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Feb 28, 2026
Chef RPG is a beautiful culinary adventure set in a lovely pixel art world. You recently became the owner of a derelict restaurant called Le Sequoia, once managed by a world-famous chef. Even the town of White Ash Harbor has seen better days. Your job is to not only prove yourself as a chef and rocket Le Sequoia back to fame, but to restore White Ash Harbor, too. Get to know several fantastic characters and even fall in love. Hunt, fish, harvest, and buy ingredients to create the tastiest dishes around to prove yourself as a chef. You have big shoes to fill, after all!
Flavors Update
This major Chef RPG update features some excellent general improvements and fixes, but it also includes so much more! For one, the player’s home has been overhauled. The house is located just past Le Sequoia, which is convenient! It’s not just for sleeping, though. You can also conduct culinary research there. Visit your kitchen and place the ingredients within the fridge. Once you have enough ingredients ready, use the central table to begin research. There are some specialized research facilities to unlock that will become extensions of your home. Sleep is necessary, but all of your culinary research will help you become a renowned chef.
Furthermore, there are new ingredient makers to use and qualities for the dishes you make. The Chocolate Maker and Soup Vat blueprints can now be unlocked from the new standard research tree. You can also unlock a Cheese Maker and Cream Churner through research. Making Cheese and Cream requires Milk, a new consumable (not an ingredient!) you can buy from shops and vending machines. Dishes you cook now have new qualities. There is Flavors and Temperature. These qualities will be determined by which ingredients you use, but only a few quests use them for now.
You’ll encounter the Sea Traders, boat-fairing shops, on certain days of the week in Chef RPG. Run (you can do that now!) down to the docks on Tuesdays to find the veggie seller and on Wednesdays for the junk seller. Saturdays and Sundays, you’ll find the SS Ambrose. This large trading ship has a furniture store where you’ll find new furniture items, a seed seller, an ingredients seller, and a rare items shop. Also aboard the SS Ambrose is the brand new romanceable character Sahim. Just note that the romance system is still a work in progress, but you can still get to know this tatted-up cutie. There are some new character quests you can complete that serve as the first part of their personal stories. You can check out the Steam news for details (with spoilers) on how to access those quests.
Release Date
The Flavors Update was released today for everyone to play. Now is a great time to pick up Chef RPG and play through this lovely game! Pick it up today on Steam.
- Dec 28, 2025
Artisan Story is an intriguing farming sim where you play as the brother or sister who aspires to become the best artisan around. You’ve recently inherited a farm where you can practice your crafting. You can also capture fantastic creatures to live on your farm. They’ll produce things like eggs for you to sell or use in recipes. There’s even fishing and some fun NPCs to get to know as you progress through an exciting storyline!
Festivals and Seasons Have Arrived
Previously, Artisan Story was stuck in a perpetual spring. Now, you can enjoy the joys of spring, summer, fall, and winter. The changing seasons bring lovely visual changes to the landscapes with pretty color changes and snow! There’s also a new calendar app on your phone that shows you when the new festivals occur. On Spring 14, you can purchase special chocolate to gift to your favorite villagers. This increases your relationship for a stronger bond. Spring 17 has the Bazaar Festival where you can set up a stall to sell your wares, hangout, play a minigame, and buy goods for yourself. You can now catch a new monster called Sentriot. This rideable mount will be the perfect addition to your ranch. And speaking of the ranch, you can purchase a new farm plot and upgrades from August to expand your operations!
Release Date
You can find Artisan Story, including the new Festival Update, on Steam now!
- Dec 24, 2025
In Milano’s Odd Job Collection, you play as sweet little Milano, an 11-year-old girl on her summer break. Unfortunately, her mom is in the hospital, so she’s been sent to stay with her uncle. Except, he’s away on vacation! Milano decides to make the most of her summer and takes on a series of odd jobs to earn some pocket money. You’ll spend the next 40 days completing different jobs in the form of minigames, styling your uncle’s house, and hanging out with the cat.
Originally released in December of 1999 for PlayStation only in Japan, Milano’s Odd Job Collection is now available in English. So now you can enjoy delivering pizzas, nursing sick patients, milking flying cows, catching falling fruit in an orchard, and much more. There are 8 different minigames to play to complete the odd jobs, and each one rewards you with a paycheck. In fact, the more difficult the job, the higher the pay. Which is perfect, because there’s furniture and decor to buy to liven up your uncle’s house!
