Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.57/day in the week to Aug 1 → 7.71/day in the week after.
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Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $14.99 | 3.8Kreviews | 92% | — | $674K |
| $3.74−75% | 2.3Kratings | 84% | — | not modelled | |
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Themes across 253 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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Beautiful art, good story (I'm so, so glad the people actually communicated for once!!) and delicous looking food! Do not play this while hungry! Highly recommend :)
Hermoso
我既没有移民朋友，也从来没有离开过家乡生活（旅游不算），是个土生土长三十多年的当地人。可是这个游戏还是把我看哭了。这游戏其实应该算是互动小说那个类型的，烹饪只是故事的线索主题，不是模拟游戏。 小男孩长大后说，自己一直是个tourist，我觉得翻译成“游子”很恰当，他不管在哪里都有种“在他乡”的感觉。 最喜欢的是他说（大意）：“作为一个泰米尔人，很多时候挺不省事（convenient）的。不过有时候为了需要（convenient），我也可以做回泰米尔人。”
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
| $3.75−75% |
| 150ratings |
| 86% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $14.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 253 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
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mó vontade de comer um chicken masala
Amazing story and even more amazing art style! I learned so much about Indian cuisine and Indian culture!
More of a short story that revolves around culture and the complications that come with immigration to a new country. But it was very touching, and as a foodie I really enjoyed the storytelling they implemented through the different recipes shared.
能理解作者想表达的意思，但是游戏性实在是太差了，做饭内容少，而且都是点点鼠标就能完成的操作。画风很好看，食物做的也让人很有食欲，但是游戏流程很短且故事占了大头，全是对话和动画，非常枯燥乏味，故事也很无聊。还有开头女主生病了还要给老公做饭真的看力竭了。整体氛围很压抑，玩的人很不开心。
Short sweet game, not quite my thing though. I think the cooking is a little to simple for my taste, and I think the story segments between the times you are cooking tends to drag on a little to much.
I love cooking. The recipe book is very innovative and will keep me coming back. I enjoyed how short the game was too. If it had been longer, I don't think it would have left such a strong impression. The story is very well written, and is helped by the creative art direction and music. Kavan in particular was written very well, and captures a lot of the struggles that people born in 2 different cultures experience. I hope we get some more cooking inspired games similar to Venba. Also ran quite well on my laptop.
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