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Set in Rapid City, South Dakota in 2034, a New Great Depression has gutted the town and monsters have moved in. You run a roadside diner where they're both the threat and the supply chain. This tycoon simulation challenges you to build, optimize, and expand a 1990s roadside diner in a collapsing economy, where your main ingredient is monster meat.

The core gameplay loop involves researching and developing dishes using harvested monster ingredients, designing your menu around customer behavior, buffs, and risk, and experimenting with additives like missourite to boost profits or create side effects. You hire and prepare staff to keep service running, with understaffed hours bleeding customer satisfaction, which feeds the rumor economy of Rapid City and shows up in story dialogue. At night the monsters attack, so you set traps and defenses to protect customers and staff.

The Early Access launch includes a deep, complex, and complete Endless Mode where players can dive into complex simulation, tower defense, and diner management gameplay elements, plus the opening Prologue and Chapter 1 of the story. The game features a restaurant sim with real stakes including menus, staff, research and upgrades in the middle of an apocalypse, tower defense mechanics to protect your diner, and a story told chapter by chapter where your choices shape the fate of Rapid City.

The tycoon systems are real enough to optimize, and the monster apocalypse gives every spreadsheet a pulse. The central tension frames a choice between profit and the city's survival, with the warning that those who fight monsters risk becoming one. This blend of management depth with narrative consequence appeals to players seeking simulation games with genuine moral weight and strategic complexity.