Saisei

Inherit a diner going under and work out why from its ledgers and remarks. New runs let you compare figures before and after a change. One purchase, no ads, offline.

A short-run deduction game. You inherit a diner that is going under, read its ledgers and customer remarks, choose one move a day, and test your diagnosis. This is not free-form shop building or long-term management. Its fictional scoring rules are not real business advice.

In the morning you decide how much to prep and what to charge, and pick one move for the day. At noon you open the doors and watch who sits down. At night you read the ledger. Sales, ingredients, wages, rent. What is left?

Choose a run of 9, 12 or 18 days. The books close on the last day, or on the day the money runs out.

The point is not to play well. The point is to find out why this place is failing, before it does.

Before the final reckoning you name your verdict. Nobody knows the place? Ingredients cost too much? The prices are wrong? Which line of the ledger was red on the most days? Which remark gave it away? Causes you name correctly go into your collection. New shelves of moves open with the number of runs you finish, not with correct answers.

So the first run does not have to be saved. You learn this diner by losing it.

What you do

• Set prep counts and prices every morning, with buttons or by typing a number
• Pick one move a day from 57 cards (flyers, menu revisions, hiring, more seats, and so on)
• Open eight shelves of moves as you finish runs
• Look back over each day's ledger, move, warnings and remarks
• At the closing, check the warning-day counts behind the answer
• Collect 45 combinations of nine causes and their pairs, and 13 titles
• Choose a run length of 9, 12 or 18 days
• Daily diner: the same shop for everyone that day

Notes

• One purchase. No further charges.
• No ads.
• No network needed. Records stay on your iPhone, and you can export them to a file to move to a new one.
• Three text sizes.
• Japanese and English.
• One hand, portrait.