Nainai’s Recipe
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
This is a demo of Nainai’s Recipe, we are still in development! You can find us @NainaiRecipe where we do progress updates and share tech & art stuff!
Open your fridge, choose the ingredients, examine, chop, seasoning, heat, and taste them. During the lockdown, you start to learn how to cook from your dear grandma.
Nainai’s Recipe is a game that captures the cooking feeling in stylized visuals. And a family story about how we lived together in a special way during the pandemic.
- Maximum control - no preset ingredient slice texture, no performance-oriented steps, we want you to enjoy cooking a meal from start to finish.
- Food to a larger food tradition - We curated a stylized kitchen with strong flavor about a Chinese kitchen, including appliances, condiments, and food choices.
- Bonding moment with Nainai - During this difficult period of time, you will have more chance than ever to talk to your Nainai and know her story!
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中文介绍
奶奶的菜谱
打开你的冰箱，选择食材，观察，切开，调味，加热，然后尝尝看。隔离的日子里，跟奶奶学做菜。
奶奶的菜谱是一个关注烹饪的真实体验的游戏。也是一个关于我们如何在 2020 年用一种特殊的方式生活在一起的家庭故事。
- 充分自由度 - 游戏不使用预设的食材状态，玩家可以自由的控制做饭的流程，用自己的方法做出不同的食物。
- 中国美食的传统 - 食物与文化紧密相关，它不仅仅在多样的厨具，厨房的外貌，也在于做饭的程序，食材的搭配，食物的味道等等。我们希望在方方面面上捕捉到它们。
- 奶奶的故事 - 菜谱也通过家庭传承。长大后就和奶奶没有什么共同话题了，希望能借着学做菜的机会多聊几句。听到她的故事，再次认识奶奶。
奶奶的菜谱是我们在纽约大学游戏中心（NYU Game Center）的毕设作品。游戏已支持中文。目前还在继续开发中，你也可以在 Steam 加入心愿单关注游戏的发布消息。
如果在游戏中遇到 Bug，请使用游戏内的 Bug report 功能向我们发送错误信息（支持中文输入）。其他支持可通过 nainais.recipe@gmail.com 联系我们，感谢试玩！
Updates:
0.9.6 - Apr 24, 2022 - New features and bugfixes, story for day 2.
0.7.15 - Jul 23, 2021 - Added Chinese support 中文支持. Narrative improvement.
0.7.14 - Jun 23, 2021 - Fixed a bug where the phone can't be put down. Fixed a bug where some ingredients always be raw.
0.7.13 - Jun 5, 2021 - Fixed a resolution related bug.
0.7.12 - May 30, 2021 - Added a feedback button. Day 3 can be played (but no story).
0.7.10 - May 21, 2021 - Improved the performance of finely cut pieces
If you meet a bug, feel free to send us a bug report in the game!
For support or any other inquiries, contact us at nainais.recipe@gmail.com
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ive probably made about 30 meals. I can make so many things out of tofu, chips, crisps, sandwich, cheese squares
Such a cool game! Concept is amazing and executed quite well. My only setback was the chopping. I was wondering if it would be possible to have a "mince" option while you're cutting your veggies. It became very tedious trying to mince garlic and having to slice everything manually. If there was a way to just automatically cut faster that would make things much easier. Thank you!!!
I agree there should definitely be a mince option, but I also really like chopping things really thin
Oh me too! That’s why I wish there was a toggle so you can switch between the two, kinda like real life.
more options plz
That was a great relaxing game. Mixed between cooking and texting with someone that cares about you.
I look forward to the full game. The physics are great and the story is nice. What matters most to me is gameplay and story, not graphics.
This would be an great VR game if the developer is thinking of taking that route.
I love it, its so cute and cozy. it just makes me so happy haha. Awesome game
This game is so cute and fun!, i wish when you ate the food it didn't have the long name but other than that it is super fun!. i would love to see more levels soon!!
this game is really cute and i wanted to try it out more, but on a m1 mac pro for some reason it is incredibly laggy which makes it basically unplayable
oh man! i loved it! thank you! i'm going to ask my family toshare their favourite recipies and cook them! <33
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Will this cost money in the future?
how can I access the app?
