Chef RPG on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
Chef RPG is a early access, rpg and pixel graphics game
developed and published by World 2 Studio.
Released on September 12th 2024 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.
It has received 1,593 reviews of which 1,395 were positive and 198 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 16.57€ on Steam with a 15% discount.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 8 or greater
- Processor: 2.0GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
- Storage: 5 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OSX 10.10+
- Processor: 2.0GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 mb video memory, OpenGL 2
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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I work in a kitchen to come home and work in a kitchen! Great game. Got my GF to play it, she spent eight hours trying to make it pretty. It doesn't get pretty.
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I've really enjoyed playing this game in early access, and I can't wait for the finished game to come out, Pros --Mining, farming, cooking, brewing --Quite a bit of customization options for just being EA --Responsive dev team that puts out updates almost daily to fix bugs and issues. I've had other games just get abandoned after being hyped up, so it's nice to know they are still working on the game --HUGE range of cooking options for being EA --Can get 2 restaurants in EA currently --CAN GET DOGS AND CATS --Lots of different recipes. You can learn 200+ in EA. To do so, you NEED to get the research labs (each of them), as certain recipes are only accessed through them. They can be purchased from stores, learned from recipes, or learned from cooking/interacting with the world. --I really like the art, now. I was hesitant at first, but it has really grown on me. I think at least one of the characters is missing a portrait, though (Hugo), as he shows up as a friend (well, stranger) but not with a portrait when I talk to him. --Characters are super cool (although somewhat surface level in EA). You need to befriend characters to get more items sold at their stores. Cons --Because it is early access, there are a lot of bugs. It doesn't bother me because I know that it's early access--but if you are expecting a fully polished game, you should wait --The romance (currently) is pretty bare bones, and it is not fully clear who can and cannot be romanced. For example, I thought Bea would be romanceable, but it turns out Bea is married and has children already with another character (that I can't remember the name of). It should be a bit clearer, like with a symbol or heart color, to determine who can and cannot be romanced. I defaulted to romancing Aloys because Aloys loved hats and I just...bought a hat from their store and gave them one every day. I did want to romance Aylin, but I couldn't tell if she was romanceable. --Figuring out my friend status with anyone beyond the little names like "stranger" and "friend" is difficult. I know that there are stages because I get hearts that indicate we've leveled up as friends, but I have no idea how friendly I am with someone. --The hair of my staff keeps disappearing. --I don't love the skill leveling, and as some of the negative reviews have mentioned, if you don't do certain skills, you lock yourself out of the game. I think it would make more sense for certain skills, such as the Greenhouse skill, to not be a skill but something you unlock through a quest. --Combat is a bit tricky, and spears seem almost useless at this point, as I'm just getting beat up constantly by the deer I'm hitting, and the damage is WAY lower than bows. --I STRONGLY dislike the steaming minigame. I can't stand it. If the bars are at the top, 99.9% of the time it will be a fail or bad result. --The spelling errors/grammar errors are pretty significant Neutral/Hopes for the future (which are likely already planned) --More decor/decorations --More in-depth romance and clearer options --More recipes that use the other types of alcohol (maybe I just haven't found them yet) --More high value recipes (all or most of my expensive recipes are wagyu-based) --The ability to have the restaurant open without needing to be there all the time. Like, late game, I would love to be able to hire a manager or something that lets me leave and runs the restaurant (obviously not as well as when I'm there). I also think I should be able to be a waiter and not just a chef--I know chef rpg is the name, but we are restaurant owners, and as a restaurant owner, we would wear many hats Overall, I'm excited to see the finished game. I'll update my review once more content comes out :)
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If you buy this, remember, this is EARLY ACCESS. Do NOT expect a perfectly polished game. At 0.5, this already has more content than many other titles out there and the amount of planned content is substantial. Graphics - 8/10 - the portrait art isn't for everyone but the cyberpunk aesthetic is great! Sound - 5/10 - Music is a weak spot. There just isn't enough of it yet. Gameplay - 9/10 - The loop of getting ingredients, planning and running your own restaurant is a lot of fun. Story - 7/10 - It's quite interesting. Not a huge amount of quests yet but there's plenty of potential here. Price - 10/10 - For the price, you're getting a huge amount of game with so much more planned. Stability/bugs - 6/10 - For me, the game has been generally good. A few wonky moments with the controls and gameplay, but nothing to give a negative review for. Devs - 10/10 - These guys are passionate. 3 patches in 3 days, fixing most of the early reported bugs. They're listening to the feedback and promising a whole host of QOL changes. Summary - I'm really enjoying my time in Chef RPG - It's refreshing to see a twist on the somewhat saturated 'Stardew Valley style' life sim. Running your own restaurant, designing the interior, choosing the menu and hiring staff, is genuinely fun and addictive.
