Definitely Not Fried Chicken

Dope Games · Silver Lining Interactive

Released: Sep 29, 2023
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 01:16 GMT

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10 Jun 2025Developer post
Patch #23: The Latest Fix
The last update took us to new highs, now it's time to stick the landing, we've listened to your feedback and reports delivering you the latest fixes; Bug Fixes: Workers getting stuck ‘Looking for work’ after rearranging the factory / business layout. Notifications indicating tha
The last update took us to new highs, now it's time to stick the landing, we've listened to your feedback and reports delivering you the latest fixes;
Bug Fixes:
Workers getting stuck ‘Looking for work’ after rearranging the factory / business layout.
Notifications indicating that an employee had died due to low air pressure when this was not the case.
Spawned products sometimes despawning before they are picked up by a worker.
Glass products not appearing semi-transparent when spawned.
Cloudy Meth chemical station not animating when used.
Item sale UI info remaining on the build menu after selling an item.
Item image remaining after picking up and placing an item.
Base set washing machines not making any noise when used.
Employees clipping through the stairs of the Meth Refiner Mk2 instead of climbing the stairs to the platform.
Plane runway lights became misaligned after removing then replacing the runway.
Contaminated boxes loaded onto the plane sometimes not appearing contaminated after removing then replacing the runway.
Plane shadow getting stuck in the city after the plane departs to deliver an order.
Players using the Thai calendar are prevented from loading previous saves.
Missing Japanese and Chinese symbols in various places throughout the UI.
Some instances of the UI would display the English translation regardless of the language selected.
When buying business licenses, under certain conditions the money would be taken but the license would not be granted.
Other Changes:
Players can now disable police, the story and special client orders mid-game within the Settings menu instead of being forced to set these at the start of a new game. Special client rewards can only be unlocked through fulfilling the special client orders.
Animated orders refresh process on International Exports panel.
Re-balanced sound effects.
Added a reminder on the room groups modification panel that employees’ needs must be catered for within the room group rooms.
Swapped the prices of the Athletic and Running shoes to reflect their speed boost benefits. Dope Games (DNFC) Twitter Dope Games Discord
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30 May 2025Developer post
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23 May 2025Developer post
Update: Flying High!
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24 Apr 2025Developer post
Patch #22: Just One More Patch – (Spoiler: It’s Never Just One)
Hello hello, we've got some fixes and qol changes here from a game that isn't taking legal action against anyone! Bug Fixes: Delivery vehicles sometimes driving past an open parking bay and instead circling the block. The Garage UI not updating properly after changes are made to
Hello hello, we've got some fixes and qol changes here from a game that isn't taking legal action against anyone!
Bug Fixes:

Delivery vehicles sometimes driving past an open parking bay and instead circling the block.
The Garage UI not updating properly after changes are made to the products delivered by that garage / vehicle.
Products stuck on the ground will be despawned after 5 minutes.
The time speed was not being taken into account during cleaning tasks, meaning cleaning up a product at x3 speed took the same amount of time as cleaning up a product at x1 speed.
If a garage was deleted, the next garage would inherit the previously deleted garage’s sorting color and some other additional settings.
Garages’ order (within the garage’s list to the left of the dispatch map) could change after saving and reloading the game. They are now ordered consistently.
Removed a parking spot from Seal Avenue which workers were unable to collect products from.
Pressing esc during room construction / deletion would cause the build cost / space indicators to be stuck on screen.
QOL:

Garages are now sorted by oldest to newest. If the sorting color of a garage is changed it will go to the bottom of the list for its new sorting color.
If a delivery destination is removed from a vehicle whilst it is parked there, it will leave to go to the next destination.
Play an animation on a newly hired employee within the list & also when an employee’s sorting color is changed to highlight the new / modified employee.
Tutorial Bug Fixes:

Tutorial landscaping objects were not spawning when starting a new game.
Tutorial door placement indicators remaining in place even after placing a door in the correct position.
Saving and reloading the game multiple times during the tutorial would cause the in-world tutorial indicators (e.g. the arrows above employees) to either not display or be positioned incorrectly.
During the tutorial, players would be able to place the staff room door leading into the WC instead of the intended position leading into the kitchen.
In-world green tutorial indicators would remain in place even if the applicable object’s placement was cancelled.
When cancelling the placement of a tutorial object, the button indicating that the object needed to be placed would stop animating unless the menu was closed and reopened.
The optional tutorial panel was closed if it was open when the player completed the optional tutorial segment.
Tutorial Polish:

