
Open a diner on a desert planet, grow exotic ingredients, create a menu for intergalactic palates and deal with powerful factions. Free Appetiser is the prologue to Diner at the End of the Galaxy, where you cook and manage your way to intergalactic riches and glory.
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Free Appetiser is a prologue for Diner at the End of the Galaxy, a management game where you run the only diner in a post-apocalyptic galaxy. Learn the basics of running an intergalactic diner, and see just how profitable (or non-profitable!) it can get!
Build grand dining halls, busy kitchens, and outdoor gardens where exotic crops thrive. Design a menu that caters to the diverse preferences of your alien clientele. Hire literally anyone who walks through your doors in order to staff your diner with the best cooks, gardeners, servers, and crafters in the Nusa star system.
Optimize your interior design to navigate rush hours and hungry guests. Decorate your Diner and sit back and watch your bustling creation come to life as customers pass through.
Making customers of different factions happy rewards you with Faction Points that can not only be used to request a visit from their traders, buy special objects and build special rooms - it also allows you to request a faction to invade a region of the galaxy. Earn monthly rewards for each successful invasion you fund!
So get started on your galactic diner today! You’ll have tons of tools at your disposal to make your own unique restaurant with your own uniquely weird menu.
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Pixel-art style graphics? ✔ A diner simulation game with alien customers and exotic food? ✔ Able to cook up a variety of sus-looking and interesting (wild) dishes that your customers may (or may not) love? ✔ Able to align with various different factions while watching them war against each other? ✔ Dreaming of bushbeans after cooking too many bushbean soups? ✔ In its early access stage, The Diner at the End of the Galaxy: Free Appetiser is fundamentally sound, and promises a relaxing and great time for those who are looking to be a virtual restaurateur in an intergalactic environment.
TL;DR The free limited beta left a good impression: charming pixel art and audio, but the UI and balance need work. Lots of potential — looking forward to release. What I liked: -Pleasant pixel art; the atmosphere works. -Audio fits the vibe. -Despite the rough edges, it’s possible to find your footing. What felt rough / needs work: -UI: too many clicks (e.g., triple confirmation when assigning a worker), clunky build menu. -Bogok hitboxes feel inaccurate. -Parts of the menus are unintuitive. -Not much decor — hard to make rooms look stylish. -Economy: once you hire enough waiters, money pours in; character stats and satisfying every customer don’t feel meaningful. -Content/progression: within the session I didn’t get to try the distiller room. Balance & economy -Money piles up fast and there’s barely anywhere to spend it (besides factions/rare expenses). -No money sinks or setbacks, so there’s little incentive to optimize. What I would like to see: -Automate Bogok meat harvesting so it’s a reliable ingredient rather than a random bonus. Feels like hitting a mobile game ad bonus on the screen. -Would love to see expansions in salvaging mechanic, cuz now it feels like an obligation. Would be cool to find some sci-fi stuff and to craft some from it. -Balancing regarding the money and staff stats. In this demo it didn't feel meaningful at all -More decorations and themed sets (with set bonuses). -Room merging: a mechanic to combine adjacent rooms (especially useful when plantation plots end up scattered).
