Recipe for Disaster Is Free On Epic

Monday, joining Rumbleverse in the pit of “another one,” Knockout City will be KO’d following its 9th season. Tuesday, the next game from those that dissolved the Hand of Fate studio has a new publisher for Capes, which I gave a preview for last year. Wednesday, after going on a multi-legged adventure, the Tekken World Tour finals for 2022 have been announced. Then on Thursday, Alexx rounded up all that was shown in the western version of this week’s Nintendo Direct, including JRPGs, more JRPGs, and Zelda which came after more JRPGs and some DLCs.

Moving on to what is available this week on the Epic Games Store, and as the title notes it is a Recipe for Disaster. Developed by Dapper Penguin Studios, the almost Sims-like restaurant management title with its minimalist art direction has a surprising amount of depth that is hard to get into with only a short time to write these articles. Off the bat, I went into the sandbox mode ignoring the tutorial just to get head-first into the world of my new Hell’s Kitchen-esque swearing storm. While there is frustration in some of the design choices, there is a good management game here.

Recipe for Disaster offers a massive amount of systems to run a restaurant, particularly in the minutiae such as prices, ingredients, who does what, and how the overall restaurant is run. It is a management game after all. What doesn’t necessarily click for me in the few moments I’ve been able to play before having to get this article done is where you are limited. Deliveries only come once an hour, so on day one, your first delivery comes an hour after you’ve opened Les Freres Heureux. Furthermore, the serving window seems to be unable to be moved, so your design has to work around that.

All this week, you can pick up the frantic and fun restaurant management simulator Recipe for Disaster on the Epic Games Store until the 16th of February. Moving on to next week and it is another minimalistic title that is certainly interesting on paper. Next week I’ll be talking about Skirmish Mode Games and Daedalic Entertainment’s Warpips, a tug-of-war real-time strategy game based around being the commander of a unit in a war. Given I’ve been on a war games kick recently, maybe I’m the only one interested in this tower defense title that passed me by last year when it was released in April.