If you ever have watched a show like "Iron Chef" or Great British Bake-Off" or any other cooking competition and thought, "that looks fun, but what if this was held in Middle Earth?" Well than Battle Chef Brigade is for you.

I finished the main story points of the game and the one thing I will say, is that the art style is the real star of the game. I could easily see this as a short anime series.

he premise of the story is that you are a human from a small country town wanting to get more out of your life. You are also an excellent chef in your parents restaurant, so you run away to participate in the Battle Chef Tournament. While there you make friends with other fantasy characters (an Orc, Elf, Necromancer, etc) and compete to be the best Battle Chef. What is a Battle Chef you ask? You are a cook that hunts monsters for food ingredients and then mixes them in a match 3 game to make the best recipes.

The gameplay loop is simple. Challenge a competitor, hunt for ingredients, and make the best meal possible. When cooking make sure you have the right ingredients to earn the most points from the Judges and win. Oh and you are on a timer for both the hunting and cooking parts of the game.

If you want something chill to play, I recommend giving it a try. The characters are fun l, the art is beautiful, and the gameplay is fairly straightforward.

A great mix of side-scrolling combat and a satisfying cooking system. Together they really elevate the "match 3" genre into something new and special. Hoping for a sequel one day!

This was Toriko/Shokugeki no Soma/Iron Chef simulator all in one. I am not a fan of puzzles, much less the rotating ones with a timer but it was fun enough to stick around. The story is just there to move things along and the side quests are more of the same thing. The game overall is very forgiving and did not overstay its welcome. I wish there was more to the gameplay, it could have been a deck builder or with a much more complex system but perhaps that was not the vision. Personally, this recommendation is purely based on my first sentence, if you ever want to play something similar to those shows, this is definitely it.