- Dev Update #11: Demo updates galore! - 30 July 2026
Hey burger biters! It’s been 8 weeks since we served up the Burger Bois demo, and we’re overjoyed with all the lovely reviews and helpful feedback you’ve left us! 🥹This is our first game as a team, and it means the world to us that you’ve enjoyed sinking your teeth into it. In that time:You’ve collectively served over 19,000 burgers(!!)233 people have impressed Finn Dividend358 people earned 5 stars four times in one day321 players unlocked Make-Out Point173 players have discovered The Big Dill #FoodPic42 people discovered the None Burger With Left Beef #FoodPic…but only 1 player so far has discovered the elusive Easy, Greasy, Beautiful Burger Girl #FoodPic. 👀 What, you thought you’d get to admire the Easy Greasy for free?? You gotta EARN it by discovering it in game. 😇 All aboard for demo updatesWe’ve been patching out bugs & starting on player feedback - here are some of the bigges…
- Dev Update #10: Burger Bois Demo out now on Steam! - 4 June 2026
Hey flavor freaks! Did you see today’s big news? 👀Today, as part of the Women-Led Games Showcase, we dropped our first ever demo for FREE on Steam! Ready to give it a go? Try the Burger Bois first look now: Curious what’s hidden between the buns? 👀 Here’s what you can expect (and what not to expect) in the Burger Bois demo! What to expect in the Burger Bois demo:Enjoy up to 60 minutes of free-form creative gameplay! 🎮Explore the wacky hijinks of Patty and Fry at our first two locations: The Truck Stop and Make-Out Point. 📍Collect 34 out of 100+ planned ingredients. 🍔Taste the core flavors of burger bois: Sell burgers, respond to reviews, post nonsense on social media and test out the BURGO bingo-card style progression system. 😉Meet just a few of our planned ‘Special Customers’: Finn Dividend 🐟, Sister Buttermilk 🥞 and the never-before-seen CEO David Doolittle. 📈Collect 4 out of…
- Mini Dev Update: Women-Led Games Showcase! - 3 June 2026
Hey flavor fanatics,Just a quick one - but a big one! 🎉 We’re so excited to announce that we will be featured in the Women-Led Games Showcase which will take place TOMORROW! See the deets below for timezone specifics:PT: 4PM, 4th JuneAEST: 9am, 5th JuneNZST: 11am, 5th JuneWe’ll have an exclusive reveal that we’re stoked to finally share with you all, so remember to add the Women-Led Games Showcase to your calendar and tune in on Youtube or Twitch to catch the big announcement as it happens. 👀See you tomorrow!Jess, Alex, Jackal & Anthony
- Dev Update #9: New Year, New Feature Reveal - 18 February 2026
Hello flavor artisans, Whether beautiful or monstrous, the most memorable burgers share one thing in common: unusual ingredients. To celebrate the Global Foodie Faire Steam Event (starting today!), we’re unveiling a new feature: how you’ll GET those glorious ingredients!Groce-2-Go comes-2-uDuring your in-game day, you’ll be able to dial up your local grocery vendor, Groce-2-Go.What that grocery cart carries depends on which location you’re at. Each parking spot has its own theme, from burger basics at The Truck Stop, to comfort foods at The Make-Out Point Drive-in Movie Theatre and artisanal goods at The Farmer’s Market… with 100+ ingredients in the final game, you’ll be spoiled for choice. Not every ingredient is available every day though! Some ingredients are rarer than others, so you’ll need to check back over time and stock up while you can if you want to collect them all.Plus, eve…
- Dev Update #8: What the Truck? - 9 December 2025
Kia ora hungry hungry gamers,What do burgers and ice cream have in common? That’s right: it’s Frosty Games Fest! Specifically, Frosty Mini, which kicked off today, with Burger Bois featured in the Steam event.To celebrate, we’re bringing you a bunch of exclusive never-before-seen concept work of our beloved Burger Truck. Introducing ol’ reliableWhen you win a prize, you generally tend to assume you’re getting something shiny, new, and exciting.The truck Patty wins is only one of these three things. Though worn around the edges, this faithful burger-steed will be the secret ingredient to Patty & Fry’s attempt to take the world by storm. She may lack pizazz, but she makes up for it by oozing charm (and perhaps some kind of vehicle fluid).They say “you get what you pay for”, which in Patty’s case, was nothing. Designing the TruckThere were so many different directions we discussed for the…
