Temporal Café

Made for GMTK Game Jam 2025

You run a café on a different plane of existence, a place where food can be cooked and uncooked by time. Serve up your dishes to a mythical array of characters and earn as much money as you can before the day is out.

Post your best scores below!

Help

1. Select the food from the left panel to place it on the temporal stove top.
2. Use the right arrow to move forward in time and the left arrow to move backwards. (or press the A and D keys)
3. Moving forwards in time cooks food. Be sure not to cook it too much or it'll burn away!
4. Moving backwards in time uncooks food.
5. You can lock food in time with the lock button underneath each stove top.
6. Serve food to the customers by hitting the bell. Guests are unaffected by the changes of time but...
7. They won't hang around forever, so be sure to get to them as efficiently as you can.
8. The round ends when the timer runs out. The timer ticks whenever time moves. Time will go faster as you progress through the game.

Tips

• If you run out of places on your stove, let a food overcook to remove it.
• Sometimes it might be beneficial to pre-emptively cook common foods.
• Certain guests may be incredibly impatient, but tip very very well. Learn their favourites to pre-prepare their food to reach higher scores!

Attributions

"Hand Bells, G#/Ab, Single.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

Audio and UI assets Kenney.nl