Cuisineer

awesome little game whose objective is to explore dungeons to collect ingredients to later cook and sell in your medieval restaurant. its really good and addictive, although it gets repetitive over time bc the cycle of going after ingredients and making new special dishes goes on day after day with not that much variation. still the idea behind the game is really good and the gameplay is satisfying and casual, plus the graphics are super cute and colorful :3

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch leaves fall instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ You need a Quantum Computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat more than 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ Replayability }--- ☐ One and done ☐ Maybe after a year ☐ Worth a second run ☑ It's a Rouge-like play it until bored ☐ Played it 20 times and still not bored ☐ Hunt must go on! ☐ It's an MMORPG ---{ Microtransactions }--- ☑ None ☐ Only cosmetics ☐ Slightly pay-to-progress ☐ Pay-to-win ☐ More shops than gameplay ☐ Casino Simulator ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Summary }--- Cuisineer is a charming little roguelite that clearly takes a lot of inspiration from Hades. While it doesn't quite reach the same level, it's still a fun experience, and I definitely think it's worth picking up on sale. The core gameplay revolves around exploring dungeons, defeating food-themed monsters to gather ingredients, and using those ingredients to run the restaurant you inherited from your family. It's a fun concept, but unfortunately both halves of the gameplay loop have some noticeable flaws. The biggest issue with the dungeon side is that enemies appear in the exact same order on every floor. Once you realize this, there's very little reason to push deeper into the dungeon beyond collecting specific materials. As a result, the sense of challenge and progression gradually fades, making the roguelite loop less engaging than it could have been. The restaurant management also has one major drawback. No matter how much you expand or upgrade your restaurant, you can never hire staff. This means you're always responsible for every single task yourself—cooking, serving customers, and collecting payments. While this is enjoyable at first, it eventually becomes more exhausting than rewarding and weakens the feeling of progression that restaurant management games usually provide. The story is fairly simple and doesn't leave much of an impression, but that's not really the game's focus. Cuisineer shines as a relaxing game that you can play at your own pace without feeling pressured. It took me around 28 hours to complete the game 100%, and I enjoyed taking my time throughout the experience. If cozy roguelites and management games sound like your kind of thing, I'd definitely recommend giving Cuisineer a look during a sale. It's not without its flaws, but it's a charming and relaxing game that offers a unique blend of dungeon crawling and restaurant management.

This was a hard one to rate, but ultimately, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless it's on sale AND you have a lot of spare time on your hands. The game starts off very simple with a good introduction and feel for your progression, but spirals instantly into what seems like endless fetch quests and bland dialogue from NPC's. The gameplay loop is to run your restaurant with food you cook using ingredients you scavenged. There's nothing else. The dungeons you run through are the exact same layouts with the same annoying enemies unless you cheese them to oblivion. If you like simple games, then this would be up your alley, but honestly? You probably have better games in your backlog.

It was fun at first but, I'm 50/50 backpack is god awfully small and it fills up in 2 seconds, I still haven't beaten the boss of the first world because I leave dungeon early with bag full, needs more QoL, Combat's a bit annoying it quickly becomes hard to distinguish what are your skills effects and enemy especially the poison effect that just covers the area with green and I can't see a thing.

Restaurant part is okay, fighting for resources part is boring...nothing makes me want to keep playing.

戦闘関連がとにかく苦痛です。難しいとかではなく苦痛。 遠距離攻撃をしてくる敵が多すぎます。しかも例外なくまだ画面内に入れてすらないのに攻撃してきます。 戦闘を楽にしたくて武器を強化したくても、強化値が1しか上がらないうえに強化し終わるのに1日かかるためテンポも悪いです。 このせいで稼いだお金が自身の強化に繋がりづらいのがかなりマイナス。 一応スキルを吟味すれば火力は上がるのですが、基本的にランダム付与かつこれも付与に1日かかります。 ダンジョンも罠が凄まじく多く、かつ敵を全て倒さないと出れない部屋が複数発生します。 反面、レストラン経営要素は良い意味で簡単です。 料理は調理器具を調べるだけで自動で作ってくれますし、基本は客が自分で取りに来てくれます。 料理の種類も多く、グラフィックもおいしそうです。 最初に書きましたが戦闘関連が本当に本当に苦痛です。 ちなみに前は色んな要素を改善するMODがあったみたいなのですが、今は公開停止されてます。

Another worthy representative of dungeon crawling shop management sim. It is a lot like Moonlighter but with cuter graphics. So, same as others genre - gameplay is divided into two parts - shop management and dungeon runs. You’re managing restaurant, so what you could do in hub city is improve your weapons - you those are dropped from dungeon or bought in city, improve few abilities you have, improve your establishment, get cosmetics for both you and your house etc. In restaurant itself, there is cooking requested dished after you open it and placing furniture\cosmetics in most efficient manner with limited space available. Oh, also quests are received in hub area too. Dungeon runs share time with your business, so you have to choose where you’ll be spending precious work hours. Dungeon floors are procedurally generated and consist of a bunch of medium sized areas where you slaughter or gather cooking and crafting mats, ofc since your inventory is not infinite, if you go far enough, some sacrificed would have to be made and hard choice of what to throw away or keep will present itself constantly. After a number of floors boss could be encountered that would provide some gear and mats. Moving through the story, reveals new areas that provide new type of ingredients. Recipes are mostly received from completing town quests. Combat itself is pretty simple, you got attacks and rolls to dodge danger or move faster and that’s pretty much it, however what type of attack there is depends on weapon equipped, giving some options on what fighting style one would like to choose. Audio is fine, it’s mostly cuteish and bubbly to match visuals and thankfully does not go that far to become nuisance, but would win no awards or get viral. Sounds are kinda same too. Graphics as mentioned before are quite cute, especially 2d character pics in dialogs. So there will be no dark or brutal or realistic places or npcs, everything is aimed to keep you uplifted and relaxed, except for combat. Plot is very much like others in genre - you inherit shop, you got to take care of debt, befriend locals, develop your business and here also discover some family lore. And as with everything else - this aspect of game is also made to be lighthearted and warm. Nothing complicated or any unexpected twists, just very simple fuzzy questline.

优点：画风精致可爱，每道菜都有好看的图。开店环节不麻烦不用自己上菜。 缺点：重复度极高，全程就那么几个小怪。非常非常非常肝。 本来想坚持打通关的，但太难攒钱了，实在刷不下去了。后面非常非常无聊，全是重复刷刷刷，也就前几个小时好玩。如果打骨折冲着画风可以买来玩玩，半价以上买的都不推荐