SHAWA

SHAWA is a psychological horror simulator set in a shawarma van where routine slowly mutates into paranoia. The game watches how you play: what you notice, what you ignore, and what your habits are. It brazenly uses these details to twist your reality as you work behind the counter and in the yard outside. Your ordinary routine—checking the grill, tallying orders, stepping into the yard—becomes a mirror for something unseen.

PHYSICAL COOKING
You make shawarma with your own hands. Every ingredient is a physics-driven object that obeys the laws of motion. The act of slicing, stacking, and wrapping becomes a tactile ritual where weight, momentum, and friction shape not only the food but your nerves as you cope with the van’s strange atmosphere. Each motion matters, and misjudgments can change the wrap—and the mood in the room.

THE GAME READS YOUR NOTES
To order ingredients you write by hand and take the note into the yard. The game tries to interpret what you meant, testing how legible your handwriting is and whether the supplier will respond. The risk is real: a misread message might summon someone else into your van—or turn a routine delivery into danger. Your handwriting becomes a thread that the van can pull on at any moment.

YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THIS VAN
A huge number of paranormal events unfold as shifts progress. It begins with a simple flicker of a light and builds to disturbances that threaten to unravel your world. The interior creaks, the steam shapes itself differently, and the eerie rhythm of the space hints at a presence you cannot quite name. The only apparent salvation lies in performing a shawarma ritual that may be your last hope against the dread echoing through the van.

Death comes in a thousand ways. The game sets the rules and then breaks them, pushing you into moments where reality shifts and you must adapt to survive the next choice. Each decision threads you deeper into a web where nothing is certain and every corner can hide a new danger.

ENDLESS SHIFTS

SHAWA is an endless, nonlinear sandbox horror simulator. Each shift brings new oddities, inexplicable details, and subtle changes in reality. You can play as long as you like, chasing an answer or simply enduring moment after moment of tension as the van breathes with you. The scariest thing isn’t being alone; it’s knowing you’re not alone in the van—existing alongside you, watching how you cook, write, and navigate the strange cadence of this place.