During the tutorial, snap objects into place if they are moved into the correct position and rotation.
Remove the green tutorial placement indicators if an object is moved into the correct position and rotation.
Removed objects’ grid occupations indicator for tutorial objects, it’s cleaner just to have the green indicator showing the outline of the object.
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27 Mar 2025Developer post
Patch #21: Keeping you coming back for more
Greetings Kingpins! We've been in the lab and here's an assortment of user interface changes and bug fixes! New Employee Management setting A button to re-hire dead employee's has been added. When your employees die, a button will be appear in their place, allowing you to replace
Greetings Kingpins!
We've been in the lab and here's an assortment of user interface changes and bug fixes!
New Employee Management setting

A button to re-hire dead employee's has been added. When your employees die, a button will be appear in their place, allowing you to replace their feeble entity with a new employee with the same equipment, room group, schedule and task settings. If you do not want to re-hire them, you can dismiss them.
A button to duplicate employee settings. Once you've hired an employee with their tasks, equipment and room, there is now a button to duplicate them with all of their settings!
Save Backup system

Your ten most recent saves for a game will now be retained.
The load menu will show the most recent save by default
When deleting saves, you can choose to delete an individual save, or all instances of a world and game.
Qol Changes

Area of Effect emitters such as heaters will now be removed if a new room group is painted over them, previously only objects that belonged in the room would be removed.
A tooltip appears when hovering over product logos on the dispatch map.
Bug Fixes

Employees' positions within the employee list are now consistent. Newly hired employees will go to the bottom of the list. When an employee’s sorting colour is changed, they will go to the bottom of that sorting colour's list.
Employees were sometimes not properly appearing within the list if they were at the top or bottom of the viewable area of the list.
If a plot business types was changed, the finance panel would only display the new plot type's finance even when viewing previous days' income which would result in a mismatch.
Time speed was not affecting characters' needs depletion, now when playing at the respective speeds, the needs will deplete correctly.
Made load game UI larger to accommodate for certain localisations that were previously cut off.
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20 Aug 2024Developer post
Patch #20: Quality of Strife
Hello Kingpins, to keep you all in the dope loop here's a list of what we're cooking for you in the latest batch of fixes, with a smidge of chilli pepper for that extra kick. Bug Fixes: Fix to products sometimes being invisible. Fix to vehicles sometimes taking very long detours
Hello Kingpins, to keep you all in the dope loop here's a list of what we're cooking for you in the latest batch of fixes, with a smidge of chilli pepper for that extra kick.
Bug Fixes:

Fix to products sometimes being invisible.
Fix to vehicles sometimes taking very long detours when ‘circling the block’ if there was no parking available when they reached their delivery destination.
Fix to delivery destinations (cash and special clients) being assigned to vehicles that are sometimes not being saved so the destinations would need to be reassigned after reloading the game.
Fix to various issues when waiters were interacting with customers at the Lobster Restaurant tables.
Fix to products clipping through the shelves within the trucks.
Fix to ‘Expand character configuration panel’ tutorial indicator sometimes being displayed at the incorrect time.
Certain buttons sometimes not being intractable after completing the tutorial until the game was reloaded.
QOL:

Drop down selectors have been implemented for assigning Schedules and Room Groups to characters, which should be a big QoL improvement when many schedules and room groups have been created.
Delivery vehicles will now automatically leave a business if there is no storage space available to unload its product to. This behavior is enabled by default but it can be disabled using a tick box in the vehicle configuration panel on the map screen.
Drugs that cannot be sold at a business type (e.g. cannabis at the Lobster Restaurant), will no longer be unloaded by employees.
Cash registers now cannot be put the ‘wrong way round’ on counters, which used to cause problems when characters tried to interact with them.
Added a confirmation step when changing the business type of a plot so people hopefully will not accidentally wipe their plot design.
The camera is now moved back to its previous position after it was moved for a story or client animation (e.g. the astronaut rocket launch). It is moved back after opening the plots menu (using the top left button of the toolbar).
Vehicles en route to an order which is completed will be re-routed to their next delivery destination.
Other Changes:

