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PlateUp!
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “addictive restaurant planning and automation” (72 of 103 reviews) and “fun co-op with friends” (35); the most common complaint is “frustrating mechanics and boring management” (6). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
72 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Love this goofy game, other than the issues we have when joining either others game where we have to all log out and back in. The game itself is too fun to not want to play because of this annoyance. Definitely worth…”
“very good fun, especially in coop. Just not as hyjinx-y as the art might make it seem, it is kind of a sweaty game haha”
“cook, serve, have fun, amd get stressed”
35 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Love this goofy game, other than the issues we have when joining either others game where we have to all log out and back in. The game itself is too fun to not want to play because of this annoyance. Definitely worth…”
“very good fun, especially in coop. Just not as hyjinx-y as the art might make it seem, it is kind of a sweaty game haha”
“Today I finally got the last achievement in this game, and it was awesome! So I desided, that this great game deserves a good review. I can highly recommend this game for those, who likes planning processes and…”
14 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“ive been scouring steam for a long time to find a game local coop to play that is "noob friendly" to play with my s/o since she has barely ever gamed before, she instantly got hooked and is actually invested in the…”
“Fun game to play with friends. Its easy to get into the game.”
“very well balanced, only real complaint is some lack of instructions for things like sandwiches and the default controls being very unintuitive. The profile system is a little dumb but the gameplay is very good and…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The replayability of this game is through the roof, and the modding community is great. *It has also taught me that i should never manage a restaurant.*”
“I absolutely love this game. This game is so addictive that my partner had to temporarily ban me from playing it. There are endless combinations and the gameplay is satisfying and doesn't get boring.”
“Much better than Overcooked imo. More freedom, and less frustrating. The difficulty doesn't come from ridiculous kitchen set ups and annoying mechanics, it comes from an ever-increasing demand for optimizing and…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Love this game! It's so fun, and also quite tricky at times, or stressful in a good way. The only downside - to really unlock the game's full potential socialisation is required, 'cause playing this alone is nothing…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“it feels like a needlessly complex version of overcooked that focuses a lot more on the boring parts. whereas overcooked has speed and chaos and rapid delivery of foods, this game focuses a lot more on restaurant…”
“very fun until something burns and you have no available counters nor accessible bin so you just stand there waiting for your run to end”
“The customers are animals. When I serve them a salad, nearly all of it ends up on the floor.”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“very good fun, especially in coop. Just not as hyjinx-y as the art might make it seem, it is kind of a sweaty game haha”
“cook, serve, have fun, amd get stressed”
“it feels like a needlessly complex version of overcooked that focuses a lot more on the boring parts. whereas overcooked has speed and chaos and rapid delivery of foods, this game focuses a lot more on restaurant…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Love this goofy game, other than the issues we have when joining either others game where we have to all log out and back in. The game itself is too fun to not want to play because of this annoyance. Definitely worth…”
“Terrible netcode for online play. Inputs of keys stop being detected randomly every round for a few seconds, then magically come back then are gone again, I look frozen to the other player while this is happening. All…”
“Good game but there is no support for epic and steam crossplay. Shame!!!”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 94.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Will be great if we can XXL map without mod. Ur banquet map isn't big enough. Or you can let us buy more space. I think that is a good update to the game.”
— a player, Steam review · 45 hrs played“its way to easy to get into a Flow State and spend 5 hours optimizing burgies”
— a player, Steam review · 200 hrs played“This is still one of my fav games even after several years. My friends and I love to play it and we dont have to put in a lot of mental effort and can do a pretty good run”
— a player, Steam review · 122 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Workshop Incident - October 2026
Almost as soon as PlateUp! became available to play, lots of creative people have been enhancing the game by building and sharing their own unofficial content in the form of mods. Given the risks of m
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Patch Notes 1.5.3-A2B4
Patch Notes - Halloween Event Added 7 new cosmetics Activated in-game seasonal Halloween Content including 5 new Halloween decor items
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Patch Notes 1.5.2-7473
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Co-op · Management · Cooking · Rogue-lite · Building · Local Co-Op · Rogue-like · Cute · Procedural Generation · Funny · Base-Building · Casual (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Turkish |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 26 |
| Official site | https://www.plateupgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Processor: Quad Core I5 or AMD equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 530 or AMD equivalent Storage: 2 GB available space