Jul 3, 2024Snack Size News
Grab three of your friends and dive into an exciting co-op cooking and restaurant management experience in Biotech Gameworks’ Kebab Chefs – Restaurant Simulator! In this fun simulation game, you are in charge of a whole restaurant and everything that involves running a successful one. Design, cook, and serve customers to rise to the number one kebab shop spot!
Grab the eye of potential customers with inviting designs and interesting decor. Customize the outside sign board to suit your restaurant’s style while also attracting new patrons. Use decorations, wallpapers, dining tables, and kitchen appliances to set the mood inside your eatery. Go for a traditionally cozy feel or a modern sleek design, or whatever else you like!
Learn to cook numerous tasty dishes in Kebab Chefs, too. Variety is the spice of life, after all, and your diners will enjoy the options. So, learn how to make soups, appetizers, main courses, and deserts from all over the world. Then decide on the menu you think will best suit your customer base. Cook each dish to absolute perfection in order to earn the highest possible income. Work together with your friends to better achieve this goal, too! And when your day is over, head to the pub to chill with your friends to chat, listen to music, and play games to unwind after all your hard work running a restaurant.
You can find Kebab Chefs on Steam now!
Fruitbus and Yum Yum Cookstar are both really cute casual cooking games!
May 1, 2024Snack Size News
Endless Ocean Luminous lets you explore the tranquil waters of the ocean. Start your watery adventure by customizing your very own diver. Use the character customizer to pick a color scheme for diving suit. You can even utilize stickers and emotes! Dive into the Veiled Sea, an unexplored region, to discover new sights that change with every dive. Use your scanner to identify and learn about over 500 different species of marine life. Some of them are thought to be extinct, or even mythical. Play solo or connect to Nintendo Switch Online and play with up to 29 other people in one session and take a leisurely swim or focus on cataloging the sea life as fast as you can!
You can find Endless Ocean Luminous on Nintendo Switch now!
Beyond Blue is another gorgeous ocean exploration game!
Feb 15, 2024Indie Highlight
Bronzebeard’s Tavern by developer The Mermaid MenZ is a goofy restaurant management sim. Play solo or team up with up to 7 other players to run your tavern. Step into a number of different roles and serve customers. Manage customer seating and take their orders. Then, deliver their food and get paid!
Of course, serving food isn’t all that you need to do. Design your menu every day in Bronzebeard’s Tavern. There are a variety of diverse customers to encounter, and you’ll want to make sure you have what they like! Set up your menu based on the day’s forecast and food sales to achieve success. Plus, food doesn’t just magically appear once ordered. You and your teammates need to prepare the drinks and cook the food, too! Just be sure not to burn anything. Upgrade your tavern as you earn money. These changes will help you progress through tougher days. More customer seating, new kitchen gadgets, or a new expansion can all be helpful!
Bronzebeard’s Tavern is available now on Steam and is free to play!
Feb 8, 2024Indie Highlight
I once wrote about Unrailed by developer Indoor Astronaut, and have enjoyed my time playing it with friends. It’s a frenetic track-building game where you and your friends team up to build a train track ahead of a moving train to get it safely across the map. Now, there’s an Unrailed 2 coming!
Unrailed 2: Back on Track is another co-op multiplayer track-building game with even more train chaos. Now, the game features a story mode that will take you down different paths so no two games are alike. Spread across different biomes, you’ll get to experience side quests, boss fights, and random encounters each level. Unlock fun new cosmetics for your characters, as well as upgrade them and your train. There’s even a Train Conductor mode where you can create your own custom maps to share with the community!
Unrailed 2 is going to be packed with so many cool new features!
This fun train game is coming to Steam sometime this year. You can add the game to your Wishlist, though!
Jan 31, 2024Indie Highlight
Abyss: New Dawn is an upcoming cozy game from indie developer Aloya Studio currently listed on Kickstarter. The game is a charming farm sim and adventure game set in an enchanting world. You start your journey in New Dawn Land, the first floor of a 10-floor world. Each floor has its own ecosystems, climates, and landscapes. Embark on an adventure full of all kinds of fun activities. Explore gorgeous areas. Raise adorable creatures and useful pets. Gather resources and take on some intriguing challenges, and so much more!
