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-> ''Don't you think you get more food value out of 14 bucks worth of burgers than 8 bucks worth of french fries? You'll feel better and more energetic if you eat better foods. You know--you'll recover more health if you eat more expensive food.''
-->-- '''An NPC''' in Onett's burger joint, ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''

Most games only provide a few ways to regain health, whether it be through hearts, {{Healing Potion}}s, first-aid kits, or [[HyperactiveMetabolism specific foods]]. However, some games transcend this, providing a wide range of different foods for consumption. Higher-quality foods will usually provide more healing, will score the player [[EdibleCollectible more points]], or may give the player various buffs for other gameplay purposes.

For this trope to count:

# There needs to be at least a dozen different food items. Fewer is acceptable if it's still well beyond the bare minimum for the genre, as opposed to just enough to cover for a practical gameplay purpose. (For a possible litmus test, how frequently does food appear in general? Are there few enough items that one could name them all in rapid succession at the end of their ''first'' playthrough without thinking about it beforehand or having seen a pre-existing list?)
# They need to occupy at least three or four different food groups. Whether they're actually categorized or not does not matter. However, if most of them occupy only one type of food (such as [[VideoGame/PacMan fruits]], [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG drinks]], [[VideoGame/{{PokemonGoldAndSilver}} berries]], or [[VideoGame/CandyCrushSaga candy]]), with only a few other items covering for other types either individually or w/ only recolors, it cannot qualify.
# They are to be '''consumed''' by someone via player decisions (not presented as enemies, objects, scenery, or even eaten during cutscenes that the player has not even indirect control over). Usually, this would be the player character(s), but it can also be mons or other characters present throughout the game. For example, customers in a cooking simulator count because it's already obvious that they're going to eat what you cook.

This should not be confused with LevelAte, which is about food-themed worlds, nor is it enough for the game itself to be food-themed. This is about all kinds of food appearing throughout the game as some kind of goods, at least on the sidelines, be it consumed upon pickup, stored for later consumption, or eaten upon order.

Related to HyperactiveMetabolism, since the purpose of food itself is often to restore health, improves stats, and so on; as well as EdibleCollectible, which is when the food mostly just nets the player some points. Related to FoodPorn, as a variant in which the sheer ''variety'' of food available is beyond what would be expected for the genre, though games that are specifically about food will also more likely fall under this than not. Often combines with ItemCrafting to involve CookingMechanics.

In a certain kind of way, the Game Gourmet can be an UnconventionalLearningExperience for real life cooking, such as replicating and {{defictionaliz|ation}}ing the in-game dishes using or substituting real life ingredients.

Not to be confused with ''Blog/GourmetGaming'', or with food derived from wild animals.

('''Note:''' Please include at least either a handful of examples of food found in a given game or their different classifications, so that we don't have to consult a walkthrough, Website/YouTube, etc. for verification.)
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[[folder:Action]]
* ''VideoGame/Bomberman64TheSecondAttack'': There are different meats, fruits, vegetables, and sweets to feed Pommy, who will evolve in such a way as to correspond to what he's had.
* ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'': What you can reap depends on how long it takes you to clear a given level and whether you're playing one or two players. Taking longer will get you mostly fruits and vegetables, while making shorter work will net you things like ice cream, popsicles, French fries, donuts, sushi, and bowls of rice.
* ''Chip-chan Kick!'': Enemies turn into either food or power-ups when defeated. What they can turn into depends on what stage you're on. For example, enemies in the city leave behind candy bars, chocolate cornets, donuts, and croissants among other things, while the zoo features things like pizzas, cheeseburgers, ice cream cones, and sticks of bubblegum. All food items give you points, good for extra lives, and while most people will find them useless, you can only proceed to the next round in each stage when there are no more pickups left to obtain, so you might as well eat whatever's available once you defeat everything onscreen.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': Pit regenerates most of his health from all manner of food, including apples, grapes, melons, hamburgers, ice-cream, donuts, cakes, bars of chocolate, meat, sushi, and the Drink of the Gods.
* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'': Starting with ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'', many games feature things like snowcones, oranges, pancakes, baby bottles, pea pods, pudding, corn, and lots more in all its main games, to say nothing of M-tomatoes (which completely max out your life meter) and lollipops (which make you temporarily invincible). One of the six main games in [=KSS=] is even called Gourmet Race, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin all about that]].
* ''VideoGame/MagicSword'': Recover your health with things like lobsters, strawberries, apples, mushrooms, radishes, tomatoes, drumsticks, and bread.
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'': The wide range of food items that can be collected for points includes roast turkeys, live fish, lettuce, eggs, dim sum, carrots, mushrooms, and apples. Collecting too many will make you fat, which means that you move slightly more slowly but your weapons become more powerful.
* ''VideoGame/PacMan'':
** ''Super Pac-Man'': The object is to eat all the items on the board, although a few of these are not food items. One specific item will fill each entire level, cycling through apples, bunches of bananas, bagels, burgers, eggs, corn, shoes, cake, peaches, melons, coffee, mushrooms, bells, four-leaf clovers, [[VideoGame/{{Galaga}} Galagas]], gift boxes, and back to apples.
** ''Pac-Man Championship Edition'': The Championship Edition's bonus roster was greatly expanded to include not only fruits, but golden fruits, pastries, vegetables, meats, candies, drinks, ice creams, and even plenty of different non-food items. [[http://www.androidguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/PAC-MAN-Tournament-fruits-bonus-20121219a.png All on display here.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Pang}}[=/=]VideoGame/BusterBros'': Collecting things like corn, apples, coffee, donuts, and pineapples nets you points, and in the second game's [=SNES=] version, you can earn a continue for every ten you collect on just one.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prehistorik}}'': The object of this series is to gather food for the tribe. Said food comes in four groups: Dairy, junk, fruits, and big foods.
* ''VideoGame/{{Purple}}'': Food does not give you any gameplay-related benefits, but does count towards HundredPercentCompletion. The first two worlds only feature fruits and carrots, but then you come across things like sodas, French fries, and chocolate starting in world 3.
* ''VideoGame/RainbowIslands'': You can earn points from such foods as carrots, cakes, burgers, mint leaves, flan, pineapples, drumsticks, cherries, apples, and grapes.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'': While fucking shit up, you can get your claws on things like burgers, chicken, goldfishes (from actual bowls), bowls of fruit, melons, milk, tea, and toast.
* ''VideoGame/SonSon'': You can gain points for collecting things like cherries, tomatoes, takoyaki, cake, grapes, and strawberries.
* ''Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy'': You can recover your health with things like soda, cheese, cans of sardines, bananas, sukiyaki, corndogs, barbecue, bread, chocolate, apples, and tempura.
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[[folder:Action Adventure]]
* ''Franchise/DeadRising'': The protagonists in each entry can recover health from eating tons of food and drinks like fruits, milk, hamburgers, steaks, sushi, etc.
* ''Goemon: Shin Sedai Shuumei'': Various stores in the game sell things like onigiri, energy drinks, potato mayonnaise, peperoncino pasta, steaks, sushi, sweet beans, flan pudding, and ice cream sundaes.
* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'': In the ''Nyakuza Metro'' DLC, various food items can be purchased at restaurants, including cookies, soup dumplings, hamburgers, ice cream sandwiches, shoyu ramen, and tea. Most of the time, these only restore one of four hit points, but various benefits can be reapt by combining certain foods together (namely, temporarily adding an extra hit point, from 4 to 5).
* ''One Piece: Unlimited Adventure/[[VideoGame/OnePieceUnlimitedCruise Cruise]]/[[VideoGame/OnePieceUnlimitedWorldRed World Red]]'': [[SupremeChef Sanji]] can put together dozens of recipes from ingredients the player forages for, ranging from eggs and herbs to mice and lizards - and of course, [[FishingMinigame tons and tons of different fish species]]. These meals are mandatory for expanding the player characters' life and mana meters.
* ''Videogame/{{Phoenotopia}}'': Food ranges from the Roasted Frog Leg that Kiter is preparing at the start of the game to the various Bento boxes in Daea. There are also items prepared by {{Lethal Chef}}s which ''cause'' damage when eaten. The remake ''VideoGame/PhoenotopiaAwakening'' has an even greater variety of food, as now you can hunt wildlife, gather fruit and raw material and [[FishingMinigame fish]]. And most food types have cooked and uncooked variants, courtesy of the [[CookingMechanics cooking minigame]], which also produces damaging [='food'=] items when failed.
* ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'': [[https://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/945572-sonic-unleashed/faqs/55036 You can buy foodstuffs]] at various shops, from which Sonic will gain exp while Chip simply comments on what he eats. These include melloyam, egg puffs, peaches, oranges, egg candy, tomatoes, and of course, [[TrademarkFavoriteFood chili dogs]].
* ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl'': Things like cherry pie, bacon and eggs, pizza, and hamburgers restore your health, while eating certain bad foods deplete it. The Sega Vintage Collection also awards you an achievement for eating one of each foodstuff in the game.
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[[folder:Action RPG]]
* ''VideoGame/BattleChefBrigade'': You can make plenty of fantastical meals based on which ingredients you pick up and cook using a MatchThreeGame. Each recipe can be further combined with sides, and each character has their own unique cooking style and set of dishes. [[PlayerCharacter Mina]] bakes dished bakes on her family's restaurant's Chinese inspired cuisine, Thrash cooks Mexican-inspired [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orc cuisine]], [[{{Necromancer}} Ziggy]] makes elevated fast food, etc.
* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': Miriam gains a permanent stat boost every time she eats a new food item, which can be made via ItemCrafting. Recipes include sunny-side-up eggs, bangers-and-mash, tea, and onigiri. There is also an NPC who wants various things in an ongoing sidequest.
* ''VideoGame/BraveFencerMusashi'': You can buy things like oranges, onigiri, bagels, scones, milk, and yogurt drinks. There is also a restaurant that, while originating as a bar in the Japanese version, sells juice, pea soup, cake, gravy, salad, lasagna, and pork chops in the west.
* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': Starting from ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]'', many games include dozens of different food items to find on top of the standard Pot Roast, ranging from fresh fruit all the way up to modern dishes that shouldn't even exist in the depicted time period, each one with a well-drawn sprite and a brief description. [=SotN=] ''alone'' offers things like cheesecake, pudding, strawberries, spaghetti, hamburgers, apples, miso soup, and pineapples.
* ''VideoGame/{{Contact}}'': The planet you're tasked to explore has all kinds of meats, fruits, vegetables, and other foods that you can obtain and often cook up to recover HP and gain temporary stat boosts. Some of them include canned stew, BBQ meat, juice, Swanky Soup, milk, raisin bread, strawberries, and grapes.
* ''VideoGame/CrossCode'': You can enjoy different effects from such foods, normal and weird alike, as salty ice cream, hot sauce, kebab rolls, crab mead, blazing buns, veggie sticks, veggie burgers, sweet berry tea, star-shaped sandwiches, and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros 1up mushrooms]].
* ''VideoGame/EiyudenChronicleRising'': Ingredients can be brought to the tavern to add such items to its menu as fish soup, broc-and-eggs stir fry, Sylvan salads, omelets, oden, wild-game steaks, lava bakes, salt-grilled seasonal fish, chocolate cake, mega-katsu curries, and sandwiches.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXV'': Coming off from XIV, this game features a wide array of beautifully rendered foods you can cook and enjoy, including prime ribs, Chinese dumplings, skewers, soup, fried eggs, and chicken with rice. There's even a sidequest which doubles as a massive ProductPlacement for [[UsefulNotes/RamenAsDehydratedNoodles Nissin Cup Noodles]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'': There are eight[[note]]Striped apples, cherry clusters, rainbow grapes, gourd potatoes, round corn, star carrots, meat, and fish[[/note]] different foods that increase stats, and four[[note]]Bannock bread, milk, spring water, and strange liquids[[/note]] that recover hearts, along with seeds that can be grown into these.
* ''VideoGame/FortuneSummoners'': Throughout this game is mostly of different kinds of sweets, but also things like steamed buns, chicken, salmon, milk, and bread.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'': Sora becomes an amateur chef after encountering [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Remy]]'s dining establishment in Twilight Town. [[https://www.powerpyx.com/kingdom-hearts-3-all-cooking-recipes-list/ Recipes]] are classified between starters, soups, fish, meats, and desserts, and boost the party's stats based on how well the player plays each dish's respective cooking minigame. There's also a [[SetBonus Full Course Bonus]] for consuming one dish from each dish category for a meal, which provides additional buffs based on how many "Excellent" quality dishes were consumed.
* ''VideoGame/KunioKun'': To quote ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRfbnrcTxvc second annual charity review]], covering ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'':
--> ''You come across these malls where you buy food to level up. So you'll eat, and eat, and eat. Pancakes, donuts, sushi, Chinese food, French fries, chili, pound cake, [[AlliterativeList cookies, candy, cole slaw]], and ''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Cornish hen?]]'' A Cornish fucking hen, what the hell!?''
* ''VideoGame/MadeInAbyssBinaryStarFallingIntoDarkness'': Cooking is an essential skill in surviving in the wild. With all manner of things you can forage, you can make such dishes as cooked birds, onigiri, stew, pickles, magotato mochi, hotpots, and fish soup.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': Different kinds of meats, brans, fish, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and drinks can be combined into various things for health and stat boosts. What you can make also depends on how many chefs you've recruited to the Felyne Kitchen.
* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'': You can get your hands on various kinds of fruits, alcoholic drinks, vegetables, and raw meat, as well as bags of rice. Those first two recover Life Flame and Spirit, while the rest serve as ingredients for more complex things like hot-pots, houtou, etc.
* ''VideoGame/NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom'': Once you recruit Floyd to Evermore, you can then run the restaurant there and let him cook food by giving him ingredients found all over the world. There are [[https://psnprofiles.com/trophy/7410-ni-no-kuni-ii-revenant-kingdom/39-cooking-up-a-storm over fifty]] different recipes to cook up, ranging from breads to pastas and desserts, some of which can be found by gaining cookbooks through quests. The foods themselves can provide temporary stat boosts to whoever eats it.
* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': Have fun cooking up all kinds of salads, soups, omelets, snacks, desserts and so on!
* ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'': Both games have food ranging from basic stuff like cheese, fruits, cocoa beans, dragon eggs, and beer, to dishes such as stew, beefloaf, and fish jerky. When consumed, these provide a stat bonus for a certain in game amount of time. Each one has [[https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Pillars_of_Eternity_food_and_drink its own]] [[https://pillarsofeternity2.wiki.fextralife.com/Food detailed artwork]], as well as a description outlining the culture it comes from to provide worldbuilding.
* ''VideoGame/PrincessCrown'': The first game alone lets you buy or cook hamburgers, fried eggs on toast, fruit cake, milk, soup, and several different fruits for power or HP-recovery.
* ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'': You can cook up all kinds of things to consume in dungeons for HP and stats. Game 4, for example, includes grape liqueur, gold juice, grilled needlefish, dumplings, apple juice, baked apples, yams of the ages, yogurt, strawberry milk, grilled lobster, strawberry jam, and omelets.
* ''VideoGame/StarOcean'': Cooking is a recurring element throughout the franchise. In [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope the fourth game]], for example, players at the right level and with sufficient research and ingredients can create salmon meuniere, ochazuke, pies for different stats, millefeulle, sukiyaki, sushi, pasta bolognese, or lemon juice.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'': There is a plethora of food items you can find on the ''Von Braun'' to eat. Whether they be a pack of chips, a can of soda, a bottle of orange juice or a bottle of liquor, however, consuming them restores only 1 negligible hitpoint. Alcoholic drinks also inflict a nasty ManaMeter penalty.
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'': Enjoy the pleasure of combining all kinds of food, such as chicken, cabbage, beef, and eggs, into full-out dishes such as hamburgers and rice balls.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'': This game's menu consists of croissants, hot sandwiches, café au lait, burgers, cola, potatoes, feijoada, churrasco, caipirinha, apples, watermelons, soft-serve ice cream, yakitori, and sake.
* ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'': There is a wide variety of [[https://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/228179-tokyo-xanadu-ex/faqs/75419/recipe-list dishes to cook]], to say nothing of all the different ingredients required for each recipe. Each type of dish can be cooked into a regular dish, a special dish, some sort of non-food item, or something terrible that can either restore an inferior amount of HP than normal or kill you, depending on the skill level of whoever cooks it. For example, carrots, mushrooms, mutton, truffles, ginger, and tofu can all be combined to create a Mushroom Hotpot, a Simmered Beef Hotpot, a Shadow Stone, or... something?
