Monster Chef

by Aethyna Aug 3, 2019 | 1 Votes | 94 Played | 0 Reviews

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Simulation

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Cooking , Monsters , Exploration , Restaurant/ Cafe

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Coconut Island Games Monster Chef is truly a unique addition to the stagnating niche of café simulation games. Featuring an eye-catching art style, the game will have you venture out into the wilderness to hunt down monsters for their “parts” and then to use those ingredients to whip up some food that you can then sell to the people in the city. Play Now Similar Games

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Summary

Monster Chef is truly a unique addition to the stagnating niche of café simulation games. Featuring an eye-catching art style and a ridiculous story to boot, the game will have you venture out into the wilderness to hunt down monsters for their “parts” and then to use those ingredients to whip up a bunch of food that you can then sell to various people and monsters in the city.

Plotline

One day, while watching some TV, you felt that pang of hunger that often strikes in the middle of the night… guess it’s time for supper, you thought, and you’ve decided on cooking some instant noodles to satisfy your craving for food.

While you’re prepping your meal, you accidentally knocked over a bottle of soy sauce and for some reason, that bottle of soy sauce contains a sentient and apparently somewhat malicious “soy sauce blob” who then opened up a soy sauce portal which then sucked you in and spat you out into a dry and barren, alien-looking world. Welcome to the world of monsters!

Monster Chef has perhaps one of the most ridiculous storyline of all time… and yes, although I’m exaggerating, it doesn’t make the story any less incredulous. However, for whatever reason, the set-up doesn’t really matter much here since the game is pretty fun to play!

Gameplay

Now, I should point out that Monster Chef is not your typical café simulation game. It is incredibly nuanced, can be somewhat grindy, features an art style that may not appeal to everyone, and contains explorative elements that can be fun if you’re into that kind of thing.

Unlike many other café sims where ingredients can just be ordered or farmed, in this game, you’ll actually need to set out on expeditions across the land of monsters to hunt other, tamer monsters for their… ahem… “parts”, a.k.a. ingredients. There is an insane variety of these “ingredient monsters” out there and you can discover them all by simply heading out consistently. Exploring the land is just a simple matter of moving from one grid to another, avoiding dangerous stuff like traps and hostile monsters, while making sure to pick up the positive stuff like free loot.

Once you encountered a tamable monster, you’ll then be brought into a “capture screen” where you’ll need to identify the pattern of the monster – this part of the game is quite similar to the game mechanism used in the classic Battleships game. However, not all monsters have simple patterns like a battleship does; some of them can have a pattern that’s similar to a Tetris block instead.

Knowing the pattern of a monster makes it a lot easier to save your moves and capture the monster a lot faster. Captured monsters can then be kind of enslaved to work for you back in the city, where you’ve got your own underground farms, just so you can periodically gather ingredients from these very farms. The farms can be upgraded by merging enough of the same types of monsters together, so in order to keep up with the demands for ingredients, you will still need to head out into the dusty wilderness regularly to hunt for monsters even if you already have a farm set up and ready.

Once you’ve got some ingredients at hand, you can then task your octopus chef to whip up a bunch of food for your little food stall back on the surface, which happens to be managed by a little soy sauce guy.

However, before you can cook anything, you’ll need to get the recipes first! To obtain new ones, you’ll need to mix and match any ingredients you’ve discovered (up to 5 items per recipe) at a big, blue monster grill.

Recipe discoveries can be a fickle thing though since 1. There are many ways (by using different types or amounts of ingredients) you can cook a single dish in this game; and 2. Recipe discoveries aren’t exactly a 100% thing. Sometimes, you will fail a discovery and you may need to augment the process with certain boosts, which you can get for free by scavenging dead corpses and chests while you’re on your expeditions. You can also buy them at the in-game store.

Monster Chef also has plenty more features including unique currency made from soy sauce droplets, eggs that you can then hatch into assumingly rarer and more unique monsters, the option to purchase a bigger and much more established café rather than the roadside stall you start off with, and more.

Of course, being a freemium game, it does sell numerous “advantages” in packs that cost real money as well as premium currency.

Community

Monster Chef has a social aspect. In this game, you can add friends and then send each other 1 free soy sauce droplet per day. It’s not much but it’s still a free gift.

Graphics/ Sound

The graphics in Monster Chef is the main feature that had attracted me the first time I saw the game in the Google Play store. It’s fantastically and utterly unique, featuring a blend of ruggedness with colorful paints which made it look like everything’s hand-drawn. The sound effects here are pretty good as well, but honestly, the graphics definitely stole the limelight here.

Conclusion

Monster Chef is a fun and remarkably noteworthy café sim, mainly due to its peculiar style of graphics and feel, but partly because it offers a one-of-a-kind method of gathering ingredients, besides the usual harvesting from farms, for your octopus chef to do its magic. The game can be somewhat slower-paced, but if you want a game that you can play for maybe an hour or so, once or twice a day, then this game is perfect for you.

New Game Added: Monster Chef

by Aethyna Aug 3, 2019

Monster Chef is truly a unique addition to the stagnating niche of café simulation games. Featuring an eye-catching art style, the game will have you venture out into the wilderness to hunt down monsters for their “parts” and then to use those ingredients to whip up some food that you can then sell to the people in the city.