Goblin Sushi is a roguelike, deck-building game with an unexpected, chef’s kiss pairing of goblins and cooking. As a cave goblin chef, starting from humble beginnings, players make a living by serving sushi primed for goblin taste buds.
Life seems simple and the dream of a five-star restaurant is within reach. It feels like another fast-paced cooking management game except there’s a teeny, tiny catch — the insatiable goblin landlord.
Meet Your Most Hated (Goblin) Landlord of all Time
Goblin Sushi is rent inflation like you’ve never seen it before. Suddenly, it’s pure chaos in the kitchen as players have to make enough sushi to survive insane rounds of rent increases. Restaurant ratings plummet as goblins lose patience when other goblins eat their order. Act fast and commit a few sins along the way if you have to, because failure to pay rent is not an option.
If you can somehow pay all your rent though, well, you’ll see what happens…
Give in to Your True Nature
In each run, players draft a combination of upgrades to stay ahead of inflation. An upgrade can do one of many things, like increase the base selling price of your dishes, improve the speed and efficiency of the restaurant, or even damage control.
Resource management is key as players must keep calm and keep clicking. Curate the most expensive sushi in goblin history, or win by embracing your chaotic evil self — after all, you are a goblin. All I know is that it’s hard making an honest living as a goblin, and maybe malevolence is always the answer.
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Fail Again
In Goblin Sushi, each failed run leads you closer to success with permanent upgrades unlocked — it’s a little roguelike. Madness is dialed up another notch where successful runs unlock higher difficulties and new appliances.
Goblin Sushi took me many, many runs before I started to get the hang of it. Each failed run only made me more determined to succeed in the next and it was addictive. It does get easier and although it’s an unforgiving game by nature, there are opportunities to recover from mistakes.
More on the Menu Soon
For players out there who enjoy a healthy dose of greed and mischief in their lives, Goblin Sushi is shaping up well. I’ve come across the sushi mat bugging out and audio being delayed in back-to-back runs, but I’m sure they’ll get fixed. Only time will tell what new outlandish combinations will exist when Old Cake Factory add more items and upgrades.
Feed your inner goblin when Goblin Sushi comes out in early access on February 9th on PC via Steam, Android and iOS.
Early access to Goblin Sushi was supplied to Quest Daily for the purpose of this article.
