- A few important clarifications about Rhombico - 8 November 2025
This past week, I’ve received so many kind words, personal messages, and stories from people who have played our games. I can’t thank you enough for the warmth and all the words of support! And now, a few important clarifications to answer some of the questions that have been popping up: Rhombico Games is not closing completely, but we’re winding down operations significantly. This means no new projects are in development, and our activity will be much less from now on. However, the games we have released will remain available. Nothing is being taken down. You can continue to buy and play them on Steam and other stores as usual. Support will continue on a limited basis. If you need help, please use the contact form on our website. That’s the only channel we’ll be monitoring going forward. Unfortunately, we won’t have the capacity to respond on Steam forums, social media, or other platfo…
- Thank you for playing! - 31 October 2025
Hello everyone, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to begin winding down Rhombico Games. It’s a bittersweet moment, for sure. I am, at the same time, filled with pride for everything we’ve built, gratitude for everyone who’s been part of the journey, and some sadness for what’s coming to an end. Sometimes, things simply don't work out as we expected, despite putting all of our effort in them. We had a good run, though! As part of this transition, the development of our upcoming game, “Break, Enter, Repeat”, will be put on hold indefinitely. It’s a project I deeply care about and believe in. And I still hope that, in some form, its vision and spirit may find a way forward someday. As for the other games (Winds Of Trade, Automachef, Power to the People, Consumption Line), they sadly won't receive any more content or feature updates. I will try my best, though, to address critic…
- ❗Update Required - 4 October 2025
We want to let you know about an important update. A recently identified security vulnerability within Unity has been spotted, and while there is currently no evidence of impact on users, we’re taking all relevant steps to ensure you’re on the latest and safest version of the game. To keep you safe, we’ve released a new patch that addresses the issue. Please update your game as soon as possible to stay protected. You can read more about it here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01 As always, our priority will be on keeping our games safe and enjoyable for everyone. https://store.steampowered.com/app/984800/Automachef/
- Epic's next free game is basically Factorio meets Overcooked - 19 August 2021
It's Thursday, and you know what that means - another round of free PC games from the Epic Games Store. This week, you can grab Yooka-Laylee and Void Bastards , and as ever, Epic has revealed next week's freebie, too. Next time around, you'll be able to grab Automachef, which brings the factory-building spirit of games like Factorio to the kitchen. You'll be able to grab Automachef from the usual Epic Games Store promotion page on Thursday, August 26 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST. It'll be there for one full week, at which point it'll be replaced by another freebie. As always, you'll 'purchase' the game at a price of zero dollars, and it'll remain in your library just like any game you might pay money for. The store page describes Automachef as a "a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life". You can "take on the campai…
- Automachef 50% off in the Team17 Publisher Sale - 28 May 2020
Humans! 🤖 Get your cook on and take over the culinary world! Automachef is 50% off for a limited time in the Team17 Steam Publisher Sale! A resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today! https://store.steampowered.com/app/984800/Automachef/ Check out what else is on offer in the Team17 Publisher Sale!
- Automachef Lunar Update - 24 January 2020
Hello Fellow Humans, Happy Lunar New Year! We're extremely excited to share that the free Automachef Lunar Update is now live! Watch the trailer here: Here's all of the new content coming: New Recipes Kung Pao Chicken Dumplings Serving Steamed Rice Serving (side dish) New machines Food Steamer https://i.imgur.com/Jmgcqpb.gif New Levels Level 1: Going Soy Well Level 2: What A Filling! Level 3: Wok On By https://i.imgur.com/4z0mgF5.gif New ingredients Bell Pepper Chicken Stock Chopped Bell Pepper Dried Chili Dumpling Filling Dumpling Wrapper Ginger Grated Ginger Minced Pork Pork Rice Soy Sauce Water https://i.imgur.com/OXIYfPJ.gif Thanks for reading everyone! We hope you all enjoy the new content and wish you good luck in your path to world domination... of cuisine!
- Steam Awards 2019 - Vote for Automachef - The Best Game You Suck At Award - 29 November 2019
Hello fellow humans! We hope you've all been enjoying the free Thanksgiving update that went live yesterday, be sure to let us know how you are finding all of the new content. Thank you all for your support so far! Today we humbly ask you to vote for Automachef as your nomination for 'The Best Game You Suck At Award', in this years Steam Awards! https://i.imgur.com/S83hWcl.gif We're also thrilled to announce the game is currently 25% off in the Steam Autumn Sale! Thanks for reading, until next humans!
