Elysium Restaurant

Elysium Restaurant is a narrative game set in a restaurant where you wake with no memory of who you are or what happened before. The manager has cared for you, but your eyesight seems impaired: you cannot see anything that has ever had life, including people, animals, blood and food. As you speak with the manager and the restaurant’s nine customers, you uncover the restaurant’s secrets, the presence of a killer and the reason you are being asked to save the customers.

Save the customers

You talk with the customers and make dialogue choices that affect their intimacy with you. Solve puzzles to find where the killer plans to strike, then help each customer avoid being killed. The game begins in puzzle mode; if you find the puzzles too difficult, you can switch to no-puzzle mode using the computer in the restaurant.

The customers include a woman who longs for romance, a philosopher grieving someone he loved, an unemployed office worker and a little girl who lives at the restaurant. Other customers include a heavy drinker, a con man, a teacher and a student preparing for the university entrance exam. Their conversations reveal their circumstances and perspectives.

The restaurant’s story

The manager says you need to save the customers, and a newspaper is part of the mystery. As you speak with the customers and work through the days, you learn more about why they need your help and what the world is really like. If you make it through the third day, the story reaches its final ending, overturning your understanding of your own consciousness and exploring what it means to save someone and to be redeemed.