Hello again. It's been so long. Did you miss me? Because I definitely missed you. I've been watching you you know through the screen watching you do things don't be shy it's

okay I'm here for you it's so great we get to spend this time together just you and

How did I do was it perfect now it really can be just us and look

Dinner's already served they can be just as... and look, dinners already serve. I'm going to Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's part of a balanced YouTube diet. You've got your math, science, history, lore, and cannibalism. Largely inspired by the game we're talking about today,

cooking companions. A visual novel style game produced by Dear Dream

Studios, a team that saw Dokie

Dokie Literature Club and said, Hold My Carving Knife.

I don't know what it is about these games that keeps drawing me in.

I mean, maybe it's the fun characters or the really cute anime art style or the uh...

yep that that one it's definitely the scary hidden lore and boy does cooking

companions have lore intrigue for days on the surface it appears to be a story of five

characters trapped in a remote cabin with no supplies eventually forced to turn on

each other in order to survive. Now that alone would be pretty darn bleak but

bit by bit we start seeing hints to an even darker backstory.

Secret notes in the bathroom, locked doors in the basement, bones under the floorboards,

nightmares that suggest the sins of our past, and hints that the same scenario has played out thousands of times before.

So who are we really? What horrors have happened inside this cabin?

And seriously, why are we being stalked by a team of talking vegetables?

I mentioned that one, right? The talking vegetables? No? Yeah, that's a thing too.

So I hope you're hungry because I've got some freshly carved lore already to serve up.

First, since this game has been criminally underplayed on YouTube,

let me catch you up.

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