#cooking games

[cluelesshero]

#439 Master Cook

Great, now I just have to learn how to do it in real life

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[junkfoodgames]

New game out now!

Death Cap Sauté is a GM-less TTRPG and dice game about a deadly cooking competition in the weird post-apocalypse!

It is for 2-5 players and players in about 1-2 hours.

It is formatted as a 32-page 5.5''x8.5'' zine!

Make weird dishes with your friends and try not to die in the process!

Find it here:

[cosygaming]

nom nom - great autumn jam by anaïs

work in a humble jam shop in a cosy autumn village populated by quirky animals! whip up customized jams, learn your regulars' favorite orders, and play games on your phone to pass the time.

you can play for as long or short as a session as you'd like. it's the perfect game for throwing on a podcast and vibing out to. free to play in browser!

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #37

A cozy and laid back MMO game where instead of the usual battle classes, the classes are all about crafting, gathering or selling products or services. All the combat classes that would normally be available to players (paladins, archers, wizards, etc) are only available to npcs.

You can choose a crafting related occupation, such as the artisan class, and then pick a certain subclass and become a blacksmith or a tailor, or the catering class and become a baker or a chef or open a small café. In order to avoid unfair competition, when setting the price of a product there would a be a minimum and maximum price range for every product. You can also open a shop to sell your wares directly to customers, as well as hire npcs to help you gather resources or to manage the shop while you are away/not playing, although you will need to pay them a fair wage and they'll get a day off a week.

If you'd rather go for a gathering class you can become a miner, woodcutter, farmer, angler, etc, and sell your produce to shops and merchants. Since some of those occupations would require you to abandon the city to gather materials, if you intend to go to a dangerous area you can hire adventurer npcs to act as your guards, or if you want to venture into an unknown area, you could spend money in a map, or pay a cartographer to chart a map for you.

And if you wish for a more adventurous occupation that allows you to travel through the world, you could always pick jobs such as mail carrier, merchant, archeologist, cartographer, etc.

Besides hiring npcs to help you run your store or act as bodyguards when you explore dangerous parts, you can also befriend and even romance and marry them, and if you cultivate a strong enough platonic or romantic relationship with an npc, they might offer you discounts, sell you rare items, gift you stuff or even offer to help you for free.

Player level is tied to the occupation of a character, if you switch to a different job you've never tried before you'll start at level 1. Whenever you get bored of a certain life, you can just switch to a different one or create another character.

Similar games that actually exist: Fantasy Life and Fantasy Life i: The Girl who Steals Time (suggested by @fantasy-life-fan), Palia

[cinematics06]

This has got to be my favorite glitch in the Papa Louie universe

[hellothereimhannah]

Don’t judge me for what I scream at you while we’re playing Overcooked

[knighthouse-co]

Currently working on an Old West TTRPG where you play as a retired bounty hunter turned cook.

Still need a name but I’m really, really excited to create this hybrid game. Doing a decent bit of research into cowboy cuisine and flora/fauna found in the American Frontier and gonna be starting a play through of Red Dead Redemption 2 for some inspo.

I’m hype!

[windmills123]

my new game! PLAY NOW IN YOUR BROWSER

[r74n]

Sandboxels v1.9.3 OUT NOW ⬇️

🧪 POTASSIUM, MAGNESIUM, and REVAMPED CALCIUM

💣 ANTIBOMB - Destroy by Creating!

🥜 NUT OIL and 🥩 GREASE - Cooking Oils!

🧂 CURED MEAT - Prevent Rot!

🌐 LANGUAGE SUPPORT [BETA] - 8 Languages!

