Yatai Master

Yatai Master is a management and narrative game about running a small Japanese-inspired street food stall during the final year of its owner's career.

Buy ingredients, manage limited stock, prepare dishes under time pressure, serve your customers, and get to know the people who return to your counter night after night. Your reputation grows from the meals you prepare and the experience you create around the yatai.

Over 365 days, the stall becomes more than a place to eat. Regular customers reveal their personalities, preferences, and stories, while merchants, local events, and everyday encounters gradually build a community around you.

Cook and Serve

Prepare more than 100 dishes using ingredients bought from specialized local markets.

Ingredient quality matters, but so does how you prepare them. Choose the correct ingredients, watch cooking times, manage limited kitchen space, and decide when speed is worth sacrificing quality.

Get to Know Your Customers

The people sitting at your counter are more than orders to complete.

Regular customers have their own personalities, preferences, hobbies, and stories. Talk with them, learn what matters to them, and gradually discover the lives behind the faces that return to your yatai.

Sometimes those conversations may even lead to new recipes, places, objects, or opportunities

Manage a Small Business

Keep an eye on stock, expenses, sales, customer reviews, and your overall reputation.

Discover new suppliers, compare prices and ingredient quality, unlock additional cooking equipment, and adapt your decisions as the year progresses.

Explore Local Markets

Different markets specialize in different ingredients, prices, and levels of quality.

Meet the merchants who run them, discover new places through exploration and conversation, and decide where your limited money is best spent before opening for the night.

A Year of Small Stories

The game takes place across the final 365 days before the Yatai Master retires.

News, conversations, daily events, customer reviews, and quiet moments between working days gradually reveal what this final year — and the years that came before it — have meant to the Yatai Master.

How that final year is remembered depends on how well you ran the yatai.

Features

• Run a small Japanese-inspired street food stall.

• Prepare and serve more than 100 dishes.

• Manage ingredient quality, stock, cooking times, finances, and reputation.

• Meet recurring customers with distinct personalities and personal stories.

• Build relationships through conversations and everyday interactions.

• Discover specialized markets, suppliers, recipes, and equipment.

• Follow the yatai through an entire 365-day final year.

• Reach different endings based on your overall performance.

• Experience a quiet narrative about routine, community, family legacy, and the meaning we give to work.