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'': In lieu of potions, you can regenerate stamina with various fruits, meats, sandwiches, candy, and other items. Dropped from game 2, which only has six different items without any actual purpose, but game 3 brings the trope back multifold with stuff like chicken, magic mushrooms, various liquors, goat's milk, duck confit, and honey.
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': All kinds of foods, including burgers, soups, pastries, ramen, ice cream, and even pharmaceutical drugs, have different effects on each character in terms of stat boosts and sync rate effects. They also come in different sizes, measured in [[{{Pun}} Bytes]], and their effects on each character will depend on how well they enjoy them. [[http://twewy.wikia.com/wiki/Food Full list here.]]
** ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'': This time, food is eaten where ordered, and fullness is shared amongst the party itself. Different restaurants serve such dishes as tacos, biryani, bubble milk tea, soft-serve ice cream, curry, onigiri, and burgers and fries.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'':
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Everyone has a pouch that can hold all manner of different items, more than a few of which are types of food including meats, seafoods, vegetables, staple foods, drinks, and desserts.
*** There are also a few cooks the party can recruit and can make pouch items unavalible anywhere else. Main party member Pyra can cook a large number of foods by gathering recipies from across the world, including meatball pot-au-feu, a wasabi salad, baked fish, and pies. Optional party member Vez is a OneNoteCook solely making extremely good rice balls. DLC Blade Crossette is trying to become a cook like her idol Pyra, but she applies the "everything is edible if you apply enough fire" mentallity to cooking at first, making her salsa and curry too hot to eat, although she becomes good enough with some tutoring to make some of Pyra's acqua pazza.
*** ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry Torna: The Golden Country]]'' has three of its own cooks in the party. Jin mainly focuses on meals with easily aquireable ingredients (since Jin, Lora, and Haze are poor), including wildflower salad, various sandwiches, and bunnit[[note]]series unique wild rabbits that fight with clubs[[/note]] stuffed peppers. Aegaeon focuses on Ardanian cuisine, including dumplings, fried fish, and tempura. Mythra, on the other hand, is a LethalChef who mixes in ingreidents that may or may not work together, including a pudding made with fish and a sausage filled with multiple different meats, with her only good recipie being her final one, [[MeaningfulName miracle]] parfait.
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': One or two recipes can be found in each area of the game and brought to [[TeamChef Manana]] to cook up to increase the party's exp and CP gains and/or increase enemy and collectable drops. Some of these dishes include mixed-veg torpedo wraps, Yapolta veggie beans, fish-fillet toasties, and meat 'n' veg leclati. Most of these recipies can be aquired by eating at the various resturaunts across Aionios with Manana putting her own spin on the dish.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'': Cooking is introduced in ''VideoGame/YsVIIILacrimosaOfDana'', where you can cook up fish soup, mushroom omelettes, colorful meuniere, meat ratatouille, seafood quiche, rolled cabbage, wrapped mushrooms, fried fish, pirate's dishes, sincere bolognese, luxury coleslaw, and king pumpkin pie. Each dish restores HP, and also has a secondary effect, such as restoring HP and SP automatically, boosting stats, or exp bonuses.
* ''Zwei series'': Food is your primary means of HP recovery, and your only means of gaining experience. You can also trade ten of a given type of food for something better and eventually for an elemental CD or a bromide. For example, in ''The Arges Adventure'', you can trade eggs for strawberries, parfaits, and then an Earth CD, or tempura for donuts, tuna onigiri, ice cream, and then a Mythical CD.
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[[folder:Battle Royale]]
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalSoulBlackSurvival'': Such foods as scrambled eggs, bungeoppang, grilled tuna, and braised potatoes restore your HP, while drinks such as honey water, hot chocolate, and oriental raisin tea restore your stamina.
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[[folder:Beat 'Em Up]]
Way too common as a health power-up in this genre, thanks to HyperactiveMetabolism.
* ''[[VideoGame/SixtyFourthStreetADetectiveStory 64th Street: A Detective Story]]'': Bread, shortcake, apples, hot dogs, chocolate, sushi, and chicken.
* ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'': Recover your health with things like hot dogs, burgers, roast pork, sea breams, lobsters, soft drinks, turkey, cheese, and salads.
* ''VideoGame/BattleCircuit'': Recover your health with things like noodles, apples, spaghetti, cans of peaches, watermelon slices, crab salad, bananas, and honey. There's even a dish of roast beef during a mini boss that you can eat from several times, until you finally leave it completely in the bones!
* ''VideoGame/BurningFight'': Burgers, French fries, hot dogs, cans of juice, noodles, okonomiyaki, oolong tea, power drinks, and roast pork.
* ''VideoGame/CadillacsAndDinosaurs'': Stuff you'll find by breaking various objects include gum, barbecued ribs, lobsters, hot dogs, cake, and parfaits. Sometimes, fat guys also drop food when you hit them, and there are also a few sirloins that the bad guys are seen feasting on around a campfire at the beginning of level 5.
* ''VideoGame/CrossedSwords'': Meat, fish, wines, and various vegetables restore your health.
* ''VideoGame/DenjinMakai'': Recover your health with things like oranges, steaks, meat buns, banana splits, apples, potatoes, soft serve ice cream, watermelons, and miso soup.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonMagic'': Recover your health with things like cheese, grapes, turkey, bananas, baskets of bread, wine, and herbs.
* ''VideoGame/AnEgyptianTale'': Things like watermelons (slices and halves), drumsticks, meat, bananas, pineapples, and parfaits can be found by breaking crates, barrels, and urns.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'': Various food items (as well as weapons and loot) in the main trilogy can be revealed by busting things like crates, oil drums, barrels, etc. Sushi, chocolate, chicken, beer, spinach, burgers, curry, and more, just waiting for someone to break a water cooler!
** ''VideoGame/CaptainCommando'': As a distant sequel, this game continues the tradition with cherries, lemons, ice cream, coffee, chocolate, sandwiches, tempura, and barbecued ribs.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe: The Revenge of Death Adder'': Apples, grapes, plates of food, octopus tentacles, drumsticks, meatloaf, and barbecue.
* ''VideoGame/HongKongNinja'': Well, it's set in Hong Kong. Prepare to feast on dimsum, seafood, Chinese noodles, dumplings, Peking duck, with a side of Chinese tea as dessert.
* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': The 3DS and Switch versions feature a mini-mode called My Fairy, in which you can raise a fairy companion to aid you in battle. Feeding them different foods affects their personality, which in turn affects their stats and what spells they can learn. Most of what you can feed them are items or enemies introduced in earlier games, such as [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Hot Spring Water, Skullfish]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Water Fruits, Mushroom Spores]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Odd Mushrooms, Lon Lon Milk]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Mystical Seeds]], and even the generic Meat from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI the first game]].
* ''VideoGame/KarateBlazers'': Fried rice, curry rice, ramen, gyoza, dim sum, fried frogs, fried fish, Peking duck, and pots of tea.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheRound'': Meat slices, grapes, apples, bread, salad, chicken legs, meatloaf, jugs of milk, bowls of fruit, salads, and whole chickens.
* ''VideoGame/{{Legionnaire}}'': Apples, oranges, cheese, candy, donuts, soft serve cones, tea, soda, bread, cornucopias, and power drinks.
* ''VideoGame/NekketsuOyako'': Chicken wings, sushi, pizza, burgers, milk, soda, and beer.
* ''VideoGame/NightSlashers'': Features cake, curry, gyoza, hot dogs, lychees, roast beef, and soup to heal yourself with.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaBaseballBatMan'': Restore your health with things like meat, burgers, pudding, turkey, sausages, eel, French fries, hot dogs, and milk.
* ''VideoGame/TheNinjaKids'': Oranges, soft serve cones, apples, wine, cans of pudding, hot dogs, and sushi.
* ''VideoGame/PirateHunter'': As you raid pirate ships, you can feast on assorted foods stored inside barrels, including sandwiches, whole loaves of bread, beer, fish, lobster, pizzas, and steaks.
* ''VideoGame/ThePunisherCapcom'': To heal yourself, you'll come across flan pudding, cheese, pizza (both slices and whole pies), hot dogs, roast chickens, and barbecued ribs.
* ''VideoGame/RailroadRampage'': Your sheriff can collect hot dogs, pizza, steak, beer and other assorted foods.
* ''[[VideoGame/SengokuSNK Sengoku 3]]'': Sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, rice balls, instant noodles, meat buns, and chickens.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowForce'': Coffee, milk, oranges, grapes, bananas, melons, sushi, meat, and steaks.
* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsons'': Weaponized foods (drinks) aside, you can restore your life with apples, oranges, corn, burgers, donuts, roast chickens, hot dogs, and pies. Some items are obtainable from fruit trees or [=NPCs=], while others are simply strewn about.
* ''[[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage Streets of Rage 4]]'': Subverted in that only two items will appear throughout actual gameplay, but in the options menu, you can choose what those two are. The base game lets you choose between apples, onigiri, croissants, onion rings, pizza, and tofu for small health recoveries, and roast chickens, ramen, ham, loaded fries, burgers, and salad for more health.
* ''VideoGame/UndercoverCops'': You can recover your health with bread, burgers, drumsticks, cake, pancakes, curry, steaks, and even various live animals.
* ''VideoGame/ViolentStorm'': You can find lobsters, green tea, cherries, apples, ice cream, pizzas, and plenty more inside crates, barrels, etc. There are also certain things that would fit into the scenery naturally, such as oranges that fall from palm trees or a pizza that someone happens to be carrying.
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[[folder:Board Game]]
* ''VideoGame/BibleBuffet'': Aside from finishing first, the main objective is to eat as much food as possible. The board is comprised of different sections each with their own food theme, such as Veggie Land, Salad Land, Frozen Land, Snack Land, and Liquid (beverage) Land. Each of their actual stages feature different food pickups and enemies corresponding to their theme, and most enemies [[EatingTheEnemy also become edible]] when you stun them.
* ''[[KirattoKaiketsu64Tanteidan Kiratto Kaiketsu: 64 Tanteidan]]'': There are five regular food items that restore HP and KP, along with one that levels up a random stat. [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope That's not the example here, though.]] The real example is a subset of what you can find to give to others, including burgers, steaks, fish, riceballs, bagels, soda, candy, fruit, and taiyaki. (Fat guys like food the most out of anyone.)
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[[folder:Explorer Horror]]
* ''VideoGame/TheWitchesTeaParty'': There are 30 different dishes based around tomatoes, lemons, potatoes, matcha powder, coffee, strawberries, blueberries, and squid. An additional ten recipes can be found mostly by completing sidequests, comprised of passion tomato, espresso croissant, caramel potato mash, Passion of the Sea, strawberry spaghetti, The Cake of Happiness, dark spaghetti, The Tomatoes-Potatoes Compromise, The Ultimate Juice, and cookies.
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[[folder:Fighting]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFightRevenge'': In line with its series' roots, this game features burgers, fries, meat, sushi, hot dogs, curry, and expresso, that can each be picked up for a small recovery.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee Melee]]'' introduces [[https://www.ssbwiki.com/Food Food]] as a type of item. This is a variety of different food and drinks you can eat to regain a small bit of health. A few of them are burgers, ice cream, apples, pizza, tea, chocolate, orange juice, and cake.
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[[folder:Gachapon]]
* ''VideoGame/AnotherEden'': To restore your entire party's HP and MP, you can bring something with you such as spicy sorjan, cider rice, a vitamin drink, flash-and-chips, veggie pot au feu, or sailor waves soup.
* ''VideoGame/AuroraLegend'': One particular event, Aurora Kitchen, involved you cooking different foods for Miho in exchange for rewards. Some of these included omelettes, meat buns, spicy skewers, baked clams, tea ice, and screaming tea.
%% I will leave it to someone more knowledgeable to add an entry here about Bistro Heroes and/or Cuisine Dimension. I was not able to find any list of their actual delicacies.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': There is a dining hall where one of your heroes can utilize ingredients from the field to feed four fellow heroes such dishes as kebabs, berry cookies, croquettes, tomato salad, squash with meat sauce, steaks, leafburgers, carbonara, birthday cakes, and berry tarts.
* ''VideoGame/FoodFantasy'': Various kinds of food comprise a CastOfPersonifications, but what actually qualifies it for this trope is the large number of recipes that can be cooked and served in the restaurant sim side of the game or fed to your food souls to empower them. Some of these include cold tofu, peanut pie, bacon tofu wraps, yam dumplings, egg fried rice, and pumpkin muffins.
* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Different foods provide different kinds of buffs to the party. Some of the many things you can cook up include golden crab, jade parcels, fried radish balls, cold cut platters, tea break pancakes, satisfying salads, A Buoyant Breeze, flash-fried filets, crab-ham-and-veggie bakes, Monstadt grilled fish, sauteed matsutake, and mysterious bolognese.
* ''VideoGame/GrandSummoners'': Different recipes can be collected for foods that can boost stats, including cheeses, croquettes, hot dogs, curries, soups, fish fillets, breads, salami, tomatoes, and salads.
* ''VideoGame/PewDiePiesPixelings'': Different kinds of meats, fruits, vegetables, candy, and confectionaries can be given to your Pixelings to level them up.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sdorica}}'': There is a kitchen where you can cook different foods for stamina and vitality regeneration, including kebabs, bread, soups, tea, steaks, and croissants.
* ''VideoGame/TheSevenDeadlySinsGrandCross'': As part of the daily duties at the Boar's Hat Tavern, the player can control either Meliodas or Ban in cooking a vast variety of dishes out of ingredients found in the world, including pudding, breads, chicken wings, meat pies, and salads. These dishes can later be served to customers or eaten to provide buffs.
%% Need some recipe examples from The Tale Of Food.
* ''Yokai Kitchen'': As its title implies, this [=MRPG=] doubles as a restaurant simulator. Basic ingredients can be farmed from Foodimons, which are food-themed animals that include Peach Stumps, Rice Elves, Milky Piggies, and Tomato Shrimp. These can then be cooked into such things as zongzi boats, crispy chicken, fried shrimp, sushi trains, grilled fish, garden salad, carrot balls, and meat burgers. Different dishes are prepped in different ways and are loved by different clans.
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[[folder:MMORPG]]
* ''VideoGame/AlchemiaStory'': Different food-based ingredients can be synthesized into such foods as brochette, pickles, stamppots, shark fin soup, and fritters.
* ''VideoGame/AuraKingdom'': Food can be cooked up and eaten for stat boosts of varying qualities. Some things you can cook up include garlic steamed veggies, rainbow vitality jelly, scampi salad, tomato sauce and mushroom macaroni, baked chicken curry, bacon paninis, frosted berry Swiss rolls, and trifles.
* ''Dark and Light'': Food for cooking up can stave off hunger and thirst. Such things are unlocked at different levels as cooked mushrooms, vanilla tea, mushroom soup, fruit pie, pumpkin pie, crispy steaks, lotus tea, gourmet flatbreads, and spicy bacon.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': Different types of foods bestow different stat boosts or other effects on those who eat it. Meat tends to increase attack power, sweets increase mage stats, seafood increases tank stats or accuracy, and milks and juices help to restore HP and MP respectively at set intervals. Players can learn how to cook at the Culinarians' Guild in the Federation of Windurst.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The same general mechanics apply here, with a Well Fed status to denote the effects of any food eaten and a specific character class that specializes in cooking.
* ''VideoGame/FreeRealms'': A cooking minigame tied in with the chef occupation your character could take up. You had to slice, fry and, garnish various items to create tasty dishes, including Moonbeam Sundae Sweettreats, Rainleaf Wrapped Dumplings, Oddly Colored Omelettes, Simone's Spiralment Steak, Candied Briarmelon, Stainberry Chocolate Gumdrops, Crispy Choychoy Delight, Savory Spiralment Soup, Sizzling Snowberry Saute, Starnut Sundaes, and Royal Stew Du Jour.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': Enough to warrant four different food groups: Soups, Meals, Snacks, and Desserts.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': Enough manner of foods to be classified by quality, which in turn determines how many adventures (battle turns) per fullness a character can gain:
** [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Category:Crappy_Food Crappy Foods:]] 1 adventure per fullness
** [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Category:Decent_Food Decent Foods:]] 1-2
** [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Category:Good_Food Good Foods:]] 2-3
** [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Category:Awesome_Food Awesome Foods:]] 3-5
** [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Category:Epic_Food EPIC Foods:]] 5+
* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'': Players can harvest ingredients from dungeons to cook into different stat-boosting meals, including soups, sashimi, burgers, pasta, and so on. There is also a bakery where you can buy several different cakes, with one special cake each for certain promotional events.
