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Cooking Simulator VR Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Cooking Simulator VR is as pure in premise as its name suggests. It’s a simple concept, but the way you interact with the world makes it feel like more than just a novelty. If you need to coat something in purified butter, you’ll have to unscrew the lid and be careful not to pour too fast. Knives need to be kept steady when cutting things into quarters or else you won’t wind up with remotely uniform pieces. Unsure if you mixed a sauce correctly? You’ll have to stick your hand in and get a taste to find out. Most of my time in Cooking Simulator VR was spent in the game’s sandbox mode for this reason. Interacting with your kitchen is fun in the silliest way possible, and I liked not being constrained by a time limit. I don’t know why flipping raw steaks is so satisfying, but the jiggle physics had me entranced. And yes, I did pick up a pair of tongs and pretend to be a crustacean chef, as any normal person would. Sandbox mode also lets you make every recipe à la carte so you can go through the steps at your leisure. While I loved playing around in the kitchen and practicing recipes at my own pace, the game’s career mode is just as fun. Your goal in career mode is to take your restaurant from the bottom to the top. Doing so means building up a reputation for serving quick, high-quality meals.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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That’s not nearly as easy as it might sound, and it doesn’t take long until it all becomes a hectic mad dash that tests your patience as much as your speed. You have a set amount of time to prepare each dish a customer orders, and when recipes start to ramp up in complexity, it gets intense. Cooking a seasoned trout is one thing, but soon you’ll be bouncing between different workstations in your kitchen to try and manage boiling pots of sauces, hot ovens full of meat, and sizzling frying pans of vegetables all at once. Once your cooking is done, it’s a matter of plating quickly and rushing to make sure it’s served before the timer is up. It’s nothing short of chaotic. Career mode is stressful, but in a way that makes for an engaging gameplay loop. There’s a real sense of relief and satisfaction in making it through another day of customer orders with five-star ratings for each dish. You’ll earn upgrades and perks throughout the career mode, like increasing the amount of tips you receive or being able to examine the quality of a dish before serving it. You can also unlock decorations to customize your kitchen to your liking. For as fun as it is, career mode is ultimately simple, and having that sense of progression really helps to add some depth to the overall experience. If I have one real criticism of Cooking Simulator VR, it’s that there’s a lack of community features, aside from the included leaderboards. Multiplayer would definitely be nice.

Career and Sandbox modes.

But I don’t think that’s always as easy for developers to implement as some people might believe. What I would really like to see, though, is some way to create custom recipes that you can share in a sort of player-made cookbook. Downloading dishes from the community to use in career mode would be fantastic. I love the idea of creating the most chaotic, needlessly complicated recipe imaginable and having another player’s day ruined because their own customers ordered it. Whether or not you’ll enjoy Cooking Simulator VR is dependent on what you’re expecting out of it. Don’t go in thinking it’s a hardcore cooking sim, because that’s definitely not the vibe; it’s more of a silly culinary playground. If you’re looking for a more guided experience than the freeform kitchen sandbox, I do think there’s a lot to enjoy in the career mode. Cooking Simulator VR isn’t as easy to recommend as some of the other great games on the Quest 2, purely because it’s a bit niche. That said, I enjoyed it so much that it’s threatening to dethrone Little Cities as my favorite Quest 2 game of the year. Immersion is such an important part of a VR for me, and Cooking Simulator VR never took me out of its kitchen. Okay, stop right there. You don’t need to say the obvious thing here. Y’know, the one about why on earth you’d bother playing a VR cooking game when you could just cook real food? Do you have an exhaustive pantry with unlimited funds to spend on ingredients and a professional, TV-grade chef on-hand to give you tips? Wait, you do?Endzone A World Apart

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Well, it’s good to know Jeff Bezos reads the site but, for the rest of us, Cooking Simulator lets us have fun with our food. The two modes you need to know about are Career and Sandbox. The former is a surprisingly robust adventure that starts out with modest ambitions. You’re opening a new restaurant and you’ll need to buy the equipment and food to run it. There’s a basic inventory to get you off the ground and then every successful dish will earn you more cash to spend on new items. Things quickly progress from tomato soup and baked trout — knowingly introduced with step-by-step guides that you’ll be expected to at least partly memorize — but mounting with multiple orders of increasing complexity. It’s a game of self-micromanagement; what can you do with the 60 seconds you have free whilst the potatoes cook? Do you have enough time to run to the fridge and season a salmon as the water boils? Dishes are timed, so you’ll need to get things out quickly to earn bonuses. And then, on top of that, is the precision. You’ll need to slice up lemons equally, for example, or season meats and pour broths to an exact degree. It requires a firm hand and gives the game a unique element of self-control. This can teeter between fun and frustration, given how hard it is to do something like balancing potatoes on a plate when you have no tactile feedback to tell you when you’re tilting or moving too fast.

Realistic physics.

