Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook (2023)

A survival strategy RPG that combines exploration, tactical combat, and cooking mechanics to create the perfect dish of dungeon-crawling adventure! Customize the class, appearance, voice, and pose of your party members, then set off to find food in whatever way you can.

Role-playing (RPG)Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS)Action Fantasy Comedy anime demo free demoPlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch

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God is a GeekLyle CarrMay 20237.5/10
Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook combines cooking and tactics combat to create a rather tasty RPG experience.
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Video ChumsA.J. MaciejewskiMay 20237.8/10
It took a long time for me to appreciate what Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook has to offer and once I did, I became hooked thanks to its surprisingly deep strategic survival formula that'll have you scrambling to maintain and grow your party of chibi adventurers.
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RPG FanAbraham KobylanskiJun 202370/100
You'd think a game that advertises eating monsters would at least make for some bizarre fun, but the premise becomes trapped in a slow roguelike whose eyes are too big for its stomach.
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NintendoWorldReportAllyson CyganJul 20234.5/10
In fact, if NIS decided to put out a sequel, I might be inclined to check it out because they have made a number of excellent RPGs in the past. It just feels like they threw in so many systems, meters, and mechanics that they forgot to put in something to compel you to keep playing. There are many better games out there in all of the genres that this one borrows from that despite interesting ideas, Monster Menu can't come together to provide a satisfying meal.
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TheSixthAxisMiguel MoranMay 20236/10
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.
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About the game

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Nippon Ichi Software
Publisher: NIS America, Nippon Ichi Software
Released: January 27, 2023
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Third person

IGDB rating 7.7/10 from 2 ratings.

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