Grinner's Diner

Grinner's Diner is a co-op night-shift survival game set in a roadside burger joint deep in the Appalachian hills. You can play alone or with up to three friends: open the diner, cook orders with physics-based hands and serve customers who stop being human after sunset.

Run the diner

You grill, fry, stack, sauce, bag and throw each burger, building it by hand one wobbly layer at a time. The drive-thru window, counter and tables can all demand food at once. Proximity voice chat lets you hear the crew's panic from across the kitchen.

Serve the cryptids

The Jersey Devil waits at the pickup window with its jaws open, and you have to land a burger in its mouth. If you miss, it screams, the lights go out and someone must venture into the dark to reach the breaker. Cryptids only eat cryptid food, which is kept at the back of the walk-in freezer; that part of the freezer is further away than it should be. Wild leeks grow in the woods behind the diner, where something stands perfectly still at the tree line and watches you work.

Survive until dawn

At closing, get everyone inside, slam the shutter and defend the diner from the crowd coming out of the trees. You patch the doors and keep the lantern lit, without going outside. Every customer you disappoint chips away at the crew's nerve; as it falls, more customers have too many teeth.

Dead crewmates spectate until dawn and can talk to each other, but the living cannot hear them. Each shift gets busier than the last. There is no finish line; the game is about how long you can keep the grill on.