To kick off today's Indie World presentation, developer Visai Games has announced Venba, a cooking game that puts the focus on Regional Southern Indian Cuisine.
Launching in Spring 2023, the game will see you cooking up a whole bunch of delicious meals while exploring an emotional story about love, family, and loss.
Here's some more info from Visai Games:
Cook Mouth Watering Dishes
Venba's recipe book gets damaged when she moves to Canada. Restore the lost recipes to cook delicious, mouth-watering dishes that serve as a connection to the home left behind.
Explore, Converse, Experience
Get to know the family well, hold branching conversations, and explore as you face the challenges that arise from day to day life.Features:
Cook Authentic And Delicious Recipes Handpicked From Regional Southern Indian Cuisine
Hold Branching Conversations and experience the journey of an immigrant family
Beautiful 2D Visuals And Animations
Unique Soundtrack Inspired By Tamil Movies And Music
Will you be picking this one up when it launches? Let us know in the comments!
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Part of me is over cooking games.
But a bigger part of me really appreciates the South Asian setting of this one. One to keep eyes on for sure.
Hadn't heard of this one before today but I saw a lot of people who were very happy this is coming over so I'm definitely interested (especially as someone who grew up on Cooking Mama)!
I will pick the game if there is a physical release.
Um, isn't Cooking Mama already the Asian inspired Cooking Mama? Being Japanese and all.
Anyhow, glad that this exists for those interested. Not my jam, but it has an interesting art direction.
What a way to start the presentation... with an absolute whimper. Guess it got my expectations in check early doors, which turned out to be pretty valuable.
I love the art style, music and atmosphere, feels like they're building an interesting story around a simple gameplay premise (like "florence").
For me, this depends on how fun the cooking aspect is. The story and art look really nice, but I hope the cooking is fun and interesting.
Very British to say Asian when you mean South Asian and forget about East Asia
@Taya That was the thing, it looked very nice and wholesome, but I didn't get a single whiff of fun from what I saw.
...and some Chemical X, added accidentally.
I love games from other cultures and food games so I am super interested in this one.
Something like this needs a more flattering art style. This looks really bad.
I'll keep an eye out. It's a charming concept.
I have a feeling that Super Rare (or similar) would issue a physical release for something like this too, which would be even better.
This definitely looks like an interesting treat, especially since the only Cooking Mama we've actually gotten on Switch got delisted for some false crypto garbage...
There’s not enough cooking games, good ones anyway, I wish there was more, I will keep my eye on it to see if it catches my interest.
I've been pretending like I'm good at making Indian food for around 15 years so this will either inspire me to get better or just make me really hungry.
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