Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook

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Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook combines cooking and tactics combat to create a rather tasty RPG experience.
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A survival strategy RPG that combines exploration, tactical combat, and cooking mechanics to create the perfect dish of dungeon-crawling adventure! Customize the class, appearance, voice, and pose of your party members, then set off to find food in whatever way you can.

  • Nintendo Switch
  • Play​station 4
  • Play​station 5
  • Play​Station
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gameplay3 positive mentions
grinding3 negative mentions
  • The game features an interesting cooking mechanic that adds a unique twist to the gameplay.
  • Character customization is easy to pick up, allowing players to quickly engage with the game.
  • The anime presentation and solid strategy RPG mechanics contribute to an enjoyable overall experience.
  • Resource management elements can become tedious and may not resonate with all players.
  • The game suffers from small payoffs for hours of grinding, leading to a flat overall experience.
  • The story is cryptic and the gameplay can feel repetitive, with little variation between early and late game.
  • gameplay5 mentions

    Gameplay is enjoyable for fans of the genre, featuring interesting cooking mechanics and solid strategy RPG elements, but it suffers from a lack of depth and variety, with a core loop that remains unchanged throughout. While the anime presentation is appealing, the simplicity and generic dungeon design limit the overall experience.

    • “The core gameplay loop is relatively unchanged from early and late game, so you should instantly know if this is a winner or a dud.”
    • “[Interesting concepts and ideas in the cooking mechanic, nice anime presentation, solid strategy RPG mechanics.]”
    • “The core gameplay loop is relatively unchanged from early to late game, so you should instantly know if this is a winner or a dud.”
    • “Cooking up monsters in Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook is a delight, but simple gameplay and generic dungeons prevent this unique SRPG from making the most of its potential.”
  • grinding1 mentions

    Players find the grinding in the game to be tedious, often resulting in minimal rewards for the significant time invested. The experience is further diminished by a cryptic story and a lack of engaging content, leading to an overall flat gameplay experience.

    • “Small payoffs for hours of grinding, cryptic story, and a flat overall experience.”
    • “The grinding feels endless and the rewards are minimal, making it hard to stay engaged.”
    • “After countless hours of grinding, I expected more meaningful progress, but it just feels repetitive.”
  • story1 mentions

    The story is criticized for being cryptic and lacking depth, resulting in a flat overall experience that offers minimal payoffs for the significant time invested in grinding.

    • “Small payoffs for hours of grinding, cryptic story, flat overall experience.”
    • “The narrative felt disjointed and lacked any real emotional impact.”
    • “Characters were one-dimensional and the plot twists were predictable.”
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