Hot Pot For One
It’s mostly about loneliness, very, very short, and easy to misunderstand. By most standards, it would be barely a game at all. But if you don’t have expectations this thingy never tried to meet, it is kinda… nice. You stand in the kitchen, cook, eat, and for every piece you eat, memories start floating up, showing how food connects you to people, mostly your significant other. You eat rather little, clean up a bit and watch the end titles. There are no other people, no movement, no action, and if you were depressed to start with, you are not going to feel less depressed. But you may recognize the feeling.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
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The good:
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Nice atmosphere
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Music is sweet
The bad:
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Boring as hell
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Story isn’t worth it because there is none.
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Art made for the “memories” you get when you eat a piece of food are just crudely drawn stickmen.
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All that stuff in the fridge and cupoards? You can’t touch it. I was expecting to have the ability to get silly and pour coke into my hotpot. Nope.
You turn it on, put stuff in it that doesn’t burn (so it’s no fun), eat only a set number of food from it that makes you think about ugly stickmen, put a tiny amount away in a large fridge and then dump over 150 food items into the bin.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
CooKing
Help. I do not know which combination is needed for Pancake Soup in this game
Edit says
Never mind. Some guide helped me figure it out but now I don’t know which combination is needed for French Toast
– Real player with 11.2 hrs in game
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I believe cooking only takes time away from eating (not to mention the shopping before and washing up after), but was happy to finally see a food-based puzzler that isn’t time-management nonsense.
cooking is very similar to doodle god, but with actual sense, not just combining random stuff to create more random stuff. at least that’s what I thought at first, then blamed myself for being a big-time eater with zero idea about cooking, then realized that part of my being dumbfounded is because everything consists of 2 or 3 ingredients, which may sound easy, but it really isn’t.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Cafe Paris
Welcome to a game about coffee and conversation. This is a 3D narrative coffee shop sim located in the heart of Paris. In this game you run “Cafe Paris”. A 24/7 open coffee shop establishment between the foot of the Eiffel Tower & the banks of the Seine river. Serve coffee & food to your customers and learn about their stories.
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Greet customers that will come in at all times of the day.
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Serve them coffee and food.
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Enjoy the atmosphere of Paris as you serve and interact with customers all day and night with the Eiffel Tower in view.
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Marooned
I made a review and play through of the game.
play though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d2fEnd5G2Q&t=1s
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elI0o4LJ8Iw&t=1s
for Mika: I have suggestions in review video.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
It’s a fun game about being stranded on a desert island.
Some of the mechanics take a minute to get used to but on the whole I like the game, it’s very chill
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
The Store is Closed
The Store is Closed is an online COOP survival game set in an infinite furniture store.
You’re trapped in an endless furniture store, trying to survive against the mutated staff who attack at night. The player must explore the store including the different departments, the underground SCP labs and the floating departments in the sky to find a way out.
When the lights go out and the store closes, the staff get aggressive. Luckily the world is filled with furniture which can be used to craft weapons, and build fortifications to survive the nights.
Unique setting
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Explore an endless world, filled with different departments such as the show floor, cafes and warehouse sections.
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Every day the store will close; the lights go out and the staff become more dangerous. Make sure you have a weapon to defend yourself, or hide until the store opens again.
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Explore the mysterious SCP labs, where you’ll find unique weapons, crafting materials and more dangerous staff.
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Build towers to the sky and discover what lies above. There are both secrets, and horrors above.
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Where is the exit? Since the staff aren’t talkative you’ll need to figure this out yourself. There are rumors of SCP scientists wandering about so maybe they’ll know.
Key features
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The entire world is destructible. Every wall, table, chair can be broken to be used as crafting materials.
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Fight a variety of staff members. Over time more difficult staff will emerge, with more dangerous foes guarding certain departments.
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You’ll need a home base to return to at night. Build walls to keep the staff out, campfires to cook food and crafting tables to make weapons.
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You’ll need to eat. Savage food from the cafes dotted around the world, and return home to cook more fortifying meals on your campfire.
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Discover the origins of the store, and find out what the SCP foundation are doing in their underground bunkers.
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You’re not alone. The game features Online COOP; fight the staff and build bases with friends.
Progression
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The longer you survive the more dangerous the staff become. Eventually you’ll attract the attention of managers. You’ll battle increasingly difficult bosses and combat events as you progress.
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Venture further into the store’s depths discovering unique locations, crafting materials and weapons along the way.
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The game features a deep crafting tree. Build crafting benches, tools and explore the world to create a variety of items.
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Carve out a home in the madness. Fortify your base with increasingly sturdy walls and dangerous traps with the flatpack furniture from the store.
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Level up. Gain levels and skills as you survive, making you a more formidable customer as the days pass.
License: Content relating to the SCP Foundation, including the SCP Foundation logo, is licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 and all concepts originate from http://www.scpwiki.com and its authors. The Store is Closed, being derived from this content, is hereby also released under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0.
Bakery Shop Simulator
The game starts slowly, but in a good way. Nice slow pace to learn the game and the best way to balance your spending vs. selling. Once you get the hang of it, gameplay speeds up.
