It’s an instant download — the file is available the moment your payment clears, straight from your order confirmation. Nothing ships and there’s no email delay.

Any device with a browser — phone, tablet or laptop. You open the downloaded file the same way you’d open a web page, and the layout adapts to the screen size.

Refunds are handled under our store’s Refund Policy (30 days), which covers the details for digital access.

An evening, give or take. Twenty-one in-game days move quickly once you’ve found the rhythm, and it saves where you left off if you’d rather play a few days at a time.

The first run usually ends badly, and that’s the design. Losing teaches you which things you keep over-buying, and the second run is noticeably better.

Yes. The household has a patience meter, and enough missed dinners or binned food ends the run before day twenty-one. Finishing it at all is an achievement the first time.

It’s a game first, but the shelf lives, the prices and the trade-offs are realistic enough that the habit it drills — cook the oldest thing first — carries straight into a real kitchen.

No. It’s one self-contained file that runs in the browser you already have. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, no internet needed once it’s downloaded.

No. The market offers a different mix each morning, deals and bulk buys appear at random, and the events that disrupt the week are drawn fresh — so a strategy that worked once still has to hold up.