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Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

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Quick resume

Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?

Global score

88/100

Genres

Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Visual Novel

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    Pros

    • Intriguing psychological horror story with multiple endings
    • Cute and unique art style with charming characters
    • Free to play demo with good replay value
    • Engaging mystery and lore encouraging theory crafting
    • Developer interaction and active community interest

    Cons

    • Jump scares considered cheap or predictable by some players
    • Some bugs and achievement issues reported
    • Limited gameplay depth beyond narrative choices
    • Short length and demo status limits content
    • Horror elements may not appeal to all players

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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