waleema

🍲 Waleema — An Arabic Kitchen Rush

Run a cozy restaurant in an old Arab neighborhood and serve the classics: Mansaf, Maqluba and Musakhan!

Waleema is a first-person cooking and time-management game set in a warm, lantern-lit kitchen. Customers line up at your serving window, each with a dish in mind and only so much patience. Chop, cook, plate and serve before they walk away, then keep the courtyard clean so the next guests stay happy.

🔪 How it plays

• Prepare: grab ingredients from the crates and chop meat, chicken, eggplant and onions on the cutting board.
• Cook: put the right three ingredients in a copper pot. The stove tells you what’s missing, warns you before food burns, and lets you know when it’s ready.
• Plate & serve: scoop dishes onto a brass sadr (tray) and hand them through the window.
• The Maqluba Flip: time it right to flip the pot onto the tray perfectly, or serve a broken one at half price!
• Clean up: some customers sit and eat in the courtyard, others take their food to go. Clear dirty tables and collect the tips they leave behind.

🏪 Grow your restaurant

After every successful day, visit the Souq al-Hara market:

• Faster stoves, bigger pots and a sharp knife
• Decorations that make customers more patient: tea for guests, colorful lanterns, plants, and a traditional majlis seating area
• Hire helpers! A free helper joins you on day 2. Hire them to stay, and from day 4 build a team of up to three cooks who prepare and deliver orders on their own.

✨ Features

• 3 authentic dishes, more coming
• A daily target that grows with each day
• A night-time courtyard with stone houses, a fountain, string lights and a starry sky
• Fully Arabic interface
• Customers in traditional touches like the keffiyeh and headscarf
• Sound effects and oriental background music

🎮 Controls

Key	Action
W A S D	Move
Mouse	Look
E / Left Click	Interact (pick up, place, chop, serve, clean)
Tab	Recipe book
Esc	Pause

🛠 Made with

Godot Engine 4 · Developed by WOLF_CX (Discord: mba95)

🙏 Credits

• 3D models & sound effects: Kenney (CC0)
• Boiling pot sound: TinyWorlds, OpenGameArt (CC0)
• Music: “(Cinematic) Arabian Princess” by Clement Panchout (CC-BY 4.0)

This is an early prototype. Feedback is very welcome!