I can’t think of another game like this that pulls it off. You do get some wait staff after a short amount of time, but the fact that you can run a restaurant solo and have that level of control is really cool to me. Your job is to prepare all of the food items by walking through your kitchen and then plating the food to take it to the customer. Think a combination of Overcooked, Cook, Serve, Delicious, and Diner Dash – that will likely give you the right idea.īut that’s enough of mentioning Diner Bros‘ inspirations for now. But Diner Bros takes these attributes and mixes them with more traditional restaurant and cooking games.
Personally, I’m not a fan of those, as they’re party games and tend to focus on level gimmicks more than anything else. To be clear, Diner Bros completely borrows most of its controls and general movement and aesthetic from the Overcooked games.
This is generally necessary, but it really hurts the feeling that you’re actually in the kitchen and doing something a lot of the time. Almost all of them revolve around cooking via menus or selecting items through a certain mechanism. However, most cooking games are missing one big thing: physicality. Any game that focuses on cooking and time management really hits a kind of psychological sweet spot that is just so satisfying. I know they’re not exactly cool, but I love cooking games.
