Theorists, not since Doki Doki Literature Club have I seen a game that makes me scared the cute character is going to come out of the computer and get me. Welcome to Cooking Companions, the sweet-looking cooking game that is hiding some unimaginable horrors. You'll have to grab a snack and watch to find out what secrets I've uncovered. Be careful though, you never know what may be hiding in your food.
The AI delivers a creepy introduction, mentioning how it's been watching the user through the screen and that it is there for them. It ends with a mention of dinner being served.
The topic of cannibalism is still present in society today.
This podcast discusses the hidden clues, gameplay modes and talking vegetables, along with interesting lore and passionate creators behind an indie horror game.
Exploring the terrifying history of Baba Yaga and the Soviet famines that led to cannibalism in Ukraine.
The game "Witch Hunt" follows a group of friends who try to escape from Baba Yaga in a remote cabin, but the butcher of Zakopane ends up killing some of them. They soon discover that their dead friends haunt the place, and Karen turns into a chompette after they stab her to death, suggesting that all chompettes are the ghosts of previous victims of Baba Yaga in the cabin.
The lore of Cooking Companions include five chomettes - Cabbage, Raspberry, Onion, Bread, and the missing Cornbread, whose real name was Raza el, presumably related to Onion and killed in the cabin with the rest of the vegetables consumed by the player. Though the origin story is not fully mapped out by the game creators, the speaker believes that Cornbread was consumed and then eventually released with guilt, leaving the other chompettes behind.