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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Actually Fun | #1 | 4.774 | 4.774 |
| Overall | #2 | 4.484 | 4.484 |
| Promoting the Restaurant | #6 | 4.323 | 4.323 |
| Sticking to the Rules | #11 | 4.355 | 4.355 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I could legitimately sink many hours into this. Great great job yall!
Awesome concept, and the quality of the animations and UI stuff go such a long way to making it really satisfying!
Got completely absorbed in this game. Your passion for game dev is abundantly clear with all the great player feedback. I loved how even the downtime at the restaurant escalates with mechanics like tipping and extra bbq. Absolutely inspired to create something this compelling for next year. Excellent work!
Wow! Totally brimming with game feel and style! Definitely one of the most purely fun and addicting games of the jam (or maybe that I’ve ever played)! The whole game looks next level! The design and execution are off the charts!
P.S. The pixel art bbq looks sooooo delicious!!!
Very addicting loop of serving customers BBQ and killing monsters in the anomaly. Satisfying to see explosions of meat and showers of tips!
The game feel here is off the charts. One of the most pure fun games of the jam.
Awesome graphic style and cool gameplay loop!~
I'm just gonna say it, my favorite game of the show. I've lost like 3 hours to it whilst doing my best to give time to every other game and I want more. The visuals, the music, the gameplay loop, all super impressive, all super addictive. Please keep making games! Truly exceptional.
What a fun twist on a restaurant sim! The juxtaposition of the restaurant sim and survival shooter is so funny to me. A great idea executed well, well done!
Really nice animations matched with a super fun and somewhat addictive gameplay loop! Really enjoyed this! Keep making games please!
Loved it! It had such a nice game feel and the upgrade loop made it worryingly addictive.
Just got done playing this for far too long. A genuinely fun short game. The core gameplay loop is very strong, the amount of upgrades is nice, and selling the barbecue is satisfying. On top of that, the art is great. It's all strong, but the Chipp sprite was the standout for me. Fantastic job on this one.
Thanks for checking it out, very pleased you were so absorbed.
We really wanted to get Chipp in time for deadline, glad he was a highlight for you! Unfortunately didn't have enough time to go back in and have him do several doughnuts before he leaves like we planned. ;)
Super cool game! Loved the gameplay mechanics and art style! :)
this is insanely cool please consider putting this up on steam for like 5$
Definitely in consideration :)
Absolutely gorgeous game!
Amazing game! They style is fantastic, the concept is super on theme, and the game play is so fun! I did get a bug when returning to the restaurant from the anomaly where I couldn't move my character. Gonna play again though.
Edit: It seems that there is no limit to how high you can upgrade most things, and I am not proud of how long I spent figuring that out.
Glad you had fun, thanks for playing!
Save game should ameliorate the problem, you should be able to play again where you left off after loading save. Please check which version you're playing, as we added a fix that might prevent that bug in V0.007 If that's the version you played we're going to have to keep hunting for a way to reproduce the bug.
Indeed, we didn't cap upgrade levels because we weren't sure how much money people would make, and didn't have time to add more upgrades.
Wildly good art style!!
Really enjoyed this one! Couldn't finish it since I got softlocked in place after exiting the anomaly space with 0 health, but damn this was cool!
Glad you had fun, thanks for playing!
Save game should ameliorate the problem, you should be able to play again where you left off after loading save. Please check which version you're playing, as we added a fix that might prevent that bug in V0.007
How did an hour pass so quickly? This game will have you locked in from the moment you press play! Great gameplay loop, and the satisfaction of the super smile and Chipp going off along with the regular tips in the food serving portion, peak. Fantastic art and audio, great UI for the shooting portion, awesome!
Glad you were so absorbed, thanks for playing!
The coins from tips are one of our favorite features, and we're pleased to hear you appreciate them. It seems some players ignore tips in favor of sauce or damage, so we're considering how much we should tip the scales to make sure the appeal is made obvious. Thanks for the detailed feedback :)
the art for this game is incredible. its also really addicting. the gameplay loop is so clear and so fun. its a very easy game to just sink into and play a lot of
Real flattered that you were so into it, thanks for playing on stream! Really seems like you get the appeal we were going for.