Game looks really nice and I liked the puzzles!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #62 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
| Innovation | #130 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #169 | 3.661 | 3.661 |
| Gameplay | #226 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Visuals | #230 | 4.067 | 4.067 |
| Enjoyment | #291 | 3.567 | 3.567 |
| Audio | #730 | 2.967 | 2.967 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
The player chooses which dishes are poisoned and which are safe to eat based on interactions with kitchen staff and other information. One cook is lying to the player.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Font and music, credited in the description of the game.
How many people worked on the game?2
Comments
I was a little confused by the chef's statements, and was instead able to figure it out solely off of the posion itself, but other than that, I think the game is quite fun!
We also did a similar liars problem, but focused more on the equivalent of the chefs lying, rather than particularly picking the dishes. Its fun to see how the same concept is tackled different ways.
Nice Job! :)
I really like the take on the theme here, definitely one of the more unique ones! Visually also great, the food looked especially good, and the clues aren't too easy but you still give lots of "tools" the player can use to deduce which dish is safe, and that comes together nicely. Good job, I like this.
Now I kinda wanna eat one of those dishes...
Very pretty to look at and soothing sounds as well. Fits the theme also pretty well. Great job!
I really like the visual style! I also found the gameplay to be engaging and the mystery fun! Nice one!
Interesting idea, and cool art style. Feels really polished and well-made. I thought it might be more convenient to have ingredients list separately, but it's good there is such a feature either way.
Nice jam entry here! Like the visuals and how complex the game actually is. I you have to do the whole investigation to get your self out alive.
The only thing that felt of for me is music, it is nice by itself, but sad and somewhat depressing. But this is just a personal opinion, so don’t take that to serious.
Really clean UI presentation and easy UX. I'd like the chef text to appear faster.
What's the point of clicking the ingredients in the list?
I couldn't figure out level one though!
In the ingredient list you can mark ingredients that you know are safe already so you don't have to keep that information in your head. It is not required to be able to solve the levels, just something for the player to make tracking stuff easier. It was actually intended to be tied to the dishes at first, so that if you mark the dishes safe the ingredients in them get automatically marked as safe as well. We implemented it and only after that realized that that would break my second puzzle :D So we took it back out, but I agree the list does feel a bit unnecessary now.
I'm sorry you weren't able to solve the level! Balancing puzzles is hard and I'm not very good at it yet :D Thank you for playing! :)
Cool idea for the theme, having to trust the cooks while knowing one of them is lying was pretty fun. I liked how it's just 5 dishes and mouse only, super easy to jump into, though keeping all the ingredient info in my head got a bit messy haha. The art is very nice too, good stuff :)
Really cute style and well drawn :)
I enjoyed the social deduction aspect. Figuring out the liar was kinda tough for me as I couldn’t focus well enough to keep track of three statements, three poisons, 8 dishes with a bunch of ingredients each.
Overall this was a great little game and I have to give my kudos to the chefs!
Thank you very much! Yeah, with puzzles it's always a bit hard to balance the difficulty so that everybody can enjoy the game and not struggle too much or feel like it was too easy. I do not have enough experience with puzzles yet to be able to do that in such a short time frame, but I enjoyed making them :D
i like the game idea! i enjoy it! reminds me of maomao from the apothecary diaries. haha! i get to level 2. i tought there are more levels. good game! the art style is great, music is good too.
Love the art style, and the puzzles are well designed. Good work!
that was way deeper than I expected for a game jam game! Great work, the visuals were really well done as well!




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