✨ OVER 100 MORE CHANGES, READ THE CHANGELOG: https://sandboxels.R74n.com/changelog

PLAY NOW: https://sandboxels.R74n.com

[spiri-a]

Y’all wtf I just finished Hungry Hearts Neo I can’t believe this shit is over

What do I do with my life now

I am filled the beautiful tragic baggage of three games worth of characters and I don’t know how to handle it

———

Okay but seriously the Hungry Hearts trilogy is some of the BEST mobile games I’ve played in a while. I normally don’t like idle games but the pure heart, serenity, and general world of the trilogy is something that just always makes my day better. I was never too miffed to let granny rest for a while and come back later to serve and listen to my customers once more like I usually am with the nature of idle games.

The ways character’s stories intertwined with each other, the lessons they learned, the insight that was brought to them before your very eyes, the heartbreaking and heartfelt realizations, the specialized food requests filled with earnest and meaning, Grannys OWN narratives and conflicts she works through, SO FULL OF LOVE (seriously, this game made me cry several times)

Not to mention the art style that stays consistently GORGEOUS every game, the music although simple remains classy and calming, the food looks like the tastiest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life

As a child of an Asian household, who has been privy to SEVERAL of the dishes shown in the games throughout the years, the food brought an immense amount of nostalgia with it as well. Every dish I cooked, I could almost taste the very thing on my tongue, the pork cutlet dishes and spam musubi being two of my highlights as well as two of my favorite dishes in real life (which, obviously).

Yes there were ads that got on my nerves sometimes, but I honestly didn’t mind too bad (I loved these games enough that I didn’t mind gritting my teeth for a few seconds to support them). Also the ad rewards of either a rush or max energy refill was 100% worth the quick ad watch.

I learned to adore each and every character within the three games, their stories slowly unraveling with each and every meal. I of course adored the characters that kept coming back, like Mr Jizo, Officer Hiro, lovely little Mabo (who we watched grow up with tears in our eyes), and Dr Mondo (who was missing from the second game which was agonizing to me while playing it).

My favorite characters being probably Dr. Mondo, Mabo, Slick, Scarlett, Grimm, Sapphire, and Fudeko (apparently my type is hot women in colorful dresses and suspicious men along with a small child and tragic backstory doctor thrown into there for fun)

The perfect model of a quaint little town (or at least quaint little section of town) in 1970s Japan a few decades post WWII (in some customer stories, you find remnants of the effects of WWII on Japanese citizens), the games have the perfect vibes DOWN TO A TEE.

Overall though, I love the Hungry Hearts trilogy SO DANG MUCH and it makes me so sad to see so little love for the games online. Seriously, if you love calm vibes, heartfelt storytelling, gorgeous art, and even if you don’t love those things, PLAY THESE GAMES ❤︎❤︎❤︎

Also here’s my gallery of ending screenshots:

[starryeyedreviews]

Little Chef - Full Review

Author’s note: ok so i know i had just listed down games i was gonna review and this isn’t one of them, but i saw Rock Paper Shotgun (shoutout to them! one of my favorite curators for sure) talk about this and gave it a try and it was SO cute ✨

Warning! Very minor spoilers in the screenshots, so if you want to play the game completely blind maybe don’t focus too hard on the background haha

Little Chef is a 2D physics-based game where you can mix ingredients to figure out different recipes. It takes place in an adorable little kitchen with objects you can interact with, allowing you to pick them up and drop them in the pot to cook. You can take the time to experiment with different combinations of ingredients, or get hints from the names in the recipe book you’re given.

The ingredients you have to work with are pretty common, so it’s not too difficult to figure out which to combine to make which food. Recipes range from needing 2 ingredients up to 5, making the latter recipes a little trickier to get. Successfully making a recipe results in lovely golden smoke from the pot, with your finished product popping up on screen, and the corresponding recipe unlocked in your book.

The book also includes a section for “failed” recipes, which you can also try to complete. A few of them require specific ingredients, while the others are just happy accidents from mixes gone wrong. Finding all of the recipes in the book, including the failed ones, gets you a congratulations screen, calling you a Master Chef! Perhaps a little reminder that your failures are part of what makes you successful 💜 (or that being a completionist pays off, haha!)

