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Order up! Food Truck Empire is a management game where you build your own food truck business. Unlock new recipes, automate production, customize your trucks and compete against rival businesses. The world of flavor is yours to conquer!

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Demo Live Now! 🍔

Oct 9

Hello Emperors,

We’re a part of the Cooking Fest that kicks off this October 12th, AND we’ve got a fresh Demo live now with lots of updates for you to sink your teeth into! 🌭

🌭 We’re part of Cooking Fest!

Steam Cooking Fest runs from October 12th - 19th and celebrates games about cooking, running restaurants, managing food trucks (hey that’s us!), cafes, pubs and food factories!

There’s a lot of discounts across the event and Demos, including ours which we hope you enjoy!

🍔 Join the Food Truck Empire on Discord!

Thank you as always to our wonderful community in our Discord[discord.gg]. We’ve enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the Playtest, the Gamescom Demo and seeing your feedback from your experience with Food Truck Empire.

Come join us to talk about all things Food Truck and share your trucks with us!

🎨 Share your Trucks with us?

Got a Food Truck you’re proud of? Share your screenshots with us on Discord [discord.gg]or tag us on socials, we’ll be featuring more community creations we see throughout Cooking Fest!

🍔 What’s New in The Demo?

We’ve made a lot of changes since the Gamescom Demo, so if you were playing then here’s a lot of new reasons to jump back in.

Anything marked with a ⭐has been implemented as a result of direct player feedback.

🖥️Interface & UX

Improved food truck cooking UI, highlighting positive and negative tags.
New way of displaying research trees.
Improved room creation window.
Improved room edition.
New event timeline panel.
Events now work better with tasks, time of event is clearly shown.
RMB drag camera movement. ⭐
You can use arrow keys instead of WASD for camera controls. ⭐
Office improvements - just made it less clunky (hopefully).

Doors no longer block room resize. ⭐
Doors can be placed in room corners! ⭐
Highlighting occupied & available floor cells, so you know where to put stuff! ⭐
Better interactions on furniture.
Clearer explanation of dish preparation time. ⭐
Easier mounting of equipment on walls.
Intuitive undo of cooking connections. ⭐
Level content visible on campaign screen.
You can now use RMB to connect stations in the Food Truck.

✨ New Content:

New demographic - Moonchildren.
New Dish: Bowl.
New Dish: Hot Dog.
New Tech available: more cooking, prep, ingredients and more!

🎮 Gameplay:

Medium Food Truck size available!
You can now permanently beat the opponent. ⭐
Tutorial is skippable. ⭐
2x longer food truck lines (with ways to make them LONGER) .
You can sell your Food Trucks!
Increased base dish serving capacity.
Added equipment that boosts dish serving capacity.
Option to discard all recent changes in truck equipment. ⭐
General economy adjustments. ⭐
Streamlined tutorials.

🔋 Performance

Simulation optimization ⭐
Autosave improvements - should help with late game lag.
Simulation speed increase - max speed x3 is now 4 times faster.
HQ performance update, FPS should be now much higher and more stable. We did some magic with draw calls.
Shadow quality setting. ⭐

🎚️ Accessibility:

RMB view panning. ⭐
Increased text readability. ⭐

🛠️ Fixes:

Fixed game speed switching during transitions.
Fixed neighborhood control being applied to wrong neighborhoods.
And a ton of tiny fixes and bugs Squashing them daily for you.

We hope you enjoy the demo and don’t be shy about letting us know what you think!

Stay in the loop📱

If you'd like to follow our game dev journey on social media, you can find us on these channels:

Twitter/X[x.com] 🍣

Discord [discord.gg]🧀

Instagram [www.instagram.com]🍕

TikTok [www.tiktok.com]🌭

Food Truck Empire

Demo

Finally got some time to play the demo today and its gone. I wish you guys would leave a demo up otherwise its just a playtest. Also, this game has been on my wishlist for over 2 years, wish you could get it done so we can play.

