While We Wait Here

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Cook for your last customers while you wait for the end of the world.

Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (89% of 2,480 reviews)
Players: 1
Made by: Bad Vices Games
Released: 2024

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What frightens You run a small diner by a mountain range when the news announces a coming catastrophe and the end of the world. As the sky turns red outside, you cook and talk with customers who deny it, fall apart or welcome it as a punishment for what they have done, and their stories bring violence and blood into the waiting.
Content: violence, blood, alcohol use, strong language.

While We Wait Here is a first-person kitchen game with dialogue choices by Bad Vices Games, which its makers call a psycho-horror. You run a small mountain diner on the day the end of the world is announced, cooking and serving while your customers face it in their own ways. Your words decide whether they run for shelter or stay, and how it ends.

About While We Wait Here

While We Wait Here is a first-person game from Bad Vices Games, released in October 2024 on PC and Mac and on PlayStation, Xbox and Switch. Its makers describe it as a kitchen management game with dialogue choices and multiple endings, and as a psycho-horror.

You run a small diner near a mountain range. It starts as an ordinary working day: take orders, grill burgers, fry eggs, flip pancakes, pour coffee and wash the dishes. Then the news reports a coming catastrophe, and the end of the world hangs over everyone inside. Some of your customers play it down or refuse to believe it, caught up in their own problems. Others welcome it as a punishment for what they have done.

The horror is not in a monster but in the waiting and in the people. You listen to their stories from behind the counter and offer them something to think about, while the sky outside turns red and a storm gathers over the mountains. The makers warn of violence, blood, alcohol and strong language in what your customers bring with them. Every character is fully voiced.

There is no game over and no right or wrong answer, the makers say: each choice is yours, and it decides whether your customers head for shelter or stay at the diner to wait for the end. It suits players who like story-led horror built on conversation and choice, in the line of games where you serve strangers at night and slowly learn what they are hiding.

How to play While We Wait Here

Start a new game and take your place behind the counter of the diner.
Take each customer's order and check the recipe book for how to make it.
Cook in first person: grill, fry and flip the food, then serve it with drinks.
Talk with your customers and pick your answers in the dialogue choices.
Try to convince them to run for shelter, or let them stay, and see which ending your choices lead to.
Play again with different answers to reach other endings.

Screenshots

Inside the diner: customers sit at the counter under hanging lamps, one wearing a tinfoil hat

A blood-red sky and a dark storm cloud over mountains outside the diner, seen through rain

First-person view of a burger patty and a bun on a plate on a checked cloth, with a spatula in hand

A man in a plaid shirt stands in a narrow doorway leading back into the diner

Tips

Listen to the whole of each customer's story before you answer; your choices shape what they decide.
There is no game over, so take your time with the conversations.
Keep the recipe book open when an order is new to you.
It is fully voiced: play with sound on.

Questions

Is While We Wait Here a horror game?

Its makers call it a psycho-horror. There is no monster to run from; the fear comes from the coming end of the world, the people waiting it out in your diner and the dark things in their stories, with scenes of violence and blood.

Does While We Wait Here have multiple endings?

Yes. The makers describe it as a game with dialogue choices and multiple endings, depending on whether your customers run for shelter or stay.

What platforms is While We Wait Here on?

Windows and Mac on Steam, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox and Nintendo Switch.

Can you lose in While We Wait Here?

No. The makers say it has no game over and no right or wrong choices.