Onsen Master: 5 Beginner Tips

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Onsen Master is a fast-paced indie game where you’ll be tasked with managing your very own traditional Japanese bathhouse. In this frenetic management sim, you’ll need to keep moving by mixing various bath scents, cleaning the floors, guiding customers around hazards and dealing with the various mischievous creatures from Japanese mythology who look to interrupt your business.

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Although Onsen Master will teach you its relatively simple control scheme in the opening tutorial of its story mode, you might find yourself quickly overwhelmed by the amount you have to do and the new enemy types that are regularly introduced. If you need some tips on how to handle the mayhem of onsen mastery, here’s some useful advice that the game doesn’t teach you.

This technique won’t work for every level, but a good general principle to adopt is to have one of each of the scent flavours in each of the four tubs on the map. There are four different scents (Red, Green, White and Blue) that customers will request, and most stages will have four tubs, meaning you can easily dedicate one to each.

As a tub runs out of its particular flavour of scent, you can top it up. Keeping each scent in a designated place will make it easier to remember where they are.

If you’re going to use this technique, you should do it right at the start of a level by mixing the ingredients as your immediate priority, then dumping them into the tubs. You can usually do this in enough time to swoop in and get the first customer before they time out.

The problems with this technique are when enemies like the Bozu are introduced, who can spawn in tubs before you’ve managed to assign a flavour. You’ll also need to stay vigilant for the