Lunchline

About Lunchline

Lunchline drops you behind the serving counter of a school cafeteria where a food fight is always one bad shift away. The ROWDINESS meter climbs steadily across the top of the screen throughout your lunch shift, and once it fills, the cafeteria transforms into an arena. For the next 35 seconds — longer on a rough week — the kids are standing on your serving counter hurling everything you cooked back at you, and your serving tray is the only thing standing between you and a face full of milk.

Every food item flies differently. Nuggets are fast and flat, an apple delivers a hard straight bonk, a cookie skips along the floor and takes out legs, and tots launch three at once for a wide splat. Block, duck, throw, and scoop food off the floor when you run dry.

How to Play Lunchline: Cook, Serve, Then Survive

The shift has two distinct phases. First, cook and serve the lunch line. Then, when the ROWDINESS meter fills, survive the food fight. Everything you cooked becomes ammunition, and the ammo rack lets you pick exactly what you throw.

Blocking costs nothing but time, ducking is safe but blind, and the floor fills with ammunition once the fight starts. Scoop food off the floor to restock when you run dry.

Controls

Desktop

• WASD / Arrow Keys: Move
• E, Space, or Left-Click: Grab, cook, serve, and throw
• Hold Shift / Right Mouse Button: Raise the tray to block
• Hold Shift + S: Duck behind the counter
• Click a food on the ammo rack: Select what you throw

Touch

• Left Stick: Move
• Hold Tray Button: Raise the tray to block
• Hold Tray Button + Push Down: Duck behind the counter
• Tap Throw: Fire back

Games You Might Like

If the kitchen management side of Lunchline appeals to you, simulation games on Playgama cover a wide range of running-your-own-business experiences. Veggie Cats: Idle Farm Tycoon shares the food-production-and-customer-service loop, turning harvested vegetables into snacks for a hungry line of customers. Barbershop: Simulator puts you in charge of growing a single chair into a chain of salons, with staff to hire and skills to upgrade. Gas Station challenges you to rebuild a rundown station into a full business empire through hands-on daily management. For a more laid-back tycoon pace, Idle Cowshed lets you expand a modest farm, hire managers, and fend off thieves on the way to cow-farming dominance.

For fast-paced arcade action closer to Lunchline's food-fight chaos, browse the full arcade games catalogue on Playgama.