Kel Versus the Kitchen

I liked this game quite a bit until I ran into some snags.

You play as an older kid/young adult who is making some food at home. You have to balance the demands of your family while still cooking. It even comes with a neat meter to show how much patience you have left.

I found it hard to strategize or figure out what’s going on. I thought there were only two endings after 5 or 6 playthrough sans still haven’t found one, but there are four in total. It’s not clear what options decrease Provence or whether that changes an ending, and it’s hard to say why one oath ends in catharsis while another in unhappiness. So I felt like there was a mismatch between my attempts at communication and the game’s response.

I did like the lively setting and the character and world details. Very descriptive and fun outside of my struggles.

Kel Versus the Kitchen is a short meter-sensitive Twine, where you play as teenage Kel, walking in on a frenzy family affair, of getting ready for dinner. Before you can even take off your shoes, you are commandeered to do this and that, and blamed for things essentially out of your control. The entry does a pretty good job at depicting that stressful moment before guests arrive and nothing is truly ready. Very chaotic!! Depending on the choices made, which may decrease your/everyone’s patience, you will get one of the four endings, from frustrating to cathartic. But it’s pretty fun to try to find them all!