Announced during this year’s PC Gaming Show, Arcane Eats is a roguelike deckbuilder that throws players into the high-stakes world of magical cuisine. Developed by Roundguard Studio, Wonderbelly Games, and published by Skystone Games, this enchanting new title blends fast-paced culinary chaos with strategic deckbuilding, all set in a whimsical fantasy world where food is power.
In Arcane Eats, you’re not just a chef — you’re the owner of a spellbound restaurant catering to adventurers, monsters, and other hungry oddities. Every round plays out like a puzzle: manage your energy, ingredient cook times, and customer demands while slinging spells, seasoning with precision, and fending off meddling health inspectors. The demo trailer teases a vibrant world brimming with personality, charm, and plenty of puns.
Culinary Combat: Your Cards Are Your Cuisine
Arcane Eats ditches fixed recipes in favor of total deck customization. You’ll build your menu from hundreds of mystical ingredient cards, enchanted kitchen gadgets, and magical abilities. Want to summon a salt circle mid-service? Go for it. Hosting a Happy Hour Ritual to appease rowdy regulars? It’s on the menu.
Players can climb the ranks of three distinct cooking guilds—Hearth, Grove, and Order—each with its own flavor of strategy. The boldest chefs may even crack open the mysterious Gastronomicon, a forbidden cookbook with game-changing potential.
Restaurant Management Meets Monster Mayhem
Beyond the kitchen, Arcane Eats challenges players to keep their restaurant afloat. From satisfying picky customers to staving off magical inspectors, every decision affects your reputation and revenue. You can upgrade your establishment, hire staff, impress legendary chefs like Guy Fairy, and slowly unlock new opportunities and dangers within the town.
The world of Arcane Eats is built for replayability. With procedurally generated challenges, an ever-expanding card pool, and surprise calls from mysterious patrons, no two runs will ever be the same. You’ll even get to ring the ancient Dinner Bell to unlock optional difficulty modifiers—and draw the attention of The Hunger, an eldritch entity with a rumbling belly.
Arcane Eats is cooking up something truly unique, merging the best of deckbuilding roguelikes with a quirky cooking sim twist. Stay tuned for more flavorful reveals in the months ahead.
