Epic Chef

just started but lost one hour of play because nobody explain that game saves only in a bed during night... what a stupid system - I understand that it could make some sense in farming simulators but even there they have implemented quick save alrady. or at least save & quit... story is long, movement slow... you really don;t want to do this again and again.. why there is no autosave after some certain points in story during a day? :-(

Aside from how this game handles saving, this is a cooking game that tries it's hardest to not be a cooking game and more like a cartoon with ridiculous plots that work out in the end. The story is about verbal punching bag and only sane man Zest who "inherits" a haunted mansion and tries to make a living as a cook in the land of Concordia and its colorful and quite frankly concerning residents (seriously the first thing you see in town is a public fist fight). Then a golem crash lands in your pool to teach you how to plant potatoes and then taught how to cook by a weird knight riding a donkey who he insists is a pegasus (or was it a unicorn? I don't really know nor care). If you are wondering what kind of crack you just read, get used to it, cause it gets dumber and crazier by the second. The gameplay is a bit repetitive but it has it's own unique style on how you handle ingredients and the restaurant. The comedy gets better the deeper you get into the story such as trying to take down a giant screaming chicken while the dialogue feels like you can't go 5 minutes without something sounding like a conversation you would hear on Seinfeld; questioning random mundane things like the means behind an random statue while doing something completely unrelated. Also you get to hang out with Jesus. While I admit this game has it's flaws, it is a good game for those who enjoy comedy and it tends to go on very high discounts on occasion.

唐牛才是食神！

Bland, Boring, and a grind. The gameplay is not culinary at all. this is a farm sim with a cooking minigame, nothing more

Epic Chef fracasa desgraciadamente en los distintos aspectos que intenta cubrir. Primero, como aventura narrativa con su historia y demás, la historia y los personajes son realmente flojos. Demasiado infantiles y predecibles y aburridos. Luego la jugabilidad, la parte de gestión de la granja y recursos es demasiado simplona como para competir con un juego de gestión de verdad y se vuelve rápidamente tediosa; y en la parte de cocina, es demasiado básico, sin incentivos reales para esforzarse o cuidar las cosas, más que encontrar combinaciones óptimas de los ingredientes y repetir una y otra vez. El progreso por nivel no aporta mucho, y las cosas que se desbloquean meh. Los duelos culinarios también tienden a ser flojos. Gráficamente el juego es muy pobre, así como del mismo modo lo es en términos de sonido. Al menos, eso sí, yo no me encontré con bugs, lo cual es de agradecer. Pero inevitablemente es un juego que no puedo recomendar. Un 4.

Діалогі насправді дуже веселі, і це на початку мені прям сподобалося, було відчуття що мені ця гра сподобається, але але Відсутність нормальних пояснень, початок цього біжу туди, побіжи сюди Просто зрозумів що мені не буде цікаво грати в гру де я мушу бігти 10хвилин фіг знає куди

The game is fun but reminded that there is some problem with the achievement (add a little zest).

Yet another chore simulator.

This game's roots are a simple farming game, where you spend your produce on cooking contests. The strongest part however is the writing. The story from zero to hero is at times charming, hilarious or witty, with the highest peaks teaching the player profound life lessons. If you can stomach some frustrating game mechanics, I'd recommend Epic Chef based just on the story. There is zero time pressure. Zest, the playable character, may take as long to work on the farm as he wants to, since time stops at 2 a.m. Main and side quests do not progress without the player and cannot fail. Losing a major cooking battle restarts the day. Buildings can be torn down and rebuild indefinitely often. Which makes this game overall quite cozy. Still, there are a couple of things that I found detremental to my experience, where fishing probably was the most annoying. You catch fish in a minigame where you have to keep your cursor inside an oscillating block. Which fish you'll get is random, of course. This is the exact same minigame for fishing as in sooo many other titles, too, that it is very hard for me to stay focused. Yet, especially the end-game fish are such a powerful and valuable ingredient, that I could not ignore it. Second to fishing is collecting products from your lifestock. As long as you provide food, your (whimsical) cattle will just drop their stuff somewhere on the ground at any point in time of the day. While that is manageable with only few animals, at the end-game you've got lifestock that is bigger than most of the farm buildings. They're always in your way and obstructing your view. The products may be laying anywhere, including clipped into buildings, that I came to resent this daily task. Lastly I want to mention that the cooking battles sadly lack all tension. They're more of a puzzle than a skill based challenge. The game does not disclose what ingredients your opponent used and the points they score is exactly the same every time. So I would just take some trash into the first battle and scout what bars I needed to clear, come up with a strategy, including sauces if needed, and usually win by a landslide on the second try. The cooking minigame could have made this much more interesting. What dish Zest cooks is largely determined by the chosen three ingredients and their individual synergies. The controls offer too little precision to favor or filter the flavors. Aroma matters only in the contests to decide which player is judged first, which in turn factors into the utility of sauces. And what nominally deepens the strategic possibilities, is renedered mute, because the judges may have some very restrictive tastes. All in all, I still had a good time playing through. A replay though will be too samey, since I already know the story.