Indie

Venba

93% positive of 2,414 Steam reviews

To 100%: 1.8 h
Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, GOG, Xbox / PC Game Pass, PlayStation, itch.io

Made by Visai Games.

About the game

Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.

Tagged by players

Cooking
Narrative
Soundtrack
1980s
Dialogue Heavy
Cinematic
Emotional
Interactive Fiction
Female Protagonist
Crafting
Visual Novel
Stylized

What players say

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Venba

93% positive of 2,414 Steam reviews

View on Steam

To 100%: 1.8 h
Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, GOG, Xbox / PC Game Pass, PlayStation, itch.io

Made by Visai Games.

About the game

Tagged by players

Cooking
Narrative
Soundtrack
1980s
Dialogue Heavy
Cinematic
Emotional
Interactive Fiction
Female Protagonist
Crafting
Visual Novel
Stylized

What players say

Recommended
Got this game after playing "a little to the left", thinking it would be a cute little cooking-Mama-ish game. Did not expect the absolute punch this game packs. I was crying 12 minutes into this game and did not stop for the entire playthrough. Beautiful game, short and sweet but woooow, did not expect it to hit that hard. Super adorable artstyle too and I love that they put the recipes for you to remake at home1…
3.2 h played when written. 13 found it helpful.
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Recommended
this was such a beautiful game, i am so in love with it I grew up Mexican American and I rejected my roots because I just wanted to be normal, speak English in the house instead of Spanish, listen to American music, not wear the clothes my grandmother knitted me, not wear the traditional earrings or dresses my mother would get me from Queretaro, I rejected learning my language I couldn't speak to my cousins or my…
1.8 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
The story is beautiful but there's so little gameplay, I can't help but think this would have worked better as a short film. You kinda feel like you're just clicking through a short story with a couple vague dialogue choices here and there, and that's it. Even the cooking segments don't require much player input; sometimes you don't even get to do basic things like drag ingredients to pots or turn dials yourself,…
1.6 h played when written. 13 found it helpful.
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