Note: I received this game for free for beta-testing it before launch.

Whoooo boy, here we go again. Cook, Serve, Delicious! returns once again in this unexpected (even hinted by the title itself) sequel. After becoming the only survivor of the Teragon Supertower bombing and losing your restaurant yet again, you decide to serve food on the road while going around from one end of a post-apocalyptic version of America to another, accompanied by two robots, who drive and protect your foodtruck.

Gameplay has changed significantly since CSD2!!. Instead of serving customers as they come into your restaurant and having to deal with 2 rush hours each day, you now prepare food ahead of the time and serve it when you reach a stop. The new auto-serve button is very handy and satisfying to use. The campaign in this game is like a combination of CSD2!!'s CSD and C4H modes - there are still levels (routes divided into days) and medals like in C4H, but now you can make your own menus before each level. This is one of my favorite additions to the game, as now I can pick foods I like and also this gives me more control over the difficulty - casual players can use easier foods like brisket slices, dango or sopapillas just to barely meet the level requirements, while veterans can go all-in and use harder foods, like sushi, tamales, hamburgers or deluxe poutine for increased money and experience. Almost every level has a food filter to encourage you to use foods you haven't tried before. You can also upgrade your foodtruck, which gives you benefits such as more patience for SO foods, more holding stations or more max servings for HS foods.

The writing is still just as crazy and wacky as in CSD2!!. New Zealand and Australia are arguing about where pavlova originates from (with Australia saying they'll "visit" New Zealand if they don't give up), garden salads are made from veggies stolen from gardens of random people and the French citizens of Quebec created poutine just to spite their British oppressors, who had to learn French in order to buy it. There are actual cutscenes now, and your robot helpers are fully voice-acted, warning you of incoming hostile foodtrucks (you read that right!), approaching stops, cheering you on after each stop and having little convos every time you reach a new territory.

The graphics are still good enough to make it impossible to play without a snack within my reach. The game even says to not play it when you're hungry. Also oh man the soundtrack is FULL of absolute bops and bangers, I can barely restrain myself from dancing mid-days and the final stop music always gives that extra oomph to make you play at your best.

In it's current state, the game has around 20-25 hours of content - the dev plans to add 7 more territories (11 total), a new mode (?) called "Iron Cook Speedway", achievements, trinkets (used to customize your foodtruck interior) and many smaller improvements and balance changes. CSD3?!'s launch was very smooth too, unlike CSD2!!, which was bug-ridden and unfinished on release. The game is scheduled to leave Early Access in summer 2020.

Do I recommend this game? Hell yeah I do! It improves on CSD2 in pretty much every single way and also brings back the strategy of menu building, upgrades and sense of progression from CSD1. I can't wait until this game leaves Early Access.