BODY: Ever stared at a ramen menu and wished you could just build the bowl yourself? Soon you can — virtually, at least. Flyhigh Works announced today that Ramen Simulator, a PC simulation game, will hit Steam on June 22, 2026.
The premise is gloriously simple: combine more than 100 toppings to assemble your own personalized bowl. From the broth base to the noodles, chashu, ajitama, menma, negi, and the more adventurous extras, the game hands you the kitchen and gets out of the way.
For those who like their ramen excessive, there's a dedicated "mashi-mashi" mode — a nod to the real-world ordering ritual where you pile toppings into a towering, gravity-defying mountain. It's a direct wink to chains like Ramen Jiro, whose customers famously request mountains of bean sprouts and garlic stacked well above the bowl's rim.
Rounding out the package is a speed-eating mode, turning the contemplative art of bowl-building into a frantic race against the clock. Together, the modes pitch the game somewhere between a relaxing creative sandbox and an arcade-style time-attack.
The insider take
From Tokyo, the appeal here is obvious to anyone who's queued outside a tiny ramen-ya. "Mashi-mashi" isn't a made-up game mechanic — it's genuine ramen counterculture, born from Jiro-kei (Jiro-style) shops where ordering is its own coded language ("yasai mashi-mashi, ninniku" — extra veggies, garlic). Publisher Flyhigh Works is best known in the West for localizing quirky indie titles, so leaning into hyper-specific local food culture is very on-brand. Whether overseas players grasp why a knee-high stack of bean sprouts is funny remains the real test — but the universal joy of building an absurd bowl should translate just fine.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).