Updated ‘attackers defeated’ notification to ‘attackers have left’ text to reflect the fact that sometimes they aren’t defeated.
The ‘products contained’ tool tip now fits the contents with no excessive padding.
The curbs in the park where you build the factory have been tidied up.
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16 Jul 2024Developer post
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09 Jul 2024Developer post
Patch Notes #19: Summer High-lights!
The heat isn't the only thing blazing, we've got another patch with a dose of summer cosmetics and fixes! New content! Summer themed decorative items Paddling Pool Parasol Umbrella Beach ball Four beach towels Sun Lounger Cushioned Sun Lounger Sandcastle Bucket and Spade Tiki tor
The heat isn't the only thing blazing, we've got another patch with a dose of summer cosmetics and fixes!
New content!

Summer themed decorative items

Paddling Pool
Parasol Umbrella
Beach ball
Four beach towels
Sun Lounger
Cushioned Sun Lounger
Sandcastle
Bucket and Spade
Tiki torch
Four new door variants for the Donut Shop, Lobster Restaurant, Nightclub and Casino, with single and double door versions
Two new background soundtracks.
Here's what we've fixed!

The outline not showing when hovering over characters and appliances.
Dead characters remaining in their standing animation after they die.
Dead characters re-playing their death animation upon reloading the game.
Shading issues on the floors and walls of the factory and businesses at night.
The soundtrack not playing upon loading a large save
Localisation fixes to various languages where the text overflows out of the text box.
Selecting decorative items would display a $0 daily cost in the appliance panel.
Minor graphical fixes to the Devil and Police Chief sprites.
Various misc grammar fixes.
But we've also got some quality of life changes sprinkled in!

Customers now leave faster if there are no business facilities that they care about present at a business (e.g. they want a roulette table but your casino doesn’t have one). This is technically a buff to businesses as it means more customers will be generated to visit your business, with there being a higher turnover.
New building / demolishing mouse indicators have now been added to landscape painting as well as regular building construction.
Characters and appliances can now be selected and configured without having the main ‘Plots’ panel open to the left of the screen.
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28 Jun 2024Developer post
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19 Jun 2024Developer post
Patch #18: The Latest Fix!
We've got a healthy dose of your favorite fixes Here's what we've fixed! The room cost indicator getting stuck until reload, next to the cursor when trying to build an unaffordable room. Characters bladder status continuing to fall while paused and drinking coffee The room type i
We've got a healthy dose of your favorite fixes
Here's what we've fixed!

The room cost indicator getting stuck until reload, next to the cursor when trying to build an unaffordable room.
Characters bladder status continuing to fall while paused and drinking coffee
The room type indicator displaying the wrong room in some circumstances
Custom garage names not updating on the in-world UI after changing
Sfx not playing sometimes in the nightclub speakers and the Craps and Roulette tables
Garages retaining the old garages name when deleted and replaced
The Billboards and Hotline monument buttons would sometimes not be interactable
AOE text entry field would fire other keybindings when a number was being entered.
Being unable un mute the game if was muted then exited, then reopened and un,ited again
When changing plots, if a character's configuration panel was open, it will now close automatically.
Minor Cleaner UI changes
Some instances where the cursor would flicker
But we've also got some quality of life changes sprinkled in!

Garages now display how many destination you've assigned them
A small icon is now displayed next to the cursor when in build / demolish and object placement modes to help with current mode identification.
Garages’ in-world UI now display their name and products accepted by the vehicle even while out for delivery
The animation for replaying back UI text no longer plays, but filters in immediately
Worker task logos now have an accompanying tooltip letting you know what the task is if hovered over
An animation plays on the bank balance if you're broke and can't afford what you're tying to buy.
If the end-game scenario has been triggered, the message from the clients with instructions will be re-displayed upon loading the game
We've also added some features;

Options to play without the police, story and special clients, or combinations of.
Removed character item points, so you can kit people out as you need.
Optimisation which should lower ram spikes.
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14 May 2024Developer post
Patch #17: Made with more than 11 QoL's and Fixes!
We've got a healthy dose of your favorite fix, ones that you don't need to blag a prescription for! Here's what we've fixed! Workers placing incorrect items within the production line appliances (Such as placing a candy bar on a cannabis dryer). Putting commas are full stops in s
We've got a healthy dose of your favorite fix, ones that you don't need to blag a prescription for!
Here's what we've fixed!

