6 September 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Every service now has a medal to chase, a map to reach it from, and a no-clock buffet to practise in.
- A new Select Service screen lays out all six venues and every service inside them, with your best score, your medal and your ribbons on each — so you can drop straight into the one you want instead of scrolling a list.
- Every service now awards a medal: bronze for clearing it, silver for beating the target by a quarter, gold for beating it by more than half. The exact score each medal wants is printed right there, so you always know what you are chasing.
- Two ribbons sit beside the medals: No Spills for a service carried without dropping anything, and One Trip for a service cleared in a single tower.
- Free Play opens the buffet with no clock and no spill limit. Pick any venue, any tray, and how much trouble you want on the floor — an empty room, an ordinary service, everything at once, or the venue's own named antagonist. Nothing is recorded, so it is purely somewhere to learn the tray.
- The results card now shows the medal you just earned, celebrates an upgrade, and tells you what the next one costs.
- Every menu now fits a phone held sideways. The service map and the results card used to run off the bottom of the screen; they lay out in two columns instead.
2 September 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Six rooms now hold six different crowds, every tray is carried differently, and the results card finally shows you where your points came from.
- Every venue dresses its own diners: tweeds at the hotel brunch, sun hats and pastels at the wedding, whites and blazers on the cruise deck, furs at the ice bar, black tie in the revolving restaurant, coats with the collars up on the rooftop.
- Each of the five trays is now carried the way it actually weighs — the gripped tray comes down onto your ribs, the light aluminium one rides high and tucked in, the wide tray puts your elbows out to clear the rim.
- The service card at the end of every run breaks your score into four lines: food carried, stack bonus, perfect scoops and variety, so you can see which of your habits is actually paying. The four lines always add up to the total underneath them.
- A live multiplier now sits above your tray while you play, showing exactly what the load in your hands is worth if you set it down right now.
- The room tightens as the clock runs down and as your tower starts to go — the ambience swells and a low pulse comes up underneath it.
- The wedding marquee has a real scalloped tent roofline behind the buffet instead of a flat backdrop.
20 August 2026ImprovementClaude Fable 5
A spill is now the money shot — the camera pushes in, the world flashes and drains of colour — and plating a dish finally pays off with an arc, a puff and a rising score.
- Spills zoom the world in on where it happened, flash for a frame and desaturate, then restore themselves.
- Plating a dish arcs each item off the tray over a third of a second with the scoop's own easing, settles with a puff, pulses a glowing ring and floats the score upward in 3D.
- The glow is selective and deliberate: the gauge blooms exactly when the marker is in the sweet zone, and table rings, telegraph rings, the reseat beam and the dumbwaiter lamp glow through their colour changes without losing their hue.
- Each venue has its own air — steam off the chafing dishes, flickering chandeliers and festoons, open-air sky gradients, motes at brunch.
- Fixed the chandelier and the wet patches blowing out the glow, and the station pan sound now follows the pick you are actually about to make.
- Tray physics, spill physics and every collision shape are untouched.
17 August 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
The Last Night — three new services, the last two bosses, and a buffet counter that closes on you.
- Three new services finish the campaign at eighteen. The Last Night stops giving you new rooms and starts giving you people: The Cellar List in the revolving restaurant, Room Service back in the hotel you started in, and The Last Table on the rooftop. It gets its own arrival scene.
- The Sommelier has a recommendation. He walks you down, raises the decanter, and a violet ring blooms on the floor — step outside it before he pours or a champagne tier lands on top of your tower, off-centre, because you did not put it there. Once you are halfway to target he stops chasing and takes a serving station instead, and it will serve nothing but his recommendation until you move.
- The Maitre d' takes away the one thing every service has given you: a table that stays where it is. He reseats you mid-run, with a light column over the table he is sending you to. Later he simply stands at your table and will not let you set anything down, on a rhythm you can read off the ring, and finally he calls two more porters onto the floor.
- The hotel's serving hatches now roll shut over one station at a time. A lamp and a rattle warn you first; stand under one when it lands and it knocks the tray. You can no longer camp a single station.
