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Bone's Cafe cover art

Bone's Cafe

Acute Owl Studio · 2022-10-29

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Mar 31, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 08, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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 of 366 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
10h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

"You play as Bones, a former necromancy school dropout who has dreams of bread and salad, not of corpses and knives. But they cannot escape their former occupation and the cheery cafe experience very quickly takes a darker turn."(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 21 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 15,669 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.3k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 366 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2025-05-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
373720222026Week of 2022-04-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$4.492022-04-082026-07-302022-04-08 — best price $8.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-09-15 — best price $14.992022-11-22 — best price $10.492022-12-12 — best price $14.992023-02-13 — best price $10.492023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-06-29 — best price $10.492023-07-31 — best price $14.992023-10-03 — best price $9.742023-12-05 — best price $14.992024-01-11 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $8.992024-04-08 — best price $14.992024-06-19 — best price $7.492024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-09-09 — best price $7.492024-11-18 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $5.992025-01-11 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-04-08 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $4.492025-07-21 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $7.492025-11-03 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $7.492026-02-09 — best price $14.992026-04-06 — best price $5.992026-05-25 — best price $14.992026-07-23 — best price $5.992026-07-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
79.2%
earned "It was an accident!"
25.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards

7 supported languages: English, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, French, Dutch, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3532%30

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CuteCo-opCookingBuildingColorfulRelaxingStrategyAutomationDark HumorManagement

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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