Workers placing incorrect items within the production line appliances (Such as placing a candy bar on a cannabis dryer).
Putting commas are full stops in schedule/ garage names would cause the selected plot to change (This is because , and . are the keybindings to change plots)
Tool tips getting stuck on the screen until the mouse was hovered over another tool tip trigger.
Characters not animating when changing the view plot or hiring a new employee.
The new room indicator getting stuck on screen when trying to build an un-affordable room.
Playing incorrect sound effects when obtaining an object to place.
If a garage was deleted, a new placed garage would retain the previous garage's name, instead of the default.
Garages with custom names were not displayed when reloading the game, until another garage's name was modified
Custom garage names not updating on in-world vehicle UI if the name was changed while the vehicle was out of view of the camera
Ambient sound effects not playing around the city
Lobster shop fryer baskets being misaligned
Controls being available during the opening cutscene
Text box getting momentarily stuck during the initial save when starting a new game
Mouse displaying on screen during game loading
Boxing stations being placable at business store rooms, despite not having any function at businesses.
Loud SFX being played when an attacking group spawns.
Lampost overlapping with scrapyard vehicle entrance.
Various grammatical errors
Being unable to un-mute the game in the settings if the game was muted then saved then reloaded.
But we've also got some quality of life changes sprinkled in!

Dialogue text can now be skipped by clicking on the dialogue buttons or within the text box.
Dialogue texts moves at a consistent pace.
If a worker has no tasks assigned, rather than "Looking for Work" the status for the worker will say "No tasks assigned to me".
Localisation options are more visible on the main menu
AOE level overlays now display a tooltip reminding players that the output can be adjusted if you click on it
Default sound levels hahve been adjusted slightly to queiten in-world sfx in relation to other audio types.
Custom cursor now used on main menu
Cash register sound effect is now only played when the player spends money.
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05 Apr 2024Developer post
Patch Notes #16
We're continuing that grindset! Following your feedback, we've addressed some bugs and rolled out some QoL fixes with optimization improvements! Check them out below: Changes: Garage Names are now displayed on the in-world UI whilst they are parked and being loaded and unloaded.
We're continuing that grindset!
Following your feedback, we've addressed some bugs and rolled out some QoL fixes with optimization improvements! Check them out below:
Changes:

Garage Names are now displayed on the in-world UI whilst they are parked and being loaded and unloaded.
Garage names are now displayed within the products accepted configuration panel shown when the garage is selected
Vehicles now use the new slimmed UI which displays contained products with a tool tip
Have added additional looping loading screen images.
Optimizations:

Further optimizations to overall performance
Removed a frame drop that occurred when opening the employee list that contained a large number of employees.
Bug Fixes:

Gun traps sometimes not triggering when being walked in-front of.
Traps not triggering after selling a broken trap and then placing a trap of the same type fown
The cooking pot going invisible during the lobster and crab cooking animations
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15 Mar 2024Developer post
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14 Mar 2024Developer post
Patch Notes #15
More tweaks for you Tweakers! Following player feedback, the police bribe and raid system have been adjusted to be a little more gentle before shaking you down! Changes: Bribes are now every four days, instead of every two days. When you 'accept' the attack instead of the bribe,
More tweaks for you Tweakers!
Following player feedback, the police bribe and raid system have been adjusted to be a little more gentle before shaking you down!
Changes:

Bribes are now every four days, instead of every two days.
When you 'accept' the attack instead of the bribe, they are not as severe.
Police will now ask for a maximum of 30% of your drug-related income every four days. Instead of the bribe being able to scale infinitely (Until you accept an attack). -Note, this is not a constant embellishment, but a payment of your drug-based income every four days. This will allow you to not go bankrupt, but also offer a means of defending yourself.
Optimizations:

Further optimization to large businesses with lots of products, appliances and employees
Disabling overlay UIs (such as quality) will now yield higher fps
Bug Fixes:

A fix to employees getting stuck in an eating/cooking loop, resulting in them eventually dying to something like illness from not showering because they're eating too often.
A fix to non-gun traps not triggering.
A fix to saving and re-loading during a delivery to clients that results in the client AI getting stuck and standing still.
A fix to saving and re-loading whilst an item is being placed in a bin that causes to the AI to get stuck and standing still.
A fix to the appliance health not showing the accurate value in the appliance UI.
A fix to NPC's phasing through doors and counter flaps.
Other Changes:

