A short and bittersweet game about family and culture. As someone with not a lot of experience with either, I still enjoyed the experience of this game but feel it would have a deeper impact on someone with a rich culture and/or deep family connections.

That said, I still enjoyed the cooking gameplay and figuring out how to make things from weathered cookbook pages and then later on where it twists that concept a bit with the addition of cultural stuff. I especially liked that you can choose an option for flavor text that informs you more about the dish and how it relates to the culture in a soft welcoming way like a conversation or a memory and not just having it be like cold facts in plain text in some options menu. The game Tchia from this year could take a page from this game's book on how to incorporate real world heritage and traditions into your game. Oh well.

Great lil story told through cooking. It was maybe two hours long tops but I found to to be pretty profound for what it is. Only something I would recommend to people who I know would like this sort of thing or are open to something a lil different but to those people I think they'll really find something to love.

Reviewed on Dec 16, 2023


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