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
Space Chef
Space Chef is a 2D open world action adventure, with lots of cooking, farming and crafting. Imagine Stardew Valley in space, but with a shotgun and a cook book.
HUNT, COOK & DELIVER
Space Chef is an open-world, err.. open galaxy game combining gun-blasting action with fun cooking, crazy crafting and anything but your usual farming. Explore a vast universe that is different each playthrough. Best of all, bring a friend on your delicious adventures with couch co-op!
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Hunt and gather ingredients - Visit strange alien planets and learn how to capture the tasty creatures before they wipe you out. If violence is not your cup of tea, you’ll do best to avoid alien contact and stick to friendly, yet juicy, plants.
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Cook tasty meals - Chop and grill your way to success using a full set of kitchen appliances, built from scrap you’ll find floating around in space. The better the quality of your ingredients, the more you’ll earn.
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Deliver to hungry clients - If you’re lucky enough to get a high value order from Zink Z’Boink of sector Z9, you’ll definitely need those plasma cannons. The hungry space pirates will stop at nothing to get their hands on your culinary creations.
TOP 10 THINGS TO DO AS A SPACE CHEF
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Explore the galaxy - Discover planets, abandoned space stations and visit strange settlements. Upgrade your ship to reach further into the unknown. Feeling crazy? Why not chase a high velocity chrystalline asteroid? High risk, high reward!
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Farm mysterious plants - Find unusual seeds on distant planets and nurture them in your farm until they’re ready to be harvested. Take good care of them though, or they might escape…
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Craft machines and gadgets - Collect all sorts of useful junk floating around in space and put together to build machines that will make your food faster and your life easier.
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Mine yourself rich - Using your nifty drill and various dangerous devices, discover valuable resources needed to build that giant thruster grill you’ve always dreamed of. But beware, there are others out there who want them as well.
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Prepare for space combat - Upgrade your ship to defend yourself against pirates and competing food delivery services. Or join the pirates and get some very lucrative —and highly illegal— missions. Beware of the galactic police!
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Craft awesome helper bots - Dirty kitchen? Get a SuckBot. Annoying friends? Get a SentryBot. Bleeding out? MedBot is on the way. Find rare electronic parts and build yourself a best friend in no time.
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Customize your home - Where you work is where you live, so make sure it is cozy. Collect decorations from around the galaxy and, if you’re really lucky, you’ll even find a talking plant to keep you up at night.
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Meet hungry characters - On your journey you’ll meet several interesting human and alien characters. Some will help you, some will need your help, but all of them have one thing in common. They need food!
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Keep track of time - Each planet has its own day and night cycle. Certain creatures and plants are only accessible at certain times of the day. Also make sure to watch the morning report for the latest on passing traders and dangerously lucrative situations.
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Find out who blew up your kitchen - Use your limited detective skills to find out who wanted you out of business. Who’s that suspicious guy at Zlurkas bar that only shows up after midnight? The truth is out there. And it doesn’t taste good.
Congratulations!
Still reading? Congratulations, you’re now an apprentice Space Chef ready to sharpen your knives!
Now join our discord at https://discord.gg/spacechef and get the latest news before everyone else, and get a chance to play the alpha version.
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Food Decisions
The main gameplay is to compare the values and select the food needed for the task. Generally speaking, this game is boring, but it taught me a lot of common sense. Let me realize the importance of healthy diet. With that in mind, I decided to give a good review.
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Manual achievement:
0/0
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
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I’m not fat, but it helps
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Recipe for Disaster
The game has been in E.A. for 10 days at the time of writing this review. After completing the campaign, I am sorry to say it’s a thumbs down.
It’s not because of some bugs (like the WASD keys not responding), some weird pathfinding (like your employees using the back door and running all around the building to sweep the front steps) or some data base missmatch (like the patrons who both love pork loin and hate pork loin) but because the core game mechanics are shallow.
In short:
- The recipe/culinary creation part and the expectation/feedback from patrons is a joke.
– Real player with 49.4 hrs in game
I feel like this game is a good precedent of a very shallow Early Access game. I literally played all 5 scenarios and tutorials 3 times including the bonuses. There are many things wrong with the game:
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Constant UI glitches (like so many)
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There is only 1 disaster that happens 2-4 times a day (fire)
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AI is too basic
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UI/UX overall is terrible (when viewing menu there is always a window that you cannot close on the right hand side and gets in the way of seeing your full menu/prices). Constant spam of messages in game you cannot turn off to0. I don’t want to know if Osama is making bad food every single time.
– Real player with 31.8 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!
Restaurant Empire II
I’ve played Restaurant Empire II off and on over many years (counting that the first game is included in II). When buying REII you get the full original RE game included.
