Game overview
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This cooking sim is intended to mimic the experience in a real life high pressure restaurant kitchen - mental health challenges, adrenaline, ego, wild personalities, and insanely complicated recipes from the actual restaurant are all included. BYOB though.
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About this game Read the full description
This is a cooking sim for people who have struggled with mental health issues and/or worked in a kitchen (ha ha, redundant).

Gameplay
The gameplay is your basic singleplayer cooking game. Orders come in from annoying, unseen customers, and it's your job to make them - perfectly, otherwise the annoying, unseen chef will yell at you - in a timely manner.
Features
As you progress through the seven stations of the kitchen (Bar, Dodger Night, Oven, Fryer, Saute, Salads, Code Red) you will unlock new characters with unique abilities, get paid for each dish you make correctly, and shop for things you don’t need. Do drugs (or, preferably, don’t) to manage your mental health and affect gameplay elements. If you make it far enough, you'll get to unlock the recipes from the actual restaurant.
Life Lessons
Get stressed, make money, buy stuff, do drugs. Learn something hopefully. Repeat.
The only enemy is your ego - conquer it or die trying.
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System requirements Windows · macOS
Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 8th gen i5 or whatever you have laying around
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: 8 GB
Recommended
Recommended:- OS: Windows 11
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: 16 GB
macOS
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: MacOS Sierra - 10.12.6
- Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 640M
Recommended
Recommended:- OS: Mac OS 11
- Processor: Apple Silicon or Intel
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 640M
Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Ruthless Productions
- Brazilian rating
- 14
- Steam Germany rating
- 14
- Content warning
- Unlike working in an actual kitchen, alcohol and drug use are only implied. Similarly, mental health issues are simulated. If you don't like being cursed at or demeaned/belittled, don't play this game.
- Features
- Single-player, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America
- Support
- [email protected]
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Buy Verdict
Decent deal at 0% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
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Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 100th percentile.
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