Dead Plate

Dead Plate is a story-driven horror game set in La Gueule de Saturne, a small French restaurant in the 1960s. You play Rody, the waiter, working ordinary shifts for a chef named Vince who is charming, particular, and very clear about which parts of the kitchen are none of your business.

Most of the game is routine work: take an order, fetch what the chef asks for, keep the floor running. The horror arrives through the gaps in that routine — a locked door, an ingredient that does not add up, a conversation that goes somewhere it should not. By the time the story shows its hand, you have already been complicit for an hour.

Content warning: the game opens with its own notice for graphic death, blood, gore, and cannibalism. Take it seriously — this is not a soft horror story.

Dead Plate has four endings, and they branch late. The first several shifts play out largely the same way however you handle them — what changes is how much you have worked out by the time the week closes, and what you decide to do with it.

One ending simply lets Rody finish the seven days and leave. The others follow from the point where the kitchen stops being something you can plausibly not understand. Because a single run takes about ninety minutes, most players reach one ending first and then reload the final shift to see the alternatives, rather than replaying from Day 1.