Spring Breeze ShokudoSpring Breeze Shokudo

Taiwan rating: 15+ (輔十五級) — anti-social behaviour, violence, tobacco and alcohol.
This game is currently available in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese only (interface and all text). English and Japanese will be considered after the 1.0 release.

Pull up the shutters on your grandmother's shokudo

Summer, 1978. A midnight phone call brings you back from a Taipei factory dorm to Sin-kang-á Street, a small town in southern Taiwan. Your grandmother has collapsed in the kitchen, and the rolling shutters of the Spring Breeze Shokudo (a neighbourhood eatery; Taiwan kept the word from the Japanese era) have been down for six months. Across the street, the brand-new Golden Dragon Grand Restaurant has just switched on its neon.

Run a little shokudo that breathes

• Shop the morning market with Grandma's handwritten list. Fresh food spoils overnight, and vendors who know you give you a better price.
• Set the menu and the prices, swap today's special mid-service, limit portions. Sell the same dish too often and the town gets tired of it.
• Develop new dishes with Chef A-Ming: tan-tsai noodles, bah-oân, milkfish congee, crab sticky rice… 22 dishes in all. Some wait for their season, some need new equipment.
• Take takeaway, reservation and delivery orders, and handle complaints. The food critic comes in disguise.
• Hire staff and give them posts: waiting tables, bussing, greeting at the arcade, helping in the kitchen, delivery. Tired staff make mistakes, so let them rest in the quiet afternoon.
• Place tables and decorations, expand the shop, and finally knock through into the corner store next door.

The Golden Dragon across the street

The Golden Dragon fights back with business lunches, free air-conditioning, nakashi nights… You can watch customers on the street get pulled across the road one by one. When Grandma sees the red notice in the morning, do you hand out flyers, throw in a free braised egg, or just keep cooking your own food? It all comes down to the banquet contest at the Ghost Festival.

Life on the whole street

Afternoon thunderstorms, typhoon blackouts, earthquakes; the City God procession, Mid-Autumn moon-viewing, the year-end banquet, Lunar New Year's Eve. The garbage truck rolls down the lane playing Für Elise, and the bah-tsàng seller pedals past your door. Seven regulars tell you a little more of their stories each visit, and evening chats with your staff go deeper as you grow closer.

No Game Over when money runs out

When you can't even afford tomorrow's ingredients, Grandma brings out the gold bracelet Grandpa gave her. This is a story about coming home, and about the kindness of one street.

About Early Access

The story can already be played from start to finish: from coming home to Sin-kang-á Street in the summer of 1978 all the way to Lunar New Year's Day. During Early Access we will add:

• Play on your phone: buy once on Steam, sign in with Steam in your phone's browser and keep playing with synced progress
• More dishes, customers and street stories
• Tuning of the management feel and difficulty based on player feedback
• Controller and Steam Deck support

Free demo

The demo covers the first five days. Your shop carries over to the full game, which picks up from day six.

Art and music

All pixel art is drawn by the game's code in real time. The music is synthesized live by a pentatonic composer (yueqin, erhu, dizi, suona and accordion) and shifts with the time of day, the weather and how busy the shop is.