Ember Kitchen: Cooking Game

A warm kitchen. Three hungry customers. One carefully timed chain of dishes. Ember Kitchen is an anime cooking and time-management game starring Akari, a chef who turns a smart counter layout into a smooth dinner rush. Prepare ingredients, manage heat and serve before patience runs out.

Design the flow

Rearrange nine counters between services. Station adjacency can speed preparation, improve quality or cool nearby work. Upgrade specialties and build a kitchen that suits your approach.

Cook the whole recipe

Master 30 named recipes with three- or four-step station chains. Balance three simultaneous orders, station occupancy, heat, quality and customer patience. Chain clean dishes to build combos and Ember Fever.

Make every service different

Play 20 campaign services across five kitchen chapters, choose service modifiers and develop six permanent upgrades. Return for a daily service challenge or an escalating endless shift.

• English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Plays offline, saves and resumes runs. No account.

Controls (PC)

• Mouse: drag counters to rearrange them before a service. Click an order, then its glowing station (or drag the order there). Click SERVE and VENT.
• Keyboard: while planning, arrows pick a counter, X lifts it and X again swaps it, C upgrades it, Enter opens the service. During a service, left / right pick an order, Space sends it to its station, X or Enter serves, C vents.
• Esc: pause / back. Arrows and Enter also work every menu and the service modifier choice.

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• The pause-menu boost (+20 seconds, patience refill, cooling, Fever and vents) and the revive after a lost service are free, once per run (they mark the run as assisted).
• A 540x960 portrait window that can be resized.

Credits

Food models: Kenney Food Kit (CC0). Fonts: Overpass, Russo One (SIL OFL 1.1). Original music and sound by Crystl Labs. Made with Godot (MIT). Crash reports by Sentry (MIT).