Underplayed Gems

The Cooking Class (2023)

The Cooking Class cover
Developer
Another Dev Company, The Handsome Mesh
Publisher
Another Dev Company
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie
Rating
3.8 of 5, 52 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 57 minutes
Where to get it
Steam
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How it feels

A found footage VHS horror game where you quietly explore a tense household, hunting for tapes to escape while immersed in a dark, atmospheric 90s slasher homage.

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What players say

Players are split: some call it a surprisingly creepy horror game with clever arg-like secrets and a unique cooking-to-horror shift, while others say it is unplayable due to no saving, clunky controls, bugs that force restarts, and missing options.

Screenshots

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