The graphics are basic, the AI of customers and staff very limited, and the interface clunky in that you have to do a lot manually and one by one - for example you have to add recipes individually to the restaurant menu. But. I find it strangely compelling to try to get my chef up to 100% skill levels in as many recipes as possible, moving him between cuisines to round off his skills.
– Real player with 238.5 hrs in game
As a fan of the first Restaurant Empire game, at first I was disappointed with this one. A lot of the animations are the same, and this game adds coffee and dessert shops, so you have customers eating sandwiches and cookeis with forks and knives. Also, all the customers are talking on cell phones and using laptops now, which is annoying when you’re waiting for a chance to click on them. I actually quit the game for a long time because of these irritations.
However, I recently came back to it and I’m glad I did. It’s a lot of fun as a strategy game, and still fun just to tinker around with the restaurants and watch the chefs cook. The first game lacked female chefs, aside from Delia, but this time there are plenty of them, and that’s a welcome change too. The game isn’t very difficult, but it has some challenge to it, and it’s hard to find challenging strategy games these days.
– Real player with 107.9 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
Wholesome - Out and About
You arrive at Wholesome, a Scottish village also called Baile Fallain, just after a terrible storm has destroyed your Granny’s cottage and wreaked havoc on her idyllic coastal town. Can you find a way of restoring her home and helping the townsfolk? Connect with nature as you forage for wild food, tend to your garden, and cook delicious recipes. As you help repair the town, you’ll end up mending relationships and forming friendships with its residents, who are slowly coming together as a community striving for sustainability.
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Connect with nature while you’re out exploring a vast and beautiful environment. Discover the joys and gifts of the natural world by learning to identify wild food - a skill that you can use in real life!
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Cook and craft with fun minigames to help the townsfolk, fulfil orders, build friendships and restore your Granny’s fading memories. Use the in-game recipes and instructions to recreate these calming experiences at home!
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Customize your character and decorate your cottage! Collect outfits and hairstyles to express yourself and use upcycled furniture and handcrafted decorations to make your cottage feel like a real home.
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Take care of your garden while growing your own fruit and vegetables. Decorate with tips and tricks that can be applied to the real world as you get inspired to start your own little outdoor (or indoor) garden.
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Help the townsfolk rebuild and bring them together! Fulfil quest and orders, mend relationships and unlock secret stories. Each character has their own story to tell and set of skills to share - they can help you upgrade your home, learn about the natural world, or explore new parts of the map.
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Discover big and small ways of becoming more sustainable, as you help the residents of Wholesome make their town as green as can be.
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Share your knowledge by creating your own recipes inside the game and trading them with other players. We want to bring people together to share their skills and wisdom and create a vibrant community that can help us add content to the game for years to come!
Wishlist the game and join us on social media so that you can be part of the development journey!
Hookah Cafe Simulator
Have you ever wanted to know what is it like running your own Hookah Cafe Business?
Let’s Simulate It. Upgrade your shop with new types of equipment to attract and impress more customers.
Experience the day to day life of Hookah Cafe Owner and your own business to be the best in town and remember you have to be smart and quick. Do your best to fulfil your orders from customers to keep your shop open. Upgrade your shop with new pieces of equipment to get more tips and better rates and comments from customers.
Why would you chase money if you can’t spend it right? Use your profits to either grow your business buy new equipment and hire some stuff or just have fun and party. Freedom of multiple approaches for running your business and deal with pressure are key ingredients for this game.
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Cook different types of Meals
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Prepare hookah with different flavours
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Renovate your shop and house
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Advanced cooking mechanics
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Equipment upgrades
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Hire people to grow your business
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Sell your unwanted stuff on market to make money
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Read reviews
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Attract more customers with better-looking shop design and better reviews
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Set up Security System for your shop to avoid thieves
Nivalis
Welcome to Nivalis! Making it in this cyberpunk city isn’t easy. The gangs want to harvest your organs, the Corps will fine you for breathing, and the whole time, the ground under your feet is crumbling. This city could fall into the ocean tomorrow, so you better make your fortune today.
You’ve got to start small: a food stall, a noodle stand, a stim store. Build your way up to a bar, a restaurant, or even a nightclub. Eventually, you’ll own all the nightlife in Nivalis. You’ll own the night!
In Nivalis, you choose how to spend your time in the city. In this unique slice-of-life sim with realistic weather simulation and night and day cycles, you can grow your business, meet strange and diverse characters, form friendships and experience the danger and wonder of this cyberpunk voxel city.
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Experience your simulated life in Nivalis, and choose how you spend your time each day.
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Manage businesses like restaurants, ramen stands or night clubs.
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Buy or grow your own ingredients.
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Cook unique dishes and mix cocktails to attract the right customers.
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Quit work for the day and go fishing instead!
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Decorate your home or buy and customise a new one.
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Travel on foot or in your flying HOVA through realistically simulated traffic.
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Discover the stories of the people you meet in the city, your friends, your customers, and maybe even find love.