Hello fellow Chefs! Here's a major update for you, bringing much free content to the game and a new feature expanding the mid-late game! A DLC is also going to be released soon, dedicated to Eastern Asian cooking, featuring Recipes, Templates, Ingredients, and decorations from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cooking traditions!
New Chefs will be able to get into the kitchen today at a discounted rate, as the game will be on a celebratory sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1617870/Chef_Eastern_Asian_Cuisine/
Our work on Chef is not over yet! We are already working on the next free content update, which will focus on improving the late-game gameplay by offering more challenges and things to do.
Changelog
- Added a Specialization Mechanic, allowing the player to specialize the restaurant and face additional challenges to get more customers. The player will have access to the following specializations: Sandwiches, Seafood, Meat, Pasta, Fried Food, Desserts, Salads, Soups, Vegetarian, Vegan, Low-cost Food, Tourist Trap, Few Ingredients.
- Each specialization will grant special bonuses, but the player will have to satisfy specific requirements.
- Added several new customizations for all Vegetable-based Templates to let players create better-looking and more varied recipes.
- Added new, unique images for the Ice Cream Template.
- Added new unique Decorations: two different formats of a big panel for photos, with several variants.
- Added Green Beans and Dill as Ingredients.
- Added German as language.
- Fixed some issues on restaurants 901 and 902, not allowing to hang pictures properly.
- Balanced the customers' expectations and the late-game difficulty.
- Fixed some broken strings.
- Fixed some minor issues with the Russian localization.
- Slightly reduced the consumption of RAM and VRAM.
- The startup loading is now faster.
- Changed the buttons for Texture customizations in decorations to make them clearer.
- Fixed a bug with Staff Members not gaining Skill Points in simulated Restaurants.
We hope you will enjoy traveling to a new dimension of cooking!