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  • svgAug 31, 2026Indie Highlight

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    Harbourlight is a cozy, atmospheric farming sim where whatever ingredients you find for the day become the night’s menu at your diner! You reopen a little diner that’s been closed in a town that’s seen much better days. This little harbour town still sees boats off, but overall, it’s pretty empty. However, this cozy place has exactly what you need! The diner has a small open plot next to it where you can grow plants, raise animals, and go fishing for all the ingredients you need to cook tasty meals.

    The town is super cozy, but so is the gameplay in Harbourlight. There are no menus to create or specific recipes to plan out. Simply gather the ingredients you have for the day, and set to work. The kitchen knows what to make. Chop some tomatoes, cilantro, and chilli, and the kitchen recognizes those ingredients as pico de gallo! Each ingredient does carry flavors across eight pillars of flavor: sweet, salt, sour, bitter, umami, heat, fat, and aroma. You’ll need to match the ingredients with the tastes of each customer to satisfy your diners. The guests are more than just paying customers, though. They’re fleshed-out humans with personalities and interesting stories to tell. And more come to town as word spreads of your delicious food!

    Release Date

    Harbourlight is a solo project that is listed on Steam but has no release date yet. There is a planned demo coming later this year, too. Add it to your Wishlist to keep an eye on it and check out the trailer below!

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  • svgAug 14, 2026Snack Size News

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    Chef RPG, the beautiful, highly engaging restaurant management game, is getting another huge update soon. In fact, it’s the largest update to date! For those unfamiliar with the game, you play as a young chef who must revive a once-famous restaurant, Le Sequoia. Even the town, White Ash Harbor, has seen better days, but reviving the restaurant will revive the town. Hunt, harvest, and shop for the freshest ingredients. Serve the tastiest dishes and a diverse menu. Even befriend the quirky locals (some of whom are romanceable). And, of course, build your unique story!

    Tidehaven Update

    The upcoming update for Chef RPG is called Tidehaven. In this big update, you’ll have the chance to visit a brand new area. Take a trip across the ocean to a fishing outpost situated on a rocky outcrop. This new outpost is called Tidehaven, and features a brand new storyline with several new quests. There will also be a brand new romanceable character! That’s not all, though.

    Inside Tidehaven, you’ll find Fish Farms that you can manage. Those farms will produce seafood for your restaurant. That means no more scouring the shops for the perfect seafood ingredients. And every year, the outpost hosts the Midsummer Feast. It’s a two-day festival where you can run a food stall. Compete against other teams to see who can earn the most tickets by the end of the festival! The update will also include new restaurant features, QoL improvements, and other fixes, too.

    Release Date

    You can find Chef RPG on Steam now. The Tidehaven update is expected to release on August 21st. That’s a week from today! So, if you haven’t gotten this lovely game yet, now’s the perfect time!

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  • svgMay 22, 2026Indie Highlight

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    This is Beastro, a charming fantasy adventure game mixed with cooking and roguelite card game elements. In the peaceful village of Palo Pori, you’ll find all kinds of artisans and tastemakers. Outside the walls, however, things aren’t as nice as darkness stirs up trouble. Monsters have taken over the lands and threaten the last piece of hope and comfort that Palo Pori offers. You play as Panko, a young chef who’s helping run a local eatery. Your teacher has gone missing, so it’s up to you to run the restaurant and make sure the brave adventurers keeping the monsters at bay are fed! 

    Beastro offers gorgeous visuals, both in its scenery and its lovely character design. Your days are filled with gathering resources, tending to crops, and raising livestock. Fresh ingredients are important, so what better way than to cultivate them yourself? In the kitchen, you complete different minigames where you chop, fry, and flip your way to delicious meals. Develop new meals, progress through the skill tree, and even decorate the restaurant. Even carefully tailor meals to the tastes of the adventurers who stop by. These meals will boost their spirits as well as feed them for battles ahead. Plus, the meals you feed them build the card deck for the adventurer’s fights. When they return, they’ll share their story through a cute puppet theater scene and even bring back useful resources! 

    Release Date

    You’ll find Beastro on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox on June 11th. Check out the game’s trailer in the meantime, and add it to your Steam Wishlist!

