The Night That Keeps Looping
You're cycling home. The road is the same road it always is. But something is slightly different this time — a note on a bench that wasn't there before, a sound that doesn't belong to tires on asphalt. Burger & Frights was created by Stuffed Wombat for Ludum Dare 2020 under the theme "keep it alive," and it uses repetition itself as the horror mechanic. The more you loop through the same short stretch of road, the more the gaps between moments fill in with something you can't quite name.
What Kind of Horror Is This?
Not the jump-scare kind. One playthrough takes only a few minutes, but leaving after a single run means missing most of what the game is actually telling you. The dread is assembled from fragments — scattered across loops, recontextualized each time. If you've played games that use environmental storytelling to let you piece together a narrative on your own, you'll recognize the shape of this immediately.
How to Play
Use the arrow keys to pedal forward. Don't stop. Read everything you see. Go around again.
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