Why a waiter game?
The 191st Munich Oktoberfest runs from 19 September to 4 October 2026, and this is its final week. Millions of people are in a beer tent right now, planning to go, or at one of the hundreds of Oktoberfests around the world. The Wiesn's real heroes are the servers who carry a dozen full steins through the crowd without spilling, so we built a game about them.
How to play
- Move: tap or click where you want to go. The waiter finds a way around the tables. Arrow keys or WASD also work.
- Pour: stand still at the Schänke and steins are added one by one. You decide when to leave.
- Grip: up to 4 steins is easy. With each stein beyond that your grip drains faster, and at zero you drop the lot.
- Food: Brezn and Hendl go on a tray. You can't carry steins and a tray at the same time.
- Tips: fast service pays more, happy tables in a row build a combo (up to ×2.0), and anything you finish during an Ein Prosit earns double.
- Hearts: three Lebkuchenherzen. Each table that walks out costs one.
- Record Attempt: choose a load, hold Walk and keep the stack level for 40 m. Spill more than 10% and you're disqualified, just like the real record rules.
Good to know
- Your progress, stars and best scores are saved only in this browser (localStorage). Nothing is sent anywhere, and there are no trackers.
- Share buttons create a link that shows your friends exactly what you scored.
- The game respects your device's reduced-motion setting and has light and dark themes.
- The game is about serving. If you're going to a real Oktoberfest, drink water, pace yourself and get home safely. Non-alcoholic beer is having a moment: sales more than doubled at the 2025 Wiesn.
- The guests, thieves and shift scenarios in the game are playful inventions. The facts on the intro cards are real.
Sources
- City of Munich: Oktoberfest in figures: visitors, records, extremes (2026 dates, seats, staff, 2025 consumption, records, lost property, intercepted mugs)
- NerdSip: Oktoberfest beer price history 1950–2026 (Maß price table)
- Wikipedia: Oktoberfest (history, cancellations, the six breweries, parade, tapping tradition)
- Oktoberfest.de: Wiesn 2026 opened: "Ozapft is!" and Ganz München on Dominik Krause's first tapping
- UPI: Oliver Strümpfel breaks world record (29 steins, 40 m)
- Wikipedia: Oktoberfest celebrations (Blumenau, Cincinnati, Kitchener-Waterloo)
- German Attire UK: What is a German beer girl called? (stein weight, typical loads)
Credits
Game design, code, art and sound: original. Everything is drawn in real time with the Canvas API, and every sound is synthesized in your browser with the Web Audio API, so there are no image or audio files. The oom-pah jingle is an original tune.
Fonts: Grenze Gotisch and Nunito via Google Fonts.
Not affiliated with the City of Munich, the Oktoberfest, any brewery or Guinness World Records.