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Discover how to cook delicious and disgusting dishes in this cute browser gameLittle Chef is free and ready to play in your browser
Little Chef is free and ready to play in your browser
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hello Erika, Julien Truebiger, Danny van Duist
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hello Erika, Julien Truebiger, Danny van Duist
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, sohie thee to Itch.ioand get experimenting.
It’s very fun to poke at everything and figure out what you can cook with—including some things you really shouldn’t |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hello Erika, Julien Truebiger, Danny van Duist
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?
Still filling out my cookbook |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hello Erika, Julien Truebiger, Danny van Duist
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 minutes of discovering delicious treats and horrifying mishaps this morning, and chuckling at some of the jokes. Perhaps you will too! Off you hopto Itch.
For more cute cooking, do also check outmaking a Lunar New Year feast in Tet. That’s another cute free game, and slightly more practical.