* ''[=RPG MO=]'': Most of this game's diet consists of different fruits, vegetables, and seafoods, but also includes a few meat items and sweets.
* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'': Cooking is a skill, and different foods that you can cook heal different amounts, with some giving extra bonuses like stat buffs, prayer restore, or extra healing over time. Foods include baked potatoes (with a variety of fillings), meat, various seafoods (including sushi), cake, pies, pizza, and even gumbo.
* ''Tales of Wind'': Various foods can be crafted from different ingredients and eaten for stat boosts and recovery, including braised chicken rice with cheese, fish balls, lamb stew with potatoes, spaghetti, fresh garden salad, and fish fillets.
* ''Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Cooking is a skill open to any player character, allowing them to create things like Spicy Sharp Cheddar, Mardivas's Magnificent Desalinating Pouch, Cannon Shots, Peglegger's Porters, Garr's Limeade, Sanguinated Feasts, Shal'dorice Cream, Blackened Surprises, Glasses of Arcwine, Longjaw Mud Snappers, Mon'Dazi, and Leybeque Ribs. The primary effects of food are stat boosts and regaining HP/MP. Most recipes make single serving portions (although later in the game they make multiple servings), but a few create feasts that can feed an entire raid of 25-40 players. The [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandaren]] race gains ''double'' stat boosts from food, as well as a bonus to the Cooking skill, making learning the cooking skill much more important to Pandaren players than others.
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[[folder:Mons RPG]]
%% Please do not re-incorporate these examples back into the other [=RPG=] folders. This is a legitimate subgenre and has enough examples to have its own folder.
* ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'': This first game in its series emphasizes raising Digimon like pets, not least of all by keeping them well fed. Throughout the game, you'll find a whole host of different meats, mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, and fish, with which to feed your Digimon in order to satiate their hunger and fatigue, increase lifespans and various stats, and restore HP and MP. Some of these can make them sick, though. ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldRedigitize'' returns to the series roots and features many of the same foods and mechanics as the first, and ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldNextOrder'' adds a cooking system that allows you to combine multiple ingredients into more efficient meals.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'': Most games in this franchise are about raising the eponymous Monsters on a farm for various purposes such as battling. This in turn includes negotiating what kinds of food to raise them on, depending on what you'd like to bolster and are willing to retard. The first game alone features things like potatoes, apple cake, mangoes, meat, peaches, plant eggs, and taffy.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterTale'': You are in charge of raising a monster named Chomp, and can feed him candy, cookies, ice cream, cherries, corn, squash, turkey, pizza, burgers, and rice, in order to help him grow and evolve.
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': This game is just ZANY with this trope, even though a lot of its offerings are [[WeirdWorldWeirdFood rather gross]]. Some of its many concoctions include rice with lice, a head with spaghetti coming out of the eyes, an egg wearing a tuxedo, rainbow-colored bubble tea, gummy rabbit faces, and a rabbit-shaped meringue. [[https://items.jellyneo.net/search/all-food/?start=0 And so much more where those came from!]]
* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': From [[VideoGame/Persona3 the third game]] onward, food becomes abundant throughout the main series for the purpose of HP and SP recovery, although most food items can only be eaten outside of battle. Some of these include burgers, types of bread, chocolates, pastries, and any number of drinks with [[PunnyName punny]] [[BlandNameProduct bland names]].
** ''VideoGame/Persona2'': While there weren't as many regular items to restore HP et al with, there was still a variety of restaurants you could visit to buy things to increase stats instead with, such as ice cream, sushi, burgers, coffee, and ramen.
** ''[[VideoGame/Persona4 Persona 4 Golden]]'': In addition to food already present from the original game, you can also make your own lunches on certain days, including pudding, cream stew, oden, ginger pork, and kakuni. Depending on the choices made in preparing the food, you can become either be a SupremeChef whose food will significantly increase RelationshipValues with whomever you share a meal with, or a LethalChef whose food is only suitable as fishing bait.
** ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'': Now you have a kitchen in which to cook up such recovery items as [=LeBlanc=] coffee, crab hotpots, obanzai, beef tongue stew, and kushikatsu.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Berries aside, this trope more or less [[{{Pun}} evolved]] overtime onto this series, with its various drinks and delicacies introduced in each generation, all good for restoring HP and status, although most of these can only be obtained at a specific part of each game. [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue The first games]] only featured Rare Candies and a vending machine somewhere where you could buy water, soda, or lemonade, but [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver the next pair]] added berry juice, milk, and Rage Candy Bars[[note]]This was absent in generation III, returned as a key item in the remake pair the following generation, and then became a regular food item again in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''.[[/note]] to the mix, and from there came things like [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Lava Cookies]], [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Old Gateaus]], [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Sweet Hearts, Casteliacones,]] [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Shalour Sables, Lumoise Galettes]], [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Malasadas]], [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield curry]], and [[VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet sandwiches]] as time went on.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': A maid on Route 5, known as the Gourmet Maniac, will buy any manner of food or ingredients from you for higher than they'd normally sell for, including stuff your Pokemon don't normally eat such as Sticks (scallions for Farfetch'd), mushrooms, honey, Leftovers, Lucky Eggs, and Shoal Salt.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': Hao'uli City is home to a restaurant called the Battle Buffet, complete with nine different dishes to choose from: Chansey omelette, Take Down steak, Miltank Cheese Pizza, Hoenn ramen, Whirlpool sushi, Vanillite parfait, Tamato pasta, Eggant in chili sauce, and Rindo salad. [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Battle_Buffet Full description here.]]
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': You can feed the Yo-Kai [[http://yokaiwatch.wikia.com/wiki/Food all sorts of foods]] to befriend them or to recover health and raise their Soul Meter, and they've all got their own [[TrademarkFavoriteFood preferences]] and [[DoesNotLikeSpam dislikes;]] Pizza, Hamburgers, Oden, Curry, Candy, Hot Dogs, Ramen...
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[[folder:Roguelike]]
* ''VideoGame/AdventureBarLabyrinth'': As a direct sequel to ''Adventure Bar Story'', ingredients in this game can be found in dungeons and cooked to eat or sell. Different combinations of ingredients can be combined into simple, boiled, baked, or fried dishes.
* ''VideoGame/{{Barony}}'': Meat, bread, fish, apples, pies, tins of... something, and beer all refill your hidden hunger value.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}'': There are hundreds and hundreds of different food items and recipes to match, from pizza (three kinds, even) to protein shakes to salads to cookies to soups to fruit juice to sushi to pasta (4 kinds of noodle and a few different sauces), split across several categories. Delicious food gives your character a mood boost, and healthy food increases the rate at which they regenerate hit points; conversely, raw food or food made from bad-tasting ingredients penalize mood, and unhealthy food penalizes your healing rate. (For example, junk food tastes great, but isn't healthy.) There's even an option to enable nutrition tracking, where different foods provide different nutrients and you have to make sure to get enough nutrients to avoid getting sick. A character with the Gourmand trait can eat more food at once and enjoy it more as well. Pretty impressive for a zombie survival game.
* ''VideoGame/DarkCloud'': What few recovery foods this game features would not qualify alone, but it's clear that the developers had food on mind when all ''six'' playable characters each have a TrademarkFavoriteFood to increase their defensive power with, supplemented by gourds and Fruits of Eden that anyone can eat to increase other stats.
** ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'': You can recover your health with bread, cheese, bananas, chicken, roasted chestnuts, plum onigiri, flan pudding, and various fish that you catch and cook. Many food items can be "invented" with pictures Max takes of the right things, with different ingredients with which to assemble them, themselves being a subset of many different raw materials you come across. Heart-throb cherries, while primarily serving to stop enemies, can also be consumed to ''cure'' your own stoppage. Max and Monica also each have a TrademarkFavoriteFood, potato pie and witch parfaits respectively, that they can increase their HP capacity with, and Fruits of Eden can be consumed to boost their defense.
* ''VideoGame/DeadCells'': You are given a set of "dietary options", which are purely cosmetic changes to small and large health food pickups, including meat, vegetables, fruit, bread, "[[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} Castlevanieque]]", monster guts, and [[VideoGame/HalfLife medkits]].
* ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'': You can obtain various meats, seafoods, vegetables, etc. from three different dungeons!
* ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'': Life is replenished with food, which includes grilled steak, sliced bread, offal, and various types of cheese. There is also a wide variety of alcoholic drinks to restore your mana with.
