Kinny and the Unnameable Oden Shop Is a Deck-Building Roguelike, Not a Cooking Sim
The game's Japanese title is a marketing choice that reframes a cosmic cauldron as an oden shop, and the developer explained the reasoning in an interview.
Reporting from 1 sources: Automaton.
Kinny and the Unnameable Oden Shop, a deck-building roguelike from developer Kinnymoms, releases on Steam August 1. The Japanese title uses 'Unnameable Oden Shop' as a strategic concept, not a literal description. The English title is Kinny and the Cosmic Cauldron. The game has over 10,000 Steam wishlists as of May 5.
Kinny and the Unnameable Oden Shop is not a game about running a Japanese oden stall. It is a deck-building roguelike where a witch named Lila throws ingredients into a cauldron to serve aliens. The Japanese title, which translates to 'Unnameable Oden Shop,' was proposed by the publisher. Developer Young June told Automaton that the phrase is a strategic concept, not a literal description of the gameplay. The English title is Kinny and the Cosmic Cauldron. The game launches on Steam on August 1 and has already passed 10,000 wishlists.
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