Bone's Cafe

Bone's Cafe

Released Oct 2022

Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

96% positive · 368 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Bone's Cafe launched into full release on October 29, 2022, graduating from Early Access with new content including recipes and challenges. Following launch, the two-person studio (Sarah and Tim at Acute Owl Studio) maintained a consistent pattern of monthly updates through early 2023, adding features like minion skins, language translations, new outfits, and completing a Nintendo Switch port by May 2023. On January 27, 2024, the developers posted a significant announcement: they are moving on to their next game, Grimshire — a cozy farm sim. This post, which also included a minor bug fix for Bone's Cafe, represents the last official communication from the developer. The announcement makes clear that the studio's focus has shifted entirely to the new project. There have been no further updates to Bone's Cafe since that date, and no future content for the game has been announced or implied. The January 27, 2024 bug fix post effectively marked the end of active development on Bone's Cafe. The game shipped as a complete product with campaign mode, challenge mode, co-op support, and 97 discoverable recipes, and the developer's pivot to a new title confirms no further content is planned.
Evidence
Developers announce their next game, Grimshire, and explicitly state their focus has shifted to it. A minor bug fix for Bone's Cafe is included, but no future content for the game is mentioned. This is the last official communication from the studio.
news post · Jan 27, 2024 source development ending
high
Bone's Cafe officially launched out of Early Access with new recipes, challenges, and polish. Developers noted they would continue small monthly updates to improve the game.
news post · Oct 29, 2022 source content shipped
high

Media

Details

Publisher
Acute Owl Studio
Achievements
30
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen

About this game

Follow the journey of Bones the necromancer as you grow and expand your cafe. Serve your customers quickly, design your own cafe, discover recipes, customize your menu, strategically attract, kill, and harvest customers for fresh ingredients and use their souls to raise an undead army!


Features
  • Customizable cafe layout
  • Customizable cafe menu
  • Experiment with ingredients in the kitchen to discover 97 recipes to add to the menu
  • Use stealth to harvest exotic ingredients from your cafe customers
  • Automate your cafe with minions
  • Play with your friends in local coop 1-4 player or Steam Remote Play
  • Campaign mode
  • Challenge mode

Discover!
Experiment with and discover all (90+) recipes using a wide variety of ingredients. You have the freedom to design your menu around a concept, a taste, or whatever you'd like your cafe to serve.


Build and expand!
Get creative and customize the layout of your cafe for maximum cooking efficiency. Earn money and visit the shop to buy all the tools you'll need to create an efficient workflow. Expand your cafe size by progressing through the story and increasing your cafe Skull Ranking.


Play with friends!
You can invite up to 3 friends to enjoy this fun and silly game together (Local couch co-op or Remote Play).


Summon minions!
Feeling overwhelmed? Put your necromancy skills to the test and summon undead assistants. Assign them simple tasks to take the burden off of your skull, you're going to need them in order to expand.
Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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