About This Game

A conveyor belt sushi shop on your desktop

SUSHI PARADE runs in a transparent window laid over your desktop, so the lane and its plates pass in front of whatever you have open. The game only takes clicks on its own parts: the lane, the characters, and any open menu. Click anywhere else and it goes straight to the app behind.

Want it out of the way? Run a single lane along one edge of the screen, or turn off Always on Top and let your other windows cover it.

A small shop that keeps itself busy

Chefs make sushi and send it down the lane. Customers come by, each with their own tastes, budget, and appetite, eat what they like, and pay in coins. You can click a plate to eat it yourself or carry it to someone. There is no way to fail.

When you feel like doing more:

• Orders: accept the ticket above a customer's head and the chef makes that sushi first. Filling it pays extra coins and EXP.
• Hand swap: right-click the lane to change hands. Glutton vacuums up nearby plates, Serving Hand sends a plate to a customer, and God Breath freezes a plate so customers leave it alone.
• Time away: sales from up to 8 hours are waiting when you next open the game.

Small things happen, too. Empty plates pile up on the rack. A plate nobody eats grows wings and a halo and floats away. And Shari Ryman, who left a trading company to open this shop, sometimes murmurs, "…I still can't throw out my business cards."

Over 100 entries to collect

The Sushi Dex holds over 100 entries: sushi from Tuna (Lean) to Fatty Tuna Belly and Monkfish Liver, plus sides and a la carte dishes such as rice bowls and noodles. Each entry comes with its own description and a comment from Shari.

New sushi opens up in Neta Dev ("neta" means the topping). It branches across lineages and rarities: eat enough of one kind, save up coins, and the next comes within reach.

As the game goes on, you can drop one Single (a one-piece plate) onto another on the lane, and certain pairs become one of about 60 Combos. Further along, you can stack those into Super Combos (4 or 6 pieces) and Mega Combos (8 pieces), about 50 in all.

Rarely, a plate comes by as Shiny or Golden and sells for more. Rainbow plates appear only after you have eaten a lot of that sushi and claimed the reward.

Make the lane your own

Over 20 lane shapes unlock as the shop grows: one line along the bottom, a U, a ring in the middle of the screen, a loop that nearly circles the monitor. As the game goes on, Lane Craft lets you draw your own on a grid. Warp parts (Glitch, Black Hole, Spring, Edge Warp) send plates from one stretch to another.

Warp parts need a Fixed layout, which works only at the screen size it was made on. Relative layouts fit any size.

Over 50 lane skins change the look, including Hinoki Flow, Koi Garden Pond, and Choo-Choo Railway. Invisible draws no belt at all, leaving only the plates moving across your desktop.

Around the lane, you can place furniture such as a Noren Curtain, Red Lantern, Goldfish Bowl, or Cat on a Cushion, and a food sample of any sushi you have eaten many times. As the shop grows, you can also build karakuri: machines, with looks like Saucer Express and Crane Express, that deliver sushi from the lane to faraway customers.

Streaming and technical notes

Feel free to stream SUSHI PARADE or post videos of it. Monetization is fine, and there is no need to ask for permission. If you capture a window, turn on Streamer Mode in Settings to show the game as a normal window with a background.

SUSHI PARADE has no servers or accounts of its own and sends no analytics. It goes online only through the Steam client, for Steam Cloud saves and Steam's server clock (used for daily bonuses and limited-time events). Links such as "Share on X" open in your browser only when you press them. To tell whether a click should land on the game, it reads the cursor position; it does not monitor your keyboard.

Because the game layers a transparent window over your desktop, a small number of antivirus programs may warn about it on first launch. Overlays may also conflict with the anti-cheat software used by some online games, such as Vanguard or EasyAntiCheat, so we recommend quitting SUSHI PARADE before playing them. On macOS, Screen Recording permission is requested only if you use the Desktop background for screenshots.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some of the art in this game — the chef characters, the customer characters, the lane skins, and some of the plates — was created with the help of AI image generation tools. The sushi artwork does not use AI.