Doomsday Diner is the restaurant sim that dares to take post-apocalyptic storytelling to a new height by focusing on an element we so often overlook, that of the humble hot dog. A new trailer and a playable demo drop today, ahead of a PC release on Steam later this year.
It has all the hallmarks of the classic diner sim, cooking, cleaning, upgrading your equipment piece by piece but with some added carnage as you do your best to defend your humble eatery from wasteland raiders. To keep things spicy, the controls are physics-based, which should make for some sausage slinging chaos when the pressure is on.
The maniacs behind the game are Space Rock Games, a studio in New Zealand that is also working on Criminals Within, an asymmetric co-op multiplayer action-adventure game with a fantasy flavor. Members of its team have worked on notable titles like Fable, Path of Exile, Chivalry 2, Alien vs Predator and Black And White 2.
Doomsday Diner joins the collection of increasingly unhinged sim games on Steam, which includes big names like House Flipper, Goat Simulator and Powerwash Simulator, but also hidden gems like Paver Simulator, TCG Card Shop Simulator, and Crime Scene Cleaner.
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