- Automachef Thanksgiving Free Content Update! - 28 November 2019
Welcome fellow humans! Thanks for all of your support so far, today we are thrilled to announce the release of a free Thanksgiving content update for Automachef! Watch the trailer now: This update brings with it a whole host of content including a new machine, the Oven. https://i.imgur.com/g1f7fuL.gif Three new levels and two new contracts for Contracts Mode! https://i.imgur.com/Kd1bpHh.gif Four new recipes: Cornbread, Pumpkin Pie, Roast Turkey, Sweet Potatoes Side. Finally several new ingredients: Pumpkin, Fresh Herbs, Onion, Cornmeal, Sweet Potato, Milk and more! https://i.imgur.com/ixkSxtd.gif Here's lots more changes brought to this patch to make the game better: QoL Shortcuts to move machines, clone machines, create blueprints and view recipes tools. Drag with the mouse to select parts in order to clone, move or make a blueprint out of them at any time. Making different control mac…
- Save up to 80% in the Team17 publisher sale! - 16 October 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32941731%2F37868a4a2dc3bdce3610c17f171c20df5cadc1df.jpg Our Steam publisher sale is now live, offering up to 80% on various games, DLC and even soundtracks! Click here to check out what's on offer! Included in this sale are the recently released Blasphemous and Overcooked! 2 'Carnival of Chaos' DLC, early access titles Hell Let Loose and Monster Sanctuary AND some of our older classic titles too! Happy gaming!
- Kitchen Confidential #8 - Top Developer Tips! - 26 September 2019
Welcome to yet another Kitchen Confidential, my good old carbon-based friends! Today I am going to be sharing some of my top tips so you can be successful entrepreneurs, taking over the world of fast food, just like me. Things can get very tricky under certain conditions, so it’s important to pay attention and make an effort to increase the efficiency of your kitchen in order to deliver food to your beloved customers as quickly as possible. Here are some of the common pitfalls and some thoughts on how to get them sorted out, so machines will continue serving us, humans, in a predictable and non-world-conquering way. Adjusting the time between ingredients in your dispensers can be an easy way to get the ingredient ratios right and avoid the use of expensive order readers. If your recipe, for example, requires two patties but only one bun, make sure that the time between ingredients in th…
- Kitchen Confidential #7 - Mod Creation! - 3 September 2019
Hey everyone, Welcome to Automachef's 7th Kitchen Confidential! This week the definitely human Robert Person has graced us with their presence! Robert shall be explaining how Mods work and how you can make your own to play and share on the Steam Workshop. Let's get stuck in shall we? Mod Creation Hello fellow humans, welcome to yet another “Kitchen Confidential”. This time we are going to talk about one of the features that sets Automachef apart: the tools that allow players to create their very own recipes, ingredients, dishes and levels and then share them with the rest of the community! In order to see some of the creations you could make using the Automachef Software Development Kit, check out the Steam Workshop, particularly the following mods, which are extremely fun to play: Danish Food (frikadellesandwich, flæskesteg and other traditional Danish foods) Delicious Desserts (ice cr…
- Kitchen Confidential #6 - Contracts Mode! - 16 August 2019
Hey everyone, Welcome to our sixth Kitchen Confidential! Have you conquered Campaign mode? Built the craziest kitchens in Test Site? Are you hungry to build your own business to spread the joy of fully automated kitchens? Then Automachef’s Contracts Mode is for you! Contracts Mode In this mode you’ll be running your own kitchen building company, taking contracts from different clients and expanding your business - who you choose to work with is your choice! As you’re starting your own business you’ll have your very own cash reserve. This is used to buy the machines you need to complete the relevant contracts. Spend it wisely though, as spent cash can only be replenished from successful contracts! Starting and growing your company Initially you’ll start off with a basic set of machines. These will be instantly recognisable as your everyday kitchen parts such as conveyor belts, dispensers…
- Patch #1 - Live Now! - 14 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34988152%2F6498289e40802a71bbadd7144fc2bdc3c235cc62.jpg Hey everyone, Today we're releasing our first patch for Automachef! This patch focuses on some quality of life improvements and bug fixes based on your feedback, so thank you to everyone who took a moment to share their feedback with us here on Steam and on our various social media channels. The Patch Notes! Quality of life Key Rebinding. Save prompt before returning to the main menu, allowing you to store successful designs for the future. Added a button to skip the robot's speech at the beginning of a level. Music playlist is now less repetitive when playing for an extended period of time. Ultra-wide support for extreme aspect ratios. “Efficiency” metric has been improved, allowing 100% efficiency to be achieved in most levels if the layout doesn't waste ingredients…
- Automachef and Wonder Boy among four free games for Twitch Prime subscribers - 4 August 2019
