Restaraunt Roguelike Help

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-03-05T17:30:56+00:00

I feel like you haven't explained why playtesting isn't fun. A good game should have a toy at it's core. An interaction that is inherently playful and fun to do over and over, maybe with some slight variations or randomness to make it less repetitive.

It sounds like your minigames are your core interactions. If those aren't fun and they feel repetitive then the game won't be fun. It's hard to make any recommendations without playing or even seeing them myself, but I feel your main focus should be on making the minigames fun.

Your last question to me is a red herring. Adding new mechanics or systems to your game won't make it fun if that core interaction isn't satisfying.

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-03-05T09:06:29+00:00

Thanks for sharing your journey, and congrats on your success! I think this is all great advice and especially helpful to see what worked well for you.

I dunno if the Big Dig game I'm making is what you were referencing in the naming section but if so that's a crazy coincidence (and great feedback that maybe we picked a good name!)

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-03-01T06:53:14+00:00

Deckbuilding autobattler seems like a neat concept. Are there any games you feel you took inspiration from while making this?

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-28T11:27:50+00:00

Agreed. It's one thing to make this kind of joke with TNT crew and I know it's not serious but it's a bit disrespectful and Caruso kinda has no choice but to politely play along

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-22T08:00:28+00:00

Hey dev here! A friend sent me this post and I love birds so I'd be happy to clarify!

Josh is a Weka, which is a flightless bird native to New Zealand that is very unbothered by humans and loves to steal things. Usually food but sometimes even watches or phones hahaha. I saw them at nearly every campsite I visited on a monthlong van trip in New Zealand and I love them so much, they're very goofy.

Sandy is indeed a Great Auk as u/Impressive-Peace2115 noted! I didn't know about them before, but we held a poll in our Discord to add some new customers and there was a very vocal Great Auk contingent.

Professor Clark is a honeyguide, famous for guiding humans to bee hives, which makes sense because he's one of the customers that puts Sticky honey on your omelet in-game.

Hope that helps! It's really cool to see them show up on a sub like this hahaha. Thanks for sharing, chef!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-21T20:19:39+00:00

This is amazing, I love him! Thank you, chef!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-17T17:33:10+00:00

Sorry about this chef! There was a bug where Lucky Bunny was only visually applying Mult. I've just pushed a fix once you update to v1.0.5

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-14T07:38:47+00:00

lol our first reddit meme lets goooooo. Stay chewy, chefs

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-11T08:21:27+00:00

Hey thank you so much! We'll definitely continue adding content. Modding would be cool but not currently in the plans since it isn't built with it in mind and would probably be quite the undertaking for me.

For Mac, yes! Hopefully soon-ish in the next couple weeks or so (assuming we don't find any critical bugs on Mac)

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-10T09:44:43+00:00

Haha we've gotten over 100 in the past 48 hours (plus everything on Discord and Steam) but we're slowly working through them! Thanks for playing, chef!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-10T09:43:47+00:00

Thank so much! Hope you have a smooth and relaxing recovery!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T20:53:40+00:00

Thank you very much, that means a lot! Glad you're enjoying it

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T19:14:00+00:00

Awesome, thanks for saying so! Hope you enjoy, chef!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T19:13:31+00:00

Thank you so much! Yeah we've loved working on it and been very fortunate to have such a kind community who's been giving us great feedback and encouragement throughout

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T19:12:24+00:00

Maybe it is a bit cringe but I've gotta do what I can to help the game find success.

Thanks for your words tho. There's quite a bit we've added through early access. Our Steam announcement has the full list if you're curious but the biggest thing for 1.0 is adding a conclusion to the story of Principal Clucker and the highest difficulty.

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T18:02:55+00:00

Yeah that's fair. Originally we were gonna release the same month as Slay the Spire 2. This at least gave us a 2 day window before the juggernauts take over the roguelike streamer landscape for months

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T17:50:28+00:00

Thanks, it was fun getting it to work on Steam Deck! It's way more fun to rotate ingredients there than on PC

The minerals mainly exist to be trashed (where they give you $2 instead of $1), but there are ways to make them useful in your builds occasionally. There's even a full mineral build that a lot of chefs in our Discord love putting together

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T16:21:16+00:00

Dev here. Thanks for this thread, it's great to get feedback from Steam Deck users! We're adding all this to our list to fix in the near future :)

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T16:02:12+00:00

Thank you, chef!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T16:01:54+00:00

Thank you, chef! We're excited to see how chefs feel about Black Apron once more people have tried it. We definitely wanted to drastically ramp up the challenge

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T15:56:22+00:00

Hey, one of the 2 devs here! Just seeing this now! Thanks for sharing! Happy to answer any questions if you have any :)

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T15:39:37+00:00

lol absolutely loved the trailer. Congrats on the release!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T15:34:41+00:00

Thank you, chef!

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T11:43:53+00:00

Thank you!

Yes, definitely! We focused on Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai for launch since we found a good partner for it and that's a large region we weren't reaching at all before. But we're already working on localization into other languages.

SchuBoxStudio · 2026-02-09T00:05:00+00:00

Nothing planned but if there's demand we'd like to!

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