Review: Recipe for Disaster

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I hate reality TV, but I love Gordon Ramsey. Perhaps it’s better to say I like the character that Gordon Ramsey plays, as I understand that he’s not actually that caustic in person. He talks to people like I talk to Ninja Gaiden on the NES; nothing but derision.

Recipe for Disaster is definitely feeding off Kitchen Nightmares. During its early access period, it seemed to highlight that you were hiring a bunch of unique personalities and throwing them into a stew. You’re thrust into a series of struggling restaurants with the intent of rescuing them from their terrible owners. The question is: does Recipe for Disaster deliver on this tantalizing concept? The biggest question is: can Recipe for Disaster convince me not to just reinstall Pizza Connection 2?

Recipe for Disaster (PC)Developer: Dapper Penguin StudiosPublisher: Kasedo GamesReleased: August 5, 2022MSRP: $14.99

I’m a bit of a sucker for management games, and Recipe for Disaster is instantly familiar. Hire your staff, slap down your appliances, build a menu, and decorate the place; it’s all there. Employees have a variety of stats, mostly relating to individual parts of the kitchen. They can be a virtuoso with the deep fryer but be completely lost when it comes to putting a salad together.

You get a pool of employees to hire each day, but their individuality is pretty lacking. They have traits, as well as likes and dislikes, but the worst you’re going to get is someone that annoys everyone else or shows up to work late. I think the first part of Recipe for Disaster that really disappointed me was how oversold your interactions with employees really is. Sure, some of them hate cleaning, but they put that on their resume. If you’re looking for someone to keep the