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Culinary Cryptography

Untitled game kitchen background - an otherwise normal kitchen with a painting of Rutherford semi-concealed in shadow

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Culinary Cryptography is a puzzle-based video game that conveys a story about feeding anxiety versus taming it. It follows a college student who is trapped in their home by an eldritch god who seeks to destroy the world unless they can satisfy its demands. The protagonist must use clues from an ancient recipe book and the powers of home cooking to appease the creature and save the world.

Ingredients

Blood lotus - a white closed bulb with red spots surrounded by purple petals with blood red roots, floating in a round fishbowl

Blood lotus
Molar root - a molar tooth with a purple stem growing from the top and little flowers shaped like tooth crowns on the tips of the stem

Molar root
Tooth plant - an earthy green bulbous plant with four tongues instead of petals and razor-sharp teeth in the center, and without roots

Tooth plant
Jalapeno plant - a green leafy plant with a ripe red jalapeno pepper, a green unripe pepper and a green and yellow ripening pepper

Jalapeno

Concept Art

Concept art of the kitchen and various other scenes Concept art of various eye-related plants Concept art of the tooth plant