Surprisingly, the things you can place in the pot aren’t limited to just the edible. Most of what you can find in the kitchen can be moved around, and some even picked up, so it’s inevitable that a lot of us will try tossing those in the pot as well. This mechanic makes for some funny interactions and captions in the recipe book, giving you all the more reason to try and find them all 💫

The captions are another part of what makes this game such a treat to play. Each recipe gets its own caption, lovingly written like a slice of life. They make the game feel so much more personable and charming, and were what enticed me to get every single recipe just to see what the character had written.

As the game is free, it still has room to grow and be fleshed out. I’m sure if given the chance, the devs would add more recipes, and maybe some audio. Currently the entire game is silent, but in my opinion it would benefit from some ambient noise, maybe little bits of sound design like a “plop” when the ingredients are dropped, or a “ding!” when the food finishes cooking.

Little Chef reminds me a lot of Little Alchemy with the way you experiment, but shorter and much cozier. On the Itch page (which I’ll link below), the devs cite Potion Craft, Bartender: The Right Mix, and Doodle God: Alchemy Simulator as inspirations, which I could very much feel throughout the game. I really hope they continue developing this game, and as always can’t wait to see what they’ll do next 🌠

Short but sweet -- I give it 5 stars out of 5! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Play Little Chef for free on Itch here!

If you have any questions/suggestions for me, please let me know! My asks are always open ✨

~ Gabi 🌙

[vanillsposts]

anyone else here enjoy the papa’s game franchise?

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for the “To Go” versions of the series

I currently own

Scooperia

Donuteria

Mocheria

Bakeria

And pancakeria!

Does anyone else have any suggestions in the series or mobile apps similar to this series? Thank you!!

[junkfoodgames]

Getting really close to wrapping up Death Cap Sauté! This will be our biggest ttrpg release yet (almost 30 pages!). Should be able to announce release date soon.

In the meantime, here are some photos from a quick print test.

Death Cap Sauté is a ttrpg and dice game about a cooking competition in the weird post-apocalypse.

It's for 2-5 players and you can play the whole game in about 1-2 hours. Its a pretty silly game, but it's been a lot of fun to make!

[maxkirin]

Clocking in for our next shift in Hell's Kitchen 😰

Today on the show my lovely friends and I are playing Plate Up… with mods!! Get your tomatoes ready~ 🍅🍅🍅

Your table is ready 🪑 youtube.com/mistrekirin

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #100

A game where you play as the cook in a pirate ship. After a crew of picky eating pirates had a bit of a scurvy scare they decided to splurge a bit and hire someone who actually knew their way around a galley. As the ship's cook, you'll not only have to cook meals for everyone, but also keep track in a notebook of everyone's diet to make sure they all stay healthy. The dishes you can cook will be determined by the ingredients you have in stock. If you're out of a key ingredient for a recipe, you'll have to shelve that one until you're able to buy more supplies in land or some produce "falls into your hands" during your ocean expeditions. By talking with members of the crew and getting to know them, you'll be able to learn everyone's likes, dislikes, favorite dishes and learn new recipes. As your reputation in the ship increases, so will your funds for acquiring ingredients. Your cooking skills will not only help the crew's morale and fighting skills, but also open some previously closed doors: an old sailor who refuses to sell a treasure map might be willing to part with it in exchange for a dish of his favorite childhood meal, the sea monster guarding a cave might be bribable with sushi, and the delicious aroma of your dishes might cause some mermaids to decide that instead of sinking your ship they want to trade some pearls in exchange for some food. As your crew amasses more wealth and fame, you'll be to buy better intel, improve your ship, and get the chance to sail uncharted seas full of adventures and... all kinds of new foods awaiting to be discovered.

[gamesline]

How do you know when your creation is just about ready, cooked to perfection? At PAX West 2023, we took a look at Nour and chatted over all the limitless ways you can play with your food.