Playtime: 15 minutes (Deluxe Toast)

This was fun! It's a great game especially for the New Years time of year when many people are thinking about making changes in their lives to make things better. Something I found interesting about the game was how the parser mechanics enhanced the feeling of being hungover—having to figure out where to find things and what order to do them, and remember the recipe slowed me with the mechanics, but I found that charming because it made it feel appropriate to the situation. (I genuinely think I could've made this toast in real life in less than 15 minutes, which is kind of funny to think about) 

I did encounter a bug (?) where the game kept asking me something like "Is that a spice in your hands? Are you sure?" at multiple points during the game and especially while I was plating the ingredients on the toast, which was a bit surreal (I did try to use salt at many different steps, and was told things like "two eggs is not a container", so ultimately my toast went unseasoned lol) 

While I personally didn’t quite fully click with the relationship story, I sure as hell felt hungry reading all the descriptions of the ingredients. Fun game.