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Apocalyptic Restaurant Management Sim ‘While We Wait Here’ Announced [Trailer]
Bad Vices Games is continuing their dive into the horror restaurant management sim genre with While We Wait Here, a psychological horror restaurant management game about the end of the world. The game will launch on Steam in 2024.
Previously, Bad Vices Games had tackled restaurant management with their Sweeney Todd-inspired Ravenous Devils. With While We Wait Here, you’ll be in charge of running a small diner located near a mountain range. That involves the usual taking of orders from your customers, cooking and serving the food and keeping them happy. That gets flipped when news of an impending catastrophe is broadcasted.
Strangely, your customers either seem to ignore the broadcast, or are content with the impending Apocalypse, chalking it up to payback for what they have done in their life. You can either convince your patrons to head for the shelter, or wait it out with them, offering them food for thought as you listen to their stories.
As you might expect, While We Wait Here will feature multiple endings, though the developers describe the game as a “meditative experience with no game over, where there is no right or wrong, and where each choice is yours alone.” And really, the contemplation of time and impending doom is a rather unsettling topic that definitely needs more exploring.
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VR Survival Horror Title ‘Into the Dead: Crimson Heights’ Announced for Meta, Steam [Trailer]
PikPok are expanding their Into The Dead series into the survival horror realm with their new VR title Into the Dead: Crimson Heights. Described as a Hyper Reality survival horror game, the title uses state-of-the-art technology to push beyond the existing boundaries of roomscale Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality games to create a “world-first” player experience.
This new entry expands upon the Walton City zombie outbreak that was first depicted in Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days (which is currently in Early Access on Steam). Set during the first hours of the outbreak, Crimson Heights is a fresh entry in the franchise, using Hyper Reality technology to scan a player’s environment, turning their real-world furniture into in-game architecture and cover to create a new kind of immersive, reactive game world.
“At PikPok, we are constantly looking at fun and engaging ways to provide new and unique gaming experiences,” explains PikPok CEO Mario Wynands. “So with that very much in mind, we are excited to finally reveal Into the Dead: Crimson Heights, which combines tense stealth, tactical exploration and thrilling combat in a unique, body-driven experience.”
Into the Dead: Crimson Heights is currently in development for Hyper Reality on Meta and Virtual Reality on Steam, and is planned for release during 2027.