MIDNIGHT YOKOCHO

Start your cooking career at a tiny street stall in a late-night alley. Tap your tools — the sake barrel, charcoal grill, rice pot and fish tank — and ingredients pop out. Drop two of the same together to merge them into the next level up. Water → tea → draft beer… 4 lines (drinks, grill, rice and seafood) × 6 levels make 24 items in all.

When the dish in a customer's bubble is on your board, tap “Serve”. Serve enough orders and you move on to the next shop. Upgraded tools give better ingredients, and if the board fills up you can discard what you don't need. A golden regular sometimes drops by and pays 3×.

Street stall, standing bar, tavern, yakitori alley, robata grill, beach grill shack, dinner boat and a famous Ginza restaurant — clear all 8 shops to earn the title “Izakaya King”. Four difficulty levels — Relaxed (no time limit), Easy, Normal and Hard — and your clear time decides your rank. First time? Start with Practice mode, where a hand shows you what to do. There's also Free Play — how many orders can you serve in 5 minutes?