About This Demo

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: as the game goes on, you can right-click the lane to change hands. Glutton vacuums up nearby plates, and Serving Hand sends a plate to a customer.
• 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."

About 80 entries to collect

The demo's Sushi Dex holds about 80 entries: sushi from Tuna (Lean) to Snow Crab, plus sides such as tea, juice, and sweets. Each entry comes with its own description and a comment from Shari.

New sushi opens up in Neta Dev ("neta" means the topping). Eat enough of one kind, save up coins, and the next comes within reach. Rarely, a plate comes by as Shiny and sells for more.

Make the lane your own

About 20 lane shapes unlock as the shop grows: one line along the bottom, an L, a small ring in the corner, a route through all four corners, and shapes with warps built in. Lane Skins such as Hinoki Flow and Choo-Choo Railway change the look. Invisible draws no belt at all, leaving only the plates moving across your desktop.

As the game goes on, Lane Craft lets you draw your own on a grid. The demo limits how many custom lanes you can keep. Each new lane uses a Craft Hammer: you get some when Lane Craft opens and more each day, and hammers can't be bought. You also get Glitch and Edge Warp parts, which send plates from one stretch to another on a Fixed layout. A Fixed layout works only at the screen size it was made on.

As the shop grows, you can also place furniture around the lane, 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.

Streaming and videos are welcome

Feel free to stream SUSHI PARADE or post videos of it. Monetization is fine, and there is no need to ask for permission. It also works nicely left running in the corner of a work-along or chatting stream. If you capture a window, turn on Streamer Mode in Settings to show the game as a normal window with a background.

Technical notes

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). Buttons that lead outside the game, such as the demo survey, 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.

We plan to let some of your data carry over to the full game.

* Please note: some features are limited in the demo version.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some of this game's art — craftsman characters, customers, lane skins, and some dishes — uses AI image generation tools. Sushi art does not use AI.