Discover how to cook delightful and dastardly dishes in this cute browser game
Flour, egg, banana, butter, salt. Given the ingredients at hand, I thought this was a decent attempt at making banana bread. The free cooking game Little Chef disagreed, and dubbed my dish 'Eggy Mess'. Everyone's a critic. But it's fun to puzzle out potential recipes, dragging ingredients into the pot, brushing my cursor against little physics-simulated spoons and plant fronds, and discovering what fresh horror I've concocted. It's free and playable in your browser, so hie thee to Itch.io and get experimenting.
Drag ingredients from the pretty 2D kitchen into the pot, then click the pot when you're ready to let it rip. It's not freeform simulated cooking, you're trying to puzzle out the combinations that will lead to the 40 desired dishes listed in the recipe book. Helpfully it also shows how many ingredients are in a dish, so if I was paying attention I would have noticed that banana bread requires only two ingredients. Surely that's banana and bread. Yup!
Oh, but as you mess up, you'll also uncover 17 horrible dishes. I've already told you one way to make Eggy Mess but how would you make a Painting? And what horrors can one cook with houseplants?
Little Chef is made by Hello Erika, Julien Truebiger, and Danny van Duist. The developers cite as influences the brew 'em up Potion Craft, browser-based mixologer Bartender The Right Mix, and mobile game Doodle God: Alchemy Simulator. One other game it reminded me of is splendid abiogenesis 'em up The Barnacle Goose Experiment, where you grow an entire world by combining tears, spit, wood, dreams, iron, and everything else in all creation.
It's not a huge game (I would welcome more recipes!) and I do wish it had sounds, but Little Chef is a nice little game. I enjoyed a few
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