Alongside some Madden NFL 20 goodies , Twitch Prime members are getting four games as part of their subscription this month, including recently-released automated cooking puzzler Automachef and shapeshifting Metroidvania Mable and the Wood . Twitch Prime membership is automatically bundled with Amazon Prime, and if you've signed up you can grab the games here —scroll down to the bottom of that page. You can claim four in total, and the other two are platformer Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap , which is a remake of a 1989 Sega Master System game, and biking game Pumped BMX Pro . Automachef, released late last month, looks the pick of the bunch, and its Steam user reviews are currently "very positive". Mable and the Wood looks intriguing, too: titular hero Mable can transform into a fairy, mole or monster to overcome different obstacles. It's due out on Steam and GOG l…
- Kitchen Confidential #5 - Upcoming Patch Insight! - 1 August 2019
Hello everyone, Thank you all so much for your support during Automachef’s launch, we really appreciate it! The team have been avidly reading through your forum comments and Steam reviews taking note of what you like, as well as bugs and what you feel could do with some tweaks. We’re now in a position where we’re almost ready to release our first patch based on this feedback… Automachef's First Patch - Coming Soon! We’re pleased to share that Automachef’s first patch is coming soon! Built around what we learned from the community, you can expect the following when the patch goes live: Key Rebinding. Save prompt before returning to the main menu, allowing you to store successful designs for the future. Ultra-wide support for extreme aspect ratios. “Efficiency” metric has been improved, allowing 100% efficiency to be achieved in most levels if the layour doesn't waste ingredients or energ…
- Wot I Think: Automachef - 26 July 2019
Developer: Hermes Interactive Publisher: Team 17 Digital Ltd. Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam , GOG , Humble Price: 11/$15/ 15 I was doing it all wrong. My first few hours with Automachef had me proper wound up because, basically, it wasn’t Factorio, and thus has different goals. That’s entirely on me, of course. Although a mere glance at Hermes Interactive’s new robot kitchen game is enough to make the similarities obvious, Automachef is very much a puzzle game. And it’s a bloody good one too. (more…)
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair – Alternate Level States - 24 July 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32941731%2F7ed0da1a8440c6a51248897ed8559710f4c54e20.jpg On your quest to defeat Capital B, you’ll discover secrets and solve puzzles in the overworld to unlock alternate level states! Spark some change by hooking up electricity, flood chapters with running water or literally flip them upside down for radically altered challenges! Check out the brand new trailer below… https://youtu.be/Yfk72Js6rTE Team17 x PlayTonic Games Livestream Join us at 3pm BST / 7am PDT on Thursday 25th July for a Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair livestream! We’ll be showing off some of the alternate level states and have some of the dev team with us to answer your questions! Tune in on Mixer, Twitch, YouTube, Facebook or here on the Steam store page! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32941731%2F5f4ffe928ace0fbaaab%25E2%2580%25A6
- Automachef, the game about churning out automated meals, is out today - 24 July 2019
Food prepared by robotic arm and conveyor belt may lack the warmth of grandma's goulash, but at least it's convenient. In Automachef, you're tasked with slotting automation equipment together in order to streamline the creation of *Italian gesture of blissful approval* automated cuisine . It sounds like a more cerebral version of Overcooked, but it's actually a very elegant looking puzzle game for fans of Factorio and Satisfactory, among others. There's a campaign mode, as well as a contracts mode which tasks you with fulfilling the desires of various (made up) businesses. But the sandbox test mode sounds like the most fun: what's the most diabolically complex route towards mass producing the humble hot dog? Automachef is out today, with a ten percent discount for early adopters, and it looks like mod support is coming post-launch, too. Check out the launch…
- Automachef – Out Now! - 23 July 2019
Hello fellow humans, Welcome to Automachef, the kitchen designing, robotic machinery programming resource management puzzler! We’re incredibly excited to be launching today and wholeheartedly welcome you to the community. Check out the launch trailer below to get a look at what we’re all about: https://youtu.be/sJMCSfFdd9g Key Features What can you get up to in Automachef? Allow us to elaborate below… Design and build automated restaurants and then program them to run as efficiently as possible! Take on challenging puzzles and scenarios that have multiple solutions using a combination of spatial awareness, resource management and problem-solving skills. Play three different modes! Take on the story levels in Campaign, create and sell blueprints to the business world in Contracts Mode, or just go nuts and bolts in our Sandbox Test Mode and play until you’re full! Take advantage of Automa…
- Kitchen Confidential #4 - Efficiency! - 18 July 2019
Hello fellow humans, Welcome to our fourth serving of Kitchen Confidential! As humans and definitely not robots, we love efficiency! But what is efficiency in Automachef and how can you make sure you’re always operating at 100% and maximising your profit margins? Maximum Efficiency! In the kitchen, efficiency is a metric between 1% and 100% that’s calculated on both ingredient and energy usage. In order to reach the glorious upper echelons of 80% - 100% you’ll need to use the exact amount of ingredients and as little energy as possible to finisher all of your customer’s orders. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34988152%2Ffbc0547aeabbab989c30ddd683b3b7b5acb4fd3f.gif In Campaign mode you won’t have to be too concerned about maintaining a high efficiency, but management will certainly appreciate it if you do! Contracts Mode is a different story, some of the…
