Omelet You Cook was created by two indie devs Dan Schumacher and Hjalte Tagmose featured in a photo below. You can find it on Steam HERE.
Omelet You Cook draws inspiration from beloved arcade roguelikes like Balatro, Luck Be a Landlord, and Ballionaire. It’s also described as a cosy, chaotic cooking rogue-like, that lets players assemble some of the craziest omelette combinations they’ve ever seen for middle school students and staff. The goal is to combine ingredients with different multipliers, negative traits, positive traits, and more to win the run. The mechanics are similar to a deck-building game, where you’ll gather new and unique ingredients in every run. As you progress, the customers will have unique tastes, which will randomise the experience, making it even more of a challenge.
I had so much fun with Omelet You Cook, it is a simple rogue-like game that has humour, fun, chaos and more, it’s the perfect blend, and it kept me hooked from the very beginning. Each playthrough is different, and each failure pushes you to try again in the hope you’ll get better items this time. There is a range of different runs you can try, each with its own challenges. Each completed run then leads to more challenging objectives that test your skills but also introduce a lot of curve balls to the game, some positive, some negative.
Every student you serve will have certain demands (so fussy!). Some might like their ingredients on their omelette, not touching others, or some won’t like them touching the edges. It’s quite a challenge at times to group the ingredients for a big score. Sadly, this then leads to the fussy student saying, “No NO VEGGIES AT ALL” when you’ve lined up meat items with a chewy rating for a big score, and it all ends. You might be confused by “chewy”, but each ingredient contains different stats, so some might be crunchy, chewy, soft, and rough. These ingredients also have positive and negative traits. For example, if you connect a crunchy pepper to another crunchy item, that will get +3, which you can multiply; it’s all very interesting. This all makes you experiment with all the items you’re able to buy after each round is complete.
Omelet You Cook design fits perfectly with what the developers are going for, it’s all chaos, each ingredient, character and background looks unique and fits the overall theme. I absolutely loved how each piece of food looked on the omelet and as you can see in the image above, it gets a little chaotic! The soundtrack is also fantastic; it matches the overall feel of the game and fits perfectly.
Verdict
Omelet You Cook is addictive. I couldn’t stop playing. Each run, lose or fail, pushes you to keep trying. It is easily one of the best indie games I’ve played this year it is full of content. It still receives updates with new modifiers, traits and ingredients even after the early access period has finished. In my many hours with Omelet You Cook, I couldn’t find a single thing wrong with it, and I can’t wait to jump back in again.
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