Epic Chef
The key to comedy is timing. The simple nature of the game mechanics allows the humor to just keep rolling. Is this some new avante garde game? No.
It is fun. Pure and simple fun. Stop worrying about how hard or easy the game is and let it take you on a ride worth the price. If you only care about being some hoity toity gamer critic? Move on.
The cooking is more of a puzzle with ingredients than a mechanic. It sets the canvas for a fun story with characters you will remember and not have to wiki when you need to find them.
– Real player with 126.8 hrs in game
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Absolutely fantastic! The humour and story telling is amazing. I was afraid, that it was targeting a young audience, but this isn’t the case. Witty characters, great punchlines.
It is also more in depth than I thought. Not mentioning spoilers, there is a lot more going on, than just building your farm and the cooking competitions.
If you look for a great story game, combined with some farming, resource gathering and cooking, you are going to love this game! I would not recommend it, for people who don’t care about a story and are looking more for a cooking simulator.
– Real player with 89.3 hrs in game
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
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!
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Black Dog Bar
Black Dog Bar is a bartender simulator built on a dialogue system with consequences. Each client has its own dark story. But the darkest one is yours! Communicate, mix cocktails and… make others' fates. It depends only on you where the difficult story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.
Key Features:
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Interactive conversations
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Difficult moral choices
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Mysterious protagonist
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Over 30 types of cocktails
Listen, ask and mix cocktails! Baring their souls, your guests do not even imagine that the darkest person in this bar is you… Get to the bottom of their complicated stories and push to risky decisions. It is in your power to avert trouble from them! If you want it yourself, knowing them better …
The story of each client balancing on the verge of good and evil. Helping or punishing is your choice. The consequences of each story depend on which decisions you push clients into when talking to them.
There are 30 types of cocktails at Black Dog Bar waiting for you. Take orders and mix the right drinks. The more satisfied the client, the faster their tongue will unfold. All recipes are real. You can easily repeat them at home.
Doku’s Noodle Empire
You are an aspiring chef tasked with finding a secret recipe in a distant fishing village. Go fishing, cook food, discover recipes, meet friends, and more in this isometric, pixel art adventure!
Features
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Become a master at fishing. Gather quality cooking ingredients by fishing in a variety of locations.
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Cook meals and discover new recipes. Learn to cook delicious recipes in an interactive minigame. Discover new recipes throughout your adventures.
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Meet new friends and experience their stories. As you venture out into the village and the surrounding areas, use the power of cooking to create friendships and explore unique quests and storylines.
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Decorate and customize. Upgrade your character and home with unique cosmetic items.
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Includes an original soundtrack.
Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game
Look, this is a good game; I love this game, I’ve played this since it was released on 2018 as a mobile game. So, why the bad review? Because that’s the problem that came since they released Chapter 4, the developers completely forgot about PC players and it’s just a mobile game you can play on PC.
Let me dive a little into the issues I’ve found since the 4th chapter release:
- It takes you 12 hrs of real life time to grow the two/three new ingredients they’ve introduce; the major problem of this is they don’t give you a nice free plant like the eggplant you have on the counter. You have to grow them plant by plant on the garden and customers keep demaning those ingredients on their pizza EVEN IF YOU’RE OUT OF STOCK. I don’t know if it’s a bug because, if you don’t have stock of it but you’re growing it back in the garden they will ask you for it.
– Real player with 99.7 hrs in game
This game is absurdly addictive and has a surprising amount of heart for something that I was expecting to be a new take on Papa’s Pizzeria or similar games. There are several cute, weird storylines happening in the background that make starting each day refreshing and interesting. There are enough different customers with different orders to keep you on your toes, and puzzling out just what in the world some of them mean is a trick all of its own.
This game has its own kind of buffyspeak that you WILL find your self compulsively quoting in your waking hours and in your dreams. I work in food service and this is probably the game closest to the real experience, and somehow it still manages to be a great way to destress after a long day at my actual food service management job.
– Real player with 38.9 hrs in game
Pekoe
Welcome to Pekoe!
As the newest resident and teahouse owner in town, you’ll learn everything there is to harvesting, preparing, and serving tea.
Learn new rituals and tea-making styles to make an endless combination of recipes. Build relationships with the townsfolk, and visit their teahouses to purchase exclusive teaware and ingredients.
Make tea for cats!
There are over 10 unique characters in town for you to get to know, with 7 distinct teahouses to visit, and endless tea combinations to try! Make tea in a number of different styles and teaware, and choose what to serve the townsfolk and customers (but don’t forget, they all have their own likes and dislikes!).
From Teahouse to Teahome
Starting a new life in an old teahouse can come with its own challenges, but it’s nothing a bit of fresh paint, hard work, and a few cups of tea can’t fix! Upgrade and customize your teahouse with your own choice of decor, and unlock new items from the townsfolk to help in your tea-making endeavors.
It’s always a good time for tea time!
Having tea together is more than just a drink, it’s a chance to get to spend time together– you’ll learn what tea means to others through various rituals, ceremonies, and one-on-one conversations.
From teaplant to teapot
As a town that runs on tea (literally!), you’ll be doing more than just brewing teabags. Learn when, where, and which leaves to pluck, as you go through the process of learning the different types of tea and how they’re made.
Ramen or Jail
No one said the Forest Justice System was great.
After a questionable arrest, the judge gives you an ultimatum: It’s Ramen, or Jail. You can pay off your debt to society working at the local ramen shop (which the judge just happens to own… so that’s a little questionable too) or spend the next 70 years in the slammer. And since raccoons typically only live three to four years, well, there doesn’t seem to be much of a choice.
Serve piping hot bowls of soup to the woodland customers and chip away at your fines so you can earn your freedom in this combination Match 3/Restaurant Management game from Weekend Panda. Grab ingredients, fill orders, and don’t be against giving out a freebie or two if your patrons start to get impatient! After all, unhappy customers mean unpaying customers, and it’s profit-or-prison for this plucky raccoon… Good luck.
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.
Special Education Modules
Pretty solid indie horror game, you can tell from the details of the house and the store that there’s more than meets the eye with this game.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
HOW DO I EXIT
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game