Astro Diner Game Manual

The released campaign

Neon Market and Magma Core are the two released worlds. Their shifts use authored recipe sets. Arriving customers receive a randomly chosen recipe from the current set, so ticket order varies even though the recipes themselves are defined in the recipe book.

The remaining theme cards are unreleased. They are not later stages that you can unlock in this version. Replay a released world to improve its best star result, practise a recipe, or work toward a mission. Replaying does not add the same stars again to your career total.

During service

Read a waiting ticket from left to right. Ingredient order and repeated items both matter. Add only that sequence to the prep deck. A finished plate is not a served order until you press Serve Order. In Neon Market, tapping a ticket focuses its guidance. If several customers share a recipe, serving still chooses the first matching waiting customer.

In Neon Market, a wrong ingredient stays on the plate so Undo can remove it without losing earlier ingredients. Mistakes still reset the combo and reduce hype. Other worlds may clear invalid sequences automatically. Departing customers cost a life and break the combo, so check patience as well as ticket length.

Recipe guidance pauses service. Hold R to read and release to close, or open Recipes & help and close it when finished. Select Resume to continue. Number keys 1-4 add ingredients, and S serves a matching plate.

Captured from local Neon Market play. Repeated ingredients occupy separate positions on the plate.

Difficulty and the end of a shift

The shift earnings goal is 250 credits. Survive until the timer ends with at least that amount to win. Losing all lives ends the shift in defeat. A defeat can retain one earned star, but cannot award a second or third star.

Chill offers more starting time. Chaos offers less time and a faster pressure setting. Neither removes the exact-order requirement. Select a pace that lets you read the current tickets; a harder label does not by itself multiply the reward for a serve.

The result screen separates shift earnings from career payouts. Read the outcome, stars, and next-action button before continuing. A recommendation is a suggested choice, not proof that a new world has unlocked.

Between shifts

The manager spends career funds on persistent upgrades. Purchase costs rise by level. Hover Stool asks for confirmation and adds visible seating in the next Neon Market shift. More seating permits more waiting customers; it does not repair a plate. A payout upgrade helps clean service earn more, while patience support gives tickets more room before departure.

Save tools are below the world-selection progress area. Refresh and download an export before moving browsers or replacing a save. A guide link opens a separate page, so finish or pause service first. When returning, check the visible game state rather than assuming an unfinished run was saved.