
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
While this game is not as polished as Fears to fathom, it's still pretty solid for an indie horror game. The choice of music was excellent but the animations are really choppy. It's a poor man's version of Fears to Fathom. It has it's issues 100% but if you like this genre, it's definitely a good choice. Although I argue that it's not worth 11 CAD at all. This should be priced like 5 to 8 dollars max. I hope to see improvements from this dev with later games.
I really enjoyed this game, great atmosphere, few puzzles that were quite fun, pretty straight forward with what to do (I loved having a notepad, because I clicked too fast and missed customers order, so it's nice to see what they ordered and what is the next objective) , not too short or too long which is good because I was quite tense playing it, jump scares were on spot as well, looking forward to the next games.
Don't trust the way this game looks - IT'S SOMETHING TRULY UNIQUE. I mean not that they invented something, but seriously, this game might look like another fears to fathom copy, but the lore and gameplay is nothing like it at all. It took me a long time to finally play this game just because I was really tired of the games with the same formula over and over again. Like if this is not a horror game to recommend, then I don't know what else to suggest you. Huge W
I absolutely loved it! Great VHS style horror game. Lots of fun creepy moments. My playthru here: https://youtu.be/yzgcdQus7uU
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Wer hätte gedacht, dass Burger-Braten so ein Nervenkitzel sein kann? 🍔💀 True Nightmare - Roadside Café hat mich gut unterhalten. Die Mischung aus dem stressigen Gastro-Alltag (Kunden bedienen, Bestellungen fertigmachen) und dem schleichenden Horror, der sich draußen in der Dunkelheit zusammenbraut, ist richtig gut gelungen. Die Jumpscares saßen an den richtigen Stellen und die Atmosphäre an dieser einsamen Raststätte ist durchgehend beklemmend und spannend. Es ist der perfekte Beweis dafür, dass man aus einer eigentlich alltäglichen Situation ein packendes Horror-Szenario basteln kann. Gerne mehr von dieser Art Spiele! Für mich ist das eine solide: 🧦 7 von 10 Socken! 🧦
게임은 평범해요. 근데 저장 시점이 [spoiler] 마지막 엔딩 보는 장소가 아니라 지하창고에서 탈출한 후로 고정이 돼있으면 엔딩 보기 편할 것 같은데 그게 아쉬워요. 그리고 엔딩 3은 그래도 히든 엔딩 취급은 해주는데 엔딩 1, 2는 마지막에 들리는 사운드, 내레이션 제외하고는 차이점이 없어서 아쉬움 [/spoiler] 엔딩은 총 3개인데 1,2 번 엔딩 별 차이 없어서 그냥 1번, 3번 엔딩 보면 넘기는 걸 추천
I had so much fun playing this game!!!!!! PLayed the demo and and then the full version! A lot of fun! Hope for more games from this dev! here's my playthrogh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEn2CrEaSoU&t=5s
무난무난 쏘쏘 재밌음 스토리 킹쁘지 않음 크게 기대할정돈 아님
It is ok.
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