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Watch trailer on Steam ↗Good Folk Cafe
Not Here, Not There · Published by Not Here, Not There · Official site ↗
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Forage for wild plants, craft bespoke dishes, and delight your otherworldly clientele in this cosy, atmospheric management game. Hone your craft as you collect special equipment and useful folklore by connecting with the locals or simply relax and seek out stillness in nature.
Indie, RPG, Simulation, Casual · More free games
About this game
Forage for wild plants in the rugged wilderness of Ireland and cook for otherworldly inhabitants...
Rewilding starts within. Follow Aoife on their journey to reconnect with their past, nature, and ultimately themself. Explore the land, forage for wild plants, craft bespoke dishes, and delight otherworldly clientele. Along the way, Aoife will learn about the plants around them, the folklore told in the area, and their family's past.
Created in Ireland with love, Good Folk Cafe is inspired by our own experiences of life in Ireland and the tales that have been shared with us.
Explore beautiful landscapes
Explore a rugged and wild landscape…
Of white roads winding by the edge
Of bare, untamèd land,
Where dry stone wall or ragged hedge
Runs wide on either hand.
Learn about real plants
Forage plants along the way. Manage the space in your bag and find the perfect plants for your dish!
Learn about the real wild plants of Ireland as you accumulate knowledge in and out of the game.
Cook for otherworldly beings
Cook beautiful meals with the bounty you've gathered on your trails. Take your time assembling bespoke dishes for your mysterious customers.
Reconnect & Rewild
Uncover the past as you try to connect with your otherworldly neighbours who don’t speak or act the way humans do.
Live a simple life in the wilderness. Repair abandoned equipment and decorate your wild camp.
Meet the locals, listen to their stories, learn from their tales, and enjoy their company when they visit Aoife for a cuppa.
Relax and seek out stillness in nature.
Made with love in Ireland.
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Cold, cold this thousand years—yet still
On many a time-stained page
Your pride, your truth, your dauntless will,
Burn on from age to age.
And still around the fires of peat
Live on the ancient days;
There still do living lips repeat
The old and deathless lays.
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(part of Cois na Teineadh from Sea Spray: Verses and Translations by T. W. Rolleston)
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 and Later
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7360U or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel UHD 630 or better
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 and Later
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5600G
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1060 or better
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
New version of our demo!
Change log 🧑🍳We’ve been cooking! This update brings major quality-of-life improvements, new Energy gameplay, better Fae flow, and a big UI polish pass. Highlights 🌟Energy System is now live and integratedEnergy now powers more interactions across the game.Cooking and building repair now clearly tie into Energy requirements. Fae experience improvedAdded Fae hints.Fae Book now opens directly to your selected Fae (when available).Improved Fae intro flow and polished Fae-related UI presentation.Whole new Fae taste balancing. Dish & reward presentation upgradesNew Dish UI pass.Reward formatting updates and fixes.Fixes for dish behavior and title clipping on screen edges. General UX polishBetter map feedback.Faster end-of-day pacing.Cleaner UI behavior and timing tweaks.Various visual alignment and typo fixes. Energy System 🔋 Having an energy system is very linked to the core story of the game (some news about that soon!). Aoife, our main character, came to this place to recover and regain energy. So we wanted to start the game with the feeling that only very few things could be done in a day. And as we progress, understand the land better, and make the Fae happy, we gain more energy, the days feel longer, and we can do more and more stuff. This is the first iteration of the system, so let us know what you think about it! The Tastes of the Fae 🧚 We made a major iteration on the content here. We simplified the plan tastes (no more unknown taste at the start), and clarified what it meant for a Fae to like and dislike tastes. We also added flavour and hint texts in the fae book/app. I think this is a major improvement; it really makes the trying to please the Fae more immediate and more engaging. I can't wait to hear your feedback on this one! We also started playing with the concept that cutting plants changes their tastes. Right now it is only sliced or not sliced. But we are planning to expand to more tastes (bitter becomes sweet, pungent becomes aromatic, etc.). Dish Re...Read full article on Community Announcements (Not Here, Not There)AnnouncementsOfficial
Summer Roadmap
We have been receiving a lot of feedback since we published our demo (give it a try if you haven't already!). We even got a review! Receiving feedback is really useful; it helps us focus on what matters to you, so keep sending comments, ideas, and feedback! At the moment, there are three big things we want to achieve:Marketing - Gather the interest of publishers and, overall, a larger communityCreative - Improve the game experience, alwaysReadiness - Make sure we maintain a stable demo and that we are ready to scale up when the time is right. On the Creative Side:Time of Day 2.0. We got a lot of great feedback when we implemented the first version of the time-of-day feature. It really helped ground the experience and provided some guidance on what to do next (ex, if I don't have time to forage, I can cook). We have some great ideas to tie the system up more closely to the main narrative themes of the experience. Cooking Hints. Players have been having fun experimenting with plants and Fae, and seeing which combinations work and which do not. We want to add a layer of information so that players who engage with the lore and the narrative get rewarded with some useful hints in the cooking section. Taste & Fae Matching. We are working on a new, much clearer set of tastes and a new reward screen UI as well. Narrative Sequences: How do we tell our story? How much is narrated, and how much is baked into the gameplay? We're working on an intro sequence that will answer all those questions.Marketing:A Steam version of our demo: we aren't ready for a Steam demo yet, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have a Steam build. The downside of it is that it is work that will not be seen by the community for quite some time. On the plus side, it's good to practice deploying the game on Steam, and also to see if there are any Steam-specific bugs. It's also a nice signal we can send to potential publishers. A Steam key carries a little bit more weight than a link to an itch demo. Final...Read full article on Community Announcements (Not Here, Not There)AnnouncementsOfficial
Version 0.4.20 - Gamepad Support!
This is the first big update we are making to the demo! Gamepad Support!Added a first version of gamepad support. Art - Lighting ImprovementsSome big improvements in the lighting during the cooking. UX/UIAdded one step to confirm going to Chill, so players are not surprised that they are skipping a day. Added Hints and Sort Plant Screen in Chill MapChange “Cosmetic” to "Decoration" as it was confusingAdded Proper transitions at each end of the Foraging Map. Reward from the FaeReduced negative feedback when a taste doesn't care about a taste,Moved the reward from the Fae to the 3D world. Bug fixesFixed: Fae are not leaving at dawnFixed: The Day transition screen doesn't go back to the HomestayFixed: Chill feedback doesn't update when a story has been completedFind our demo on Itch!https://not-here-not-there.itch.io/goodfolkcafeRead full article on Community Announcements (Not Here, Not There)AnnouncementsOfficial
We're at Amaze!
We have a booth at Amaze! (https://2026.amaze-berlin.de/) If you are in Berlin, pass by and say hello! You also get to play our demo. Ale is setting up the BoothOur setup, the plants are locally foraged 😊Read full article on Community Announcements (Not Here, Not There)
