
"Penniless Chef" is a game where you run and grow your own restaurant. Run and grow your restaurant, and get to know the villagers!
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"Penniless Chef" is a game where you run and grow your own restaurant.
Run and grow your restaurant, and get to know the villagers!
Research and sell a variety of dishes.
Purchase the ingredients you need for cooking in the village.
Decorate the interior however you like.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
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I like the idea of the game and i would like to see this game grow :) I see it's a pretty new game (it sais it came out on March the 31st, 2026) so bugs are to be expected. First thing, please add a "save" button in game to save progress and a "continue" in the title screen to continue where one left off. I did the "load" game thing and all the tables, gold and ingridients i had were missing so i was stuck with no way to get back the gold to get the restaurant working again, i had to start a new game, where i discovered that watever i had cooked before was already learned. This problem does make the game pretty much unplayable. Second, please add a zoom in-out option, i like looking at the whole restaurant to keep track on cutomers. Related to this, closing makes customers disappear so i would like to avoid accidentally "shoo-ing" customers when i need to close, also maybe the closing could only avoid new customers arriving but allow serving and letting eat the ones already inside. Third, i think the item menues (NOT the restaurant menue) where you scroll up and down are working a little laggy or are to slow, maybe adding a up-down bar on the side in adition to the mouse wheel scrolling could help. Fourth, if possible, i would like keys (like 1, 2, 3, or arrows or something) added in the cooking menu to change between the diferent cooking forms (fry, boil, steam), or at least that one can change the key bindinng, for exaple, moving with mouse clicks or mostly everything with keyboard keys, this is probably a me problem but i get confused soemtimes and try to change the cooking forms and such. Now some QoL for me, 1. allowing the option to make more than one serving per cooked recipe, it can be after ou've mastered it or something like that, 2. not closing the cooking panel after each recipe cooked let the player decide when to close it (except in case of discovering a new meal), so as to be able to cook one thing after an other witout needing to reopen the cooking panel, and 3. allowing to customize your character would be nice, like hair colour, eyes, gender, etc.
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What’s the point of the game if you’re given 200,000 coins right away and can easily max out the restaurant? Also, when I launch the game, the demo version starts at the same time for some reason. And one more thing — why can’t I fry potatoes? That’s a pretty basic thing to cook in a pan.
Fun game with a fun concept, however there are some early game bugs that make the game unplayable. When you upgrade the restaurant for some reason you are unable to cook food. Also adding a save button would be great as well. Overall still a fun game just need to fix the bugs.
Honestly a good game and the cooking is where it shines. I genuinely love the cooking mechanics, there is something really satisfying about jumping into the kitchen and putting dishes together. If you are someone who enjoys cooking focused gameplay you will have a great time with this part of the game. Unfortunately the bugs are hard to ignore. Characters get stuck in random spots all over the map and just stop moving entirely. The exit button is also weirdly difficult to find which gets frustrating fast. The core is fun enough that I want to keep playing but the bugs make it really hard to recommend right now. Hoping the devs patch this soon because there is a genuinely good game hiding underneath.
I can't play the tutorial. Maybe Moses can help? Sad :(
就算遊戲是免費的 該罵我還是要罵 開場教學沒提示操作方式 新手教學有BUG 我卡著無法操作和遊玩 開頭就給我搞這些 我也不想繼續玩下去 中文機翻 翻譯這麼爛 把中文玩家當傻子在羞辱?
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Work in process, but I like these chef/restaurant style games. Right now you buy ingredients at various shops, experiment with foods to try to unlock new recipes, and cook and sell dishes to customers. I found it fun and am excited to see where it goes from here. A couple of things I might like to see is some way to know if you are getting close to finding a recipe or some way to get recipes other than experimenting, I have wasted so many ingredients trying to figure out new recipes based on real recipes I like to cook and it all costs money. Also it would be nice to be able to zoom out in the restaurant to be able to see more of the room when you are cooking.
Français : En vrai, le jeu a du potentiel si il n'y avait pas autant de bug... Le principe est cool, le gameplay est prometteur, mais peut être amélioré si les bugs entravaient moins le jeu English : Honestly, the game has potential if it weren't for so many bugs... The concept is cool, the gameplay is promising, but it could be improved if the bugs weren't so detrimental.