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Wonderbelly Games · Published by Skystone Games · Official site ↗
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
A roguelike deckbuilder with a delicious twist. Think like a master chef, balancing resources as you strategically combo ingredients to subdue hungry hordes. Recruit a legendary kitchen crew, and rise through the heroic cooking guilds—before The Hunger consumes us all!
Indie, Strategy · 2026 · More free games
Rise through the ranks of the heroic cooking guilds in Arcane Eats, where strategic ingredient combos and a kitchen crew of legends fight back against The Hunger. Think like a master chef balancing resources for survival.
About this game
The path to a demon’s heart is through its stomach
In Arcane Eats, the best deck-building mechanics get spiced up by cooking elements to add a new depth of flavor and strategy! Every turn is a strategic puzzle as you balance your energy and ingredient cook times, and try to keep your cool in the face of customer whims and whining.
→ Play ingredient cards onto enchanted cooktops
→ modify them with a kitchen of magical tools,
→ then serve your meals to the hungry hordes – and get paid!
Improvise fantastical meals like a master chef
Craft your own cuisine deck from hundreds of mythic ingredients, magical kitchen tools, and culinary spells. Then invite your customers to sit at the chef’s table as you cook up an adventurous meal full of juicy combos with the cards you have at hand. Flame broil some Red Dragon Ribs, forge golden delights in the Dwarven Deep Fryer, and draw a salt circle to perform the Happy Hour Ritual. No recipes required!
Survive a restaurant run and earn your fame
Running a restaurant is hard – you’ll have to satisfy hangry customers, balance the books, and keep the health & purity inspector at bay. Improve your menu by shopping in town and recruit a crew of waitstaff and sous chefs to optimize your kitchen. If you can impress legendary chefs like Guy Fairy, Wolfman Puck, and the formidable Gorgon Ramsey, you may finally achieve a coveted 3 Mythril Star rating.
Climb the ranks of the three heroic cooking guilds
Each guild has their own unique cards and style of play. Fire up hearty meals with the Hearth, weave elemental spices with the Grove, and master mise-en-place with the Order – but watch out, you may find yourself tempted to open the forbidden Gastronomicon.
Savor the endless flavor
There’s endless replayability with hundreds of cards, staff, upgrades, and unexpected phone calls making each restaurant run unique. Along the way, you’ll get to know the flavorful regulars. If you can learn how to satisfy each one’s special tastes, you’ll unlock new possibilities in town. And as your restaurant successes grow, you can ring the ancient Dinner Bell to add new challenges – but expect to draw the attention of The Hunger… Never forget, the path to a demon's heart is through their stomach!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GT 730, Intel UHD 620, or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Playable on Steam Deck with default settings.
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GT 730, Intel UHD 620, or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Playable on Steam Deck with default settings.
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Arcane Eats Demo Update in Next Fest!
We’ve refreshed our Arcane Eats demo with a GIANT update, and it’s in the Steam Next Fest! What’s new in the demo? Now you can play all the way through Week 2! Another whole week means twice the time to pull your combos together and get your deck cooking. You’ll also see…New celebrity chef judge: Jewelia Crag-Child!New customers like vampires, werewolves, robots, and gelatinous cubes.New card type – Cooktop Enchantments – for a flavorful new layer of strategy.New special ingredients to draft before judgement days, like Dragon Egg and Watcher Stalks. New phone call events! Invite a vampire couple for date night, but don’t let them eat your other guests! Survive a toddler birthday dinner with Goreflinger the Terrible and his very tired parents. Can you keep the Cursed Blood Oranges safe for one night so the cult can use them for brunch mimosas?And heaps of balance changes and bug fixes since the first demo. Steam Next Fest is a huge opportunity for us to get Arcane Eats in front of new players and gather feedback while there's still time to season and polish the game before launch. If you want to help us make the most of it, now is the perfect time to give the demo a play and send us your thoughts. And maybe tell a friend? We'd be incredibly grateful.Last week we were thrilled to be in the Summer Game Fest in two showcases: Women-Led Games and the PC Gaming Show! For the PC Gaming Show, we put together a very special segment with one of our most famous fantasy chef judges, Gorgon Ramsey! And as you’d expect… he was quite spicy in the recording booth. Check it out, if you can take the heat:Prior to all this shouting and waving our arms around, I know we’ve been kind of quiet for the last few months – and if you know us, you know that the quieter we are, the harder we’re working. We crafted our third class deck, the meticulous wizard and warlocks of The Order. We’ve summoned an epic council of celebrity chef judges – there are now 9 bosses plus an ultimate elder god to ...Read full article on Community Announcements (TanookiFruit)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo patch notes v 0.66
Another quick set of bug fixes...Fixed food getting stuck in targeting mode if you clicked too quickly after playing certain tool cards over the cooktops in a particular way.Fixed some buttons and UI choices hearing the same click to confirm multiple actions.Fixed cards highlighting back in your hand more consistently after each card play when using controller.Read full article on Community Announcements (wonderbelly_bob)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo patch notes v 0.65
Oops... couple more bug fixes:Fixed hand getting stuck if you play Black Pudding with an empty draw pile. Fixed hand getting stuck if you triggered a draw from feeding a customer at a particular time (like with Busbot D-3000 on staff).Fixed Persistent cards not sorting in hand properly at the end of your turn.Read full article on Community Announcements (wonderbelly_bob)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo patch notes v 0.64
Hopefully our last patch before Next Fest! The biggest thing here was getting card queueing working, so folks who like to sling the cards quickly can do that. Feels a lot better. Hope I didn't break anything!Also added some tooltips to a couple cards that were missing them. Keep the feedback coming! Andrea and I really appreciate it!Read full article on Community Announcements (wonderbelly_bob)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo patch notes v 0.63
Just another quick patch to fix some bugs folks have helpfully submitted. Thanks to everyone doing that! In order to fix the worst ones, I had to make some changes to the core card display systems that I'm frankly kind of nervous about changing this close to Next Fest! So please submit any issues you see with the new version quickly so I can try to fix them this weekend! Then hopefully when Next Fest starts on Monday everyone can go play the best version of the demo, and, Gabe willing, we'll be blessed by the Next Fest algorithm gods. Wish us luck!Details in this patch:Fixed rare issue where starting a new run could begin the first day with no customers appearing and no cards drawing until you closed the app and reopened. Fixed some rare soft locks and crashes when certain cards had certain upgrades. Fixed some issues where cards could get stuck floating after rare card/staff combos.Fixed several localization issues in all languages, and some targeted issues reported in German, Portuguese, French, and Chinese.Read full article on Community Announcements (wonderbelly_bob)
