
Immerse yourself in an atmospheric psychological horror with a haunting VHS aesthetic. As a night-shift waitress at a secluded roadside café, serve strange patrons and feel mounting dread. Each night, the nightmare becomes more real, and someone is watching from the darkness. Can you survive?
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Mary is an 18-year-old girl who’s just moved out and taken a night-shift waitress job at a desolate roadside café on the edge of nowhere. Each night, the silence grows deeper. Customers grow stranger. And the feeling that someone is watching becomes impossible to ignore...
This is the first episode of the True Nightmare series — a psychological horror that feels disturbingly real.
An immersive first-person experience of working as a lone waitress in a remote roadside café.
Take orders, prepare meals, serve customers, and clean up — all by yourself.
Leave the café and uncover nearby locations filled with eerie details and hidden clues.
Discover unsettling sights as you piece together what’s really happening.
People talk. Some say too much. Others hide what you need to know.
Dialogue and overheard conversations may reveal more than you expect.
Not everything can be explained. But the more you see, the more you know something is wrong.
Something hides just outside the light. Don’t look too long — it might look back.
Atmospheric Psychological Horror
Retro VHS Aesthetic
First-Person Café Simulation
Branching Dialogue & Multiple Endings
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Languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Spanish - Spain, German, Korean, Japanese
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
Me borrei nas calcas! Jogo de terror de verdade!!
剧情挺好,就是画面太晃 翻译挺好,就是一个没对应上
Я vhs люблю и я горжусь этим,my life,my rules,slates and the evil people
Коротінький інді-горор. Подобається такого формату ігри. Скрімерів достатньо. Полоскотати нервішки можна) Рекомендую.
This was a great game!!! I cannot wait to bring justice for Mary and Ben! Some of these lethal jumpscares frightened Bryan to death! Can't wait for the next one.
Well, i actually enjoyed True Nightmare - Roadside Café, i was clenched butt cheeks for much of my playthrough. Many of the encounters especially towards the end were genuinely nerve racking, driving down the road just wishing i could look in the rear view mirror ;). 8/10 Well made, everything works, decent plot, and some damn good music, just wish it was slightly longer with more lore and a more fleshed out plot.
quente
Great game - cannot wait for future releases!
как работник с восьмилетним стажем в общепите, заявляю - у нас каждый день всё так и происходит !
5/10
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