Space Food Truck

This game is very quirky and memorable. The roles and co-op nature of the game are very dynamic. As rogue-like co-op card games go, this one is decent enough on it's own. However, this game suffers greatly from both the RNG elements of a deck builder, and the events system. There's a solved amount of strategy, especially with the forced purchase mechanic. The forced purchase mechanic is the worst thing I've ever had to deal with. You're being taxed for not staying on top of the cruelties of the universe. There's a bit of bias here, I'm mainly just frustrated on how much this game attacked me with little agency to stop it. Lastly, unless you're playing solo, the multiplayer is extremely buggy with the UI and connection. You'll find yourself full restarting with your whole co-op crew quite often. It's a seven year old game with major issues like this.

Game is good. Better with Multiplayer. No one plays it.

charming and addicting. I wish I could beat the highest difficulty but it has broken my soul.

The main problem this game has is that, with correct play and a bit of early game luck, you will win. As in, there is nothing the game can throw at you anymore that would really pose a threat, no challenge that won't be solved in a turn or two. And yet you still have to go through the motions and actually get the ingredients into the stew, get the ship into the correct system, fix the shields, doors, and draw pilons, and be extremely bored because you already scienced everything available. There are better deckbuilders out there, but this one, despite its flaws, does have interesting things to offer. ...though I didn't know there was a sequel until now, so maybe check that out instead? Ought to be better.

fun

Got to the finish and game crashed immediately after the last encounter. 10/10

We gotta cook Mr. White

This is an AWESOME card game. It took me a few tries to understand what was happening, and then about 10 hours to optimize my moves. After that, it was a 4 hour journey to beat the actual game (multiple re runs needed) Its well designed and everything has a synchronistic justification, even the "bad events" have their on cannabilistic synergy that will END YOU if you don't address shortfalls in your card pulls. I know this is marketed multiplayer, but SINGLEPLAYER is viable, and to me , preffered. Once you understand the role and optimized paths of each character, it becomes an over arching strategy-puzzle-card game that is very satisfying. I can't imagine trying to translate the nessecary cross strategy needed to win with 4 different people. As 1 person, you can predict and formulate long term goals, but as 1/4th of a team, good luck lol. amazing, loved this game

Almost 10 years later and this game still hold up. The difficulty scaling is great too as I've never been able to beat the game on the hardest difficulty, but can always win on the easiest of four difficulty levels. You play as four crewmen on a ship each with they own deck to maintain and each crew uniquely contributes to the overall goal of cooking and delivering three separate dishes with rare ingredients. I just wish it had more multiplayer support/activity and more content beyond the original gameplay. For the amount of content in this game, I'd say $5.99 is a good price for it, but I did get a lot of replayability out of it. The average game takes about an hour to 1.5 hours to complete. I am able to play the game with the steam deck, but only by utilizing the track pads only. There is NO controller functionality with this game.

An innovative deckbuilder, with an innovation that has put a number of people off: you're forced to buy a card every turn. (Also, the four decks in parallel thing is potentially a bit rough, although it was manageable for me.) This means that managing bloat is very important But with that in mind, I was able to win my second game (the first was spent learning things I might have learned from watching the video tutorial), and it was a perfectly enjoyable 3 hours. I'm not sure that I want to go back to it (but I'm not sure I won't), but it's genuinely innovative and was worth the low price.