{"rewrite":{"id":"r_82922003ad579e88e3493962","clusterId":"c_fbfda0f993ede88f9e4a14d1","slug":"folk-horror-hot-pot-restaurant-game-announced-for-pc","model":"deepseek-v4-flash:free","headline":"Folk Horror Hot Pot Restaurant Game Announced for PC","summary":"Indie developer Yukinoshin announced HOT POT FOR THE DEAD | Ghost Marriage Hot Pot Restaurant, a short horror adventure game for PC, and opened its Steam store page. Players run a late-night hot pot restaurant while investigating the previous manager's disappearance over a seven-day shift. The game uses first-generation PlayStation-style graphics and lasts about one to two hours.","whyItMatters":"The announcement pairs a mundane restaurant-management loop with a Taiwan-region ghost marriage folk custom, a combination the developer has not yet explained in the story.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe game is set in the only hot pot restaurant still operating in a late-night shut-down shopping street. The previous manager vanished before reaching the seventh day, and the player takes over as successor, taking orders and serving specified hot pots to customers while investigating what happened.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrange occurrences creep in during routine business, but the player cannot interrupt service. One example is an old woman who orders only with paper without speaking. Another is a red envelope that appears on the order board with no memory of it being placed there.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ghost marriage in the title refers to a folk custom from the Taiwan region, where a deceased unmarried woman is provided with a husband. A paper with the woman\u0026#39;s birth date and time is placed in a red envelope and left on the roadside; the man who picks it up is asked to marry the envelope\u0026#39;s owner. How this custom will factor into the story is not yet clear.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Yukinoshin's Hot Pot FOR THE DEAD | Ghost Marriage Hot Pot Restaurant turns a seven-day shift into a horror investigation, grounding the supernatural in mundane restaurant labor.","twitterPost":"Yukinoshin's Hot Pot FOR THE DEAD | Ghost Marriage Hot Pot Restaurant makes a seven-day restaurant shift the frame for its horror investigation.","threadsPost":"Yukinoshin's Hot Pot FOR THE DEAD | Ghost Marriage Hot Pot Restaurant runs one to two hours and uses PS1-style graphics. The horror comes from a mundane job: a seven-day shift where you serve hot pot while investigating the previous manager's disappearance.","newsletterBlurb":"Indie developer Yukinoshin announced HOT POT FOR THE DEAD | Ghost Marriage Hot Pot Restaurant, a short horror adventure for PC with PS1-style graphics. Players run a late-night hot pot restaurant and investigate the previous manager's disappearance over seven days, with ghost marriage folk customs woven into the story.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/027/G102749/20260724020/\",\"title\":\"Short Folk Horror ADV \\\"HOT POT FOR THE DEAD | Ghost Marriage Hot Pot Restaurant\\\" Announced, Where You Investigate the Truth Behind Your Predecessor's Disappearance While Handling Orders at a Late-Night Hot Pot Restaurant\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4282,"outputTokens":627,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1785987954,"createdAt":"2026-08-06T03:40:08.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-08-06T03:42:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-06T03:40:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_fbfda0f993ede88f9e4a14d1","canonicalTitle":"深夜の火鍋店で注文をこなしながら，前任店長の失踪の真相を追う。短編民俗ホラーADV「HOT POT FOR THE DEAD | 冥婚火鍋店」発表","representativeArticleId":"a_849278205c9993469f207018","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"HOT POT FOR THE DEAD | 冥婚火鍋店\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Yukinoshin\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-07-24T05:30:28.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-07-24T05:30:28.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-06T03:42:24.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"4Gamer.net","url":"https://www.4gamer.net/games/027/G102749/20260724020/","title":"深夜の火鍋店で注文をこなしながら，前任店長の失踪の真相を追う。短編民俗ホラーADV「HOT POT FOR THE DEAD | 冥婚火鍋店」発表"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["HOT POT FOR THE DEAD | 冥婚火鍋店"],"studios":[],"people":["Yukinoshin"],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}