
A horror roguelike bento-builder. You're trapped in an underground kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster. Gamble with your life, assemble meals, and master your multipliers. Whatever you do, Don't Let it Starve.
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Don't Let It Starve is a strategy gambling rogue-lite bento-builder where you must prepare the most satisfying meals for a half-chef monster lurking in the walls. Reach ever more ludicrious scores to (hopefully) earn your freedom...
Assemble your ingredients on a variety of bento shapes and sizes to maximize space and flavor. Master unique combos and modifiers to raise your score to ever increasing heights. Choose ingredients wisely and optimize your layout to fit as much as possible. Don't despair, there's a light at the end of that tunnel...
With 10 unique hats and over 100 tools, there's limitless build possibilities to experiment wtih. Push your luck to the limit and weigh your risks and rewards. Go all in on Bread and fail miserably when you fail to roll your combo. Get gud and try again. There's countless ways to win (or fail horribly).
Unlockable hats, challenge modes, tools, and secret puzzles fill the game with dozens of hours of content. Try out weird shit and see what it unlocks. See if you can master the increasingly punishing challenges for rewards and bragging rights. Go infinite even harder than your friends in the challenge mode. Uncover the secret ending. We stuffed the game with content.
Master the Combos - It'll take more than just fitting food on a grid to win. Learn the synergies, ramp up your combos, and crank your score into the stratosphere.
Meta-Progression – Unlock new tools, upgrades, and run modifiers that change future attempts.
120+ Unique Items & Synergies – Experiment with a huge variety of tools and effects to create deadly-efficient strategies.
Bento Building Action! - We all love the Resident Evil 4 inventory system. Now do it with food.
Uncover the Secrets - We got tons of secret stuff to uncover. There's like a whole escape room thing. Find the clues and get that juicy L O R E !
Meaningful Challenge Modes - New challenges don't just ramp up the needed score, but they also add new features that work with new tools to create a unique experience that doesn't feel like an afterthought.
Endless Mode – Push your skills (and your luck) to the limit in an infinite survival challenge.
Tense Atmosphere – You're not alone in the kitchen.
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Languages: English*, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish*languages with full audio support
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it's fun and the bento gimmick is cool and original, but i don't know how to feel about the fact that it feels and looks soooo much like CloverPit i still had a good time so i'll leave a positive review
A fun roguelike that captures the addicting strategy in same vein as clover pit and balatro. The game itself has a similar charm to it that feels inspired by clover pit or buckshot roulette in it's presentation while feeling distinct. The game is pretty light in the way of story telling but more than makes up for in the varity of touques and charms to make each round feel a bit different and fresh. If nothing else, if you're a fan of games that has you creating big scores or simply love the tonuge and cheek horror, I would definitely recommend giving it a try.
spooky balatro with some fun secrets
Amazing really fungame
Honestly came in thinking it'd be a throwaway game but this is a really fun take on tetris in the current rouglike format that is the craze of 2026, and it's spooky!
Gostei muito da experiência. É um jogo que prende facilmente a atenção, oferecendo inúmeras possibilidades de testar diferentes combinações. A sensação de descobrir novas sinergias torna as primeiras horas bastante envolventes. Depois de algum tempo, porém, a familiaridade com os itens faz com que a progressão fique um pouco repetitiva, já que se torna relativamente fácil montar os conjuntos desejados. Mesmo assim, o jogo consegue manter aquela vontade de fazer "só mais uma partida" e continuar aumentando a pontuação, mesmo sabendo que o objetivo é, essencialmente, alcançar scores cada vez maiores. No geral, é um jogo simples, viciante e muito bem executado, que vale a pena para quem gosta de experimentar estratégias e otimizar cada partida.
While on the quest for finding food/cooking related games, I stumbled upon this gem! This game also scratches my balatro itch with its roguelike mechanics. On top of that, the environment and subtle escape room-like hints/notes makes me curious to keep replaying to find out the lore of this story!
3 franks, no ocean.
I was lucky enough to find this game being streamed. Just like 6 or 7 types of food, but so much game! Funny, well-written, and many secrets to find. Roguelike Bento Box making? Amazing
The monster is cute but there’s not really an actual story. (There are some puzzles and stuff to figure out and some lore but it’s missing out a lot on its story potential) other than that it’s pretty much bento tetris
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