But the game does have a skill tree to help combat this, with features like freezing items in place to allow you to more easily judge the size of slices, for example. Even then, though, some of your many mishaps are just going to come down to sheer, unavoidable bugginess. At the other end of this well-structured campaign is the Sandbox offering, where you get to see Cooking Simulator’s silly side. Here’s where the physical complexity really comes into its own. Want to stack up bottles and knock them down with potatoes? You can do that. How about starting fires and hopelessly trying to mop them up? Knock yourself out. Yes, it’s aimless, but you can have a lot of fun pushing the boundaries of what’s possible here. Perhaps inevitably, though, this makes optimization a bit of a problem. Even on low settings my mid-range rig would clough and splutter at the thought of balancing six items on a plate whilst remembering the 15 – 20 other interactable elements in the environment. I’d love to see a more optimized version of the game but, for now, you’ll want to make sure you’ve got a decent machine if you want a flawless experience. Cooking Simulator VR does what it says on the tin and does it very well. If you want, it can be a really satisfying cooking experience with a long list of recipes, a rock-solid career mode and almost exactly the right degree of intricacy to its mechanics.Pistol Whip

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Or you can turn it into an utter madhouse and watch its systems collide in a glorious ode to kitchen fires and food poisoning. You’ll need a decent rig to sustain the mayhem and if ever a VR game needed haptic feedback, it’s this, but Cooking Simulator VR delivers a robust and realistic experience worthy of a chef’s kiss. Recent years have seen the simulator game sub-genre mix in stuff from real simulators. While they still provide near-endless settings to do ridiculous things, they’re also in line with their real-world analogs, like fixing up cars or robbing houses. A few years back, Cooking Simulator let you mess up the kitchen while you performed actual cooking techniques, something that other cooking games don’t do. Cooking Simulator has been released again in VR. After a lengthy tutorial section where you’re taught just about all everything you need, you have a choice of three different game modes. The main one is the career mode, where you start as a new chef and are charged with transforming a run-down restaurant into a five-star eatery. To do this, you’ll learn how to cook the dishes as requested by the patrons, properly and quickly. Every dish you make gets a rating, which nets cash to get more ingredients, recipes, and better kitchen equipment. Many other cooking games have you twirling sticks or mashing buttons to get the job done. You’ll actually have to cook the dish as you would in real life, using the techniques real chefs would use. Fish on the grill needs to be turned over with tongs when you think it’s time for the other side to get cooked.

Perks and skills to unlock.

Meat and vegetables need to be seasoned with the right amount of spices. Produce needs to be manually cut into the right size, and boiling or letting food sit in a pot yields the right amount of stock that can be used elsewhere. Since you’re alone in this kitchen, that means you do everything from getting the ingredients and pots to placing it in the waiting area to be picked up. The process becomes more involved than expected, since you have so few tools to work with. You can get a readout for how much of a spice or liquid is placed on a food, and hovering over a piece of food will not only get you a temperature readout but also tell you exactly what you’re picking up. However, you won’t get a cutting guide, so you have to eyeball it and rely heavily on trial and error to cut the pieces just right. The game can be both strict and forgiving with your food results, as cooking things with either too much or too little of one ingredient and pulling the food away from the cooking source at the wrong time can lead to penalties when your food is graded. Making a mess or cooking stuff from the floor is just fine, though. The basics of the game are tough but fair for a sim, but there are things in the campaign that can be annoying. The campaign is lengthy but slow paced, while the demand for perfection can be stressful due to the imprecise nature of these kinds of games. It doesn’t help that you don’t get to cook every dish the game offers, so beating the game means nailing down enough of the basics to cook the more elaborate stuff on your own.

Also, for a game based on cooking, there’s lots of bookkeeping, from ordering recipes to calling for kitchen repairs. It’s fine in terms of making the campaign feel longer, but that could’ve been pushed aside in the name of more actual cooking. The second mode is time attack, as you’re tasked with cooking a dish as quickly as possible. You have a running timer once you start, but it moves forward instead of backward, so the pressure is slightly alleviated. The game tries to streamline things by only having the necessary ingredients on hand right away, versus having to stock up or having other ingredients in the way, but otherwise, it feels like the main game. Aside from giving you a chance to train for the campaign, you also have a worldwide leaderboard for every dish, driving you to improve. The third mode is sandbox, and people will likely head here first. Unlike the other modes, everything is already at your disposal, so you’re invited to cook everything at your leisure. Those looking for chaos from playing around with food or burning every dish in sight will have just as much fun as those who are legitimately using the mode to practice dishes without a timer. For those looking to completely decimate a kitchen, things aren’t too robust. Things that will naturally blow up, like placing a propane tank on an open flame or heating up a fire extinguisher, do so with just as much gusto as expected. On the other hand, put a metal pot in a microwave, and nothing sparks. Placing food in an oven for too long will burn it but won’t set it aflame, and pouring water in a deep fryer won’t cause an explosion.

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It’s rather tame compared to what some may expect from the trailer, but it’s enjoyable to experiment with. The move to VR does wonders in terms of taking away a bit of the jank normally associated with the sub-genre. There’s still a bit of wonky physics, such as when you’re using a spatula to flip some meat or seeing everything on your plate bounce with the slightest of movements. The inability to feel the resistance when cutting some foods is something VR can’t quite correct, so slicing and hacking bread will always give you the same result. Pouring bottles or tapping on salt and pepper shakers feels natural, minus the lack of accuracy in terms of how much you’re pouring out. Reaching over to mess with dials on stoves through button presses can be hit-and-miss. Movement can be done either naturally or by warping, and opening doors and messing with pans also feels natural instead of cumbersome. The sharpening of the controls via VR doesn’t take away from the inherent chaos of the genre, but you’ll have more of your fun focused on messing up dishes versus trying to figure out how to pick up a knife. The presentation in VR remains unchanged from its normal counterpart. The food is the real focus, and every dish that’s been prepared well looks super detailed, like it came from a magazine. The transformation from raw food to a cooked dish is quite nice, and even if you ruin the dish, the results show some polish. The kitchen looks fine, with the effects like water and fire being decent, but it fits the expectations of the sub-genre.The Room VR A Dark Matter 

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