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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Reviews
Themes across 253 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Love the Game. The Art Driection and THE RECIPES. Thank you to the Entire Team for making this beautiful slice of culture.
changed my life btw, shed actual tears, went in blind and it broke my heart but in a good way
cooking mama with heart
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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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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
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
This was a fun little experience that evoked a lot of emotion. The artwork and music was very well done. The game was a little sad, but it was a great game and I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it.
Now I'm hungry... A delightful little story with textured visuals and an outstanding soundtrack.
great story and sound design
很感人的小故事，除了有点贵可以等打折买 推荐身边有移民二代朋友的对这个事情有认知的可以get到作者的点 也能理解差评没对上电波确实不建议买了玩 毕竟就是个一小时的动画小短片
Eu comprei querendo cozinhar e saí triste
cute little game, made me really hungry. the art and music are really good and the fact they include recipes is funny and good. very short but i recommend
A really heartwarning and bittersweet game about the realistic struggles of South Asian immigrants. I love that it's told through such a unique yet universal medium: the language of food. The gameplay is really fun, graphics and art are beautiful, and the story is very sweet. I really enjoyed how the game had an educational aspect to it too, and you could learn about the dishes! The tamil music was also a beautiful touch, and really immersed me into the lives of this family. Circling back to the art, it's drawn with so much love and detail, and every aspect from the characters to the food looks so beautiful. I loved the pause menu too! Although its disheartening, I also like how the game showed that Venba and Paavalan didn't magically get their dream jobs in Canada and still struggled financially and professionally decades later, because it's such a realistic portrayal of the issues that first generation South Asian immigrants face, and I feel like a lot of medias stray away from talking about it. It wasn't some fantasy story where the family suddenly makes it in a world that's so different to what they know - instead it shows how despite the struggles they face, they still endure and try their best for the sake of themselves and their son. Overall, I definitely recommend this game. It's really nice to see South Asian stories get the love they deserve, and it's both an educational and heartwarming experience that'll really help you understand this family!
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