Boil Cabbage Make Soup is a cozy, endlessly replayable idle desktop companion featuring a busy onion that also happens to be a Michelin-grade chef! Think you can handle growing cabbage to cook delicious soup right on your desktop?
“The combination of idle gameplay, desktop companion functionality, island customization, multiplayer features, and connections to the 9th Dawn universe creates a package that feels both familiar and refreshingly different.”
– The Game of Nerds
9th Dawn Cooking Spin-Off Boil Cabbage Make Soup Debuts on Steam Next Fest
SHEFFIELD, England – June 11, 2026 – Valorware is proud to announce a new title set in the 9th Dawn universe. Boil Cabbage Make Soup is a cozy, endlessly replayable idle desktop companion featuring a busy onion that also happens to be a Michelin-grade chef! Think you can handle growing cabbage to cook delicious soup right on your desktop? Find out when the first public demo goes live next week at Steam Next Fest.
In Boil Cabbage Make Soup, you get to serve a cast of weird and wonderful characters from the 9th Dawn series. Decorate your island in different styles, dress up your onion – and use your hard-earned gold to level up your soup-making skills and increase your onion’s soupy production. Place the game anywhere you like on your desktop and let your onion do all the hard work in the background while you focus on other tasks – enjoying a selection of both chill and lively music from the 9th Dawn soundtrack.
You might be surprised to know that Boil Cabbage Make Soup actually supports online multiplayer. Play with two other friends and earn special bonuses while checking out each other’s islands. Most idle games are single-player only – but Valorware treasures the idea of having games bring people together. You can feel connected even during work hours – or while playing a silly game about making soup!
“When developing Boil Cabbage Make Soup, we were inspired by desktop companion games – how they serve as helpful productivity tools as well as bringing a bit of whimsy to our screens,” says Tom Au, founder and solo developer at Valorware. “We started to wonder where the 9th Dawn monsters went during downtime. Perhaps they eventually stumbled on this strange floating island – where an onion with serious skills cooks gourmet food for a living! In addition to expanding the 9th Dawn universe into a whole new genre, Boil Cabbage Make Soup also gave us an opportunity to work on the team’s modeling, rigging and animating skills – which means we got to refine our overall 3D modeling process for an upcoming RPG.”
Tom Au actually recorded a brief developer diary about the creative process behind Boil Cabbage Make Soup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlGQYU-yXVs
Key Features
- Unlock tons of customization options: Make your dream soup island and give your onion a fancy getup.
- Enjoy online multiplayer: Link up with up to two friends. Explore their islands, show yours off, and be rewarded with special bonuses.
- Keep special customers happy: Watch out for customers that may stop by for a bowl … or two!
- Level up your onion: “Farm up” and create an unstoppable, soup-making empire.
- Pick your soundscape: Choose between a selection of music from 9th Dawn III and 9th Dawn Remake, with pitch-shift and reverb options to create a cozy or adventurous vibe.
- Return to the 9th Dawn universe: Serve your best soup to a menagerie of weird creatures from the popular Valorware series.
Availability
Boil Cabbage Make Soup can now be wishlisted on Steam. The first public demo will be available during Steam Next Fest starting on Monday, June 15.
Steam URL:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4585070/Boil_Cabbage_Make_Soup
Assets
Trailer
YouTube
https://youtu.be/SHwjmZywKjo
Download
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q0rs2nn5ksqx20chn55pe/trailer_Boil_Cabbage_Make_Soup.mp4
Developer Diary with Tom Au
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlGQYU-yXVs
TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRcM6ukm
Download (both Landscape and Portrait versions – with and without music)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bgw3tw3rl7d84jusymdma/BCMS_developer_diary_transcript_Tom_Au.zip
Screenshots, GIFs & Logos
IMGUR
https://imgur.com/a/ddHu4nW
Download
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wvmf2lx24pz7mx338kiq9/screenshots_Boil_Cabbage_Make_Soup.zip
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About Valorware
Valorware is a UK-based game development and publishing company led by developer Tom Au that is focused on producing content-rich RPGs. In addition to Boil Cabbage Make Soup, Valorware has released the 9th Dawn series, Pinku Kult: Hex Mortis, Flewfie’s Adventure, and Throne Quest Deluxe. To learn more about Valorware, please visit http://valorware.com.
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