Kokoro Kitchen

first of all, people complaining about recipes not being available to reference are weird because setting your menu adds the recipes directly to your screen, you do have to cycle through them to the one youre working on but it is there. anyway, pros: -absolutely adorable. i love this game's artstyle with all my heart and soul. -i appreciate the veggie variants of some of the recipes! i am not a vegetarian myself but i do appreciate it (: -the intro plot being isekai'd by a food truck is so funny. saw the opportunity and took it. -unlocking new things to make feels really nice! -gets to be pretty relaxing once youve got the hang of it (: i like to open up my finished files on long nights when i cant sleep or if im not feeling well and just run through a couple days to get my mind off things cons: -a little too short for me ): i think if some optional goals were added after getting the chef back, maybe even an optional little story about trying to get back to the original world, would really help give the game a little more longevity! any post-game content would be great -the dash only being a second or two long throws me off. i do rush into every room, but holding it down means youre faster for like two seconds and then youre walking until your character decides to run again. theres no stamina meter either, so you dont really know when or why you cant dash. extending the dash, giving a stamina meter, or even eliminating the limit altogether i think could really help improve this -once youve gotten all the recipes and bought every upgrade, there's nothing to use your money or upgrade points on anymore. you can use them in the little gacha machines outside, sure, but once you collect all the little models, what then? you'll just accumulate more money with nowhere to put it. unfortunately this is something a lot of games struggle with; after a certain point you just collect money but have nothing to spend it on. maybe a post-game shop with different aesthetic skins for the kitchen or a handful of character customization items? i know the character customization isnt the main focus of the game, but maybe some silly hats or special colors would be fun to have (: as a sidenote, not positive or negative but just something i find endlessly amusing, when you get to a point where the NPC you want to come only takes dishes you've mastered, those mastered dishes will likely be the starter ones like a bowl of edamame or rice. its very silly and i kind of love it overall i really do enjoy this game a lot, its very cute and makes me hungry to play it lol i do think it could be vastly improved with some post-game content or missions to play and something to spend your endless post-game money on, but i still enjoy it and would recommend it if you like cutesy feel-good cooking games (:

This is a cute little restaurant management game. It works well on both PC and steam deck, I actually think it plays better on the steam deck. It's pretty low stakes and relaxing. I would've liked it to be a little more challenging, after 10 hours I completed the game.

Maybe with some more polishing, the game would be a bit more fun to play but unfortunately at current, the game bugged out significantly in the tutorial. It was difficult to get through. I mistakenly thought that it would be kind of like an adorable Diner Dash and the mechanics of the game were more intensive than was enjoyable. Just wasn't for me.