
Manage your own cafe and become a donut therapist in this cozy dating/cooking sim. Cook mood-changing donuts, decorate your shop, and help customers navigate life, love, and heartbreak—one bite at a time.
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About

In a world where you can literally eat your feelings, you work at The Hotbox, a special donut shop where every donut is infused with mood enhancers that can change your customers’ emotions. But people don’t always know what they need, so from flavors that give them courage to ones that lift their spirits, it’s up to you to choose the right mood and help each troubled customer. Listen to their stories, offer advice in the form of donuts, and help mend broken relationships.
🍩 A Sweet Kind of Therapy
Serve donuts that change the emotions of your customers and influence their actions.
🍩 Manage Your Own Donut Shop
Cook donuts, serve the right orders, collect tips, unlock new tools, decorate your shop and discover recipes!
🍩 English Voice Acting
Starring Nola Klop, LilyPichu, Johnny Yong Bosch and other talented voice actors, every character is fully voiced except for the MC.
🍩 Closure Simulator
Rekindle romance with the exes you've ghosted. Will you heal from the trauma of the past, and perhaps even experience the most elusive and mythical of all emotions—closure?
🍩 A Cast of Misfits
Get to know over 30 customers and 6 romanceable characters, serve their favorite donuts, and find out what makes them tick.
🍩 Choices Matter & Multiple Endings
The donuts you serve and the choices you make throughout the story ultimately affect your relationships, with some customers having 2–3 possible endings.
🍩 Customizable Main Character
Players can customize their character's appearance—skin color, hairstyle, outfit, etc.
🍩 Dynamic Comic Book-Styled Visuals
Watch the story come to life with over 70+ vibrant and animated comic book style illustrations.
🍩 Original Soundtrack
Vibe during service time to a blend of originally composed rock, city pop and lo-fi music.
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Languages: English*, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, French*languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 29 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
i genuinely love everything this game about this game so far! this game will keep me busy for a while i can't wait to work through all the achievements :3
playing this game after playing dispatch makes it extra funny lmao Also another game with poly(is it?) character? Let's go!
I have a long way to go before I get to the end of the story, but so far I have been having a lot of fun with the characters. They are voice acted really well, all feel different from each other, and feel like real people. The animation looks amazing and kind of "comforting" in a way? It feels very cozy to me for some reason, like it scratches an itch, that I could not reach for a long time. I will probably update this review, once I reach more progress, but I am genuinely happy and satisfied with my purchase so far.
game is AMAZING i just wish we could date more of the cast
So far I am completely loving the customers that came into this Hot Box. Quirky cast of characters each with their own backstories and reasons to connect with a MC that has a mysterious past propels you on how to shape the whole adventure through day to day donut making and talking. Harry Yen might be my favorite male character out of the entire game.
The cast is so lovable, the voice acting is impeccable, and the stories of each of the characters (even the non-dateable NPCs) really reels you in. Lots of unlockable ingredients, molds, and furniture too.
Already having a super fun time with this game. If you're into dialogue heavy games then you'll like this, think Coffee Talk mixed with a bit of Date Everything. I enjoy that the characters are voice acted and not knowing what is going to come out of their mouths next (thinking about the cream pie conversation...), a game written by freaks for freaks for sure :)
So cute and silly! The art is so fun, the characters are so unique, the music and voice acting is PEAK. The wait was so worth it :D
In a word: peak. Great cast, enjoyable gameplay, and a stellar story. Yet another banger in the YYM catalogue.
To be honest, I did not know what I was expecting when I first played this game. But I will say, it is absolutely HILARIOUS! It is also a very unique take on a dating sim! You get to make donuts (of course!!) but also, all the romanceable characters are your EXES! It's something I don't think I have quite yet seen before. I love the take it has on healing previous relationships. The voice acting is really good, and the dialogue is a lot of fun. There is clearly so much love put into this game, and I am excited to play more!
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