Making dumplings

This is a pleasant game by the accomplished author Autumn Chen. In it, you are making dumplings with your girlfriend.

For both you, dumplings remind you of family, in both good and bad ways. Making them is a good excuse for both revisiting your past as well as figuring out how well you work together.

This also serves as a nice sequel to the earlier games in the same continuity, where we could only hope for moments like this.

Gameplay is card based, where you draw ingredients from the pantry or fridge and decide how to handle them.

Neat concept, well executed.

Always delighted to see my favourite awkward couple come back for some slice-of-life shenanigans. With this new entry to the Pageantverse, we meet back with Karen and Em - who now live together !!!! - attempting to make some dumplings from Chinese New Year. Trying to follow Karen's mother's recipe, you help prepare the (sometimes expired :grimacing: ) ingredients, constructing the dumplings, and cooking them. During this process, you can find some little tit bit about Karen and Em's relationship and daily life.

As the blurb indicates, this entry is meant as a demo for DendyNexus, a mashup between Dendry and StoryNexus, providing decks to get action-cards, each sending the player to little storylets (well, different ingredient preps). I'm looking forward to see where this engine/extension goes...