- Arcane Eats Demo Update in Next Fest! - 15 June 2026
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 si…
- Demo patch notes v 0.66 - 14 June 2026
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.
- Demo patch notes v 0.65 - 13 June 2026
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.
- Demo patch notes v 0.64 - 13 June 2026
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!
- Demo patch notes v 0.63 - 12 June 2026
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.Fix…
- Demo patch notes v 0.60 - 7 June 2026
I just popped a new build up with a fix for your Tough getting cleared when you play Buff Puff Pastry. I've seen a few reports of people getting stuck playing Gluttonous Griddle or starting a day with no customers showing up. Thank you to anyone using the in game bug reporter to let me know about those things! I can't seem to reproduce it myself though, so if you see this kind of issue, I'd really appreciate it if you can describe any details about what was happening just before the bug happened too. I'll do my best to track down and fix anything like this that gets reported!Also, since I forgot to post the more general patch notes on this big new demo update though, here's a quick list as well:Now you can play all the way through Week 2! Which means...New celebrity chef judge: Jewelia Crag-Child!New customers like vampires, werewolves, robots, and gelatinous cubes.New card type – Cookt…
- Giant Demo Update! - 4 June 2026
We've been hard at work this year adding tons to Arcane Eats, and today we're sharing more of it with you: we’ve expanded the Arcane Eats demo with an update that doubles how much you get to play! We’re also excited to be participating in the Women Led Games showcase today and the PC Gaming Show on Sunday, where we’ll share more about what we've been working on. Check out the showcases at womenledgames.com and pcgamingshow.com and gobble up all the awesome games being made by talented folks around the world. In our giant demo expansion, you can now play all the way to the end of Week 2, which means that you now get to face the judgement of a giant new chef boss: Jewelia Crag-Child! Jewelia is a mountain of a chef with a hunger to match, and she’s eager to taste the gems you’ve been cooking up. Don’t skimp on the butter.Jewelia is, of course, inspired by one of my personal favorite chefs…
- Wonderbelly Winter Update - 20 December 2025
Hey friends,It’s been a full, flavorful last couple of months, and we’re heading into the end of the year feeling very grateful (and very ready to flop on the couch with some cocoa).Arcane Eats demo servedIn November, we finally put the Arcane Eats demo out into the world, and wow! The response has been wonderful! Seeing so many people jump in, experiment with strange ingredient combos, laugh at the jokes, and immediately start theory-crafting their dream restaurants has been a delight. And yes, every time someone says something nice about the game, Bob and I high-five.We also want to give a huge thank you to everyone who turned on game data tracking. All this data is delicious, of course, but it’s also a huge help to our testing and balancing efforts. For the stat nerds out there 🙋, in the last month of demo play:The card with the highest win rate is Red Dragon RibsThe kitchen staff w…
- Demo patch notes v 0.27 - 15 November 2025
Adding Traditional Chinese localization and fixing a few more bugs. Details:Added Traditional Chinese support!Fixed Twin Cleavers so it now works like it says (instead of carrying over to the future turns).Fixed bug where serving customers with a 0 food dish was not counting as serving for mechanics that trigger off that. Fixed soft lock when Rosie's special final dish tries to get pulled to show on the end of day menu.Fixed another soft lock with the Free Bread Bowl filling someone as they complained and left.Fixed tooltips and dish targeting getting stuck on when you have them active while the last customer is leaving.Thanks everyone! Keep the feedback coming!
- Demo patch notes v 0.26 - 7 November 2025
So far the demo launch has been a huge success! Thanks to everyone reporting bugs and feedback so we can make it even better! What's in the patch:Removed the tip (gold) penalty at the end of the day for taking complaints. Added a new tutorial reminder when you get Guy Fairy down to 0 hunger, but you haven't fed him the Special Ingredient yet. Also added more obvious visual indication on the card of which ingredient is the Special Ingredient you need to feed them. Made Sausage of Divination put the ingredient down before drawing the card, so it doesn't get nerfed if you happened to draw Shaky Hands with it. Made One Mitt Magnar not apply his buff to curses that burn. You probably wanted to burn those. Fixed soft lock if your last customer was complaining as they left, but got filled up by the Free Bread Bowl at that same moment. Fixed some soft locks with odd controller input edge cases.…
- Arcane Eats demo available now! - 4 November 2025
The Arcane Eats demo is available RIGHT NOW, fresh out of the oven and piping hot! If you like the taste, please pack up some extras to share with your friends – we’d be eternally grateful if you do. If enough people play the demo, we could get on the trending demo list, so even just giving it a try helps us get the word out. Thank you!We’ll be celebrating in the Wonderbelly Discord server all day. Come clink glasses with us, share some laughs and food pics, and let us know what you think ❤️Flavorfully yours, Andrea, Wonderbelly Games
- Arcane Eats demo coming very soon! - 25 October 2025
It was so wonderful getting to meet so many of you at Gamescom & PAX West & SIX this summer! We’ve been hard at work the last couple of months getting ready for some very big news **spoilers for the end of this post**. But now that spooky season is upon us, what better time to get some vampires into Arcane Eats? Here’s a sneak peek at the Twilight Paramedic, who’s always ready to take a blood donation, forcibly if necessary…And in that vein… Dames 4 Games aired their spooky Ghouls 4 Games showcase with a featured Dev Spotlight for Arcane Eats! In it, I talk about some of our most dangerous flavor combos, and at the end we get to share our BIG NEWS…Did you catch it? The Arcane Eats demo will be out on Steam on November 4th! So set your kitchen timers and make sure to get a taste of freshly baked demo straight from the oven.In the meantime while you wait, I’ve got a few recommendations to…
- Arcane Eats is heading to Gamescom and PAX West! - 13 August 2025
We’ve got some big summer news: We’re bringing our first public demo of Arcane Eats to the show floor at Gamescom and PAX West in just a few weeks!First up, we’ll be at Gamescom (Aug 20–24) in Cologne, Germany as part of the Indie Arena Booth. This year’s theme is “Watch Us Cook,” so of course Arcane Eats had to be on the menu.Then the week after, we’ll be back home in Seattle, USA for PAX West (Aug 30–Sep 2) showing the game as part of the PAX Rising Showcase, and the Seattle Indies Expo (Aug 31). Hometown Seattle Indies pride~ It’s such an honor to be selected for these events! It’s an amazing smorgasbord of indie games, I personally can’t wait to taste as many as I can. And of course, we’re really looking forward to getting Arcane Eats into people’s hands for the first time and seeing what you all think. If you do come by our booth, please say hi – Bob and I will be the ones wearing…
- Introducing Arcane Eats - 8 June 2025
Today Wonderbelly announces our next game, Arcane Eats! It’s a roguelike deckbuilder with a delicious twist – build a cuisine-themed deck of cards, cook up combos on magical cooktops, and serve fantastical meals to hordes of hungry monsters. It’s crisp and crunchy card play tossed in roguelike spices with a heaping side of culinary puns.I’m a big foodie and I love games about cooking, but I’ve always felt like there’s something missing. Most cooking games focus on following recipes and speedy execution. Cooking can be about that for sure, but the kind of cooking I love most happens when you let go of following a recipe – when you improvise with the ingredients you have at hand, when you experiment to find new taste combos, when you try to understand the underlying mechanics so you can make your prep work even more efficient or your dish even more delicious. Cooking like that is exciting…
