Kiosk

About Kiosk

Kiosk is a horror cooking game by the solo developer Vivi, released on Steam on 29 January 2025 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Feardemic published it on PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch on 20 November 2025, and the developer also has an Android version on Google Play, free with ads. A free demo is on itch.io.

You play a night shift worker at a small fast food kiosk on a rainy night. On the first shift your boss calls to explain the job and thanks you for filling in for the last guy, who vanished. The work is simple: customers come to the window and their order appears on the board, you cut ingredients with your knife, cook patties, sausages and eggs on the grill, fry chips, pour soda and beer, make coffee on the machine, and hand the order over. Supplies run out, so you restock from the shelves or fetch more from the storeroom.

The kitchen runs on loose, deliberately wonky physics: a knife thrown at a pack of sausages sends them across the floor, lettuce flies off the table, and you can toss eggs and raw patties onto the grill from across the room. There is no timer in the story, and the customers are patient, but cooked food goes off if you leave it too long. Reviewers found this half of the game more comic than frightening.

The horror comes from the night around the work. Most customers are hungry regulars, but a drunk, a clown and a dine-and-dasher turn up too, and some talk about a man just murdered in the park. The breaker keeps tripping, so you go to the power box in the dark, and the sense that someone is watching grows. The jump scares are few and spaced out, and the tension rises over the story. Reviewers put it at about 75 to 90 minutes.

There are three modes: Story, the horror game itself; Endless, a timed mode with a leaderboard; and Relax, untimed cooking. In those two modes the customers never speak, and their orders just appear. The look is low-poly and pixelated, lit a murky green and yellow. It suits players who like short job-simulator horror where the dread builds out of routine, and who will enjoy the clumsy, comic cooking along the way; those after a deep mystery or constant scares may find it thin.

How to play Kiosk

1. Start Story mode and take your place behind the kiosk window.
2. Read the order on the board when a customer comes to the window.
3. Cut the ingredients with your knife and cook them on the grill or in the fryer.
4. Add drinks or coffee as asked and hand the order through the window.
5. Restock from the shelves or the storeroom when something runs out, and reset the power box when the lights go.
6. Listen to what each customer says; their clues tell you what happened to the last worker.

Tips

• Story mode has no timer, so take your time and keep an eye on cooked food instead: it goes off if it sits too long.
• Start the sausages or patties first and make the coffee while they cook.
• If an item clips out of reach, fetch another one rather than chasing it.
• Pay attention to dialogue rather than rushing customers away; the story lives in what they say.
• Try Relax mode if you want to learn the kitchen without pressure; Endless mode is timed and for the leaderboard, not the story.

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