01
Cook
Hands-on kitchen gameplay built around recipes, stations, timing and service pressure.
Funding Pitch · 2026
BUILD.
COOK.
COMPETE.
Kitchen Rivals is a restaurant management and hands-on cooking game where players grow their restaurant, win the loyalty of a living city and compete with rival restaurants for culinary dominance.
Kitchen Rivals is currently in active development. Promotional concept material may illustrate planned systems and visual direction and should not be interpreted as final gameplay.
Funding Request
$50,000USD
Completion funding for an existing playable project, focused on production capacity, presentation quality and release readiness.
- Developer
- ExagonSoft
- Platform
- PC
- Current stage
- Playable development build
- Estimated release
- August 2027
- Business model
- Premium
The Game
The kitchen is only the beginning.
Each service feeds a larger restaurant business. Performance becomes revenue, revenue becomes growth, and growth creates new opportunities to compete across the city.
02
Manage
Turn successful services into revenue, improvements and a stronger restaurant.
03
Grow
Build reputation and win customer loyalty as the restaurant develops.
04
Compete
Challenge rival restaurants for preference, prestige and influence across the city.
Current State
Already playable.
Funding is for finishing.
Kitchen Rivals is not a concept waiting to be prototyped. Development has already produced the core playable cooking experience, game infrastructure, visual identity and public product presence.
Playable Unity project
Core recipe & cooking loop
Customer request flow
Earnings & reward logic
Established visual identity
Public game website
Playable itch.io demo
Steam release preparation
Funding
$50K focused on production.
The funding is designed to add specialist capacity around the internal development team, rather than expand the scope unnecessarily.
$50,000
Total requested
3D Art & Environment$12,000
Engineering$12,000
UI/UX & 2D Art$5,000
Audio & Music$5,000
QA & Playtesting$4,000
Marketing & Launch$4,000
Infrastructure & Tools$3,000
Localization$2,000
Contingency$2,000
Store / Release$1,000
ExagonSoft retains engineering direction and production ownership internally. Funding primarily adds specialized capacity in 3D production, UI/UX, audio, QA, localization and release preparation.
Budget Detail
How the $50K is calculated.
The production budget is built from concrete work packages required to move Kitchen Rivals from its current playable development state through content production, feature completion, QA and PC release. Allocations may shift within categories as production progresses, while maintaining the overall $50,000 funding target.
3D Art & Environment
$12,000Restaurant environments & modular interior assets$4,000
Kitchen equipment & interactive props$3,000
Characters, uniforms & customization assets$2,500
Materials, lighting & visual optimization$2,500
Engineering
$12,000Restaurant management & progression systems$3,000
City, customers & reputation systems$3,000
Rivalry & multiplayer groundwork$3,000
Optimization, platform & release engineering$3,000
UI/UX & 2D Art
$5,000Gameplay HUD & kitchen interfaces$1,500
Restaurant management & progression UI$1,500
Menus, onboarding & accessibility polish$1,000
Icons, illustrations & supporting 2D assets$1,000
Audio & Music
$5,000Original music & adaptive soundtrack$2,000
Kitchen, environment & interaction SFX$1,500
UI, feedback & notification audio$750
Mixing, mastering & implementation support$750
QA & Playtesting
$4,000Structured external playtesting$1,500
Compatibility & regression testing$1,250
Performance & release-candidate QA$1,250
Marketing & Launch
$4,000Trailer & promotional media production$1,500
PR, creator outreach & launch campaign$1,250
Store assets & promotional artwork$750
Community & launch support$500
Infrastructure & Tools
$3,000Unity services & development infrastructure$1,250
Cloud hosting, backend & online services$750
Production software, assets & development tools$1,000
Localization
$2,000Translation & localization$1,250
Localization QA & integration$750
Contingency
$2,000Production contingency reserve$2,000
Store / Release
$1,000Store fees, release administration & distribution$1,000
Production Budget
Completion funding · October 2026 → August 2027
$50,000
USD Total
Budget figures are production estimates based on the current project scope and planned use of internal development capacity, contractors, services and release resources. Individual line items may be reallocated within the approved production budget as development needs evolve.
Production Timeline
October 2026 → August 2027
The schedule intentionally reserves the final months for QA, localization, balancing and stabilization rather than treating feature completion as release readiness.
Oct – Nov 2026
Production Foundation
Content pipeline, UI architecture, restaurant systems and production tooling.
Dec 2026 – Jan 2027
Restaurant Expansion
Management progression, city layer and continued art production.
Feb – Mar 2027
Rivalry
Competition systems, deeper content and multiplayer groundwork.
Apr – May 2027
Feature Complete
Launch-critical systems complete, content lock, polish and optimization.
Jun – Jul 2027
Release Candidate
QA, localization, balancing, regression testing and performance work.
August 2027
PC Launch
Final fixes, release preparation and launch operations.
Review the project
See the vision.
Then play what already exists.
The complete deck contains the gameplay vision, funding breakdown, production milestones and release strategy. The current Windows development demo is available separately on itch.io.