Recipe for Disaster is a restaurant management and social simulation game that puts players in the shoes of an inexperienced, but ambitious, head chef working towards fulfilling their lifelong dream of becoming an internationally renowned restaurateur.

Serving up a different challenge to players, Recipe for Disaster explores the complex social relationships between staff and customers, as well as the disastrous and humorous consequences of poor management in the service industry.

During a typical day, serious personality clashes and major skill gaps within a restaurant’s team of staff can easily disrupt service, whilst the volatile attitudes and tastes of customers may prove to be the barrier that separates players from those all-important positive review scores. 

Don your aprons and prepare to launch a bid to become an internationally renowned chef as Recipe for Disaster launches into early access today for $16.99, €16.99, £14.99.

Launching with an in-depth tutorial and a tasty five-part campaign, the early access launch has hours of gameplay for management sim lovers everywhere.

The Early Access version of Recipe for Disaster has a selection of gameplay modes that make use of a strong core gameplay loop. The game also contains a range of tools and features that afford players a good amount of creative freedom when building and running their restaurants.

The current feature list includes:

• A mini campaign that takes place over a number of stages each with their own set of objectives to overcome.
• Building tools and a wide variety of placeable appliances and decorative objects that allow for full customisation of your restaurants
• An intuitive recipe editor that utilises 7 appliance actions and 80 different ingredients.
• A procedurally generated staff and customer pool which generates characters using a combination of over 60 unique character traits including stingy, loud, apathetic, and elitist.
• Flexible automated task priority system where you can assign your staff to different appliances and objects.
• Staff welfare system that requires you to manage your employee’s stamina and stress levels.
• Staff skill progression system where your staff gain experience when performing actions and unlock permanent bonus perks.
• Uniform and grouping tool to visually define the roles of staff members e.g. front of house and chefs.
• Employee breaking points and consequences such as walkouts, gossiping with customers, and breaking objects.
• A tutorial to get you started.

The full Early Access roadmap includes all features to be added in the run-up to full release.

Key Features:

• Assemble your dream team – Pick from a pool of procedurally generated hopefuls. Consider each individual’s unique combination of traits and skill levels, and how these might affect their work efficiencies, relationships, and customer interactions. Will they fit in? Or will they prove to be more trouble than they’re worth?
• Restaurant building - Customize the design and layout of your restaurants using intuitive building tools and a range of colourful themes. Equip your kitchen with state-of-the-art appliances, decorate your dining area, and build storage to hold those precious ingredients.
• Get your priorities straight - Manually assign tasks to your team or keep everyone busy using a highly customisable priority system. Keep a close eye on incoming customer orders and adjust your strategy in real-time to ensure the highest standard of food and customer service.   
• Work ethics – Manage your team’s attitude and stamina levels to minimise the risk of sickness and mid-service walkouts. Some staff will love the tasks that you give them whilst others will loathe them! Be alert to staff thoughts, temporary and permanent trait changes, and evolving relationships within your team.
• The customer is always right – Pay close attention to the demands of your customers and adjust your menu to match their tastes. Be wary of dietary requirements, food allergies and unusual preferences.  
• Everyone’s a critic – Decide how best to deal with the requests and complaints of your staff and customers. Will you be sympathetic or combative? Pushovers and tyrants will soon find themselves out of business so you’ll have to read each situation carefully.
• A matter of taste – Work with reliable, and dubious, supplier contacts to secure a diverse array of ingredients. Use the intuitive recipe editor to freely create original recipes and add them to your menus. 
• ...and that's just for starters - Updates planned for cooperative and competitive multiplayer, additional themes and room types, health inspections, staff rotas, disasters, and comprehensive modding support.

Recipe for Disaster is coming to PC (Steam) in 2022..