Announcing Grilluminati: Run a Cult, Fake a Restaurant, Feed a God
Hide a cult behind a neighbourhood grill, sacrifice customers, and try not to get caught: a co-op game of dark rituals, desperate cover-ups, and inevitable bloody chaos.
21 May 2026 - Belgian indie studios Anaxanthia and Godspear Games today revealed Grilluminati, a co-op game where players hide a secret cult behind a seemingly normal grill restaurant. The announcement arrives alongside the game's first reveal trailer and Steam page, with development currently underway for PC. Release date to be announced.
In Grilluminati, up to four players work together while isolating customers, performing forbidden rituals, appeasing rival gods, and covering up the evidence before suspicion spirals out of control. What starts as careful deception can quickly unravel into panic, slaughter, and total chaos.
Every successful sacrifice brings their god closer to entering the world. Every mistake risks exposing everything. Players can wishlist the game now on Steam.
Grilluminati - official Announcement Trailer:
Any press or content creators interested in covering an early version of Grilluminati can get in touch via the contact details below.
Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/4703930/Grilluminati
Press Kit: anaxanthia.com/grilluminati/presskit
Contact: press@anaxanthia.com (Interviews welcome!)
About the Game
Welcome to Grilluminati, where the food is fresh, the service is impeccable… and the customers don’t always leave.
Your gods are hungry. Not for burgers, though those help with the cover. Behind the counter of your perfectly ordinary grill restaurant, you and your fellow cultists are working toward something far bigger than the lunch rush. The rituals must be performed. The offerings must be made. And absolutely nobody can find out.
The tricky part isn’t the sacrifices. It’s everything else. The suspicious regular who keeps lingering. The colleague who improvises at the worst possible moment. The evidence that keeps ending up in the wrong place. Your gods demand perfection. Your team is anything but.
Clean up the mess. Hide the evidence. Act natural. Because if anyone notices what’s really going on behind the kitchen doors, it’s over.
Key Features
- One Cult, Up to Four Conspirators - Work together or blame each other when everything spirals out of control.
- Hide a Cult in Plain Sight - Maintain the illusion of a normal grill restaurant while secretly performing dark rituals.
- Stealth, Suspicion & Escalation - Customers react, panic spreads, and small mistakes become disasters.
- Perform Disturbing Rituals - Harvest bizarre ingredients and unlock new powers, tools, and horrors.
- Rival Gods & Consequences - Choose your deity, each with unique challenges, rewards, and punishments.
Follow development updates and join the community on Discord
About the Studios
Grilluminati is the first commercial release for both studios and their first co-production, born out of years of friendship between the two teams.
About Anaxanthia
Anaxanthia is a two-person indie game studio based in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, founded in 2021. They design replayable games built around colliding systems and emergent stories, spanning tense tactical strategy to multiplayer chaos.
About Godspear Games
Godspear Games is a two-person indie game studio based in Kortrijk, Belgium, founded in 2021. They make games that put a fresh spin on existing genres, brought to life through a distinctive visual style.
Grilluminati was made possible thanks to the support of Flanders Game Hub.