Crunchopia

A food town where the other players are real

Open your own food stall. Feed the whole town.

In Crunchopia every player runs a food shop, and everyone has to eat, so the players are each other's customers. Cook, sell, taste new food and grow a stall into a café.

Play now For grown-ups

Free. In your browser, on a phone, tablet or computer. No download.

A child standing at their own fruit stand on Market Street, glowing gold because it is theirs
Your own stall, from the first minute

How it works

The kitchen: apples, bananas and grapes in the larder, and the dishes they make

1 Cook

Buy fresh ingredients from the town's farm, fish market and orchard, then cook a tray of one dish in a little game: slice, stir, bake, fry.

Players queueing at colourful stalls, saying 'Yum, that was lovely!'

2 Sell

Other players walk up to your stall for lunch. Happy customers leave hearts, and hearts bring more people your way.

The clothes shop's mirror, trying on a paper crown

3 Grow

Save your coins for a cart, a market stall, then a café of your own. Dress up, design your stall and make your name in town.

A whole town to explore

Between lunches there is a town of districts to wander, ride and fish in, with a day that turns to night.

A family of ducks swimming on the park pond
Ducks on the park pond
A giraffe and an ostrich at the zoo
The zoo across the river
Penguins swimming at Penguin Beach on the pier
Penguin Beach on the Grand Pier
Captain Ada's boat waiting at the harbour
Sea fishing with Captain Ada
Market Street in the evening with its lamps lit
Market Street after dark

Made safe for children, from the start

  • No typing between players. Names come from word lists, and players talk only with friendly phrases from a list.
  • No child's email, no real names, no photos. A child just taps Play.
  • No ads and nothing to buy. Coins are only ever earned in the game, never sold.
  • Nobody can lose everything. The first stall is yours for good: no debts, no streaks to break.
  • Mute and report are one tap away, and reports reach a real grown-up.
Market Street from above: picnic tables, stalls and a child's own pie cart marked YOURS

For grown-ups

Make a grown-up account with Google, Apple or an email. Then keep your child's shop and open it for them on any phone, tablet or computer. Your child never needs an email or a password.

Grown-ups' page What we keep

Questions

Is Crunchopia free?

Yes. It plays in the browser for free, with no ads. Coins can't be bought: every coin is earned by cooking and selling.

Can children play with their friends?

Yes, that is the idea: a multiplayer restaurant game where every stall belongs to a real player. Friends eat at each other's stalls, wave, and say hello with phrases from a list.

Is it like Toca Boca?

It is a world to play in like Toca Life, with one difference: the other shopkeepers and customers are real children, kept safe with no free chat at all.

Does it work on a phone or a tablet?

Yes. It runs in the web browser on phones, tablets and computers, with nothing to install.

Is it finished?

Not yet. The town is open and growing every week, and things may change as we build it. Phone apps come later.