75%Strong matchRecipe for Disaster
70%57770% positive reviews, Mostly Positive across 577 reviews·Cooking · Management
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Run your own restaurant in a bizarre universe! Cook for the gods; deploy robot and build automated production lines. Experiment with different builds to win over divine appetites. Earn massive profits and create the #1 restaurant in the universe! Tip: Your chef's knife isn't just for cooking…
Life, the Universe, and Restaurants
Steam
Each day, prepare dishes according to recipes and personally serve them to your esteemed guests. You can also deploy automated production lines and let robots take over. Make smart use of different builds to earn generous profits, then use them to pay rent, upgrade cookware, and expand your restaurant.

Carefully manage the restaurant you depend on for survival, grow it into a universe-class fully automated dining empire! As the "chosen one" tasked with cooking for the gods, you may choose to serve exquisite dishes to these lofty beings, or openly defy them. Will you be a divine chef, or a godslayer? The choice is yours!
Refine your cooking skills, research and master a wide variety of recipes, serve one esteemed guest after another, and satisfy the gods' demanding palates. But be warned—these guests are arrogant gods. If kept waiting too long, dissatisfied with the food, or angered by your service, they won't just complain and leave—they will erupt in fury and attack your restaurant. Defend yourself under the laws of the galaxy, and "slay gods" legally!

Create robot staff and slack off right under the gods' noses! Use the brains you've secretly kept to create highly capable robot staff. These robots can take orders, handle payments, and fully take over your workload. Build a fully automated production line from ingredient prep to cooking to serving. When needed, they can even pick up weapons and help deal with the next troublemaking guest.
In this universe, automation is the key to efficiency and survival.

Expand and improve your restaurant to maximize profits! Unlock a wide range of cookware, optimize layout and dining routes, decorate your space, or open up new functional areas. Build a space restaurant that is both pretty and efficient, where robots collaborate across different stations. Only then can you keep up with the gods' increasingly outrageous expectations.

Always keep your restaurant clean! Otherwise, swarms of space cockroaches will invade your restaurant, destroying your defenses, devouring stored ingredients, and stealing any exposed food. Build defensive structures such as turrets, walls, and medics to protect your restaurant from these terrifying creatures.
If you run short on ingredients but happen to have collected enough cockroach corpses, process them into new ingredients! As for whether your guests can tell… that's another matter.

At the end of each day, a solid strategy will help you thrive and profit under the pressure of the gods!
Purchase TV to broadcast ads, subtly influencing the gods and making them fall in love with your featured dishes. Continuously refine your cooking skills and unlock skill trees for each dish to increase their value. Use these systems to shape overall consumption trends: double the price of simple dishes, then boost their sales through advertising—an easy way to fill your pockets!
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