While We Wait Here

While We Wait Here is a kitchen management game combining cooking mechanics with dialogue-driven storytelling. Players run a small diner near a mountain range, taking orders, grilling burgers, cooking fries, flipping pancakes and washing dishes for customers. The routine of the diner is disrupted when a broadcast announces an impending catastrophe, and the game shifts focus to how different customers respond to the news.

As the world faces potential end, customers react in varied ways: some dismiss the threat or refuse to believe it, while others see it as deserved punishment for past actions. From behind the counter, players listen to customers’ stories and engage in dialogue that offers them food for thought, with the option to encourage them to seek shelter or let them remain at the diner.

The game is described as a psycho-horror experience featuring multiple endings, with no game over state and no defined right or wrong choices. It includes dozens of unique first-person interactions and fully voiced-over characters, structured as a meditative experience exploring human dynamics in the face of crisis.