Happy Thanksgiving! Here are ten video game feasts to enjoy this holiday season

Spirittea

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What happens when you cross Spirited Away with Stardew Valley? You get Spirittea, a cozy life sim about running a bathhouse filled with ghosts! These spirits may have left the land of the living, but that hasn’t stopped their cravings for meals like fried rice and carrot cake. Gather the right ingredients, and you’ll be able to deliver five-star service to all your ghostly guests.

Marenian Tavern Story - Trial

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ActionRPG

Running a tavern in an RPG world isn’t always easy. Not only do you need to deal with customers, but you have to fight your way through dungeons to get the best ingredients. Thankfully, Marenian Tavern Story also lets you farm, fish, and explore to get the food you need. Prepare and eat a great meal, and you might even level up!

Venba

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CinematicRomanceInteractive FictionFamily

Cooking isn’t just a way to satisfy a growling stomach. It can bring you closer to the people you love. Venba is a heartfelt narrative cooking game about the connections we forge through cooking. With the help of a battered recipe book, you’ll prepare all kinds of traditional Tamil dishes. Just be warned: playing this game might make you crave Indian food!

Cafe Heaven-Cat’s Sandwich

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CasualSimulation

What happens to cats when they leave this world? In Cafe Heaven-Cat’s Sandwich, they go to Cat Heaven, where they make sandwiches and wait to be reunited with their owners. The touching story is sure to leave cat owners teary-eyed. If food is your focus, this game has dozens of delectable sandwich recipes.

inbento US

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AbstractCasualPuzzle

When you’re learning your way around the kitchen, cooking a meal can feel a little like a puzzle game. Inbento takes that to the next level, asking you to solve puzzles by moving around food in bento boxes. The recipe-themed puzzles are genuinely challenging, and the bento boxes you play with look good enough to eat!

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya

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The Touhou franchise is known for its shoot ‘em up games, but you won’t find any bullets in Touhou Mystia’s Izakaya. Instead, this cozy simulation game asks you to run a traditional Japanese restaurant. By day, you’ll gather ingredients, and at night, you’ll open up the restaurant and serve as many customers as you can. There’s a great range of recipes here, and the writing is both hilarious and charming.

Animal Restaurant Global

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CartoonCasualArcadeManagement

It’s probably a health code violation to let cats in your kitchen, but who cares when they look this cute? In Animal Restaurant, you’ll prepare dishes for a diverse animal clientele that includes bunnies, flamingoes, and panda bears! Your furry guests have surprisingly sophisticated taste, and you’ll soon find yourself preparing dishes like spaghetti and strawberry pancakes! It’s an absurdly cute game, and once you get through the tutorial, you won’t be able to put it down.

Cuisineer

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Why play a regular roguelike when you could play one that’s themed around food? Half dungeon crawler, half restaurant management sim, Cuisineer is a game that’ll have you cooking your heart out. Armed only with cooking utensils, you’ll challenge treacherous dungeons and defeat tons of tasty-looking enemies. Once you’re back in town, you can open up your restaurant and turn your ingredients into appetizing meals.

Cafe Master Story

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PixelArcadeSimulationLifestyle simulation

Working in a kitchen can get pretty tiring, but in Cafe Master Story, you can always get a quick caffeine pick-me-up. This management game is all about running your own coffee shops. You’ll prepare plenty of lattes and espressos, but you can also serve food, including dishes like pancakes and pizza toast! You can even create combo meals for customers and enter cooking contests!

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (NS)

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ActionRPGAdventureOpen World

Food might not be the focus of Tears of the Kingdom, but the cooking mechanics are incredibly satisfying. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of tossing a few random ingredients in your cooking pot and discovering a brand new recipe. The food you make looks scrumptious, and it even serves a practical purpose. Properly-prepared meals can give a speed boost, protect you from the cold, and can even give you bonus hearts!