Cooking games are not uncommon in VR. They generally tend to fall into two categories: titles like Lost Recipes offer a more educational experience, whilst games like Cook-Out are more fun, frantic, time-management based. Tyche Mobile’s Cooking Clash easily falls into the latter, and in their latest review, 131XR finds a very generic cooking experience.
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What is Cooking Clash?
As should be fairly obvious, Cooking Clash puts you in the shoes of a very busy chef. Inside your diner/restaurant, you’re going to serve up an assortment of tasty meals – mainly burgers – to an eclectic array of customers. From humans to farmyard animals and more, whatever they’re hungry for, you need to dish it up. And fast. Not only will this mean you’ll earn money, but you’ll also avoid making them angry.
This is where hilarity generally ensues, trying to cook multiple burgers, fries, serve drinks and chop ingredients. It becomes a juggling act.
Or, in the case of Cooking Clash, you can always open the drawer under the counter, pull out a machine gun and let rip! It’ll cost you cash, but that’s the price a stressed chef is willing to pay.
Cooking Clash Review
As 131XR’s review of Cooking Clash finds, initially, the game can be an enjoyable cooking sim. It starts off fairly easy going before ramping up the difficulty with more customers and more elaborate orders. Most of the key components are within close reach, such as the ingredients, grill and fryer. Should you need that extra bit of reach, there’s no need to lean forward. Your arms comically extend to stretch across the entire diner.
However, it soon becomes clear that after a positive start to Cooking Clash, that veneer starts to disappear. What’s underneath is a rather average time management game that struggles to offer anything new. Sure, putting a minigun on the wall to deal with pesky customers is amusing, but the enjoyment is short-lived.
131XR finds that Cooking Clash isn’t a bad VR game, per se. Just that there are better games of this ilk on Meta Quest.
A Competitive Serving
So if Cooking Clash is a generally average cooking game, what’s its competition like? VR and food have gone hand-in-hand for years, with a multitude of cooking-style sims available. As mentioned, Resolution Games’ Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale is an excellent example, focused on the delicious sandwich combinations and four-player kitchens.
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For something a little bit different, there’s Zombie Bar Simulator. Serve your undead customers a true gross assortment of beverages and rotting cuisine to suit their palates.
Have you played Cooking Clash yet? What did you think? Let us know in the comments!
