>Venba is a narrative cooking game where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.
Kukulkan9
Been waiting for this beauty since the announcement. It seems so wholesome and nostalgic
SmokyMcBongPot
I’m really interested to see people’s opinions on this one. I’ve played a review copy and I’m probably gonna end up going somewhere around a 5/10.
The game is filling a very specific niche—anyone who has grown up as the child of immigrants or has migrated themselves will be intrigued by the story. The graphics and sound/music, in particular, are very nicely done—the whole thing made me want to get in the kitchen and whip up some delicious South Asian food, for sure.
This one is short—really short. I took my time over it and it lasted barely 2 hours. Do NOT go for this one if you skip dialog. Venba is ALL about the story—I’d describe it more as an animated novella with interactive elements than anything else. The core puzzle gameplay is very simplistic, some of it merely dragging and dropping with no decision making at all. But the story is also quite shallow—an hour is not long to tell a meaningful story when it’s presented as a video game.
Venba earned a lot of pre-release credibility and I see few reviewers willing to walk that back. It’s when the user scores start coming out that I’ll be able to see how much my view is shared or whether I’ve totally misjudged this one or not.
3 Comments
>Venba is available now for Nintendo Switch.
>Venba is a narrative cooking game where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.
Been waiting for this beauty since the announcement. It seems so wholesome and nostalgic
I’m really interested to see people’s opinions on this one. I’ve played a review copy and I’m probably gonna end up going somewhere around a 5/10.
The game is filling a very specific niche—anyone who has grown up as the child of immigrants or has migrated themselves will be intrigued by the story. The graphics and sound/music, in particular, are very nicely done—the whole thing made me want to get in the kitchen and whip up some delicious South Asian food, for sure.
This one is short—really short. I took my time over it and it lasted barely 2 hours. Do NOT go for this one if you skip dialog. Venba is ALL about the story—I’d describe it more as an animated novella with interactive elements than anything else. The core puzzle gameplay is very simplistic, some of it merely dragging and dropping with no decision making at all. But the story is also quite shallow—an hour is not long to tell a meaningful story when it’s presented as a video game.
Venba earned a lot of pre-release credibility and I see few reviewers willing to walk that back. It’s when the user scores start coming out that I’ll be able to see how much my view is shared or whether I’ve totally misjudged this one or not.