Ravenous Devils

The theme is dark, akin to Graveyard Keeper, though fun. There seems to be an odd contention about the morality of the dark theme. You kill some of your customers, none of which are a threat to you. While I always play the good character in games that have morality (excepting wonton theft), this didn't feel like a big deal to me. As for the gameplay, each day you must do the business which is a Tailor, a Pub, and the pub's kitchen, split between three floors. You only kill the tailoring customers who come in for private sizing. The business day lasts a certain amount of time where you'll get customers, which will come in for service. You'll aim to keep clothes for sale on the mannequins and food for sale on the trays. If customers cannot buy a product they will leave, which means you'll miss out on their money. Once the day ends you can prepare for the next day and open the businesses at your leisure. I didn't feel rushed like you might expect from a 'timed day'. Customers sort of trickle in. Once the day ends you purchase upgrades of the equipment that vary the mechanics, increase efficiency, or give you a buffer, such as trays and mannequins which let you have more things out on the floor to sell while you have your characters producing more product in the back. It plays like the old flashgames "Papa's Pizzaria" or "Papa's Burgeria," though this has much higher graphics. You can opt to play the story mode or endless mode. The story mode essentially adds a bit at the end of nearly every day where you get a mail item or cutscene which furthers the plot of the game. It may also add a small mechanic or visual element (such as a hanging corpse, potted plant) to the scene. It kept things interesting, and it broke up the daily grind. All in all, it's good! It took a bit to get used to controlling two characters simultaneously but they each have their own domain without overlap.

I finished it in 6 hours but based on the other reviews I probably took my time with it a bit more. It was fun but I did have some bugs (in game mail not showing up, people clipping through the floor a few times..) There is an overall plot to this but it is not too involved, just to have an end goal. Overall I would say if you enjoy this type of pub management game and the macabre aesthetics of sweeney todd then you will enjoy this game

Light-hearted but definitely quite gory, found myself 'switching to the other character' to look away when one character is 'processing' the meat. Short, a few hours at most. Worth it on sale if you like hilarious over-the-top gore. I think in total the criticism for this game is best summarized as it being unpolished. Some of that is easy to overlook and can be part of the janky fun (plot barely exists and is confusing, character conversations are done as poorly edited text blurbs with poor punctuation / capitalization, etc). But the controls are also very unpolished which takes away a lot of fun in a restaurant management game like this. The tracking system for character actions is poor (only shows what you are holding in the moment, not what you are doing or about to hold, and is not implemented at all for one of the other anciliary characters) and there is no way to see what action has been queued up next. But more critically, there is no way to re-bind keys and for me playing with mouse and keyboard, it made me switch between 'floors' of the restaurant with the mouse scroll button. OK fine. I use my mouse scroll wheel all the time in life, it's a good wheel. Except not in this game, I had to basically assault the scroll wheel for a good 1-2 seconds to get it to register enough for the game to switch floors. Why? Who knows. Maybe it works better with the controller control scheme. I pushed through the story part of the game, but with the control and tracking issues I can't force myself to play through again or play on 'endless' mode. And that's a dying shame.

Im hungry now!

If the game had any other premise about tailoring or cooking it would likely only be an average game for me. But the fact that you play as sadistic serial killers is enough of an unique experience that the game earns 4 out of 5 stars. It's too rare to be able to play as the bad guy. The animations are smooth and brutal, especially the steak station. The difficulty can be described as a very chilled experience, I believe I only failed 3 orders during the entire game. So, as long as you can remember whose doing what as you switch between the two characters the overall difficulty shouldn't be too hard for you. The story had me interested enough to keep me going until I beat the game in one sitting. And lastly, I encountered zero bugs. While I understand some taking issue with the gameplay being repetitive, I found the upgrade system and the game's length to be suffucient enough for it to not be an issue for me. Overall, this is a fun game that I can easily recommend. Interestingly, years ago, I remember reading l about a German butcher who did such a thing, turning victims into sausage. I wonder if this inspired the developers? Anyways, food for thought, or something?