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Hunt monsters for ingredients and solve timed cooking puzzles as Mina and Thrash compete to join Victusia’s elite chef brigade.
Released 20 Nov 2017
Turn Monsters Into Meals
Hunt For Ingredients
Solve Timed Cooking Puzzles
Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters. Follow Mina and Thrash in the single-player campaign or challenge your friends in Local Multiplayer and Daily Cook-Offs.
Developed by Trinket Studios · Published by Trinket Studios
In fantasy Victusia, chefs compete for a place in the Battle Chef Brigade. The single-player campaign follows contestants Mina and Thrash through the tournament.
Each match combines side-scrolling monster hunts with cooking challenges: use combo-based attacks to collect ingredients, then arrange and combine them in a timed puzzle to serve dishes that meet the judges’ requirements.
Cooking tools and equipment can shape how you fight and prepare dishes, while new ingredients and challenges enter as the campaign progresses. Beyond the story, modes include Daily Cook-Offs, Restaurant Rush, Break the Dishes, Survival, Free Play, and local multiplayer.
Players often enjoy the unusual loop of hunting monsters for ingredients and turning them into dishes through timed puzzles, along with the hand-drawn presentation and appealing characters. Some also praise the story and local competition modes. Criticisms include combat that can feel simple or clunky, time limits that make cooking stressful for some, and a campaign that some players find short.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 25 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Content notices |
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| Metacritic | 80/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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