Release Date
Milano’s Odd Job Collection is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation.
- Dec 19, 2025
Critter Cove is a gorgeous and quirky open-world game full of exploration, rescues, restoration, and more! Customize your own human or animal character and set out to restore your brand-new home. The town has seen better days, but with some hard work, you can make it the tourist destination it once was. Explore islands around the post-apocalyptic world in search of resources and new neighbors. Collect relics, farm foods, build friendships, and decorate to your heart’s content, too! Especially with the new update.
New Quests, Housing Systems, and More!
The recent update in Critter Cove brings you some housing improvements. For example, you can now expand your house by adding more rooms. That means you can have different themes for each room to really show off your personal style! There are 5 room upgrades available through Renard if you have completed the necessary questline. You can pick up new candy-themed furniture, too. Grab yourself a fluffy pancake bed, a cookie side table, and all the other sweet fixings to decorate one of your new rooms.
The Critter Cove update brings 6 new NPCs and a new music track. Talk to Copperbottom for a new quest to receive a head lantern recipe so you always have light while using tools. Once you restore the gym and bakery, they both have repeatable quests for you to do. And now Barnacle’s questline is completed, so you can finish the whole thing! Pick up the new quest over in Port Bella 3 days after completing his quests in Boomerang Bay to see what fishy fun you get rewarded with.
Release Date
The Critter Cove update is live now on Steam. So, head on over and check out all the fun new decorating you can do!
- Dec 18, 2025
Chef RPG is a beautiful pixel art game where you play as an aspiring chef. You inherit an old restaurant once run by a world-famous chef, but it’s seen better days. In fact, so has the whole town of White Ash Harbor. Your goal is to restore the restaurant, make a name for yourself in the cooking world, and to restore the town. Spend your days gathering and hunting for fresh ingredients. Get to know the quirky townspeople, and perhaps even fall in love. Set the menu daily and whip up some fantastic dishes to impress your customers with, and see what heights you can take the restaurant to!
Major New Update Brings Quality of Life Improvements
Just in time for the holidays, Chef RPG has released a brand new update full of quality of life goodness. That means there are no new quests to complete, NPCs to meet, areas to explore, or challenges for the restaurant. All of those things are coming in the next update after the new year, though! This update has overhauls, upgrades, improvements, and more.
The Chef RPG character menu had a complete UI overhaul. It’s easier to read, but it also has two new pages called the Pocket Menu and the Ingredients Page. Pocket Menu lets you set the restaurant’s menu from anywhere at any time. The Ingredients Page shows what ingredients you have stored away, and how many of the missing ingredients you need in order to complete the dishes on the menu.
Other UI improvements in Chef RPG include viewing unlocked Research Skills from the skills page. Inventory has sorting features. You can also view quests you’ve already finished and total unlocked recipes. Prestige has higher priority and its own page. Biggest yet, though, it’s the overhaul to the Skill Tree. The skill tree has separate branches for minigame cooking and autocook. There are 19 new skills, ability level caps are now 20 instead of 15, and max player level is now 70. Skill requirement costs have been adjusted accordingly. You also don’t need to be player level 30 to reset skills, and the cooldown for reset has been reduced from 5 days to 4.
As for the other lovely Chef RPG improvements, there’s a new bar that shows you how fast customers will arrive. Increasing your prestige will increase the number of customers. Fishing spots now have signs that show what fish are currently available to catch. Buffs have their own page now, too. Better yet are the improvements to cloud saves, resulting in fewer instances of saves being lost. The new gameplay settings also allow you to better control your gaming experience. Plus, there’s a whole ton of other improvements that you can find listed on Steam!
Release Date
This brand new update for Chef RPG is available now on Steam! So, go update your games and enjoy the long list of great improvements.
- Oct 2, 2025
Set off on a brand new, absolutely gorgeous, adventure in Luma Island where you’ve just bought Old Man Jeffrey’s farm and caravan. Pick a profession and get to work fishing, mining, cooking or crafting. Plus, the island is home to magical creatures called Lumas, which you get to raise and nurture on your farm. These Lumas will help you explore and find treasure with their unique abilities. You can also raise livestock, grow crops, and build your dream farm using decorations and different building types. Don’t forget to get acquainted with the local townspeople, too. They’ll have quests for you to complete and stories to hear!
