Necromantic cookery and restaurant management Bone’s Cafe debuted this week, and although that’s not a genre-to-theme coupling I’d anticipate it to be cute, enjoyable, and terribly troubling if you work in the health department. It’s a fast-paced game that allows 1-4 couch co-op or Remote Play Together players to create and automate their own kitchen and restaurant.
Isn’t allowing a zombie inside the kitchen a major public health issue? All that decaying meat and swarming flies? A skeleton couldn’t possibly be much better, can it? Bacteria are undoubtedly attracted to porous bone surfaces.
In any case, eponymous entrepreneur Bone is engaging in a sophisticated and time-honored practice of necromancy for cheap labour. The greatest part is that when you start killing customers to feed them to other customers, the staff won’t squeal on you: “strategically entice, slaughter, and harvest consumers for new food and utilize their souls to grow an undead army!” reads the game website. On a more serious note, having NPC assistants and some automation is a novel take on the genre that Overcooked pioneered.
Aside from necromancy, Bone’s Cafe has you delving deeply into not just the layout, but also the structure of your eatery. You may adjust the location of kitchen components and service, as well as the menu, allowing you to choose the idea or theme, ranging from pub cuisine to fine dining. You may also purchase special tools and equipment that allow you to speed up the preparation of particular meals or build up a more efficient skeleton-powered chicken frying system.
Bone’s Cafe offers a campaign mode as well as a challenge mode. You may play it with 1-4 players in local couch co-op, or you can utilize Steam’s still-amazing. Remote Play Together to play with just as many people online with a single copy. Isn’t it lovely? Allows one player to concentrate on customer murder while the other runs the kitchen.
Bone’s Cafe is available for $15 on Steam, where you can also get a free demo. Developer Acute Owl Studio self-published it.
