There’s certainly plenty of replayability here – even after you’ve perfected a recipe there is still joy to be found from preparing it again – but if you’re after fresh experiences you’ll have exhausted the game’s supply after just nine levels. You’ll go from accurately chopping meat and vegetables – where the knife cuts exactly where you place it rather than across preprogrammed cut lines – to pushing pork cubes through a wok and into the fire below as you stir them with a wooden spoon. The game’s object interaction is, for the most part, superb but at other times you’ll be completely thrown out of your immersion. Unfortunately, Lost Recipes can occasionally cause some minor frustrations. (Image credit: Schell Games) Not quite Michelin Star quality… but close Though you could easily play just this title together through pass-and-play for a whole VR session. If you have friends or family trying out your Meta Quest 2 for the first time – particularly those who may be unfamiliar with gaming in general – the familiarity of cooking coupled with the game’s detailed (yet not overly complex) environments will provide an excellent entry point. The earlier levels can be completed in around five minutes and give you a detailed snapshot of everything VR has to offer: from teleportation movement to object interaction. Lost Recipes' laid-back nature makes it a perfect game to unwind with, but also an excellent introduction to VR. The background music and sounds, alongside the soothing words of your ghostly guide, help create a game that is almost as much of a meditative experience as it is about cooking.

That said, even as the game’s difficulty ramps up – and higher ranks become harder to achieve – the levels remain relaxing. The better you perform, the higher rank your dish gets on a one- to five-star rating system. You’ll visit ancient Athens, Song dynasty China, and the pre-colonial Yucatan Peninsula on your cooking adventure, creating dishes that steadily rise in complexity. These aspects are then combined with Schell Game’s knack for creating charming NPCs and highly detailed VR object interaction to create something more than the sum of its parts.Īs you play through the game’s levels you’re tasked with creating dishes from different regions using historically accurate cooking methods – all while guided by a ghostly apparition from that period of history.

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