Celebrate Halloween with the Spookitchen Playtest! (Oct 24 – Nov 30)

🎃 Playtest Open (Oct 24 – Nov 30)

The Steam Playtest for Spookitchen will be available from October 24 to November 30! No registration required — just visit our Steam page and start playing right away.

🎃 Bronze Award at GIGDC

Spookitchen has won the Bronze Award in the General Division of the Global Indie Game Development Contest (GIGDC)! We’d like to thank everyone who supported us and left kind comments — your encouragement means the world to us!

🎃 Update Patch Notes

This update focuses on quality-of-life improvements and better visibility.

Players can now find information more easily in the encyclopedia, map, and guidebook.

We’ve also removed the time limit system and replaced it with a goal-based restaurant progression, making the gameplay more relaxed and rewarding.

You can now feel yourself growing stronger within a single shift!

• New recipes and ingredients added

• Ingredient vending machines in town

• Main Pad UI and Outgame UI redesign

• Added Encyclopedia (Characters / Items / Monsters / Objects)

• Added Map and Guidebook

• Improved Settings and Notification UI

• Removed Popularity Competition System, replaced with Goal-based Progress

• Added Region Name Display when entering areas

• Updated key bindings and added more input support

• Improved movement and action speed

• Added object HP bars

• Added Streamer-friendly BGM option

• Improved scrollbar feel

• Adjusted sound layering volume for overlapping effects

🎃 Dev Log Now on Discord!

Join the official Spookitchen Discord to check out YNOT’s Dev Logs, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how the game is being made!

From the upcoming 10th NPC, My Room system, and new areas to a completely revamped UI — catch all the latest updates there!

👉 Join us now on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/WFPAW6KyjS

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And Watch the live development streams on YouTube!

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🎃 Future Plans

We’ll continue refining Spookitchen and begin preparing a polished demo version! The next playtest may take a little longer to arrive, but we’re planning major improvements to the story, intro, and tutorial.

Here’s a sneak peek at new features currently in development 👀

• My Room system

• Furniture decorating & interior design

• In-game SNS app “Ghostar”

Thank you for all your love and support! We’ll be back soon with the next Steam update.

See you again at the cute and spooky ghost restaurant! 👻💜 — Team YNOT