- Dev Update #7: Would you like Fry with that? - 2 November 2025
Hello burger connoisseurs, Whilst any meal can stand on its own, this burger truck is at its best with a side of Fry. Continuing our behind the scenes series, let’s take a look at your partner in food-crimes! As a fry cook, Fry cooksWhen Patty accidentally, uh, ‘acquired’ the business, it came with a few things: a worn but trusty truck, a much maligned reputation, and a resident cook named Fry.Fry’s been with this food truck for a while, but its failings were despite his best efforts - not because of them. You can be an excellent cook and still dish up disasters if your boss is as bad at flavor design as the last guy was. Fry has a feeling that things will be different with Patty in charge, though! Despite meeting five minutes ago, it feels like they’ve been in sync for years. This man is here to chill with the grill. Designing FryWhat Patty lacks in chill, Fry more than makes up for. A…
- Dev Update #6: who is she - 8 August 2025
Hello supporters of the great burger agenda! Remember when you were a kid, and video games used to come with a lil booklet telling you all about the world and the characters? WE WANNA BRING THAT BACK. …in digital form, at least. She is all of us. P is for Player Character, and also PattyA fiend for entering no-effort competitions, Patty may have bitten off more than she can chew when she won this failing burger truck. She’s not the type to put much thought into the long term, but hey, now that she’s here, she could totally design some burgers and run a business. After all, it’s one failing business, how hard could it be? This is the face of someone who’s never worked in hospitality before. Designing PattyPatty’s character is inspired by a few of our favourite cartoons. Here’s a recipe for designing Patty:1 cup of Bee’s determination to march to her own beat, even to her own detriment. (…
- Dev Update #5: New ingredients revealed! - 7 June 2025
Hello flavor-mongers! If you had the pleasure of tuning in to Frosty Games Fest this morning, you may have noticed a cheeky few ingredients we’ve never shown before. 👀 (And if you missed it, you can catch the showcase here!) Cooking beyond the classicsBurger Bois would hardly be a game of flavor experimentation if all you had to play with were bacon cheeseburger ingredients. We love bacon and cheese - but burgers can be so much more! Introducing: Live your sweet and spicy breakfast burger dreams with Waffle Buns, Kimchi, and Sriracha Sauce.Make an “oops, all purple” burger with Radicchio and Sliced Radish! (Dibs-not on taste-testing this one…) Break your customers’ banks with a Dark Chocolate and Shaved Truffles bougie burger.With heaps more ingredients to come, all this burger potential is just the start. 😌How we choose ingredientsThe only hard rule we have is it has to be a real ing…
- Dev Update #4: Burger Hedonism with the Bargain Bin Gaymers - 2 May 2025
Hello friends and burger lovers! This month we’ve got something a little different for you. Our newly coined ‘meal-deal’ sibling duo Alex & Jess had the pleasure of being interviewed by the Bargain Bin Gaymers podcast. If you’re curious about some of the mechanics we’ve been experimenting with, inspirations behind the characters, and what drives our design decision-making, pop the podcast on and give it a listen. 🙏 Thanks for watching! We had a great time yapping about whimsy and the fantasy vs reality of running a burger truck - we hope you enjoyed it too! 😀 Thanks so much to Davey & Mitch for having us. If you’re hungry for more videos like this, you can find and follow Bargain Bin Gaymers here. Until next time, Jess, Alex, Jackal & Anthony https://store.steampowered.com/app/3224290/Burger_Bois/
- Dev Update #3: The Secret Recipe Behind Burger Bois - 27 March 2025
