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Get ready to embark on a comedic culinary quest unlike any other as you take on the role of Zest in this story-driven adventure game; from humble beginnings you will build a farm, grow delectable ingredients, craft machinery and cook your way to becoming the most Epic Chef in Ambrosia!
Epic Chef is a story rich, comedy and funny game
developed by Infinigon Games
and published by Team17.
Released on November 11th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Italian and Russian.
It has received 715 reviews of which 554 were positive and 161 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10: 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD Phenom II X4 965
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB, or Radeon HD 7850 2GB
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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This game was released awhile ago but having gotten about 60% of the way through I can say if it looks interesting it's absolutely worth getting, especially during sales where it's literally 2.50. It's a cooking/farming sim, themed around a world that revolves around cooking, or at least the area of the world this game takes place in. You basically do chef battles and improve your prestige as a chef/restaurant owner while improving your home and the lives of those in town. It's a common overarching theme in that sense but beyond that it stands well enough on its own. There's a day/night cycle. Most stuff does not begin until 9 AM, it mostly all ends at 6 PM. I haven't seen time progress past 2a but I haven't pushed it. Crops grow rapidly so you can get approximately 2 harvests a day. Farming - Must do, must farm everything, must keep everything on hand. The cooking battles are all BYOI. So the more you have on your farm the more options you have in cooking battles. As you grow and get space you can get overwhelmed with crops until you get to the point you have a larger storage option. My advice is to just keep churning. Cook some of it, turn enough into seeds to replant, craft the rest. The seasons do not appear to change and the crops appear to only be limited by amount of harvests (quite a lot honestly, more than enough to reseed the whole crop and have plenty to cook/craft with before running out of a plant.) Cooking - It's a unique take on the limited genre. I like it but I feel like it could be expanded upon further. Basically every meal is a three ingredient affair. There's a solid amount of ingredients considering the amount of combinations and what have you. It's all based on timing, aroma, vigor, spirit, sophistication. Ingredients (and sauces) affect all of these (other than aroma, that's done by sacrificing a couple of points so that your dish "smells better" and is eaten first.) There is strategy to all of this from sauces that affect a judges perception of flavors of the following dish, to adding "pengun" meat to an empty pan for a bonus, throwing in some unicorn poop that doubles my spirit score if there's something with the elements of the pengun meat already in the pan, so on and so forth. The humor is quite good, it hits for me in a lot of ways. Sort of a satirical take on this style of "own a farm on the outskirts of town" games. It's well written and I've enjoyed it. If I had complaints: Storage is annoying. Things DO NOT stack. You will fill up a crate of potatoes in no time. You also don't know what a cooking challenge is going to entail until you start it, so you end up filling your pack with ingredients out of anticipation of a double score on tomatoes or a negative score on spirit. It's a huge hassle and you are constantly rearranging inventory, organizing crates etc. Their version of farm expansion is over time you unlock chunks as you progress the story and throw down some coin. Given the nature of storage, the size commitment of each ingredient to have sufficient amounts for making everything so you're not constantly out of stuff this creates a problem where every time you can expand your farm, you get the pleasure of basically entirely reworking it from the ground up to make space more efficient/add more animals/crops/etc. It's the one time I'd have preferred the "here's your farm, but it's trashed, clean it up." method. Most of the time you end up cheesing fights because you really have all the time in the world, no negative consequences for losing and there's nothing stopping you from waking up, starting a battle, seeing the challenges, resetting then coming super prepared. In many ways it's absolutely necessary if you expect to win without always losing first to see the challenges since your opponent will always be prepared of course. Overall I really enjoy the game. It's not that hard, or even really that grindy. My chief complaint again is storage and inventory. The rest is aces. Good characters, an interesting enough story, humor is on the nose in the best way, and the mechanics are all satisfying. Whether it's leading a Pengen to it's spring released into a wood chipper style doom for meat or making a meal out of logs to feed your mount so can keep carting your ass around because you're slow as fuck, it's been a great time.
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This game has some very funny writing (most of the time, at least) and I found it quite enjoyable in general. Nevertheless, after a while the gameplay got very repetitive and kind of grindy and the game started to feel like a chore. Still, I got at least 15 hours of fun so I'm okay with that even though I decided that finishing it is not worth it for me.
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Is this a perfect game? No. Does it get kinda repetitive? Yes. Are the graphics or soundtrack anything impressive or generally memorable? No. Did this game legitimately make me laugh out loud? Yes. Yes it did. And not just one of those 'snort out of your nose cause the meme was kinda funny' laugh. But actual laughs, and multiple times. It's not a great game, but it IS a great time.
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I was pleasantly surprised at this game. From the start, it's clear that the game was made by a small team and not incredibly polished. However, a lot of love was still put into the game, especially with the characters, dialogue and gameplay mechanics. The overall gameplay loop is fun: Grow crops and raise animals for ingredients, and then use these ingredients to cook better food and defeat other chefs in competition. Where the game really shines is the story and dialogue. It's clever and witty, and the cast of characters are all very likeable. It's a shame this game isn't more popular, but I understand that the lack of polish can be a turn off for many people. It's definitely worth trying and goes on sale for $2 quite frequently.
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There's definitely some jank in the controls and the UI, but the basic game is sound, kept me interested for a good long time, and I appreciated the humor in the writing. You follow a bunch of storylines, unlocking different ingredients and things you can grow and build, and then use your ingredients to win a bunch of cooking battles. The cooking battle rules with how the ingredient synergies and the judging rules and sauces work is very clever, and presents a lot of different situations for you to solve.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Epic Chef is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
Epic Chef is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Epic Chef received 554 positive votes out of a total of 715 achieving a rating of 7.37.
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Epic Chef was developed by Infinigon Games and published by Team17.
Epic Chef is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Epic Chef is not playable on MacOS.
Epic Chef is not playable on Linux.
Epic Chef is a single-player game.
Epic Chef does not currently offer any DLC.
Epic Chef does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Epic Chef does not support Steam Remote Play.
Epic Chef is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Infinigon Games
Publisher
Team17
Release
11 Nov 2021
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