pile she cleared was the small size and that larger ones would need a stronger PC than hers, and she pointed viewers to the game’s page for the bigger piles. She said she had expected the series to run longer, since viewers of part one had guessed it would take about six parts.

She said she would practice for a Splatoon 3 tournament later in the day, and that she might open a stream for it but did not know yet. She closed by saying she hoped to keep playing silly games with her audience until her 10th anniversary.