* ''VideoGame/{{Ehrgeiz}}'': In the Brand New QUEST mode, the two playable characters have to sustain themseves through all manner of edibles found in the dungeon. Not only does this stave off HP loss through starvation, but it also influences the character's stat increases upon leveling up. For example, eating a lot of meat increases attack power, fruits and vegetables strengthen magic, fish increases speed, etc. The game also stresses in a tutorial popup, the importance of having a balanced diet so stats aren't skewed too far in one direction.
* ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'': With its farming sims elements, this game includes a vast amount of food. There are over thirty different kinds of food available, from fruits to vegetables to fish to nuts, and that's before using the Cooking skill to turn them into finished meals. With the Cooking skill, there are at least seven different kinds of meals you can make for each food type. Eating well-prepared meals will eventually lead to attribute gains. The kind of attribute gain you can expect depends on what you've been eating; for example, fruit can raise Magic and Charisma, while fish improves Dexterity and Learning.
* ''VideoGame/GrandiaXtreme'': There are all kinds of things to recover your health and power with, including mushrooms, caterpillar soup, bananas, honey syrup, iced strawberries, and more!
* ''Gumballs & Dungeons'': Things like Starlight Pies, Owl's Red Wine, Comet Cakes, Griffin's Brownies, Mermaid Jam, Soul Cakes, Void Ice Cream, and Miracle Jelly can be cooked up and eaten for various benefits. Other foods, including Demon Meat, Lollipops, Cactus Berries, Momotaro Rice Balls, Coconuts, Three-Color Dumplings, Steaming Hot Buns, Soul Beer, and Ocean's Meat Floss Buns, are among various consumables found in mazes, although a lot of these are tainted in some way or another.
* ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'': The player character needs to eat, having several options for food sources. Fruits and vegetables, for example, have little nutrition, but some of them has special properties. Slime molds are a special type of "fruit"[[note]]In real life, slime molds are not edible, nor are they fruits.[[/note]] that's more nutritious than others and the character's TrademarkFavoriteFood. There are also prepared foods such as food rations, K- and C-rations, or [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings lembas wafers]], which are the same as food rations but lighter. It is also possible to eat the corpses of monsters, but there are caveats. Not all of them are edible (but some of them give you special abilities), and even if they are, they spoil after a short time. There is the option to tin corpses, preventing them from spoiling, without a tin opener, it's difficult to open tins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Recettear}}'': Food is one of various categories of things you can find and either consume for yourself or sell at the item shop that this game revolves around, and includes oranges, cutlet bowls, candy, walnut bread, shortcake, kid's lunches, and melons.
* ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'': Eating and drinking is important in order to survive. What you can feast on includes stew, victory meat, grapefruit juice, and various fruits and vegetables. Eating rotten food, though, can give you food poisoning.
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[[folder:Role-Playing Game]]
* ''VideoGame/AdventureBarStory'': The object involves delving into dungeons to acquire "mats" (ingredients) to prepare food with, which include seasonings, fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy products, meats, and seafood. Eating what you cook gives temporary stat boosts and experience points (in fact, this is the ''only'' way to earn experience), but the main character also has a restaurant, so you need to choose between selling your food for money or eating it for experience points.
* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'': Foodstuffs are one of various things you can craft throughout the series, and some games have more of it than others. Depending on the game, these can include honey, cookies, sandwiches, pies, desserts, and beverages.
* ''VideoGame/BlueReflection'': You can increase your stats with things like sesame chocolate, cider, ramen bread, caramel walnuts, chewy seaweed, candied yuzu peels, and dried plums. Most of these will be available from the school store (which will provide two snacks to choose from) and the vending machine, and different items will be available at different points in the game.
** ''VideoGame/BlueReflectionSecondLight'': Now you can find various things to craft into useful items, including such food as mapo tofu, tea, pancakes, tamagoyaki, bubble milk tea, and flying fish steaks. These can serve such purposes as recovery, vitality, status restoration, and revival.
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm:'' From Seafood (a big juicy lobster), Froot Loops, and Wendy's takeout ([[FlavorText "The Internet favorite fast-food"]]), to bacon strips, cinnamon rolls, and popcorn, to name a few. The game offers a variation where some foods (Bags o' Candy, chips, trail mix) can be used a finite number of times (6) before they run out.
* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': Much like in [[VideoGame/PaperMario the series that inspired it,]] you can cook many different kinds of food to heal yourself with. In a variation, many of the food items available are more to insect tastes than humans', including leaves covered in honey and aphid dew shakes. However, some items are appealing to both phyla, including honey donuts, squash pie, spicy sweet potato fries, and berry jam.
* ''VideoGame/CitizensOfEarth'': Food in this game is divided into bakery, coffee, sushi, pharmacy, soda, and crafting items. Each type provides different benefits when eaten.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': A surreal world like this game offers brings such surreal foods as Choco Diamonds, a Lancer Cookie, a [[{{Pun}} Clubs Sandwich]], Darkburgers, several Revive Mints, and even a Broken Cake that can be forged into a powerful top-shaped spinning cake (or you could give it back to its creator for a smaller cake that can be renewed), and that's just in the first chapter. Party members besides [[HeroicMime Kris]] have unique dialogue for when they eat most items.
* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'': Foods from game 3 onward are divided into two main groups, one for various temporary effects, while the other boosts stats permanently. Amongst both groups and all games include cupcakes, fried chicken, coconuts, pumpkins, burgers, mint leaves, and yogurt.
%% I will leave it to someone more knowledgeable to add an entry here about ''Forgiven''. Google currently does not turn up any non-video walkthroughs.
* ''VideoGame/Grandia1'': You can recover your health and power with several different fruits[[labelnote:list:]]Bananas, boiled coconuts, Baobab fruits, and Bamo fruits[[/labelnote]], meats[[labelnote:list:]]Dried fish, beef jerky, prime ribs, and squid guts[[/labelnote]], and sweets[[labelnote:list:]]Honey, boxes of sweets, chocolate, chocolate cookies, and coal candy[[/labelnote]].
* ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureThe7thStandUser'': Being an UsefulNotes/RPGMaker fangame adaptation of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', this game has you travelling with Jotaro and his friends to several countries all over Asia in a journey towards Egypt, and you can sample various items from the local cuisine along the way to heal while LevelGrinding. Destinations include Hong Kong, Singapore, and India, each with several food stalls offering a wide variety of choices such as mapo tofu, twice-cooked pork, laksa, satay, pepper crab, mutton curry, and samosa.
* ''Marenian Tavern Story: Patty and the Hungry God'': As a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Adventure Bar Story'', the object is to collect different ingredients in dungeons and bring them back to your restaurant to cook into different dishes to eat or sell, including crab mayo pizza, mushroom rice, dragon on rice, tuna seaweed rolls, dragon tongue, half moon noodles, peach jelly, pickled radishes, deep-fried burgers, and supreme chicken-and-eggs on rice.
* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'': You can feast on all kinds of meats, toast, beverages, sweets, and so on, in order to gain stat boosts. There are also has HP Bananas and MP Candies, which restore HP and MP, respectively.
%% I will leave it to someone more knowledgeable to add an entry here about [=''MonCon''=], since there are no non-video walkthroughs of that game yet.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'':
** ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': From burgers, fries, cookies, and Skip Sandwiches in your hometown, to more elegant foods such as iced tea in Summers. Of course, the amounts of HP a lot of them recover are less than enemies deal where and when they're available, and thus go unbought by most players. There's even an NPC in Onett's burger joint that advises you not to bother with cheaper foods available.
** ''VideoGame/Mother3'': Initially, given the setting, your diet consists of things like nuts, mushrooms, beef jerky, and cheese. Not long into the game, though, come bags of pork chips, lootable from defeated Pigmask soldiers, marking the beginning of the end of the simple life that defines Tazmily Village up until then with the first processed foods since [[spoiler:the end of the old world]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'': The option to pull up your consumables is called "snacks", and you can carry such things as juice, pizza, dino pasta, meat, smoothies, chocolate, candy, and soda.
* ''VideoGame/TheOther'' series: Across both games to date are various recipes you can either find or earn through sidequests, including roasted fish, tuna sashimi, seaweed salad, sponge cake, marshmallow sandwiches, takoyaki, fried rice, egg sandwiches, and tomato juice.