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I think the price is a little steep for this early access. There's plenty of other games out there fully released for much less. But the game itself is very promising. I do recommend people who wants a game that is polished to wait for the full release, though if you can bare some bugs and are eager to play this game, maybe wait for a sale before you buy it. This game is pretty unique, you'll feel lost in the beginning with all its menus, it doesn't play like other farm/life sims out there that I've played. Once you get the hang of it it becomes easy to understand. The keybindings are a little bit weird, but the developers have said that they will release controller support and modification to keybindings in the near future. So far I'm enjoying this game. I like the mini-games for cooking. Again the price is pretty hefty for an early access in this stage. Wait for a sale if you want to buy it, or wait for more updates that can justify the price.
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At first glance, Chef RPG plays a lot like a variation of Traveller's Rest with some sprinklings of what you'd expect from Stardew Valley. Instead of running a tavern in medieval times you run a restaurant in a semi-modern seaside cyberpunk themed town. In addition, the player is able to engage in the relationship building activities you'd expect in a casual cozy game about life in a small town. Given the player starts out running a restaurant instead of inheriting a farm, much of your initial produce and other food ingredients will come from hunting, fishing, gathering, and trade with the shops and vendors in the town. However, as the story progresses, there are opportunities to grow your own produce via greenhouse. There are attributes and skills to further enhance the capabilities of the player when it comes to gathering ingredients and resources as well as running their restaurant and interacting with the various NPCs of the town (some of which include androids!). This is a nice way to allow players to progress in a specific direction based on how they want to approach the game. General Observations: - Doesn't appear to be as crafting focused as other games (i.e. making tools and crafting stations). - Has an underlying story and series of quests to unlock core mechanics and elements of the gameplay loop. - No drop box to use to sell your items like you see in Stardew Valley, so your non-restaurant income will be obtained manually by hitting up each NPC that buys it. - No need to clean tables and dishes as part of running the restaurant (yet?). Good Stuff: - Can save at any time during the day, not just when a day is over like most cozy games. - There's benefit to going to vendors every day because their stock changes. - If you get the right skill, you can get a free recipe each day by reading books in the library. - Mini-games are optional after completing them once at a certain score level (95%) and you can have the player automatically performing cooking/preparation in the restaurant. - No need to worry about tool/weapon durability or ranged ammo. - Itemized summary after closing the restaurant that you can drill into is great for tracking progress. Feedback/Suggestions: - Not as much a fan of the more static like map. Prefer the ones with a wealth of real time information like Coral Island or Roots of Pacha. - Can't harvest the plants via "Use" when a tool is in your hand. When you "unequip" it you have to walk away from the node and then come back in order to collect by hand. - Feels weird not having some sort of status summary when you sleep for the night, but I don't know what would be valuable for it anyway given how the player gets experience, skill-ups, and restaurant cash in real time throughout the day. - A bit awkward in the early game having a lot of different meats, vegetables, legumes, etc. but getting into situations where you don't have any dishes to sell in the restaurant because you don't have the "right" vegetable to go with this specific meat ingredient. I'll need to play a bit longer to see if this is a recipe variety issue or just a matter of discovering/acquiring the appropriate recipe over time. Overall, I'm having a very positive experience with the game so far and I can't wait to see how it grows and develops throughout Early Access. Yet another solo developer passion project that warrants an immediate Day 1 purchase.
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Online players
89
Developer
World 2 Studio
Publisher
World 2 Studio
Release
12 Sep 2024
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