Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook

Tighten your pack and loosen your belt before digging into this dungeon-crawling adventure! Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook spices up the classic SRPG formula with deliciously fun cooking-based mechanics. Indulge in detailed character creation for your party, gather resources, ingredients, and items while exploring, and fight monsters in tactical combat. Then kick back by the campfire as you use what you’ve collected to cook meals that can give you the edge for your next course of dungeon delving. Switch version reviewed.

Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook is a dish that aims to bring together various ideas from dungeon-crawling JRPGs, roguelikes, and cooking games, but only a few satisfying flavours from each of those emerge. Only JRPG addicts with a trained palette will be able to find the enjoyment here to warrant digging into the entire dish.

The last note I would give to people is to save before you cook up your ingredients to make food, since doing so will keep resources around to use for other things like ammunition or repairing cooking ware. The game also introduced a shortcut option for using skills, items, and guarding.  So, trust your judgment, plan your route and always be careful of opening chests in the wild…because even mimics will take you out if you’re not careful.

If you're an RPG fan and are looking for something fresh then Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook is here to cook up the goods.

Cooking up monsters in Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook is a delight but simple gameplay and generic dungeons prevent this unique SRPG from making the most of its potential.