Ravenous Devils PC Review: Vegans Won’t Like This Place

User Rating: 7
Ravenous Devils PC Review

The horror genre has rarely managed to surprise players in recent years. Everyone always expects endless pursuit and running around, where you most often cannot resist the local evil, plus screamers, loud music and everything to create a feeling of fear are added. However, what if we take a pinch of this genre and atmosphere and season it with something unusual for it, for example, a cooking simulator. And this short, but rather exciting experience is offered by Ravenous Devils.

As soon as I first saw this game, I immediately remembered the film Sweeney Todd the demon barber from Fleet Street, and even when I watched this film, I thought what if I made a game on such a topic. And now Bad Vices Games publish their creation, and let’s see what happened to them.

Story

To your attention is a charming and loving married couple, consisting of the tailor Percival and his loving wife, the cook Hildred. In the process of fulfilling their biggest desire – to get rich quickly, our couple comes up with one brilliant idea. Since game meat is a rather rare and expensive pleasure in the world during the game, they find a very edible and affordable analog for it: their own customers. They have been engaged in this adventure for quite a long time and managed to change several cities, destroying their traces of activity in them.

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And now, in a new place, in a new city, where crime and indifference seem to be completely ordinary things, our heroes are equipping a new institution, let’s say “to suit their needs”.

It would seem that now everything will go smoothly for them and they will calmly earn a luxurious life for themselves with their painstaking work. However, they receive a letter from a certain Jack, who knows about their culinary secret and their previous exploits in past establishments. Therefore, he proposes a deal: they will have to prepare for him certain people whom he himself will point to, and in return will not give out their secrets to anyone. After receiving such an ultimatum, the working days of our married couple begin.

Gameplay

The gameplay is a tycoon for development, made in an atmosphere of horror. The game itself is very simple and, one might even say, routine.

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They dilute the grind of advancing the story – nominal characters come to the shop, and the plot moves forward thanks to the letters received.

We have 3 floors and a basement at our disposal. Hildred works on the first two, serving customers in his restaurant. And in the kitchen, the very juice of her profession takes place, namely, the preparation of meat and the preparation of dishes according to the recipe book.

You can hire an assistant (which I recommend doing as early as possible, otherwise you simply won’t have time to run back and forth), Hildred herself has to take dishes to the bar counter on the first floor and take orders from customers at the tables. Before opening an establishment, you can fully determine when it is worth opening and there is an opportunity to prepare all the ingredients as much as possible so that later you can spend time only on the preparation of dishes. There is also an important detail of the cat, which will then catch mice, which can also be used in cooking.

Responsibilities in the game are clearly defined.

The husband “takes measurements” and then throws the bodies of the unfortunate mods into the basement. After that, he launders the floor, darns the trophy clothes, and then takes them to be sold in the atelier. A little later, a greenhouse passes into his possession, where he can grow vegetables and useful things for his wife, at the expense of fertilizers, it’s better not to ask where they come from. The wife is in the kitchen trying to find new recipes from incoming “products”. Then he carries the resulting dishes to the cafe, which is located on the floor above.

Both activities of the spouses generate income. With the funds received, production can be improved, more stoves can be made, faster cooking or tailoring of clothes – there are many options for improvement.




Visuals

The game looks pretty nice and conveys that atmosphere of gloom and light horror that takes place in it. The animations look smooth and do not hurt the eyes, there are some punctures such as falling people or a person levitating in the air, but this is a matter of time.

Rare, but colorful drawings look juicy and quite accurately convey the image of the main characters. The only thing that could be added is various small details for the atmosphere or the ability to somehow customize the decor yourself.

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Overall

Ravenous Devils offers a rather short and non-replayable experience for one or two nights, but at the right price. I would like to put a separate plus for the courage of the idea and concept. At the very least, this is something out of the ordinary. I can’t particularly recommend it, but if you just unload your brain or get distracted, then it’s quite suitable for yourself.

Summary
Ravenous Devils offers a rather short and non-replayable experience for one or two nights, but at the right price. I would like to put a separate plus for the courage of the idea and concept. At the very least, this is something out of the ordinary. I can’t particularly recommend it, but if you just unload your brain or get distracted, then it’s quite suitable for yourself.
Good
  • Simple but nice graphics. Fantastic and stylish art.
  • Good music and sound accompaniment.
  • Intriguing plot
  • Simple yet addictive gameplay.
  • Excellent localizations into other languages
  • Small funny problems
Bad
  • Minor issues and bugs
  • The duration of the game is very short
7
Good

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