Animal Cafe (2025)

A cute little rougelike deckbuilder combined with a slot machine. You add cards to your deck, spin the board pieces, and hope for combos. These are done by matching flavor types across an unlocked "line," 5 of which you have unlocked, the rest you need to unlock through your playthrough. There's also cards that play off each other, allowing for a variety of builds based on either specific foods or flavors in your deck, or certain mechanics (such as cards that eliminate themselves from the board). You can choose from a variety of chefs, different animals that have different specialties and foods, and try your best to get the max number of satisfaction points per round. There is, of course, a shop that lets you spend your earning, either through buying utensils (permanent items) or sauces (usable items which can affect the number of points a line gets, upgrade or duplicate cards, or give you more utensil or sauce slots). I quite enjoyed it once I got the hang of it, and lost track of time while playing the demo. Plus it has adorable critters! The achievements are in Chinese, but I feel that's incredibly minor for a game that is made by Chinese devs. Also, spicy dumpling build is O…