I am currently on my IPhone, i transferred the file to my tablet as well and it continues to not work. I cannot go into the file, the original download I tapped and an “application” downloaded next to the original file. I then tried to access that file by tapping on it, I fiddled around with it for roughly half an hour and it still isn’t working. What can I do to fix this?
there is no iphone version
This is absolutely amazing, and I hope it ends up with an endless mode, but also once you get to the chopping portion on the game, it starts to get really really laggy.
aaaaa i luv this game, it soo cozy & relaxing; can't wait for its final release!
Lovely game, I absolutely enjoyed it! It has got such a cozy atmosphere :o
谁能告诉我iPad可以玩吗，下载了不能安装
只能用电脑TvT
tried this game and it is such a great experience! I cant wait for more espically cooking. I might learn how to cook dishes thanks to this lol
is this still in development or has it been scrapped? hope its still being worked on as id love to play more!!!
为什么我进入颠锅状态退出任不了，没有任何按键提示
右键点击即可
这确实是一个小bug，我在第一天还没过完剧情时炒菜也会有退出不了的问题，试试强制退出
ahhh this was so fun!!! nowdays theres so little fun cooking games
yeah! Always love cooking game\(￣︶￣*\)
anybody know what to press after i download it and open the file?? :/
Dude, you need to unzip the package, then find the NaiNai Recipe.exe, open it and everything would go well.
I don't know if this was my problem, but the game was very laggy. Does anyone else have the same problem or a solution?
me toooo why is it?
Texting on the phone every 5 seconds in a game is beyond annoying, I downloaded the game to cook not text someone the whole time, I can do that in real life.
Yeah u can also cook irl u idiot
No need to get so angry it's my opinion.
A rudely worded one. I think they responded appropriately to your sourness. :]
maann this is so good, i wish more games like this is made. Every now and then we just need some heart warming stuff like. auto wishlisted on steam!!
很好游戏，让我口水直流
Awesome cooking game this game runs extremely smoothe and is super cozy!
i dont know how to enter it lol sommeone heeeeeeeeeeeelp
竟然不会粘锅，爽到
而且贴心地省略了洗碗，lol
such a cozy little game. its everything i want in a cooking sim. Hope it comes out soon! for now ill perfect my skills with this demo
I used to play this game alot on pc about a year ago, and I had no issues running the game, but trying to play on my mac the lag on my mouse made it impossible to hit start. I hope this gets fixed soon, i absolutely love this game.
its soooo laggy cant even click start
love this but got stuck at the end of day 2, don't know how to get to the next day??
it wont let you continue until you finish your plate! sometimes little food bits get hidden in the plate, click around until you find it. You arent missing much tho since its just a demo and theres nothing after day 2
the lag is so bad i cant even click start :(
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this game was super cute but i got stuck after the first recipue was completed. I would love to play more!!
tinha de tudo para ser bom, mas tem dialogos imensos, suuuuper maçante e entediante
i like the game so far but... i couldnt even move the mouse cause it was bugging like craaaazy and the the texting was taking too long or the intro was also taking too long couldnt even come far maybe its also my laptop imma try it later again.
I cant download it and i use desktop and i have no popup blocker so what do i do
I wasn't able to control my mouse which was annoying but overall I loved the look of the game :)
this grandma or whatever takes forever to write back, i'd would rather call her and choose dialogue options while talking with her.
Besides that it reminded me of cooking mama for nintendo ds.
nice artstyle!
super super fun!! the only thing that kinda sucks is not being able to pick up full bowls of stuff to put ingredients in all at once after prepping, and when you have a lot of ingredients cut up it gets really laggy. i had to stop playing on day 2 (my computer isn't bad or anything either)
This is really cool. I'm looking forward to the full version!
I really liked how the game lets me cook based on how I took the recipe! I love how there's no mandated way to do ABC when cooking, which is close to reality! :) I was able to make some decisions on my own, e.g. leaving out an ingredient since I don't like it.
I also liked how there were adjectives to describe how it tasted (when we eat the food we cooked)! I also noticed color and adjectives differences if the food wasn't cooked thoroughly... or balancedly.... I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
I liked how the game let me send emojis and pics whenever I wanted! That being said, I wish Nainai's responses to pictures/emojis I sent were a bit more relevant. Nainai could only say "huh," "wow,". I think a generic complimenting response would be great (especially for pics!), like "Looks good!", "Beautiful."
A few other things that bothered me were how I couldn't pick up a plate of ingredients and pour them to the pan. I also thought the eating part could be better by eating a group immediately without clicking them one-by-one.
I'm confident that you guys are working on them for the full version, if everyone else says the same thing.
Again, thank you for making such a beautiful game. Can't wait for the release!