Tarne

Oct 12 @ 3:21am

Demo Discussion

Closed Playtest: Coming September 21st🚚

Sep 11

Happy Friday Emperors!

We’re really excited to share with you that we’re having a Closed Playtest on September 21st!

🗓️ Playtesting Timeline

🗓️ Playtest Starts

🔒 Playtest Ends

Monday 21st of September 2:00PM BST / 3PM CEST / 6:00AM PDT

Monday 5th of October

🎮How to get Access

We’ve been cooking up some new features for you to try out, AND have implemented a lot of changes based on feedback from you, our players! Read more below to get the full list!

🍔 Be a member of our Food Truck Discord!

A special shoutout to our wonderful community over on the Discord, we appreciate you!

And to show you how much, we’re giving guaranteed access to the Playtest if you’re a part of the Food Truck Empire Discord[discord.com]! 😉

🌭 Register and Request Access through Steam

Head on over to our Steam page to register your interest and we’ll be letting in another 2000 players to this one so this is your chance if you haven’t been a part of our previous tests.

📰 Sign Up through the Fireshine Newsletter

Another way to get access is to sign up to the Fireshine Games Newsletter where you can fill out a form to register your interest in taking part.

👉🏻NEWSLETTER SIGN UP[forms.fireshinegames.co.uk] 👈🏻

🌭 What’s New in This Playtest

Anything marked with a ⭐has been implemented as a result of direct player feedback.

✨New Content:

New Dishes: bowl, hot-dog.
New food truck sizes.
New tech/research.
New Demographic: Moonchildren.
New neighborhood tasks and rewards.

🏢General improvements to Office:

Functional multi-room setups. ⭐
Placing doors in room corners ⭐

🚚 Improvements to food truck interior:

New interface elements for greater informational clarity.
Improved cohesion of existing interface elements.
Clearer explanation of dish preparation time. ⭐
Easier mounting of equipment on walls.
Intuitive undo of cooking connections. ⭐
Option to discard all recent changes. ⭐

🎮Gameplay:

Game simulation speed increases.
Base serving capacity increase..
Serving capacity-boosting equipment
Longer food truck queue lines.

🎚️Accessibility:

RMB view panning. ⭐
Increased text readability. ⭐

🔋Performance:

General performance improvements. ⭐
Shadow quality setting. ⭐
Level content visible on campaign screen
Fix: save/load issues.

Tutorial Revamp..and more!

Thank you to everyone that’s taken part in testing Food Truck Empire and took the Demo for a test drive during Gamescom! We appreciate you being here for the journey and look forward to seeing more of you getting stuck in and creating your own Food Truck Empire! 😉

Let's stay in touch! 📱

If you'd like to follow our game dev journey on social media, you can find us on these channels:Twitter/X[x.com] 🍣
Discord[discord.gg] 🧀
Instagram[www.instagram.com] 🍕
TikTok[www.tiktok.com] 🌭

Food Truck Empire

Food Truck Empire - Demo Patch 5

Aug 28

Fixed potential camera tutorial soft lock
Added jump to location tooltip outside city view
Performance optimizations

Food Truck Empire

Share your Feedback

Hi everyone, Thank you for checking out DEMO version of Food Truck Empire! 🍟 We rely on feedback from our players to ensure that the direction we're taking with our game is the right one, the fun one. In order for us to understand your experiences and feelings we'd love to ask you to fill out this feedback form that will help us determine how much did you enjoy our game and its different features. ▶ Please click here to share your feedback with us! 📝[/ur...

Lichthund_Radek

Aug 27 @ 6:35pm

Demo Discussion

Two demo issues - August 2026

Thanks for the updated demo, I've been enjoying it! I have run into two issues. Trying to build an office for the second truck unlock was giving me issues. I had to delete and retry it several times times even though I had enough money and points to unlock it. When I decided to try exiting the demo and reloading to see if that would help with my office placement issue Steam said that it was continuing to run and I had to force quit. Restarting the computer didn't make a difference to the office placem...