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RoadHouse Manager

A rowdy roadhouse roguelite! Serve thirsty strangers, flair-bartend cocktails for big mult bonus combos, and throw down when trouble erupts. Every goon you shirk or smash can be molded by a reactive villain into your ARCH-NEMESIS. Chase love, rare booze, secrets, decor, and upgrades to survive!

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About the Game

Welcome to The Fog’s End: a roadhouse at an intersection of virtual dimensions where there are many thirsty travelers.

You have many beers to serve to survive the waves of infinite customers.

Some customers will be nice. Feed them beer and cocktails from your collected bottle supply.

Some customers will be trouble-makers. Those customers, you gotta beat up.

VIPs are vital for your roadhouse. These VIPs are really cool. 

You'll need to impress them with a bunch of flair tricks and then craft a top-shelf cocktail in a poker-inspired system with MULT combos. Can you impress the connoisseurs?

Some of the worst customers are super-drunk aliens that phase in and out of reality portals.

If these aliens can break your shielding, they'll basically wreck your roadhouse, causing you ton of costs in damages.

Use your smarts to keep these dastardly drunk aliens contained!

But not all drunk aliens are bad -- collect enough tips to hire a super-drunk alien dancer, who'll please everyone with her outrageous extra-dimensional dance routine. 

No one ever bartended like this before, in gaming.

Each drink is a performance in The Fog’s End. You’ll need some good flair to impress your VIPs. Toss the glass, spin it, and do all sorts of tricks. Pour it perfectly! Combine your collected top-shelf booze to craft a 'drink-poker' of exceptional quality to please the VIPs! 


As the days go on, you’ll need an increasingly a better roadhouse to entice fog-wanderers to stop by. Spend mojo and money upgrading your roadhouse: show lights, plants, seating, appliances, a games room, O2 bar, karaoke, and 70 more upgrades. The day time is for casual prepping, and the night time: pure chaos! 

Keep customers happy and you'll be rewarded new blueprint cards. Collect and build enough matching upgrades in a set will unlock powerful new amenities that'll impress even the most skilled and famous VIP guests!

You have a magic interdimensional jukebox that can bring in over 120 songs from alternate dimensions, and multiversal cable TV, to watch countless random strange clips for no practical purpose at this time! 

If push comes to shove, you’ll have to deliver an occasional beat-down to keep the unruly guests chilled and reasonable. Punch, kick, and throw unruly guests down the stairs to prevent a giant bar fight from breaking out, wrecking your roadhouse! 

Many Unique Trouble-Making Thugs & An Arch-Nemesis! 

The hard-ass robot bastard upstairs wants you to fail. He watches you closely, and depending on your success, will react by hiring henchmen. 

Boxers. Keg-tossers. Drug addicts. Seductresses. Many unique types of trouble. Even Xenu-calling scientologists will be sent for you to deal with, each with their own weaknesses, strengths, special abilities.  They'll get promoted or demoted depending on how they fare against you, and if you're unlucky enough, one will become your Arch-Nemesis!