A delicate blend of escape game and cooking simulator, Escape in cuisine by kazutaka takamori is a premium game where Nyanzou the cat and Kumakichi the bear try to run a restaurant. Like most escape titles, there are puzzles for you to solve.

Play for the gameplay

After Nyanzou meets Tanuo the Raccoon and signs a contract, Nyanzou and Kumakichi find themselves working in a restaurant to repay their debt. Exploring the restaurant, the duo investigates points of interest for clues and solves puzzles, some of which involve cooking dishes.

While the gameplay is easier, the machine-translated dialogue and text make it difficult for English speakers to understand the context and storyline of Escape in cuisine. If you’re just in it for the gameplay, then by all means, give this title a spin.

A new take on the escape game genre

Escape in cuisine is a breath of fresh air with its gourmet fusion of cooking sim-inspired gameplay and the escape game genre. However, the English localization needs a lot of polishing, as the dialogues are nearly incomprehensible for non-Japanese-speaking players.