%% Will leave it to someone more knowledgeable to add an entry here about ''Otosan'' whenever that comes out in full.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'': The original trilogy starts each game with basic items like berries, apples, lemons, cake mix, coconuts, and of course, mushrooms. Each game has a cook who can combine items together to make more complex things like spaghetti, soup, and cakes (or even non-food items such as Dizzy Dials and Sleepy Sheep).
* ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'': The cook ranks alongside the guards and hunters on the list of roles that need to be filled when camping, a thing you will do a ''lot'' while wandering around the overworld. You collect recipes and ingredients as you go, and assuming the cook succeeds on their skill check, the whole party will get a bonus depending on the meal - and, depending on what recipe you use, except for the basic Hearty Meal, one of the characters may get a secondary bonus: Harrim likes haggis, for example, while Amiri is fond of seasoned wings and thighs, and Nok-Nok likes baked spider legs (in his defence, he ''is'' a goblin).
* ''VideoGame/SailorMoonAnotherStory'': Things like crepes, berries, pork chops, cake, onigiri, juices, and bentou act as recovery items.
* ''VideoGame/ScienceGirls'': There are about fifteen different food items that you can have by the end, each with its own FlavorText, although most are provided in low quantities are are likely consumed, so players likely won't see them all. For fruits and vegetables, there are a banana, a handful of kumquats (counted as one item), a pomelo, five mandarins, three oranges, two lemons, and one bell pepper. For drinks, there are three milkshakes and a soda[[note]]Diet soda is found in a pack of twelve, but used as a throwable weapon, as its lack of nutrition makes it worthless as a healing item.[[/note]]. For sweets, there are around 17 doughnuts scattered around the game, but the {{cap}} is 13 to be held at any one time. There is also a bundle of cotton candy. And finally, a pizza slice and a whole pizza.
* ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'': Food and cooking is handled differently in each game from [[VideoGame/SuikodenII the second]] onward. In that game, for instance, there are 40 different basic recipes to prepare either as recovery items or for cooking contests, including tamagoyaki, salad, sunomono, sashimi, and grilled fish, each of which could become one thing or another depending on the seasoning of choice.
* ''VideoGame/SuperheroLeagueOfHoboken'': Stat-boosting food items are divided into beef, fish, and vegetables, but like the rest of the game's inventory, every food item is unique, meaning you'll pick up fish tempura, fish knish, fish scallopini, vegetable fondue, a vegetable burger, and so on.
* ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'': Each game has a plethora of different recipes you can collect and cook, and cooking itself works differently in each subseries. For example, ''Trails in the Sky'' features various cookies, pastas, soups, and drinks, which only Estelle can cook up, while ''Trails of Cold Steel'' has things like herbal tea, chowder, gelatos, and pudding, that anyone can whip up although some characters are better suited for a given thing than others.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': There is a plethora of different foods you can eat, all of which have {{Punny Name}}s and descriptions, such as Spider Cider[[note]]Made with whole spiders, not just the juice.[[/note]], Astronaut Food[[note]]For feeding a pet astronaut[[/note]], and Hot Dogs...?[[note]]The "meat" is made of a plant called a "water sausage."[[/note]]
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': This series has always had various items to sell, eat, and display. For example, in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', these range from smaller edibles include apples, cherries, and coffee, which can give the player one point, to fully cooked meals that can grant up to five, such as jams, ramen, fried rice, cakes, sandwiches, and salads.
* ''VideoGame/CloudMeadow'': This game contains [[https://www.chaptercheats.com/cheat/pc/470587/Cloud-Meadow/hint/140046/ many ingredients and recipes]], although most of them appear to be season-dependent. Some of the different recipes you can serve include bofroot cube steaks, chocolate cremepies, speedwheel dunkers, jelbabu juice, gempas nectar, nachos, creme sandwiches, Crunchy Boys, chwon kasha, pretzel burgers, tentaburgers, and turnog kebabs.
* ''VideoGame/CookServeDelicious'': The first game has 30 menu items, including coffee, sushi, pancakes, baked potatoes, sopapilas, and salad. The sequel originally had [[SerialEscalation 180]], adding 19 in an update, with most recipes having multiple variants, each with their own unique and [[FoodPorn detailed]] artwork.
* ''VideoGame/CookingMama'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The first game alone lets you cook fried prawn, fried rice, udon, sauteed beef and peppers, potato salad, shrimp tempura, hamburgers, eggs, and Salisbury steaks, among too many other things to list.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]: Dwarves will butcher ''any'' non-sapient, technically edible creature they can get their hands on, up to and including unicorns[[note]]a delicacy whose flesh improves the value of the meal[[/note]] and [[OurMonstersAreWeird forgotten beasts]]. And they use ''every'' part of the body, with organs including brains and eyes put into the food stockpile and expressly labeled as such. They also make use of eggs, milk, honey, and any potentially edible and/or brewable plant life they can get their hands on, including a number of underground crops. [[ForeignQueasine And they are not picky]]; even if the individual ingredients aren't unconventional, they see nothing wrong with an [[BizarreTasteInFood oyster, cheese, and strawberry stew]].
* ''VideoGame/FantasyLife'': If you choose to be a cook, you can whip up such stuff as pumpkin quiche, flying fish sushi, tomato soup, barley juice, and fluffy roasts.
* ''VideoGame/GraveyardKeeper'': In order to keep up your energy, you can prepare and eat a wide variety of foods: cakes, pasta, sandwiches, sauerkraut, wine and beer, and more. Several of the main quests require you to prepare specific meals, and one of the [=DLCs=] puts you in charge of a bar where you have to provide drinks and snacks. You can grow a variety of crops, and while you don't get livestock, you can buy various animal products (cheese, milk, eggs) and use them in your recipes. However, the only meat available in the game comes from fish, frogs, or from [[ImAHumanitarian the main gameplay mechanic]] ...
* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'': Cooking is a fundamental aspect in many of these games, allowing you to whip up various meals, soups, salads, desserts, and what-have-you.
* ''Videogame/{{Littlewood}}'': The main purpose of the Tavern is to be able to cook using the crops, fruit, fish, livestock products and various found items to make food. The PlayerCharacter won't be eating the dishes themself, but they sell for extra money and discovering all recipies is necessary to complete all of the game's objectives.
* ''Kingdom's Item Shop'': Food is amongst various types of items you can sell, and includes donuts, shortcake, hamburgers, fish rice balls, vegetable soup, curry rice, custard bread, fine beverages, and set lunches.
* ''VideoGame/OrderUp'': You start at a lowly fast food restaurant, and have to work your way up through different ethnic restaurants (Mexican, Italian, Asian) before finally hitting the finest at Chez Haute. Among other things as you work at the different restaurants, this game involves raising capital to unlock different recipes to prepare for your customers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overcooked}}'': You can learn to cook different things like burgers, burritos, cakes, fish and chips, pastas, pizzas, salads, sashimi, smoothies, and soups, each with their own varieties. More complex recipes will require mastery of multiple basic recipes first.
%% I will leave it to someone knowledgable about ''VideoGame/PenguinDiner'' to add that here and specify what kinds of foods that game has on its work page.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'': Food affects various game mechanics such as hunger and fitness. [[https://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Food There are enough different foods]] to be classified as cooked meals, instant meals, snacks, raw ingredients, and so on, as well as by the actual meal they can be prepared for.
** ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'': Sims have the option of cooking in a cauldron, oven, or spit, all of which produce different recipes (a ''lot'' of them) that have effects on a Sim's mood. Cooking Gruel or [[ReducedToRatburgers Roast Rat]] is convenient since it doesn't require you to have ingredients in inventory, but you'll receive a minor Focus loss from it, while a more complicated or expensive meal gives you a positive. (There's no Cooking skill; whether your meal is Bland, Yummy, or Marvelous depends ''only'' on what it consists of.)
* ''VideoGame/ShepherdsCrossing 2'': You can cook many different kinds of food, including German potatoes, plum cake, meat udon, millet porridge, blood soup, turnip soup, cheese pasta, pickles and bread, and daikon soup. Cooking food lets you get more food value out of food items, adding more to the [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly stockpiled food supplies]] you need to survive. In addition, you can take cooked food to your neighbors, and they'll tell you more about themselves.
* ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'': By cooking ingredients in the ship's kitchen, you can make a whole host of dishes to feed the spirits on your ship, categorized by meal size and type (plain, healthy, acquired taste, dessert, etc.). Feeding spirits regularly is not strictly necessary, though they will pester you if they're hungry, and keeping them well-fed keeps their mood up. All spirits also have specific likes and [[DoesNotLikeSpam dislikes]] in terms of food, which is not limited to meal type--Bruce and Mickey will refuse to eat anything with shellfish (since Mickey is allergic to it), as well as dishes with only one ingredient (they consider them too simple). Every spirit also has a favorite food, which they can occasionally request.