Products do not have an overlay UI displayed permanently now. Instead, to view what products are currently within an appliance, there is a tooltip over the new icon within the appliance overlay.
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08 Feb 2024Developer post
Patch Notes #14
Hello big steppers and dope preppers! This patch has focused exclusively on optimisation. You should see an improvement in overall FPS - especially in games with a large amount of progress, as well as fewer frame drops. The optimization work is still on-going and is a key focus o
08 Jan 2024Developer post
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20 Dec 2023Developer post
Patch Notes #13: POLICE RAIDS
Woop-woop! That's the sound of the police! Because they're here. In Definitely Not Fried Chicken. To cause you mayhem! Police Raids & Bribery The Police have been added to the game. Once you are now making a little drug money, the Police Chief will come for his cut of the pro
Woop-woop! That's the sound of the police!
Because they're here. In Definitely Not Fried Chicken. To cause you mayhem!
Police Raids & Bribery

The Police have been added to the game. Once you are now making a little drug money, the Police Chief will come for his cut of the profits.
If you do not pay him, the Police will raid your factory. However, each time you pay, the Chief will get a little greedier and ask for a higher proportion of your drug profits!
If you reject his bribe (and take the raid) he will once again start asking for a smaller proportion of your drug profits.
The more drug money you’re making, the more severe the raid will be, so be sure to get your traps down and your guards suited and booted!
Christmas Decorations

In December and January, you will be able to place some Christmas decorations (which can be found in the Landscaping build menu):

Wreath
Christmas Tree
Wrapped Gifts
Stockings
Christmas Lights
A Reindeer
Gingerbreadman
Nutcracker man
Fixes:

Improved issue where attackers could get stuck by locked doors when attacking in large numbers.
Employees behaving strangely (e.g. not moving products to the appropriate location) when they have low needs (e.g. hunger) and an appliance is accessible to serve the need but it is not located within their room group.
Keep an eye out for Definitely Not Fried Chicken in the Steam Winter Sale, starting tomorrow, December 21st!
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07 Dec 2023Developer post
Patch Notes #12
We've got fixes for the fixers! We've got some dope fixes for you addressing issues with the cleaners, room groups and patrols! Check them out here: Fixes: Characters believing they are stuck when they aren’t at the West Street business location. This was seen when building over
We've got fixes for the fixers! We've got some dope fixes for you addressing issues with the cleaners, room groups and patrols! Check them out here:
Fixes:

Characters believing they are stuck when they aren’t at the West Street business location. This was seen when building over the entire plot. Additionally, characters not leaving the West Street business location when there is a viable exit for them.
Keybindings menu now works in the main gameplay scene (previously only worked on the main menu).
Improved cleaner AI. Cleaners should now clean only within their assigned room groups (as well as outside). They should also clean their room group rooms more evenly instead of only cleaning in a localized area.
Cleaners no longer get stuck in a loop of cleaning in a specific area if the dirty patch is inaccessible to them. They will now simply ignore inaccessible dirty areas.
Employees will no longer ignore their room group when carrying out personal tasks (like eating, sleeping, showering etc.). Therefore rooms that service employee needs must be included within your employee room groups otherwise they will die!
It should be noted that employees may still path through non-room group rooms if that is the only viable way to reach their personal task, corridors can be built to ensure this won’t happen
Unable to create a new patrol route if coming directly from the guard patrol route assignment interface.
The Patrols button was shown at business plots even though guards could not be hired there
Exceeding a bank balance of just over $21m would cause the balance to go to negative $21m. This upper limit has now been removed.
QOL:

There is now an additional tickbox in the Engineers’ task selection UI which specifies whether the Engineer is to reset traps after they have been triggered.
We've also got some requested features that we're working on too! So keep up to date here:
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23 Nov 2023Developer post
Patch Notes #11: Patrolling and catchin' you riding dirty
They see you rollin' (fat blunts). Hello, law-abiding CEOs this patch brings you the ability for your guards to patrol! This feature has been added ahead of the upcoming raid update that will be coming soon! We wanted to give CEOs a chance to set up patrols ahead of this update,
17 Nov 2023Developer post
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