Defined by the immigrant experience in Canada while also offering the warmth, comfort, and connections provided by one's cultural background, particularly in cooking, Venba inspires with delightful animation and a hunger-inducing series of gameplay sequences to carry a brief generational drama concerning a Tamil couple and their son. So little is said (perhaps too much) where the actions of deduction allow a decades-spanning story its gracious moments of happiness during distress and occasional food for thought when the future dares to assimilate and destroy the very things one grows to know. There's a little too much quaintness in its storytelling (a random act of violent discrimination, the Ratatouille epiphany, blunt bedroom conversations) to truly feel absorbed in this world. Nevertheless, the clear love and dedication by an indie team aware of its roots serve Venba in ways few experiences could ever provide just plopping the player into a traditional Indian world.