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2017 Ranked #952

Kitchen Rush

Real-time cooperative restaurant game where players use hourglasses as workers to take orders, cook meals, and serve guests. Constantly expiring tasks create kitchen pressure, so success depends on coordinating priorities before service collapses.

Family Games Real-time Action Timer Simulation Players: Games with Solitaire Rules

Players

1-4

Play time

30-45 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2.2/5

Rating

7.25

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

You've just inherited an old restaurant and you must turn it into a successful business! Hire personnel, order the right ingredients and be ready to serve the customers that enter your restaurant.

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You've just inherited an old restaurant and you must turn it into a successful business! Hire personnel, order the right ingredients and be ready to serve the customers that enter your restaurant. The success will depend entirely on your efficiency in the kitchen! Kitchen Rush is an innovative real-time cooperative game that simulates the excitement of a high-pressure kitchen environment. It does so through worker placement, using hourglasses as your workers. These hourglasses are used to take orders from customers, prepare their dishes, serve them on time, buy groceries, clean plates and make sure enough money is made each round to cover wages, expenses, upgrades and hopefully, leave a profit. Any worker placed on an action space may not be used elsewhere before the sand within the hourglass runs out, making each decision important as time is limited. The game is for 1-4 players and plays for 4 rounds of 4 minutes. The fun, excitement and rush it brings to the table offers a full course for gamers and family members alike.

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–4
Play time
30–45 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.2/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Vangelis Bagiartakis Dávid Turczi

Artists

2
Natalia Kordowska Bart?omiej Kordowski

Publishers

1
Artipia Games