
A magical action platformer following the life of an apprentice chef learning to master the secrets of the culinary arts under the tutelage of a newfound teacher. Journey through magical lands, bring ingredients to life, and slay foes using kitchen tools, all in a classic 32-bit pixel art style.
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After being fired from a previous job as a line cook, a young chef is hungry for new work. One morning a mysterious job offer appears that beckons you towards a mysterious, magical restaurant.
Culinary Wizard is a traditional 2D action-platformer made in a cozy 32-bit pixel art style. Bring ingredients to life and travel between unique worlds, battling hunger one customer at a time. Refine your palette and master the techniques of the culinary arts to deliver tasty meals to happy customers, no matter the request.
Traditional side-scroller action in a retro pixel art style, with a dash of modern zest.
Level up with powerful skills and abilities! Smash your way to victory with a mighty tenderizer, throw in a dash of salt when in a pinch, or slice foes to pieces with a cutting edge chefs knife. Take your skills to new heights with your trusty spatula, or roll through the competition with a wooden rolling pin.
Become an interdimensional chef and travel between distant worlds to cook for quirky customers with absurd appetites that are almost as bad as their jokes.
Spice up your fashion sense with over 15 wacky costumes to wear! Choose your favorite cooking styles to make your culinary journey unique.
A vast selection of sweet and savory food-based enemies all brought to life with traditional 2D frame-by-frame animations.
Hand crafted environments with seamless parallax, giving that sense of depth to a flat world.
A handful of sound effects custom made for each enemy that gives them some extra flavor.
20 trophies to earn and display proudly in your bedroom as you advance through your cooking career.
Flexible keyboard/controller inputs that let you rebind buttons to anything you want to best fit your gaming playstyle.
Hungry for more? Complete Culinary Wizard to unlock recipes from the secret menu; a chef's greatest challenge!

Each new world you travel to along your culinary journey is just as weird as the last, with level layouts carefully hand crafted in a traditional 32-bit pixel art style.
As you discover new worlds, a variety of new ingredients become available that make each world feel unique and full of life. Hang out by the beach and catch some sun with the bros, or venture down into the rotten depths of the restaurant and uncover a rotten surprise.
If you enjoy traditional platforming gameplay, have a hunger for adventure, and love corny jokes, then start your journey today to become a Culinary Wizard!


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Languages: English
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Short, sweet, and packed full of fun! The controls are easy to pickup and gameplay is kept fresh with the added abilities throughout the game. You could get through the entire game in just a few hours (depending on skill level), so it is totally worth a quick afternoon of fun. I would highly recommend playing with a controller too for an even better experience!
Game is a fun time. Easy to get the hang of but learning to use your different abilities at the right time can really pay dividends. I will come back and get to order level 30 and beat those damn time trials at some points. For a free game, this is a big recommend from me, can't wait to see what these devs put out next! P.S. whoever thought movement should be on arrow keys by default, you are wild :D
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Hours played at review time, across 33 reviews with recorded playtime.
Fun game mechanics and surprises that were revealed over time, nice ability upgrades and sound effects throughout. Lots of achievements and a good range of difficulty across levels. Well worth an evening of fun, and I'll definitely be back to try out the dinner service for the master chef!
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A full-course meal of a game consisting of plenty of delectable and savoury gameplay garnished with lively visuals. Said visuals consist of some very nice pixel art with lovely pictures for each individual dish as well as showing in the backgrounds with plenty of detail and vibrant yet not overpowering colours. There is a good amount of variety in the environments and the designs for the ingredients are simple yet effective. As a special treat the menus are stylized like a restaurant menu or a cookbook, which is always great to see and a strong indicator for artistic quality! Parallel to the visuals the sound design of the ingredients is also fun. The soundtrack is energetic enough to keep you alert, but not too fast as to make you anxious. How each ingredient behaves as an enemy fits them very well playing on their individual traits regarding taste or healthiness such as the turmeric, some of their plant behaviour such as the pineapple and sometimes also their names such as the ghost pepper. Needless to say there is a great variety to them! The levels too are varied, a particular standout was the coconut level during the last area which I feel also acted as a bit of a foretaste of the bonus levels which present a couple of new unique challenges. While there certainly is challenge to the game, especially if one aims for all achievements with getting three stars for every dish and completing all bonus levels, it is also well-balanced and increases gradually. Even the last couple of bonus levels shouldn’t become frustrating even if they require a couple of tries. This is one of the instances where you find more effective paths and get notably better at the gameplay while playing. All of these ingredients come together to create a truly solid game that makes the most out of its cooking theme with delicious ingenuity and a good presentation as the cherry on top! You can easily get great entertainment for an afternoon or two out of this one.
A neat little action platformer for the unbeatable price of free. Plenty of depth from the get-go and even just scratching the surface I can tell there's tons more to unlock. Risk/reward weapons, dangerous food-based baddies, and funny NPCs. Worth a go for platform fans. Full review: https://web.phenixxgaming.com/2025/07/16/culinary-wizard-out-now-for-free-on-steam/
Fun mechanics, pretty pixel art, and a quick story makes this game an easy play through for everyone
fun little game, it gets a bit challenging if you don't choose adding more health, but that makes the challenge interesting.
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Yeni bir öğretmenin rehberliğinde mutfak sanatlarının sırlarında ustalaşmayı öğrenen bir çırak şefin hayatını konu alan büyülü bir aksiyon platform oyunu. Büyülü diyarlarda yolculuk edin, malzemeleri hayata geçirin ve mutfak aletlerini kullanarak düşmanları alt edin, hepsi klasik 32-bit piksel sanat stilinde.
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