Neon Noodles
Vivid Helix · 2023 · Automation, Cooking, Cyberpunk, Robots, Programming
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 85
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About Neon Noodles
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In a dark and dangerous cyberpunk future, food is the ultimate symbol of wealth and status. Using a revolutionary invention called Neon Noodles, the Aristocracy indulges their every culinary whim. Everyone else begs for scraps. With no memory and no name, you are just a cog in this machine. But when a mysterious message unlocks your forgotten past, it thrusts you into a daring, clandestine heist to seize control of Neon Noodles and reclaim your legacy.
Neon Noodles is inspired by the open-ended, machine-building puzzle games of Zachtronics such as Opus Magnum and Infinifactory. Take on challenging assignments from a cast of intriguing clients, design complex and beautiful automations to uncover the truth behind Neon Noodles.
Do you have what it takes to pry humanity's future from the clutches of corporate greed?
In a dark and dangerous cyberpunk future, food is the ultimate symbol of wealth and status. Using a revolutionary invention called Neon Noodles, the Aristocracy indulges their every culinary whim. Everyone else begs for scraps. With no memory and no name, you are just a cog in this machine. But when a mysterious message unlocks your forgotten past, it thrusts you into a daring, clandestine heist to seize control of Neon Noodles and reclaim your legacy.
Neon Noodles is inspired by the open-ended, machine-building puzzle games of Zachtronics such as Opus Magnum and Infinifactory. Take on challenging assignments from a cast of intriguing clients, design complex and beautiful automations to uncover the truth behind Neon Noodles.
Do you have what it takes to pry humanity's future from the clutches of corporate greed?
Features
- Create automations as intricate or as simple as you like, using everything from programmable robot chefs to teleport stations.
- Program your robot chefs through an intuitive record-and-replay system where you control a robot and have it replicate your exact inputs, and only edit later if needed.
- Solve endlessly replayable open-ended puzzles with 250 recipes from around the world consisting of 400 unique ingredients. Jollof Rice, Clam Chowder, Spätzle, Bibimbap - so many recipes to optimize!
- Immerse yourself in a cyberpunk story where food is a luxury and ruthless corporate greed runs unchecked.
- Compare your scores with friends and see global leaderboards score distributions as a histogram.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Neon Noodles is praised as a creative and clever automation puzzle game that successfully blends cooking with programming and logic challenges, offering engaging optimization puzzles that appeal to players who enjoy strategic thinking. However, some players find the difficulty curve steep and the brain-intensive mechanics overwhelming, while others report UI issues with bot editing and dialog overlap that can interfere with gameplay, though these are generally considered minor problems that don't significantly detract from the experience.
Neon Noodles is a remarkably creative automation puzzle game that takes the familiar act of cooking and transforms it into a complex exercise in programming, logistics, and efficiency. Developed and published by Vivid Helix, the game places players in a futuristic cyberpunk society where food production has become heavily automated and culinary expertise is intertwined with advanced technology. What initially appears to be a quirky cooking simulator quickly reveals itself as a sophisticated puzzle experience that challenges players to think like engineers rather than chefs. The game's most distinctive feature is its innovative approach to automation. Instead of directly preparing dishes, players program robotic workers to handle every step of the cooking process. Ingredients must be collected, processed, transported, and assembled according to precise recipes, with every movement carefully planned. The recording-based programming system is particularly impressive because it allows players to teach robots actions through demonstration rather than requiring knowledge of actual coding. This creates an accessible entry point while still offering an enormous amount of strategic depth f…
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Fun, whimsical, smart
It is a decent game, it has some non-critical bugs later on. Once you can edit loop start of a bot there are issues editing the bot instructions after changing its loop start. At some point the area gets larger, but placing things on the ends can cause the place dialog to overlap with the left panel, and even though the dialog shows on top clicks register through to the left panel.
A great game, resemble coding in many ways. I enjoyed trying to play in what seemed to me as the most optimal way, but as the game got further and harder, my goal was just to get a working program. I can see myself playing it for many more hours.
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