Orbit's Grocery

Orbit's Grocery is a narrative-driven game about working a shift at a store that serves interdimensional travelers and bizarre extraterrestrials. You meet your manager, Orbit, learn the job and complete your tasks at your own pace; there is no timer. The story follows your first and final day and explores why the store had a sudden opening in its competitive job market.

Store duties

You stock shelves with otherworldly goods, wipe windows, mop up spills of “Primordial Soup” and shoot trash into outer space. The store has unpredictable physics and environmental hazards. Random events such as Black Holes, Solar Flares and Gravity Malfunctions disrupt the shop, while a Full Moon can give you a speed boost.

Customer events

Customers trigger events specific to them that switch the gameplay style. You can drift a cart to beat a bratty baby or chase shoplifters, climb oversized shelves while managing your hand-over-hand stamina, and search pitch-black backrooms with a failing flashlight while avoiding a pursuer. In combat sequences, you use a raygun to freeze runaway living items and defend the store from intruders.

The store’s visitors

You encounter a cast of unusual characters, including wing-flapping eyeballs and mysterious cosmic travelers. Their events bring together simulation, first-person shooting, horror, racing and platforming.