Night Market
Grill skewers, steam dumplings and pour fruit tea for hungry forest friends under the paper lanterns.
- Genre
- Time management, cooking
- Players
- 1
- Play with
- Keyboard, Mouse, Touch screen
- Progress
- Automatic, in your browser
- Version
- 1.0, updated
About the game
Night Market is a cozy time-management game about running a small food stall under paper lanterns. Forest friends line up with an order bubble and a patience bar, and you cook, assemble and serve their food before they get tired of waiting.
Grill skewers and flip them before they burn, warm sweet buns, steam dumplings, pour peach, berry or matcha tea with or without ice, and build noodle bowls with broth and a topping. New dishes open up over seven nights, orders grow to two or three items, and the coins you earn buy upgrades like hot coals, an extra grill slot, an auto-steamer and a tip jar.
Each night lasts two to three minutes. Everything is drawn in pixel art with soft lo-fi music, and it plays with touch, mouse or keyboard in portrait or landscape. Your progress is saved in your browser. Clear Night 7 to unlock Endless mode and chase a best score.
How to play
- Press Play, read the night's coin goal, then tap Open the stall.
- Customers show their order in a bubble. Cook it at the stations: tap the grill, flip each skewer when the arrow appears and collect it when it is golden.
- Tap ready food to put it on the counter, then tap a customer to hand over their order. You can also drag food straight onto them.
- Serve before the patience bar runs out. Faster service earns bigger tips. Burnt or wrong food goes in the bin.
- Reach the coin goal to clear the night and earn up to three stars, then spend your coins on stall upgrades.
Controls
| Action | Mouse or touch | Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Cook or add an ingredient | Tap a station or button | Arrow keys to move, Enter or Space |
| Jump to a station | – | 1 to 5 |
| Serve a customer | Tap the customer, or drag food onto them | Move to the customer, Enter |
| Throw food away | Select food on the counter, then tap the bin | X |
| Pause | II button | P or Esc |
| Mute | Speaker button | M |
Tapping a customer hands over every item they ordered that is ready, on the counter or at a station.
What’s inside
- A seven-night campaign with a coin goal and up to three stars per night.
- Twelve dishes: skewers, bean and cream buns, dumplings, peach, berry and matcha tea (plain or iced), and noodle bowls with egg or greens.
- Eight stall upgrades, including hot coals, paper lanterns, a tip jar, an auto-steamer and an extra counter spot.
- Seven animal customers: fox, owl, bear, rabbit, cat, hedgehog and raccoon.
- Endless mode after Night 7, with a saved best score.
- Plays with mouse, touch or keyboard, in portrait or landscape.
- Automatic saving in your browser, with gentle lo-fi music and a mute button.
Tips
- Flip skewers as soon as the arrow shows. Ready skewers burn if you leave them on the grill too long.
- Move finished food to the counter to free the station, and start the next dish while the first one cooks.
- The steamer makes three plates of dumplings at once, so load it early when dumplings are popular.
- Serve quickly: the fuller a customer's patience bar, the bigger the tip.
- Missed a goal? You keep the coins you earned, so buy an upgrade and try the night again.
Questions
Is Night Market free?
Yes. It's free to play in your browser, with no account and no download.
Does it work on phones and tablets?
Yes. Tap stations and customers, or drag food onto a customer. The stall rearranges itself for portrait and landscape screens.
How is my progress saved?
Your nights, stars, coins, upgrades and best Endless score are saved automatically in the browser you play in. Press Continue on the title screen to pick up where you left off.
What happens if I miss a night's goal?
You keep every coin you earned that night. Spend them on upgrades in the shop, then try the night again.
How do I unlock Endless mode?
Clear Night 7 of the campaign. In Endless mode customers keep coming faster until three of them walk away.