Start your new adventure by customizing your character with cute clothes and other traits. Team up with friends or fly solo to create a flourishing homestead where you grow a variety of crops and take care of some cute farm animals. Abyss: New Dawn features 13 different crops already, with a stretch goal that will add more glowing plants and farm crops, as well as the ability to cook these items. There are also 7 different farm animals already in the game, as well as pets and dinosaur mounts who can help you with your tasks. You even need to build the town yourself. Once you do that, you’ll have NPCs move in at your request, and they can provide you with the necessary goods for your exploration.
When you’re not busy exploring and fighting bosses in the caves, take time to decorate your home in Abyss: New Dawn. You can create the perfect cozy interior for you and your friends to hang out in. Your friends can even contribute and place furniture they’ve earned into your home. Then, go fishing or bug catching to build up a cool collection to show off!
This lovely little game is currently listed on Kickstarter. The timeline there states a hopeful release for the end of next year, with early access coming before that. There are plans for launch on Steam, Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
Solarpunk is another unique farm sim I think you should take a look at!
Nov 22, 2023Indie Highlight
Solarpunk is a first person game that you can play solo or together with friends. While it is an open-world crafting survival, it’s also a cozy adventure full of resource gathering, building, exploring, crafting, and farming. Harness the power of sunlight, water, and wind to automate your homesteading processes.
Take advantage of the modular building components to build the home of your dreams. Build your floor plan from scratch by placing each floor tile. Set up walls, windows, doors, and roofs to complete the plan. Add stairs for a multi-story set-up! Solarpunk also has a variety of decorations for you to use to create the coziest home possible. Then, you can place farm plots to grow your own fruits and vegetables to consume. Each crop satisfies a different amount of hunger, so growing a variety of them can be useful. You can also trade your bounty to the merchant for other goods.
Don’t forget to build your own airship so you can explore Solarpunk’s numerous sky islands. You’ll find caves, mountains, lakes, and rivers across the world. Different resources can be found on different islands, too. Or if you’re more of the farmer type, raise and breed different animals. Treat them well, and those animals will reward you with resources! There’s no exploitation here, only coexistence. So be sure to provide them with enough food, water, and space.
You can find Solarpunk on Steam where you can add it to your Wishlist. There is no official release date listed yet.
Loftia has some promise for a cozy MMO, also with solarpunk elements like harnessing alternative energy sources!
Oct 26, 2023Indie Highlight
Ready for another game that’s perfect for Halloween? Well, here’s Witch It, a fun video game rendition of hide and seek!
Enter a vibrant and magical world in Witch It, where you can explore humble villages and exotic islands. However, the goal of the game is hide and seek! Play as a hunter, whose job is to fearlessly seek out those pesky witches hidden throughout the map. Use a variety of skills and tools to detect, trap, and slow down witches. Or play as a mischievous witch, hiding from the hunters! Use your skills to mimic items on the map, fly away, disorientate, or distract the hunters as you run from them. Interact with props that use dynamic, physics-based movement to help you easily traverse the maps and find hiding spots.
Personalize your characters with fun shirts, hats, and accessories. Unlock these items simply by playing Witch It and leveling up! In fact, you can gain levels by playing one of several game modes. Hide and Seek is the classic, standard game mode, but there’s also Mobification, Hunt a Hag, and Fill a Pot. In Mobification, you play the standard Hide and Seek, but witches who are caught join the hunters in seeking out the rest of the witches. Hunt a Hag is a one way game of tag where all skills and projectiles are disabled. Then there’s Fill a Pot, a 2v2 competitive experience where witches must fill cauldrons with specific props before the timer, or their lives, run out! There’s even a Creative mode that allows you to build your own maps to play on.
Play with friends, or load up public servers to play with strangers across the internet!
Witch It is available now on Steam!
Jul 12, 2023Indie Highlight
Grab some friends and hop into a chaotic multiplayer co-op game of gathering resources and crafting railroad tracks to travel across the world in Unrailed! Encounter different inhabitants as you journey across more than five biomes in an endless procedurally generated world. Master challenges as you encounter them to keep your train moving.
Unrailed! is a co-op game, so working together is of course important, but make sure to polish your communication skills! There’s only one of each tool necessary for gathering resources, so you and your friends will need to coordinate in order to succeed. You’ll also need to upgrade your train to prepare for the challenges you’ll face. Get an atomic engine, upgrade your crafting car, or upgrade one of the many other options.
You can find Unrailed! on Steam, Epic Games, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
Want more chaotic co-ops? Checkout Overcooked, Moving Out, Farm Your Friends, and Witchtastic.