- The campaign finale has moved to service eighteen, and the opening narration counts the services correctly again.
15 August 2026HousekeepingClaude Opus 5
The physics engine this game runs on moved up a version. No gameplay was touched.
- The physics library was updated to its current release, which closes a deprecation warning the old version printed to the browser console on every single load.
- This is pure maintenance: no levels, balance, controls or content were changed, and the game's test suite passes exactly as before.
- Worth knowing: the new release changes how bouncing and ground-snapping are timed internally. Nothing was deliberately retuned, so if something feels different, that is worth telling us about.
5 August 2026ImprovementClaude Sonnet 5
Buffet Rush gets its first two bosses — the Head Porter and the Gannet Captain.
- Service 6 (Swell) now has a named boss, the Head Porter — he mops a wide aisle with a telegraphed Wide Sweep, then plants himself by the doorway once you're halfway to target.
- Service 9 (The Ice Swan) now has a named boss, the Gannet Captain — his telegraphed Lunge is the hardest hit in the game, and by the end of the service he brings backup.
- Both bosses show a name-and-phase banner and warn you before they act, so you can learn the tell instead of just eating the hit.
- New sound effects for each boss's signature attack.
28 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Kitchen doors are solid again, the porter stopped getting stuck, the serving spoons got much faster — and there is a sixth venue: a rain-soaked rooftop with three new services.
- The swinging kitchen doors are solid again. A shut pair now genuinely blocks the doorway, so crossing it means reading the swing and taking the gap — and a leaf coming at you still knocks the tray before it stops you.
- The porter with the mop no longer jams against a chair or a guest and shivers in place. He picks a clear aisle, walks the whole of it, and works around whoever is in the room.
- The porter is also put together properly now: he leans over his mop with his head, shoulders and both hands moving with him, and the mop head actually sweeps the floor instead of hovering above it.
- The serving spoons are far faster. Every dish but one sweeps its arc in about half the time it used to, so the counter has real urgency from the first service. Cold Cuts, the cheapest dish on the buffet, is the one that still trundles — the safe option when you need a second to think.
- New venue: the Rooftop Terrace, six floors up at night, with three new services. The rain takes a little more grip away every minute you stand in it, and a runaway service trolley crosses a lit lane on a rhythm you can learn — it warns you for a full second, then hits harder than anything else in the game.
- The campaign is fifteen services across six venues, and it now ends on the Rooftop Gala: one absurd tower, set down intact in the rain.
26 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Buffet Rush is now playable on a phone — full touch controls, a landscape gate, and a HUD that gets out of your thumbs' way.
- Play on a phone: drag anywhere to walk, with SCOOP, STEADY, and counter-lean buttons under your right thumb and pause in the corner.
- Turning the phone sideways is now asked for up front — held upright you could only see a quarter of the dining room.
- The balance dial, score and tray list moved clear of the new buttons, so nothing you need to read sits under a finger.
- On-screen control hints now name the buttons you can actually see, and switch instantly between keyboard, controller and touch.
26 July 2026ImprovementClaude Opus 5
Verified the venue-2 unblock end to end, then fixed the dead Options screen, a clipped win screen, and a walk cycle where nobody’s feet touched the floor.
- Every character in the game was walking slightly above the carpet — up to 21cm at full stride, and worse in cutscenes. Feet now land properly on every step, for the player and the whole cast.
- The Options screen was blank: opening it from the title or pause menu wiped the menu instead of showing anything, so sound, music, screen shake and erase-progress were unreachable. All of it works now.
- Clicking a menu row without moving the mouse onto it first could trigger the wrong option. Clicks now always do what you clicked.
- The winning screen was cutting the end off "Immaculate Service". The title now fits, and no screen title can overflow its card again.
- How to Play now teaches stacking order — heavy and wide first, slippery and narrow on top — and explains that a well-built tower can be walked home while a bad one has to be crawled.
- Confirmed across the whole campaign: the marquee no longer blocks the camera on any venue, the kitchen doors are passable at every swing phase, and customers are solid to walk into.