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Venba
Released On: Jul 31, 2023
79
6.4
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
79
58% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
26% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
79
58% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
26% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Venba could have been my story. Or your story, if you know what means to be the son (or the daughter) of a couple who moved to give you a better future at the cost of giving up to pass on their roots. And it’s awesome a video game could tell this very thing in about two hours of gameplay and stay in your memories forever.
Venba is a must-play experience, an enthralling tale of immigrants across multiple generations, all backed by a brilliantly absorbing puzzle game in the form of cooking.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 64 User Ratings
6.4
36% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
50% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
14% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 64 User Ratings
6.4
36% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
50% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
14% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
It’s easy to finish Venba in one sitting, but the game’s complicated narrative, it’s exploration of family relationships, identity, and hardship, will linger in my mind for so much longer than it took me to play through it.
While the specificities of lead developer Abhi's lived experience give Venba its distinctive flavour, they serve a story with which anyone can identify. [Issue#387, p.123]
Venba is an exercise in brevity. I greatly enjoyed my peek into the lives of strangers who exposed me to a culture different than mine. I just wish I could have got a longer look at it.
Pretty colours, smell of spice, they couldn’t dull my senses enough to not notice all of Venba’s imperfections. The characters aren’t very nice, the conversations tend to say nothing of substance, the story never reaches the required depths. But it’s short enough for it to be a cute visit of Indian culture and cuisine.
Lovely visual novel with cooking puzzles, all its parts fit together perfectly, making it entertaining from beginning to end. A solid 10/10 and must-play experience.
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Don't mistake a negative review for saying that you shouldn't play it but we really need to drop expectations here. It is a very short (takes about an hour to beat) game in which you explore a short story of a couple that immigrates from India to Canada from the pregnancy of their son to his adult life. The story is fine but predictable and cliche at times. Gameplay mechanics are simple (just dragging ingredients together) as you work through a cookbook that has been passed down from generation to generation.
All in all, It's fine but it's nothing we haven't experienced before.
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PC
Summary Cook delicious South-Indian food and experience the journey of an immigrant family in Venba! Venba is a narrative cooking game where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about famil...
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Jul 31, 2023
Developer:
- Visai Games
Publisher: Visai Games
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