About This Demo

One shift. One shop. You are the waiter, the chef and the manager, and there is nobody else to blame!

Six minutes of pizza madness; from pouring drinks to stretching dough, from ordering stock to dealing with complaints, it’s all you and there is nowhere to hide. Can you handle the heat?!

WHAT'S IN THE DEMO

A full play-through of the first level, in solo mode, on easy. Every station, the real game economy, everything end to end. Wages, stock refills, rent and waste will all push you into the red - you’ll need to keep it tight to sell your way out! Keep customers happy to drive more custom (maybe even a rush!) so watch your wait times and don’t serve sloppy/burnt food or underfilled drinks. Manage your team moral and productivity with a little pep (an espresso on the house!) for the station under pressure.

WHERE IT STOPS

The demo includes level one of the solo experience. In the full game the levels never stop: the menu grows five more times, the arrivals come faster, the patience runs shorter, and there are four difficulties above this one.

The full game also adds multiplayer, either online or LAN — up to two friends sharing your shop's stations, each on their own machine, or two shops of three going at each other with the same customers walking through both doors. With a live kitchen cam and voice chat on every player (In LAN and friends games), this is the closest thing to real kitchen stress without the burns!

FROM OUR KITCHEN TO YOUR COMPUTER

Hand Stretched started as a pure passion project. I have a separate, full-time career, but I wanted a hobby project that I could build for and with my young children. Every mechanic, level design, and core concept came directly from our brainstorming sessions at the kitchen table.  

Because I am a solo developer, juggling a full-time job and family life, AI tools served as our digital force multiplier. It allowed us to generate (to our vision) the visual assets, the code and build the website needed to bring our family's game idea to life, whilst music and some code elements were sourced from online sources by generous contributors who license their work for anyone to use (full credits in the game - you guys rock!). We are incredibly proud of what we built together, and we hope you feel the heart (and the stress!) that went into every shift.

STEAMDECK

The demo is fully tested and playable on the Steamdeck! 

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

he background artwork in Hand Stretched — the shopfront, the kitchen and bar scenery, and the shop sign — was generated using Adobe Firefly, then edited and assembled by hand.

Everything you actually interact with is drawn by the game itself: the pizzas, the dough, the drinks and the icons are rendered in code as you play, not painted images.

The music is not AI-generated. It is four tracks licensed from human artists on Pixabay, credited by name in the game's settings.

The game's code was written with AI assistance. Nothing is generated while you play, and the game connects to no AI service.