Burger Shift: Team Rush Patch notes and Early Access

Burger Shift: Team Rush does not treat patches as flavour text. Nova Telum Studio shipped the free Prologue first, then spent months tuning wraps, trash, difficulty, and communication before locking Early Access for 11 September 2026. This hub is the changelog map: what already changed in the Prologue, what the paid Early Access build is supposed to add, and which kitchen pages you should open after you read a date.

Use Full Game Notes when you care about price, system requirements, the twenty achievements, and the stations Prologue crews do not have yet. Use Prologue Patch Notes when you want the actual Burger Flow and Dumpster Duty behaviour that still governs wraps, stacks, dumpsters, and Trainee versus Manager. Neither page replaces a getting started hour or a co-op roles plan.

Timeline

Date	App	What it is
22 Oct 2025	3821150	Free Prologue. Dining-room kitchen, burgers, drinks, baked goods, 1–8 co-op.
7 Nov 2025	Prologue	Burger Flow. Unwrap/re-wrap, multi-carry slices, receipt hover, patience alerts, pause and inspection work.
3 Dec 2025	Prologue	Dumpster Duty. Filling bins, stack place/grab/merge, tip bonuses, difficulty retune, better VO.
10 Jan 2026	4251300	Separate demo. Mixed 59% of 32 reviews — demo only, not the Prologue score.
10 Jul 2026	News	Official post sets Early Access for 11 September 2026.
11 Sep 2026	3804930	Early Access from this date. Drive-Thru, fryer and ice cream, NPC employees, full progression promised.

Prologue reviews sat in Mostly Positive territory on Steam. Do not mix that score with the demo’s Mixed 59% snapshot, and do not treat either number as an Early Access review score. The demo is a different app with a tiny sample. The Prologue is the long public test kitchen. The paid build is Steam app 3804930.

What Early Access is supposed to add

The 10 July 2026 news post is the clean list. Prologue players keep the first-person kitchen and 1–8 online or LAN co-op, then pick up a drive-thru, a fryer plus ice cream station, NPC employees, and a full progression loop instead of a fixed slice. Store copy also talks about packing to-go orders next to dining-room service, upgrading the kitchen, unlocking recipes, and collecting trinkets. That is the jump, not a new control scheme.

If you are coming from the Prologue, read the kitchen stations guide before you invent a lobby plan, then park bodies with the shift planner. Fryer tickets and a window lane change who stands where more than any Burger Flow tooltip does. The recipe checklist is the other half of that plan: confirmed items only, no secret menu.

How to read Prologue patches in Early Access

Burger Flow and Dumpster Duty are not retired flavour. Unwrap/re-wrap, inspection panel contents, name tags, and chat join/leave messages are how an eight-player kitchen talks. Filling bins, placing one item from a stack, and merging stacks are how you stop the line without dropping a tray. Trainee still doubles customer patience. Supervisor still adds about 10% more customers. Manager still adds about 35%. Faster service still pays extra tips.

The controls page covers the hands. The patch page covers why those hands matter when a bin hits 100% or a wrap hides a missing pickle. If you host, set the difficulty before the day starts and tell the lobby whether trash is a job or a panic button.

What this wiki will not invent

There is no confirmed public Trello board. There are no promo codes. Steam listings that look like extra DLC for app 4882060 are a Playtest, not a paid content pack — do not budget for it. Patch pages here stick to named official notes (Burger Flow, Dumpster Duty, the July date lock) and to store facts (Windows only, voice and text chat, $14.99 with a 10% introductory discount until 25 September 2026).

When a later Early Access hotfix lands, it should get its own dated page under this hub rather than a silent rewrite of Full Game Notes. Until then, treat the Prologue changelog as the last detailed public patch text and treat the July 2026 list as the feature promise. Official storefronts and socials live on the Links Hub if you want the primary source instead of this summary.

Related kitchen pages

After the dates, open the Guides Hub for station walkthroughs, how to cook burgers for assembly order, and employees if you plan to hire help instead of filling every tile with a friend. Role value lives on the role tier list. Crew identity lives under Players if you would rather pick a uniform than a patch.