Hi friends! This month, we’re diving into the beginnings of Burger Bois—the inspiration and the backstory that brought this game to life. So, grab a snack (preferably a burger) and let’s get into it! 💌 A Love Letter to Food & Hospitality Burger Bois is our love letter to food, creativity, and the joy of serving up something delicious. It’s a mash-up of everything we adore: the food service vibes of Good Pizza, Great Pizza, the creative challenge of Sticky Business, and the quirky, comedic characters of Ace Attorney. But where did the idea for this burger building adventure come from? Let’s rewind to 2019. 💡 The Birth of Burger Bois The idea for Burger Bois was first cooked up by Alex, our resident foodie, while reflecting on his sister Jess’… let’s say, complicated relationship with cooking. Pictured: Jess, trying to cook. Jess’ disdain for the kitchen combined with their shared love…
- Dev Update #2: Cooking up the metagame - 2 March 2025
Hello burger lovers! Now that our burger design & customer request systems are in a good place, we’ve been focusing on what managing your truck might look like - aka, the metagame. 😋 Making the game feel more “full” Keeping the balance between ‘giving the player enough levers to pull’ whilst keeping within our casual management sim genre has been an interesting design challenge. Our catchphrase with Burger Bois has always been ‘flavor not labor’, so we wanted to make sure whatever we design here doesn’t feel like work to play. This is Patty’s dayjob, but it shouldn’t feel like the player’s dayjob! Part of this process has involved researching reference games like Good Pizza Great Pizza, Sticky Business, Potionomics, and Potion Craft, to get a feel for what might work well with a Burger Bois flavor. Our notes from those sessions helped us brainstorm the wider game loop! Top secret game…
- Dev Update #1: 2024 - A Tasty Year in Review - 23 January 2025
Hi friends! 2024 was a sizzling year for Mischief Makers Studio, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you. Here’s a quick look at what we cooked up in the past year: Securing the Secret Sauce: NZ CODE KickStart Funding In March 2024, we were thrilled to secure NZ CODE KickStart funding. This support was the special sauce that helped us bring Burger Bois to life. The funding allowed us to prototype the core loop of the game and dive into visual development for our characters, ingredients, and the food truck with our talented artist, Jackal. Plus, our sound engineer and composer, Anthony, crafted some juicy SFX and an original track that truly slaps! We also built our first demo for private playtesting, and set our sights on PAX AUS. Burger Bois at PAX AUS One of our favorite moments of the year was serving up Burger Bois at PAX AUS in Melbourne. It was an incredible experience…
- 🔥🔥 BURGER BOIS SNEAK PEEK! 🔥🔥 - 11 November 2024
To celebrate Steam Cooking Fest, we're serving up a sizzling Steam broadcast with the help of our friend uMontyu. Tune into the Steam page from now until the end of Steam Cooking Fest for a first look at the core gameplay. 👁️👄👁️
- Taste-test Burger Bois at PAX Australia 2024! - 26 September 2024
Order up! Mischief Makers Studio from Aotearoa New Zealand are proud to be serving up a sizzling hot demo for their debut title, Burger Bois, at PAX Australia in 2024. With the support of NZ CODE, Burger Bois will be playable for all attendees at PAX Australia. Find NZ CODE (booth #1140) in the Expo Hall and keep an eye out for ‘Burger Bois’ to play the free demo. You can support the dev team right now by wishlisting Burger Bois here on Steam! Go on, while it’s hot. For more on Mischief Makers Studio and Burger Bois, visit the press kit and follow the team on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. About Burger Bois Burger Bois is a food truck simulator game about flavor, not labor. Operate the world’s first designer burger truck, turning your customers’ most vague requests into culinary masterpieces (or disasterpieces). There’s no recipe and no one right answer: just follow your tongue to flav…
