PlateUp!
BANGER · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 14.8h
- Value
- $1.35/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 530 or AMD equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 36 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cook, Serve, Delicious! ($12.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Feed the Cups ($15.99, scores 27).
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 271 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 923 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 14.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 75, 5.1 times as much.
It came out 4 years ago and 832 were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 14.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
84% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
832 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Very cute, very fun. I like being the chef but being a waiter can be fun too!! Very adorable game
Many hours of playing with group of friends and this is a never ending fun to play game. i hope dev raise this game always up. <3
If you want to get extremely irritated and possibly ruin your friendships play this
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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PlateUp! scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1599600/plateupThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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