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Free Horror Game Cucina Stellata Earns Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam
Cucina Stellata, a short free psychological horror game built around cooking, released on October 21 and holds an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam. As of October 27, 613 reviews were posted, 97 percent of them positive.
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Why it matters
The rating arrives on a game given away free at one to two hours long, with the only paid item attached to it a 600-yen pack of recipes and background notes rather than the game itself.
Filthy Eden developed the game and CRITICAL REFLEX published it. Set in 19th-century Italy, it has the player chop ingredients and apply heat while a man pursues gourmet food, until an uninvited ingredient turns the pursuit into madness. It clears in about one to two hours.
Players who finish the story can buy the 600-yen "Cucina Stellata - Supporter Pack: Curiosities and Recipes," which covers the game's inspirations, its setting and the culture behind it, and includes recipes for dishes from Italy's Romagna region, which the development team has a connection to.
Reviews on Steam single out the cooking detail and the violence. One player wrote that the process felt like actually making the dish, another that the gore is merciless. The man at the center of it starts as an ordinary cook in a 19th-century Italian kitchen, chopping and heating, before the uninvited ingredient redirects him.
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