Midwest 90: Rapid City is a tycoon simulation about running a business under extreme pressure.

Build, optimize, and expand a 1990s roadside diner in a collapsing economy, where your main ingredient is monster meat.

The kitchen, the books, and the defenses all pull on each other.

Build a Profitable (and Questionable) Food Empire

• Research and develop dishes using harvested monster ingredients

• Design your menu around customer behavior, buffs, and risk

• Experiment with additives like missourite to boost profits, and live with the side effects

• Expand your diner, improve efficiency, and scale operations

Mind the Business

• Hire and prepare staff to keep service running under pressure

• Balance supply chains, pricing, and customer satisfaction

• Decide what matters more: margins, safety, or reputation

• Adapt to changing conditions in a collapsing local economy

Defend Your Investment

• Set traps and prepare defenses around your restaurant

• Survive unpredictable monster incursions

• Protect your customers, staff, and infrastructure

• Treat defense like any other operating cost

Your Choices Shape the City

• Make high-impact business decisions that affect Rapid City

• Support the community, or exploit it

• Follow a branching story with characters who sound like real people

• Uncover the truth behind the monster outbreak

How far will you go to keep your business alive?