ファミレスを享受せよ (itch.io free original, no official English title): its lineage, descendants, and standing in Japan

Enjoy the Diner Buried gem

Steam's own text frames it with a wink: "Why not enjoy the diner? The moon is as full as it'll ever be, and there's even a drink fountain." Its own about_the_game text describes Enjoy the Diner as following "a multiple-choice format with point-and-click elements," a relatively short adventure that "typically takes 2-2.5 hours to complete," branching into one of two endings and telling players outright to save before what it calls your "fateful decision." Per Steam player reviews, the setting itself carries the hook: one calls Moon Palace an "extradimensional diner," another spends the runtime "uncovering the mystery of who the people at the moon palace are and why they're here," and a third describes a tone that starts out "grounded" before it "snowballs into showing you how absurd you were to think that." It began life as a free browser game: built in the Godot engine and released for free on itch.io by 月刊湿地帯 (Gekkan Shicchitai), a two-person Japanese doujin circle working under the handle oissisui, whose own itch.io page still links straight through to this Steam edition. For Steam, it was rebuilt from the ground up in Unity by Studio Dragonet, the one-person Fukuoka studio of せきやdn, adding, per Steam's own listing, new customer chit-chat, a Sound Gallery, an Illustration Gallery, full controller support, and Steam Achievements (nine of them, including one for trying every drink at the soda fountain) on top of the free original, and published by Waku Waku Games (わくわくゲームズ合同会社), a small Tokyo-based indie publisher with ¥1.5 million in capital. Released July 31, 2023, it is Overwhelmingly Positive at 97 percent over 1,125 reviews (1,093 positive, 32 negative per Steam's own review API), a paid title at $10.99 in the US (¥1,500 in Japan), not free, fully launched and not in Early Access, with no AI-generated assets and, per Steam's own content descriptors, nothing sexual (ids: none, notes: none). It supports Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean, all as text only with no voice acting in any of them, and while 118 of its 1,125 reviews, about 10.5 percent, are already in English, and both an active Steam community discussion and a Backloggd listing exist, so calling it entirely unreached would not be honest, that reach still falls short of the West's usual gatekeepers: no coverage from outlets such as Kotaku, PC Gamer, or Rock Paper Shotgun turns up, and the one critic review on record, from IGN Japan at a score of 80, was written in Japanese, so this overwhelmingly positive small diner remains, for now, a conversation held almost entirely in Japanese.