Con’s: Rather short play time. Once you have everything you can buy, there really is no goal and it just keeps going, doing the same thing over and over with no new milestones or anything new to be eager for. I would love to see more options open up in the future. Perhaps ad items to spruce up your bakery to make it more, you. Plants, wall decorations, color options, renaming option. These things can be unlocked as you play, giving reason to keep playing.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
It’s a simple game, at first your just trying to meet the basic needs with very limited money, which is quite fun, but later after you upgrade a few things your kind of done with nothing else left to strive for. No customisation available to your shop or the wall hangings, your just locked in your little booth with stock and sales register.
The customer requests increase from 1 to 3 items per visit, but that’s about it.
I completed all upgrades/recipes in under 4 hours with a good amount of stock and a full star rating, so it’s very short for a simulator.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Kitchen Simulator 2
(Got this game for free via dev submission to SteadyGiveaways. Thanks!)
Trailer makes it look good, gameplay gets boring and fast!
Kitchen Simulator 2 is a simple game about gathering food and serving it up…not exactly cooking stuff. Some people want pizzas, others want half avacados, and some idiots want a single carrot slice….though the biggest idiots already have food on their plates even if it’s something they’re asking for.
If there’s something this game gets right is that the food looks great. Handling the food and all other models, however, look pretty bland or buggy. There’s also LAN support, but why bother when you don’t even have LAN multiplayer? This game basically has 10-15 minutes of gameplay before it spits you out at the main menu as if you hit the ESC button, which gives you the same result.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
ok but what the actual fuck is this game??? it must be some type of woman thing but i cannot wrap my skull around this game, some of the items i think have been made up. wtf is a long muffin how can a muffin be long and where the fuck do i find it? what is the difference between french bread and normal bread how the fuck am i meant to serve you the correct origin bread that looks no different to japanese bread? i can grab the food just as well as Jimmy Savile can grab a child. there is no consequence if you miss a customer and i dont actually know the point as there is no scoring system and after the day ends it puts you back to the main menu. other than that id say 10/10 i would def recommend to a friend and i hope to learn all sorts of interesting facts about food prep and what its like in the kitchen. i would also like to state that Gordon Ramsay has been awfully quiet about the release of this game as i think all his fans would move to this far superior teaching method. i hope to obtain all the knowledge i possibly can from this game so i dont have to rely on my disobedient wife to make me shitty burnt scrambled eggs every fucking day. i hope you found this review helpful 👍
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Among Trees
The game is very beautiful. Game mechanics are simple and easy to pick up for laid back gamers. I expected much more from the overall sustenance in the game, I put in about ten hours of gameplay and im already finished and have everything in the game. Although there is no “end game”, I feel like I finished everything and now the game itself is rather boring.
I am also rather upset there is no audio options, I can’t disable the music or any sounds within the game. The overall audio is extremely loud in my opinion, the bears and cutting down trees are especially loud. I remember the first time running into a bear and jump in my chair because of the volume from the bear roar.
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
Currently as I am writing this Among Trees doesn’t seem to be being updated, this could change in the future, but the developers had said themselves, “We’ve been developing Among Trees for almost five years now and feel like we’ve taken the game to a great place. We’re planning to fix bugs and optimize the game until the end of the year, but don’t expect any major new features or content. It’s a game we could keep working on forever, but we’ll be moving on to new exciting projects for now!”, Seems to me the game was quite literally abandoned on steam for a last money grab.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
Core Keeper
Drawn towards a mysterious relic, you are an explorer who awakens in an ancient cavern of creatures, resources and trinkets. Trapped deep underground will your survival skills be up to the task?
Mine relics and resources to build your base, craft new equipment, survive, and power up the Core. Defeat giant monsters, discover hidden secrets, farm crops, cook new recipes and explore a procedurally generated underground world in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players.
Explore a vast underground cave of endless resources. Mine resources, discover hidden crystals, fossils & trinkets and survive a procedurally generated underground world.
Expand your base from humble beginnings to a vast homestead. Build workbenches and generators to craft new equipment and technology, create your base, and power up your Core.
Customise your explorer and craft new items, armour and equipment to venture further into the cave. Craft a pickaxe to mine walls and resources, build bridges to cross underground lakes, and place torches and bonfires to light up the darkness.
Plant seeds and nurture crops to grow food, or combine ingredients in the cooking pot to discover tasty new recipes with unexpected buffs.
Explore living biomes and fight cavernous creatures in a simulated underground ecosystem. Defeat giant beasts to claim their crystals and continue the adventure.
Survive alone or play online with up to 7 other players. Visit their caverns or invite them into yours, working together to mine resources, fight, farm, craft and survive.
Find massive bosses in an infinite, procedurally generated world with endless gameplay and resources.
Nainai’s Recipe
Nainai’s Recipe is a game that captures the cooking feeling in stylized visuals. And a family story about how we lived together in a special way during 2020.
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Maximum control - No preset ingredient slice texture, no performance-oriented steps, we want you to enjoy cooking a meal from start to finish.
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Food to a larger food tradition - We curated a stylized kitchen with strong flavor about a Chinese kitchen, including appliances, condiments, and food choices.
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Bonding moment with Nainai - During this difficult period of time, you will have more chance than ever to talk to your Nainai and know her story!
