Curry Shift

Your kitchen. Your shift.

The customers are arriving, the rice is cooking, and that curry is nearly ready. Can you keep everything moving?

In Curry Shift, you run a busy takeaway kitchen on your own. Collect ingredients, chop, cook, package and serve the right dish before each customer runs out of patience. You can carry one thing at a time, so a little planning goes a long way.

Start with chicken and vegetable curry, learn new dishes as the weeks unfold, and spend your earnings on equipment that suits the way you play. Faster prep? Safer pans? A little warning about the next customer? The choice is yours.

On the menu

• Seven recipes, including biryani, vegetable fried rice and chilli-pepper chicken.
• Tuesday-to-Saturday weeks with a lively Saturday rush.
• Fourteen upgrade levels across five branches.
• Music that changes with the pressure, plus musical cues for key moments.
• Rebindable keyboard controls, separate sound and music settings, and reduced motion.

You have three free-meal vouchers to get through each week. Miss a customer and use one. Run out and you are fired; make it through Saturday and your vouchers refill.

Free to play in your desktop browser or download for Windows. No purchase required.

Controls

Action	Default keys
Move	WASD or arrow keys
Interact / pick up / place	E
Clear a cold pan	X twice
Recipe book	Tab
Pause / back	Esc
Mute	M
Toggle reduced motion	T
Select a menu item	Arrow keys
Confirm a menu choice	Enter

Mouse clicks also work in menus. Change gameplay keys in Settings → Controls. The recipe book shows each dish's production steps. 

Credits and development

A game by Alpaca Games.

Curry Shift was made with AI-assisted development, including coding, testing and generated splash, menu and promotional artwork.

Music: Saffron Sprint, an original synthesized music pack and stingers supplied for Curry Shift.

 UI, fonts and sound effects by Kenney assets.

 Built with Unity.

This game was built as an experiment in which model would be better for building a game, Sol, Astra or DeepSeek 4.1. Astra had the best graphics, but DeepSeek was the best technical model. A combination of these 2 models were used for this.

Thanks for playing. Keep the curry moving!