While We Wait Here
Feature List
the Game
‘While We Wait Here’ is a kitchen management game with dialogue choices and multiple endings.
Run a small diner located near a mountain range, take orders from your customers, cook them good food and serve them refreshments.
The equilibrium of an ordinary working day is shattered when news of an impending catastrophe is broadcasted.
Now looming over the characters is the catastrophic threat of the end of the world. At the diner, some of your customers seem to ignore it, blinded by their own problems they play the whole thing down or even refuse to believe it. Others welcome it as punishment for what they have done in their life. As you wait inside the diner, listen to their stories and offer them food for thought.
Will you convince your customers to run for shelter, or will they stay at the diner, waiting for the end?
FEATURES:
○ Talk to customers in your diner about the impending end of the world and help them make choices as you grill burgers, cook fries, flip pancakes and wash the dishes.
○ A psycho-horror with multiple endings in which you try and solve your troubled customers’ varying problems.
○ A meditative experience with no game over, where there is no right or wrong, and where each choice is yours alone.
○ Dozens of unique first-person interactions.
○ Faced with death, observe the range of human dynamics from behind a counter.
○ Fully voiced-over characters.
Game Discussion
Steam User 77
I love the graphics of this game, and it is the perfect proof that you don't need realistic graphics where you can count the main character's boogers or every single eyelash, in order to convey, experience and reflect emotions and feelings. A good story, good characters and good gameplay are the heart of a good game. Well, this is a good game, and it was made with a lot of love.
Steam User 46
I actually really enjoyed this game. I just wish there was some kind of endless mode where you just run the cafe.
Steam User 25
A really unique game that makes you feel cozy and uneasy at the same time. You run a small diner, serve food, and listen to people’s stories while something big and scary looms in the background. It’s simple but super deep, making you think about life, connection, and what really matters. Short, memorable, and perfect if you love games with a lot of heart!
Steam User 32
While We Wait Here
A very chill psychedelic game mostly centered around simple cooking in an ordinary American diner.
Pancakes, burgers, coffee, milkshakes, and scrambled eggs with bacon — the classics. Oh, and I almost forgot about the beer and whiskey.
The game works well as a reboot after a long day, doesn’t demand too much attention from the player, and tries not to overload you. It can be completed in a couple of hours, a nice game from the developers of Ravenous Devils, which is also about cooking and management.
It's short, and in general, you can say that this is now their signature style.
Steam User 16
A cozy yet unsettling diner sim where you serve food and listen to customers as the world possibly ends outside. It’s a short, story-rich experience with branching dialogue and a haunting atmosphere. The retro visuals and eerie soundtrack really set the tone, making it feel both intimate and apocalyptic. Overall, it is a nice narrative-driven game.
Steam User 9
Cozy little game, wish there was more cooking / managing the Diner gameplay, unless I missed it somehow...
Would be awesome that after you finish main story, you could unlock Infinite game mode and start from scratch upgrading things as you go, like getting bigger fridge to add wider variety of meals, drinks, milkshakes and their additional flavours.
Steam User 11
I really enjoyed this game, its a short psychological horror game where choices can make a difference, with some cooking aspects. Basically you can play as one of 2 Dinner owners dependant on your dialog choices. Your role is kind of like a bartender, customers come in and tell you about there problems, as you serve them and you can offer them some advice. I don't know what it is about cooking in games but I get way to much fun out of it and would of quite happily played this game just for that, but there is a lot more to it. I was given this as a Xmas gift (thank you) but I would say its well worth the price and has some replay ability, I played it twice so I could get the perspective of both main characters. Also easy 100%.