‘Cozy Cooking: Tiny Tastes’ – Low Pressure Food Prep

Cozy Cooking: Tiny Tastes is a casual, cozy game with no timers, no angry customers, and no way to lose – only making food.

I feel that cozy games, wholesome games, and cooking games are my favorite type of indie games. There is just something extremely fun about being able to whip up new recipes and play around with different cuisines. This one is a puzzle-ish cozy cooking game where you are slowly leveling up and unlocking more meals to prepare.

This title is casual in that there are no timers, customers do not get angry with you, and if you serve them the wrong things – they don’t care. Everyone who wants food from you is just chilling and hanging out. It is a cafe, and as such people come in with different flavor notes they want. You can then go into your cookbook to see what recipes you know or have unlocked from that note.

In the book, you can see different outlines of new recipes you have yet to discover. Then, you can go into the cooking area, select the ingredients you want, and decide how they are prepared (by selecting the blender, for example). They are then made and served. If you unlock something new, you get to see it and you gain more XP which lets you unlock more ingredients and ways to cook.

You can then continue cooking and playing along with the game. It’s endless, allowing you to cook forever. There isn’t a rush in it. I ended up maxing out the level quite quickly, and then worked towards unlocking all of the different dishes in my cookbook. The graphics are cute and quirky – everything just feels like a relaxing game that you might play in your downtime from your busy, hectic life.

Cozy Cooking: Tiny Tastes doesn’t feel like something that you are able to fail or that will take a lot of thinking with the puzzles themselves. It’s just a fun time (although there isn’t much depth), and the people say the same sorts of things even if you are serving them a dish that doesn’t really feel like the taste notes they wanted.

Cozy Cooking: Tiny Tastes is available now on the Nintendo eShop.

About The Author

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie game journalist, writing for Metro UK, Big Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and many more, all with a focus on smaller indie gems. She covers thousands of game jams and indie games on her YouTube channel, letting every game have a moment in the spotlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of all of the game jams going on in the world, judges many jams and events.