Joyfess Ep1: Martin's Secret Recipe
Sand Wagon Games · 2020 · Puzzle, Point & Click, Funny, Cooking, Story Rich
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Positive82% · 33
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About Joyfess Ep1: Martin's Secret Recipe
Joyfess Ep1: Martin's Secret Recipe is a revival of the point-and-click adventure genre of the 1990s, featuring traditional animation, full voice acting, rich dialogues and an unpredictable, family-friendly story set in the familiar Caribbean setting.
Help extreme adventurer Joyfess Tidesman revitalize his boring life by doing something fresh; away from his kraken-slaying routine. As he stumbles upon a cooking contest due the next day, it would fall upon you to figure out how to become a chef overnight. Work your way through a flow of logical puzzles to obtain a recipe, collect its ingredients and arrive for the cooking contest in time (and in one piece).
No, this is not a pirate adventure at all. All our hero wants is to become a cook.
No one can blame you for your ignorance of such widely known ingredients as baktin and the buga fish. However, no ingredient is obscure to you thanks to the cooking encyclopedia!
It took us over five years to make Joyfess in this beautiful and nostalgic image. With intellectual challenges, humor and a rich game experience that is second to none, Joyfess is perfect for anyone wanting to discover how good adventure gaming can and should be. Although it's mainly targeted at adults, its light-hearted and funny nature suits the whole family.
Give yourself a break from the intense modern games of shoot-em-up, blow-em-up, run-em-over-and-laugh and other competitive games. Relax and have fun.Get Joyfess Now!
Help extreme adventurer Joyfess Tidesman revitalize his boring life by doing something fresh; away from his kraken-slaying routine. As he stumbles upon a cooking contest due the next day, it would fall upon you to figure out how to become a chef overnight. Work your way through a flow of logical puzzles to obtain a recipe, collect its ingredients and arrive for the cooking contest in time (and in one piece).
Back To The Caribbean As A Fearsome... Cook!
No, this is not a pirate adventure at all. All our hero wants is to become a cook.
Look Up Ingredients In The Cooking Encyclopedia
No one can blame you for your ignorance of such widely known ingredients as baktin and the buga fish. However, no ingredient is obscure to you thanks to the cooking encyclopedia!
Features
- A Fresh Kind Of Nostalgia: Experience the familiar Caribbean setting through the fresh perspective of an aspiring cook (formerly a kraken slayer)
- A Modern, Traditionally Animated Classic: Relive the classic adventure vibe in a modern game where every character is animated frame by frame for the HD screens of today
- Meet A Funny, Fully Voiced Cast: Explore hundreds of conversation branches constituting 1.5 hours of spoken dialogue. Try some of the optional responses for more of the island's people and history and an occasional joke or two.
- Consult The Cooking Encyclopedia: Joyfess can't make ice cubes without a recipe. But luckily, no food ingredient or matter is obscure to him with the cooking encyclopedia at hand!
- Beautiful & Cartoony: Wander an island across 15 locations with colorful and vibrant shades of happiness all over the layout
- Moderately Challenging: Use deductive logic to solve fun puzzles with indirect hints to keep the game flowing
- Family-Friendly: Joyfess was made to appeal for adults and children alike
What Are You Waiting For?
It took us over five years to make Joyfess in this beautiful and nostalgic image. With intellectual challenges, humor and a rich game experience that is second to none, Joyfess is perfect for anyone wanting to discover how good adventure gaming can and should be. Although it's mainly targeted at adults, its light-hearted and funny nature suits the whole family.
Give yourself a break from the intense modern games of shoot-em-up, blow-em-up, run-em-over-and-laugh and other competitive games. Relax and have fun.Get Joyfess Now!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]"That won't work, that won't work, THAT WON'T WORK! " [/h1] Once again, I wish there was a [h3][b]Neutral option[/b][/h3], but since this is cute project done by a small team, I can't compare them to massive studios' titles, nor can I give it a thumbs up in case I discourage them to try again. PROS: - Cute, hand drawn animations. Don't expect Deponia, but the two artists gave their best. - Lovely setting, beautiful backgrounds. - Story is interesting enough to keep me playing, the jokes are alright, lots of references to other more famous video games. - Walking is fast, the world is easy to navigate in. OBVIOUS CONS: - It's super short (thank God I bought it when it was on Sale). - Unfinished plot, with little chance of getting a sequel (but you never know). CONS that really bugged me on a personal level and I hope the creator will take them as constructive criticism/suggestions for their next game/ chapter, because they are super talented and need to keep creating more games: - The game didn't feel good to play - it felt frustrating. Here are some of the reasons: > Please add more dialogue when we are using objects the wrong way. I got so sick of hearing "That w…3 found this helpful
Very warm and engaging!! The game has this really nice nostalgic vibe, and the art style is cute and refreshing. Its atmosphere feels well put together, and the logic puzzles are fun and challenging without being overwhelming. Good for classic adventure game enjoyers ;))1 found this helpful
-Pros Nice art style Good controls, entirely playable with mouse. Decent voice acting Standard point and click puzzle design, inventory based for the most part. Interesting characters Humorous story and dialog -Cons No hot-spot reveal tool, although to be fair there is very little (if any) pixel hunting. Short Not a complete story, only episode one of a planned two patter. In fairness this should be fairly obvious from the game title. Overall recommended.1 found this helpful
[h3] Overpriced and unfinished !!! [/h3] [b] This is the first (short) chapter of an ongoing story that is no longer being developed. [/b] The humour, voice acting and graphic style are well done. This could have been a really good game if it had been concluded.
I was so interested in the game in the beginning, being a huge Monkey Island fan. This game looked so good, especially the graphics and the whole atmosphaire. I will definitely won't support it by buying the rest of the episodes though. This is the most racist game I've ever played! I can't belive that this is a 2020's game and not a 1800's! I haven't seen Natives Peoples portrayed so badly in a very very long time. Unacceptable.
Okay Monkey Island Vibes worth a punt if on sale
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