Luma Island has a lot to do and experience as you explore forests, mountains, jungles, and a pirate cove, but best of all is just how cozy the game is. There’s no inventory limit, stamina bars, or limits to your creativity. You can play solo or with up to 4 people so you’re never alone and can split tasks. There are even modes you choose to have a game that suits your tastes and play styles! Cozy Mode has no combat unless you choose to attack. Adventure Mode lies somewhere in the middle with a mix of cozy and challenge. Hero Mode brings on even more challenges with stronger enemies to fight which is perfect for the seasoned gamer.
Autumn Update
June saw the Pirates update which was free for all Luma Island enjoyers that added a brand new area to explore, new ruins, minigames, quests, NPCs, Lumas, clothes, profession, and emotes. Plus, there were a number of improvements to make the game so much more enjoyable. The developers aren’t stopping there, though. Now there’s the autumn update that brings some great Halloween-themed items! Just in time to celebrate the upcoming holiday, too.
You’ll find two cute new outfits in the Luma Island character creator or in the mirror that sits in your house. There’s one witchy outfit for the ladies complete with a matching hat. And for the guys, there’s a stylish vampire outfit and fun jack-o-lantern head. For those of you who love to decorate, you’ll find new blueprints to buy at Balthazar’s shop. There’s jack-o-lantern torches, pumpkin lanterns, two grave markers, a spooky statue, and an autumn basket featuring a bountiful harvest of pumpkins. These are perfect for making cute little Halloween displays around your farm or lining the paths with spooky little jack-o-lantern torches for some great ambiance! Plus, there’s a little pumpkin Luma to follow you in your adventures now, too.
Release Date
This fun autumn update is coming to you on September 29th! Meanwhile, you can find Luma Island on Steam now.
- Sep 29, 2025
Firefly Village is a hyper casual farming sim where the days last 4 minutes and the seasons last 7 days. Every process is streamlined so you can revel in the joys of the simplicity of rural life without the stress of optimizing every little thing for the biggest profit. There are no deadlines, demands, or rush. It’s just you and your farm where you can grow crops and raise animals. Neither of which takes too much time, making everything enjoyable. Plus, you can fish, mine, and get to know your neighbors, too. But do it all at your own pace! There’s no reason to hurry to do anything, after all. Just play how you wish.
Autumn Update
Not only does September 29th mark the first day of the Steam Autumn Sale, but it also marks an exciting (and previously unannounced) update for Firefly Village! This adorably bite-sized farm sim was great before, but the developer has been listening to everyone’s feedback. This means they have worked on making movement smoother. You can now also adopt sweet rabbits! These dark and fluffy little cuties are an adorable addition to your farm and produce little fluff balls you can sell. What’s better than new fuzzy friends?
Release Date
You’ll find the new Firefly Village update releases September 29th. There’s even the Steam Autumn Sale to take advantage of! So, pick up this game and get to farming!
- Sep 3, 2025
In Artisan Story, you play as an aspiring artisan who has just graduated from the Artisan Academy. Accompanied by your twin, you move to a small island where you’ve inherited an old farm and small workshop. There, you’ll plant and harvest crops, care for monsters as livestock, and craft items in pursuit of becoming the best artisan around. Get to know your friendly neighbors and fall in love. Complete quests, explore surrounding islands, and challenge yourself in a number of mysterious dungeons. This is your story, so craft your tale!
Relationship Update
Artisan Story has 52 villagers, and 14 of them are romanceable. This new update focuses on these relationships. You can now experience Heart Events 1 and 2 with villagers. These events can deepen your relationship with someone. Unless you choose the wrong dialogue, that is! Saying the wrong thing can lower heart levels. So, choose wisely if you’re wanting to increase your relationship with someone.
There’s also a Monster Party system now. This means you can bond with one of the creatures you have on your farm. Once they’ve reached a high enough bond, they can then join you on your adventures. Your companion will follow you around, gather items, and even carry their own inventory. There’s even a cute new monster called a Jell. This cute little slime monster can be tamed and added to your barn!
Available Now
You can grab Artisan Story on Steam right now. There’s a free demo to try before you buy, too. And next up on the list of coming updates is barn upgrades and more heart events!
