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Build a restaurant, cook to order, and manage customers solo or with up to three friends as menus and upgrades reshape each run.
Released 04 Aug 2022
Automate the Kitchen
Redesign Between Shifts
Manage Customer Patience
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
Developed by It's happening · Published by Yogscast Games, Gamersky Games
Start a restaurant alone or with up to three other players. Choose a menu and make a plan for keeping the restaurant open as customer numbers grow.
During each shift, seat customers, take orders, cook and serve dishes, clear tables, and wash plates. Customers have limited patience, so the team must keep the restaurant running smoothly.
Between shifts, buy and rearrange equipment and furniture, upgrade tools, and adapt to new menu choices or challenges. Runs span up to 15 days; progression unlocks additions for future restaurants, which take shape in procedurally generated locations.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy coordinating restaurant tasks with friends, planning kitchen layouts, and experimenting with upgrades and automation. Many describe the changing menus and run-based progression as giving the game replay value. Solo play and the pressure of serving impatient customers draw mixed reactions: some enjoy the challenge, while others find it demanding or stressful. A number of reviewers also mention long unlock progression or frustration with the interface and item handling.
Up to four players build and run a restaurant from scratch, choosing dishes, buying and placing appliances – some of which can be daisy-chained together to create ambitious automatic kitchens – cooking food and serving customers.
Players have free rein to design their restaurant which will expand and develop between shifts – with additional content and challenges unlocked through progression.
Can you cook, serve and manage your way through 15 hectic days in your restaurant and unlock a brand-new franchise?
Classic co-op cooking action, with a wide selection of mains, sides, sauces, toppings, desserts, and starters.
Choose your equipment, lay out your kitchen, curate your menu and plate up your dishes.
From bubbling soups to sublime salads, tender steaks to hearty pies, there's something for everyone.
Look after front-of-house: seating customers, delivering orders, and managing patience.
Equip your restaurant to handle the most fickle of customers and deliver them what they need, right when they need it.
Co-operate with your team like a well-olive-oiled machine or build a name for yourself going it alone.
Exceed your goals and take your franchise to greater heights at a new location, bringing with you new unlocks and upgrade
Upgrade and rearrange your restaurant to your personal taste: when the restaurant closes for the day, the planning begins!
Decide what new equipment to purchase, and place it wherever you want.
Want to go high-tech? Install the turbo-ovens, crank up the conveyors, and make way for the robo-kitchen of the future.
Fancy something a little more... fancy? Curate your art collection, fix up that wallpaper, enlist a friend as a maître d' and get ready to provide the culinary experience of a lifetime.
Exceed your goals and start over at your next location, bringing with you new unlocks and upgrades.
Tailor your brand towards gourmet dining, or fine-tune your fast food franchise.
Every restaurant is procedurally-generated with its own climate, customers and conditions.
Return to your franchise HQ to view your achievements, customise your characters and upgrade your kit, ready for your next adventure!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 26 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | PlateUp! supports solo play and co-op for up to 4 players. Official features and descriptions indicate online co-op, local/shared or split-screen co-op, and mixed local-plus-online play via Remote Play Together. The provided information describes cooperative play only; no PvP mode is indicated. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop is supported. Reviews state base game supports 1-4 players, and mods can raise player count beyond 4, including reports of 8-player modded sessions and claims of effectively unlimited players. This is not confirmed by official store text. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
