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As Pom, raid shifting dungeons for ingredients, then cook and serve meals to keep her family restaurant running.
Released 09 Nov 2023
Fight for Ingredients
Turn Monsters into Meals
Run Pom's Restaurant
A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!
Developed by BattleBrew Productions · Published by Marvelous Europe, XSEED Games
Pom returns to Paell to find her parents gone and their restaurant abandoned, with debts to pay and a family business to revive. She explores the surrounding world, meets local townsfolk, and takes on quests as she works to keep the restaurant going.
Dungeon trips take Pom through procedurally generated areas where she fights monsters with cooking-utensil weapons and gathers ingredients and crafting materials. Weapons, gear, and boba tea support combat, while limited carrying space means choosing what to bring back.
Back in town, Pom uses ingredients to make recipes and serves customers at the restaurant. She can improve the kitchen and dining hall, decorate the spaces, and upgrade her equipment; quests provide recipes and other rewards, while story progress opens further areas to explore.
Players who enjoy Cuisineer often praise its cute, colorful art, detailed food illustrations, and the unusual combination of dungeon exploration with running a restaurant. Some find the repeated cycle of gathering ingredients and serving customers relaxing or satisfying, and mention enjoying the recipes, characters, and customization. Many reviews also describe that cycle as repetitive, with shallow cooking and restaurant systems or combat and resource gathering that can feel like a grind.
Upon receiving a startling letter from her parents, the independent adventurer Pom swiftly returns home to Paell, only to find her parents gone and their beloved restaurant abandoned. Now left with mounting debts and a village in dire need of some fine cooking, Pom will have to delve into the deepest dungeons for the scarcest spices, rarest meats, and the most valuable vegetables she can find to keep her parents’ dream alive.
Dive into dungeons and cook up a storm as Pom, an adventurer-turned-restaurateur! Cuisineer‘s food-focused action challenges you to build your dinner the hard way: by dungeon-diving for materials and ingredients. Wield your cooking utensils against giant chickens, artillery shrimps, fire-breathing peppers, and other pesky perils, sipping boba tea along the way. Work with local artisans to customize your kitchen, and tailor your dining hall to the needs of loyal patrons eager to experience the rare recipes you’ve cooked up.
With the latest update, Cuisineer plates its enticing gameplay with fresh ingredients like new weapons, year-round festivals, a wardrobe feature, and more tasty inclusions that are sure to spice things up.
Explore procedurally generated biomes such as the Green Ruins, Frozen Fjord, and Konpeito Swamps that change their size, shape, and resources every time you visit.
Cook over 100 different recipes from around the world, from crunchy Popiah rolls to rich Kaya jam, from double-fried crispy chicken with zesty lemon, to sweet treats piled high with berries. Get the right dishes to the right customers, and customize your kitchen and dining hall with the help of local artisans.
Knock out monsters and rivals with Salty, Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Umami, Frosty and Toasty powers that unleash flame, poison, chain lightning, and other fantastic effects. You can also fight with unique utensils and gourmet gear, like Spatula, Smackerel, Swordfish, and the newly added Konpeito Fist weapons!
From Naicha the Bubble Tea seller to Alder the big friendly carpenter, Paell is full of sweet and spicy townsfolk to befriend. While you’re dungeon diving, be on the lookout for items the townsfolk need. You’ll be rewarded with gold, new items, and even more recipes to take your cooking and adventuring to new heights.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 70 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 79/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
