GIMBAL

You're the cook. The galley is a pendulum. The crew is hungry anyway.

GIMBAL is a short-order kitchen bolted inside a rolling ship. Orders come in at the hatch — hardtack, coffee, stew, a fish fry that wants flipping mid-cook — and every station you need is strung along one counter that heels over with the swell. Anything you're not holding obeys gravity's opinion: pots skate off burners, plates creep for the edge, and the soup stays dead level while the pot tilts around it.

How to play

• Walk with A/D or ←/→, or tap where you want to go.
• E or Space does the obvious thing at whatever you're facing: grab, chop, flip, pour, plate, serve. On touch, that's the ACT button.
• Hold S (or the BRACE button) to grab the counter — you can't walk, but the wave can't stagger you either.
• When the klaxon sounds, a rogue wave is coming. Stow what you can. Hold on.

Serve meals before the crew's patience runs out; three failed orders and you're put ashore at the next port. Survive a watch and you pick one galley refit — taller fiddle rails, sea legs, non-slip mats, or the gimbal stove itself, which keeps your burners level when nothing else is. Then the sea gets worse.

The twist: the recipes are trivial. The kitchen is the boss fight.

Made in one autonomous run: concept and words by Claude Fable 5, code by a Claude Opus 5 build agent that traced its own game loop and fixed eight bugs before handoff, then verified headless in Chromium — physics, orders, game over and restart all exercised — before shipping.