Cuisineer Reviews

Cuisineer is so close to being a hit menu item at your favourite eatery. But the delight in my eyes as I ordered it, and started to devour it dulled as I realised I was tired of chewing and it was actually quite a bland taste about halfway through my meal. As a big fan of the Rune Factory series, I was really engaged up to the point I was asked to grind for hours on end to make a modicum of progress. I wouldn’t send this meal back to the kitchen, but I probably wouldn’t order the dish aga...

It took a while to come to consoles (over a year), but Cuisineer was worth the wait. As RPG roguelite social sim genre mashups go, this is about as good as it gets. It's lovely and colourful, too. Cuisineer is a tasty little morsel.

Help Pom restore the family restaurant after her parents leave her stranded with debts to pay in the adorable dungeon-crawler Cuisineer.

Cuisineer is a game with a strong core idea, but doesn't invest enough in its systems to keep it interesting. The excellent combat and good restaurant running soon become repetitive as a result. If the basics are enough to keep you coming back then Cuisineer might work for you, but for me this dish has turned stale.

Cuisineer is a charming game in concept but struggles with execution. The art style and relaxing difficulty make it an enjoyable experience at first, but the repetitive combat and lack of engaging management systems ultimately hold it back. If you’re into low-stakes dungeon crawling with a side of cute restaurant management, you might find some enjoyment here, but be prepared for some frustration with its unpolished mechanics.

Cute and incredibly moreish, Cuisineer is a wonderful mix of restaurant management and dungeon crawling. Spend your time split between hunting monsters for ingredients, then cooking them up to make delicious meals. It's a seriously satisfying gameplay loop, and you aren't going to be able to put it down.

Cuisineer is a great game to unwind at night. The vibes in Cuisineer are calming and colorful, but there is some excitement to keep the blood pumping. Managing the restaurant and dungeon crawling for ingredients will make players feel like they need one more run before they shut the game off. There are aspects that BattleBrew Productions barely includes to help not overwhelm the gamer, but it would have been appreciated. Its unique combination of gameplay and tone helps make players hungry to...

Cuisineer is a delicious dungeon crawler served with a scrumptious side of restaurant sim that is sure to leave players satisfied!

Ultimately, Cuisineer is a cozy experience that offers some simple roguelike combat and management gameplay. Neither is particularly great on their own, but together they do create an engaging, if ultimately shallow, experience. I can’t recommend this to anyone who loves a challenging and deep roguelike, but if you enjoy cozy experiences and don’t mind some slightly tougher combat, Cuisineer is a good enough time.

Cuisineer has a very addicting gameplay loop of delving into dungeons and finding resources and ingredients. It does suffer from some of the choices made for enemies and the restaurant aspect.

Cuisineer combines dungeon crawling with restaurant management in an engaging way. Harvesting the ingredients yourself and gathering recipes immerses you in the restaurant business. While some gameplay aspects could use better explanations, Cuisineer will draw you in for hours while pushing you to your limits.

Step into the whimsical world of Cuisineer, where culinary delights meet dungeon-crawling adventures. This charming indie game, a familiar presence at PAX Australia’s Indie Lounge, invites you to join Pom, the friendly cat girl armed with a spatula and boba tea, on a quest to revive her family’s debt-ridden eatery, the ‘Potato Palace.’ As you navigate the bustling village of Paell, you’ll discover a rich tapestry of townsfolk, embark on daring dungeon runs with randomly generated ch...

A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!

Cuisineer is a game that shines in its variety, even with a slow start. Though, there are some compromises to play on the Steam Deck.

I can’t recommend this game enough for fans of low-impact cozy games with simple, pleasant storylines. There are no big surprises, and in a way, it makes this game all the more enjoyable. You know exactly what you are going to get, and with that, it is easy to get sucked into the gameplay loop without a single worry to hold you back or leave you emotionally vulnerable. It’s just fun, and that makes it completely worth investing time and money into.

Cuisineer is an adorable game. If aesthetics, side content, and difficulty were deterrents to you in other roguelikes then Cuisineer is a perfect game for you! Half of the draw of the game is running a restaurant while interacting with cute townsfolk. The roguelike elements are designed to be more forgiving and less brutal than many of its contemporaries while keeping an incredibly solid and polished combat experience. Many of these elements Cuisineer don't wholly appeal to me beyond a differ...

While Cuisineer has great theming and cute art design, it's not enough to save it from a tedious cafe manager setup and hideously unbalanced dungeons and combat.

Whether it’s embedding yourself in Paell or running dungeon after dungeon, you won’t want to put Cuisineer down.

Cuisineer is an overall fun experience with lots of cute aesthetics and enjoyable moments, but is held back by its grind-focused gameplay and lack of focus on specific questlines.