Hot Pot For One (Endless Mode Now Available)
Rachel Li · 2021 · Experimental, Short, First-Person, Life Sim, Emotional
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About Hot Pot For One (Endless Mode Now Available)
Overview
Hot Pot For One is a short first-person experience about the bittersweet feeling of making hot pot at home for yourself on Christmas Eve. It is about the bitterness of lonely times, and the sweet comfort of food that keeps us going. We wish to evoke those emotions through simple and smooth interactions such as putting ingredients into the pot, watching them cook, seeing them being eaten, and eventually dumping the rest away.
Our Story
The concept of the game came from our personal experiences as international students. One of the most challenging things about living in a foreign country is that you are far away from your family and friends. And that can be very lonely. Luckily, one thing that can put our minds at ease in those times of difficulty has been to make and eat food from home. The familiar taste of hometown summons happy memories, and warms our hearts. It helps us retain our power to fight on.
Those experiences inspired us to take this opportunity to express the loneliness of being away from home, as well as the satisfaction of consuming our favorite food, in the form of a game.
What To Expect
-Estimated playtime: 15~30min
-a carefully-crafted, bittersweet story
-Realistic looking food and high fidelity kitchen environment
-more than 30 pieces of hand-drawn illustrations to be collected for multiple playthroughs
-10+ kind of food models, with cooking and eating animations
-physics based first person mouse look with no movement
-high quality sound effects and music
Hot Pot For One is a short first-person experience about the bittersweet feeling of making hot pot at home for yourself on Christmas Eve. It is about the bitterness of lonely times, and the sweet comfort of food that keeps us going. We wish to evoke those emotions through simple and smooth interactions such as putting ingredients into the pot, watching them cook, seeing them being eaten, and eventually dumping the rest away.
Our Story
The concept of the game came from our personal experiences as international students. One of the most challenging things about living in a foreign country is that you are far away from your family and friends. And that can be very lonely. Luckily, one thing that can put our minds at ease in those times of difficulty has been to make and eat food from home. The familiar taste of hometown summons happy memories, and warms our hearts. It helps us retain our power to fight on.
Those experiences inspired us to take this opportunity to express the loneliness of being away from home, as well as the satisfaction of consuming our favorite food, in the form of a game.
What To Expect
-Estimated playtime: 15~30min
-a carefully-crafted, bittersweet story
-Realistic looking food and high fidelity kitchen environment
-more than 30 pieces of hand-drawn illustrations to be collected for multiple playthroughs
-10+ kind of food models, with cooking and eating animations
-physics based first person mouse look with no movement
-high quality sound effects and music
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Didn't enjoy. Throwing away all that food made it into a psychological horror.3 found this helpful
A very short (~10 minute) game that comes off more like an art project/experience. It was fun to immerse myself in another life for a few minutes. This game also made me hungry. There was some clumsiness in grabbing/dropping the ingredients (a lot ended up on the floor), but that accurately reflected how I usually am with chopsticks.
For the price and vibes, I do believe if you're just looking for a random cozy game that involves a little cooking, pick it up (better yet pick it up on sale). Don't go into it expecting much though. You get like 10 minutes out of it before you're like "anything else?". It allows you to stay for a while and the music is nice but... that's it. Put some food in a pot and... nothing else happens. But its $3. You get a an achievement and 100% completion. There's not much else to it unfort.
Short and charming :) very cozy
This game makes me hungry
The story is bittersweet and extremely short. The ambience/sound design is very calming, only problem for me is the graphics and the clipping of the food.
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