While We Wait Here

While We Wait Here is a kitchen management game with dialogue choices and multiple endings. The player runs a small diner located near a mountain range, taking orders, cooking food and serving refreshments. An ordinary working day changes when a broadcast announces an impending catastrophe, and the characters are faced with the possible end of the world.

Gameplay combines kitchen tasks with conversation. The player grills burgers, cooks fries, flips pancakes and washes dishes while talking to customers about the approaching disaster. Customers respond in different ways: some play the threat down or refuse to believe it because of their own problems, while others accept it as punishment for things they have done. The player listens to their stories and can influence whether they leave for shelter or remain in the diner to wait.

The game is described as a psycho-horror with multiple endings, in which the player tries to address the varied problems of troubled customers. It has no game over state, and the choices made are left to the player. Other listed features include dozens of unique first-person interactions, a counter-side view of how people behave when facing death, and fully voiced-over characters.