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  • svgMar 13, 2026Reviews

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    SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure is a couch co-op cooking adventure with vibrant, fun graphics and an interesting storyline. Play as Som and Gon while they work together to prepare iconic Southeast Asian dishes while travelling across dangerous Khaya Island. Each level is a little bit different, with a variety of recipes, ingredients, obstacles, and enemies. You’ll have to explore each level to find the ingredients you need, process them in the kitchen, and cook a perfect dish! 

    Exciting Fun

    Now, I played this SEDAP! on easy mode since I played solo, but I had a ton of fun with it. Even on easy mode, the game was just challenging enough not to get boring. Having to hunt down ingredients and sometimes even fight enemies to get the ingredient also adds a bit of freshness to things. 

    Sprinkling in bits of story between levels was a nice touch, too. This avoids long cutscenes or info-dumping. It’s short little smatterings of cutscenes that give you enough information to set the stage. It also serves to break up the gameplay a little. I also love the variety of dishes that are prepared, as well as the focus being on Southeast Asian food. Too many games use the same cuisine, so this is refreshing! 

    My one complaint for SEDAP! is the fishing. The minigame for fishing is awful. It ranks up there with the Stardew Valley fishing minigame for me, which I also hate. Tapping a button to align the dot within a bar to fill up the meter is nervewracking in a timed setting. The bar also jumped around so much on some fish, it was difficult to align the dot appropriately. It just wasn’t a nice experience catching fish.

    Final Thoughts

    Overall, I really enjoyed SEDAP. I binge-played it over a few days and finished pretty quickly. It was great for capturing my attention, but not requiring too much brain space to play. I recommend it for folks who enjoy games like Overcooked, but really want an easy mode for solo play!

    You can find this fun game on Steam, Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!

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  • svgFeb 28, 2026Snack Size News

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    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.

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  • svgFeb 23, 2026Indie Highlight

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    Farm to Table is a unique farm and restaurant management sim because it has a bit of freedom to build. You aren’t forced into building in specific spots! That means you can configure your restaurant however you want. Give the kitchen the warm, sandy beach view and the customers the calming forest overlook, or vice versa. Grow your own tasty ingredients and rocket your business to 5-star success. 

    Build and design your Farm to Table restaurant by placing walls, floors, and decor. Then, design your farm to grow tomatoes, corn, carrots, and more. Even raise cows and chickens! Go explore the world around you to see what fresh ingredients you can find. Cast your line to pull up fish for tasty seafood dishes and gather things like mushrooms, berries, and more, so you can create a menu full of diverse recipes. Carefully manage your resources, improve recipes, and use machines to turn ingredients into better food. Hiring staff to help run the restaurant will be beneficial as well! 

    Release Date

    Farm to Table is coming to Steam this year. Add it to your Wishlist now to get notified of its release. And try out the demo!

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  • svgDec 18, 2025Snack Size News

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    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. 

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  • svgOct 14, 2025Indie Highlight

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    Kokoro Kitchen is an adorable cooking restaurant management game that takes place in the spirit world. Of course, that means you’re dead and you don’t even remember how you got there! Don’t worry, though, there’s nothing scary about this cute game. Alan, the friendly (and grumpy) poultry-geist has a plan to restore a rundown Japanese restaurant with your help. That means it’s pretty much up to you to run and manage this restaurant. Alan’s a chicken, after all! 

    What does it take to run a spirit world restaurant? Fresh ingredients, of course! You’ll manage a small farm with a handful of crop plots that need watering and harvesting. Plus, there are a few animal pens where you can keep cows and chickens. Play mini-games to prepare the ingredients for your dishes, then cook a tasty variety of meals. You get to choose what’s on the menu everyday and even prepare to-go orders for customers. Spend points to upgrade the shop, then spend some money to buy new crops for the farm and decorations for your bedroom. There’s no sense in leaving your room bare!

    Release Date

    Kokoro Kitchen is coming to Steam on October 17th! That’s just 3 short days away. Add it to your Wishlist to get a notification when it becomes available. There’s also a demo right now, so you can check out this adorable little game before you buy it.

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