Bandai Namco Entertainment and Kairosoft have launched ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet, a brand-new restaurant management sim set around the Baratie Number 2, the second location of the floating restaurant from the series. Bandai Namco announced the October 23 launch on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC via Steam, iOS, and Android.
Cooking With Sanji and the Straw Hat Crew
The setup casts the player as a new staff member who has to turn the Baratie Number 2 into what Bandai Namco calls “the greatest restaurant of the seas.” The loop is a familiar management-sim rhythm. Characters pitch ideas, you choose the ingredients, and you cook with Sanji. Finished plates get arranged into set menus with different flourishes, and heading out to sea unlocks more recipes. The store description frames the wider goal as an adventure to “find even more recipes” across the seas.
The menu is drawn directly from the series. Players can cook Water-Water Meat BBQ and Sea King Penne Gorgonzola, and some recipes lean on Devil Fruit powers for special creations. The restaurant starts as a modest ship and grows as new recipes and opportunities show up across the seas.
400 Characters and 200 Decor Items
The scale is where Grand Gourmet steps away from a typical cozy management sim. More than 400 ONE PIECE characters appear as staff and customers, and Bandai Namco says the cast shows up “for the first time in a lively pixel art style” in a game. Each character can interact, work, and dine in the restaurant, which unlocks events and moments specific to that character. The publisher frames that depth as content you cannot get anywhere else: “character events and special character interactions that can’t be found anywhere else.”
Customization runs on more than 200 furniture, building, and decorative items, with themes pulled from locations such as Whole Cake Island and Egghead. A customer who likes your layout can become a regular, which feeds back into the core loop. Instead of an anonymous queue of diners, every face walking in is a named member of the cast, and keeping them happy means tailoring the menu and the room to their tastes.
Kairosoft’s Formula Meets a Licensed IP
Kairosoft is the Japanese studio behind Game Dev Story, the management sim about running a game studio that landed on Steam in 2022, and the company normally develops and self-publishes its own original titles. Grand Gourmet is a different arrangement. Bandai Namco supplies the ONE PIECE license and publishes the game, which hands Kairosoft’s systems a cast of hundreds instead of the studio’s usual original lineups.
The pairing fits a pattern that has picked up speed this year. Frontier Developments signed a Disney deal in September for a new management sim, another case of a major license handed to a studio that knows the genre. For players, that means a licensed world wrapped around a loop the developer has spent years refining rather than a license stretched over unfamiliar systems.
Kairosoft’s original games usually start small: a single store, a single team, a town. The ONE PIECE license flips that scope. The player is not building something from nothing; they are running a landmark from a long-running series, and the game’s value comes from how thoroughly the license is applied. A management sim with generic customers lives and dies on its loop, but one where 400 named characters walk in and trigger their own events gives completionists a reason to keep playing past the point where the systems alone would run dry.
Platforms, Price, and Requirements
Bandai Namco lists five platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC via Steam, iOS, and Android. PlayStation and Xbox do not appear in that list. Steam prices the PC edition at $19.99, and the store’s US listing shows an October 22 release date, while Bandai Namco’s launch messaging points to October 23. The game was first announced on June 9, 2026, and supports 12 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean.
The PC requirements are light on both ends of the spec sheet. The minimum asks for Windows 11, an Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100, 8 GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 750 Ti-class card, and 2 GB of storage. The recommended tier steps up to a Core i7-8700 or Ryzen 5 4500 and a GTX 1070 Ti-class card, but it keeps the same 8 GB of RAM, 2 GB of storage, and an estimated 1080p at 30 fps. Full controller support is included, with Steam listing DualShock, DualSense, and Steam Input API support, plus Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. The game is single-player, with no co-op or multiplayer in the feature list. Bandai Namco’s launch materials do not list prices for the Switch or mobile editions, so $19.99 on Steam is the only price confirmed at launch. DirectX 12 is required, and the store notes that Windows 10 version 1809 or later with a 4 GB VRAM GPU is needed for the DX12 API.
The cooking-sim loop already has a footprint on Nintendo’s hardware. Aeruta brought an action-RPG-and-baking-sim blend to Switch earlier this year, and Grand Gourmet lands as the bigger-budget, licensed take on that niche.
A Cooking Show and a Letter From Oda
Bandai Namco rolled the launch out with a four-part “Teach Me, Tori” video series, in which a chef named David cooks through dishes from the game week by week. The episodes covered Sanji’s Pilaf, Stone Stew, Meat on the Bone, and Fruit Macedonia, and the final one landed two days before launch. The launch trailer, titled “The beat drops. ONE PIECE: GRAND GOURMET pops,” carries a track by KOPERU of Umeda Cypher, and the Steam page posted a message from Eiichiro Oda, the creator of ONE PIECE, on launch day.
ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet is available now on Switch, Switch 2, Steam, iOS, and Android.