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免费 没中文 没成就 开发者的热烈欢迎! 欢迎来到 “银河尽头小餐馆”(Diner at the End of the Galaxy)。 我们希望你能喜欢这个序章 —— 它是即将推出的完整游戏的抢先体验版! 我们很兴奋能推出 “免费开胃菜”(Free Appetiser)序章。在这个序章中,你可以打造自己的餐馆,并运营它的前三年。 我们团队正全力打磨完整游戏,致力于让它尽可能有趣。但需要说明的是,“免费开胃菜” 序章并非完美,你可能会遇到一两个漏洞。请放心,我们已知晓大部分问题,并且正在积极修复。 我们非常感谢你的反馈与漏洞报告,也鼓励你在游戏的 Steam 讨论区发帖 —— 每一条留言我们都会仔细阅读。你的意见对我们改进游戏至关重要。在完整游戏推出前,我们计划尽可能多地更新 “免费开胃菜” 序章,因此非常感谢你的支持与帮助。 请注意,“免费开胃菜” 序章的内容仅限游戏内的三年时间。一旦达到三年节点,你需要重新开启新游戏。序章包含三种可体验的模式:创意模式(creative)、简单模式(easy)和普通模式(normal)。如果你想轻松探索游戏的各种可能,不妨尝试创意模式;若想获得更具引导性的体验,并感受游戏的挑战,可选择普通模式。 希望你喜欢这款游戏,也期待在讨论区看到你的留言! 祝你好运! —— 开发团队(THE DEV TEAM) 全新更新补丁:免费开胃菜(Free Appetiser)v0.1.125 各位银河餐馆经理,大家好! 为持续提升游戏品质,我们已将游戏更新至 0.1.125 版本,本次更新包含以下修复与调整内容: 修复了一个可能导致进度受阻的漏洞:在建筑模式(厨房场景)下删除带有订单板的墙壁时,订单板会悬浮在空中,且之后无法在厨房中重新放置订单板,该问题现已解决。 为装饰类物品添加描述文本,注明其对 “游客满意度”(Visitor Satisfaction)的影响。 降低了部分物品的声望(fame)解锁要求。 将瓷砖分区选择尺寸从 2×2(此前我们称为 “房间瓷砖”)调整为 1×1(标准瓷砖)。这一改动能让玩家在建造房间时获得更高的自定义自由度,同时保证布局一致性。 已知问题(KNOWN ISSUE): 当前版本存在一处视觉漏洞 —— 外庭院(outer courtyard)中央会出现一片沙子瓷砖。该问题不会影响游戏玩法与进度。这片沙子难看吗?确实难看,我们将在下一版本更新中修复。但它会妨碍你正常游玩、享受游戏吗?不会(除非你特别讨厌沙子)。 我们希望大家能继续享受游戏乐趣。如果游戏体验不错,欢迎留下好评!若遇到任何漏洞或问题,也请在讨论区告知我们 —— 我们会持续关注讨论区动态。 非常感谢大家的支持! —— 开发团队(The Dev Team)
Çöl gezegeninde bir lokanta açın, egzotik malzemeler yetiştirin, galaksiler arası damak zevkine uygun bir menü oluşturun ve güçlü gruplarla rekabet edin. Free Appetiser, galaksiler arası zenginlik ve zafere giden yolda yemek pişirip yönettiğiniz Lokanta Galaksinin Sonunda karadeliğin yakınında sizi bekliyor.
Очень скучно и неинтересно. Сажаешь семена, выращиваешь урожай и готовишь пищу. Казалось бы что может быть проще. НО готовить на 1 кухне может только 1 повар, а обслуживать зал может только 1 официант. В итоге получается куча мелких комнат и никакого разнообразия. Геймплей скучный, неинтересный и во многих моментах очень спорный (особенно по добыче мяса maggot.
I've only played for about 40 minutes but, I do really enjoy this game! The pixel art, voice actors, scifi concept, and mechanics are really cool! The building mechanics feel similar to Prison Architect but I think with a 2.5D pixel art. Also, once again I flipping love the art style and the voice actors. I am wondering if you choose from the 3 pre-made factions and get to progress to different sections of the galaxy map or if you can create your own faction. I did have a few issues such as trying to get servers to give customers' their food (had to keep reassigning jobs so they would complete actions instead of just wandering which was outside of the employee breaks), as well as accidentally placing an object incorrectly and either not being able to access it because it was slightly behind another object (chair behind a table) or only being able to delete it instead of getting to move it to a new location. Idk if that's because there isn't an option for it in the game or if I just haven't found the correct button. Regardless, I can't wait for this game to come out in full as I do plan on purchasing it!!!
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Игра 'The Diner at the End of the Galaxy: Free Appetiser' – восхитительный и забавный кусочек интерактивной фантастики. Она умело сочетает юмор, абсурд и остроумные диалоги, погружая игрока в роль космо-кулинара, обслуживающего самых необычных посетителей галактики. Благодаря увлекательному сюжету, интересным персонажам с яркими характерами и, конечно, невероятно странным, но аппетитным блюдам игра заставляет улыбаться на каждом шагу. Прохождение довольно быстрое, что делает эту бесплатную "закуску" идеальным вариантом для короткого, но хорошо проведенного времени. Хотя геймплей и относительно прост, очарование 'The Diner at the End of the Galaxy' заключается в атмосфере и неповторимом космическом юморе, который щедро льется со всех сторон. Это прекрасный способ познакомиться с миром и концепцией будущей, полноценной игры. Однозначно рекомендую всем поклонникам приключенческих игр и тем, кто ценит оригинальный юмор.
best game I've played in a while. I cant wait for the full release!