* ''VideoGame/StardewValley'': Basically, all your crops are edible. Food available ranges from types of fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, flowers, fish and animal products. There are also a variety of processed goods, like beverages, mayonnaise, cheese, as well as a range of cooked goods.
* ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'': As the spiritual predecessor to ''Miitopia'', this game features a wide, WIDE [[http://tomodachi.wikia.com/wiki/Food variety of different foods]] in four different categories:
** Entrees, such as pork cutlets, pasta pesto, and roast beef.
** Side dishes, such as tacos, meat-and-potato stew, eggplants, baked potatoes, and avocados.
** Snacks and sweets, such as cookies, oranges, cinnamon rolls, lollipops, candy corns, candy apples, brownies, cotton candy, and pastries.
** Beverages, such as eggnog, root beer floats, lemonade, cappuccinos, apple cider, and orange juice.
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* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' adds in the food truck The Crust Bucket run by Crusty Sean. The food is either an incresingly topped waffle that increases your money earned or an increasingly larger hot dog that increases your money in the online multiplayer matches. Both promonitly feature fried shrimp ([[ImAHumanitarian while being served by a humanoid Japanese tiger prawn]]). The drinks he serves give increased clothing experience and the increased chance of getting a specific sub-slot ability, and they include flavored drinks, lattes, and shakes.
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* ''VideoGame/BastardBonds'': There are plenty of food items that can heal your character when not in combat. They can range from simple soggy sandwiches to scrumptious Monte Cristos and Bacon Clubs; from plain cakes to delectable Black Forest Gateaus; from stale mead to sweet honey beer; and from burnt steak to smoked tenderloins. You can also recruit a wizard named Greening to cast food for your party.
* ''VideoGame/DarkDeity'': Food is one type of item that each unit can have up to four of in total, and replenishes HP by different fixed amounts or percentages. This game's menu consists of blood oranges, Vorrin tubers, crab cakes, Aramor oysters, corn on the cob, legs of mutton, enchanted bacon, Lavelle cheesesteaks, sparkling mead, spicy meatballs, garlic bread, and fizzly drinks.
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'': Each main game gives you access to more and more different foodstuffs as you progress through them. Generally, sweets of various kinds recover HP, drinks (which also include things like [=BBQ=] sauce and egg yolks) restore SP, and then there are "witch-like" things such as bat soup, rooster blood, frog sweat, caterpillar eggs, fried newts, and snake kidneys, which restore both. Throughout the series, there are also a few things that are included in one of the three categories but are actually something else entirely, including veggie burgers, mushroom soup, kimchi, and sardines, and [[VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance game 5]] also introduces different kinds of curry.
* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'': Cooking is a type of ItemCrafting in both games, providing food and drinks that [[HealthFood heal]] and sometimes provide stat boosts. It's notable for having multi-step recipes: Instead of flour+water+cheese making cheese bread, flour+water makes dough, dough+cheese makes cheese dough, and cheese dough on a furnace makes cheese bread.
* ''VideoGame/FaeTactics'': There is [[https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/995980/ss_6b454369c8bfa649700ff5738863b1aca9c8cddd.1920x1080.jpg?t=1596214780 a cooking minigame]] in which the player flips over cards of vegetables, meats, fruits, and the occasional serving bonus in order to prepare a dish that will temporarily boost the party's stats. Various Camp Skills can be learned to increase the effect of certain ingredients, or diminish the penalty from accidentally using ingredients like a rotten apple.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': You can choose someone to cook in the mess hall, and two ingredients to cook something up with, including berry mochi, cabbage-fried rice, peach tofu pudding, simmered beans, fish with peach sauce, rice balls, steak with chutney, fried daikon with rice, and bread.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia'': Various provisions can restore HP and ease fatigue, including ham, cold soup, oranges, wine, golden apples, yogurt, dried meat, boiled chicken, herring, hard bread, and sausages.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': The dining hall, where you can invite two people per day to cook or share lunch with, has a menu including vegetable stir-fry, gautier cheese gratin, Dirdriu-style fried pheasant, sweet-and-salty whitefish sauté, two-fish sauté, Gronder meat skewers, Daphnel stew, fried crayfish, Garreg mach meat pie, and grilled herring.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'': Various dishes can be cooked in the kitchen to provide one or two buffs each. Some of these include griled herring, cabbage and herring stew, bourgeois pike, fish sandwiches, fried crayfish, sweet bun trios, and onion gratin soup.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': You can dine with two other units per day, and can choose things like pickled herring rolls, chili-covered fruit sticks, blood sausage, creme brulees, peach cake, fish-and-bacon pocket buns, meat dango in cream sauce, bean-and-veggie consumme, fried sardines, chili salad, cod dip, or steak fries.
* ''Videogame/TotalWarWarhammerII'': DLC character [[VillainousGlutton Grom the Paunch]]'s unique mechanic is the ability to collect various ingredients (ranging from Troll Meat to Centigor "Milk") to create revolting but delightful (at least to him) dishes to give him and his army a variety of potent buffs. [[http://www.gamersheroes.com/game-guides/total-war-warhammer-ii-groms-cauldron-recipe-guide/ Some of these]] include Grom's Surf 'n' Turf, Bony Meat Skewers, and Nuggets 'n' Slime.
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* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': As the name of the game suggests, food is an important element here. Stranded in the wilderness, you can forage for, cook, and eat various foods, and if you're able to craft a crock pot, you can prepare dozens of different food items that restore different amounts of your hunger meter as well as other stats. Foods made from fish, such as fish sticks and sushi, tend to restore your hit points, while primarily meat-based dishes like stew and meatballs usually fill up your stomach more, and sweet foods like taffy and cookies help to restore your sanity. And this doesn't include the limited-time special event in the multiplayer game called The Gorge, where players team up to cook tons of fancier foods like pizza, pasta, and cakes, which are exclusive to the mode, to appease a hungry hole in the sky.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders2'': There are over 150 different recipes that the player can cook or brew to refill their hunger meter and feed their villagers, some of which may also restore HP or provide other bonuses (ranging from simple things like salads and steak, all the way to complex stuff like cheeseburgers and spongecake). Villagers will also cook for the player if provided access to the proper ingredients and a kitchen, though they can only use recipes that the player has already discovered.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': Food is one type of item viable for crafting, with such ingredients as apples, carrots, pumpkins, grapes, mushrooms, eggs, meats, and fish, and products such as mushroom potage, red wine, white wine, beaststeaks, and mushroom tea.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': Throughout the series as a whole are bread, butter, cheese, ale, carrots, stew, and various kinds of meat. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', food (of all kinds) is a type of [[AlchemyIsMagic alchemical ingredient]], which can be eaten raw or used to make potions; they have various effects, mostly restoring stamina. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', food is different from alchemical ingredients and can have a plethora of effects, from [[HyperactiveMetabolism Health Food]] to "poor man's" potions with various other effects, depending on the item in question. There is also several mods available that adds in additional recipes for the player to cook, and to make any attempt of cooking adding a bit to Alchemy experience.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'': Along with replenishing your health, various fruits, vegetables, meats, pies, drinks, and other things may also grant experience and will affect such stats as your morality, reputation, and weight, some of which are affected further by the quality of what you consume.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': A lot of the different food items you can obtain are meats derived directly from monsters, such as deathclaw meat, stingling filets, crispy squirrell bits, grilled queen nukalurks, roasted bloodworms, and mirelurk cakes. Other things, mostly simple pre-packaged foods from before the Great War, include packaged apples, [[BlandNameProduct Cram]], bubblegum, lemonade, noodles, [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Cheezy Poofs]], Nuka-Cola of various flavors, and different alcoholic beverages. These are good for restoring HP and in some cases boosting stats, but are also often radioactive or have other drawbacks. ''[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]]'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' also include modes involving a hunger mechanic.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFightStreetwise'': There are seven[[labelnote:list:]]Chips, soda, burgers, hot dogs, pizza, sushi, and steak dinners.[[/labelnote]] different food items (and a few medical items) that can restore health, and the story mode has five more[[labelnote:list]]Beer, energy bars, energy drinks, whiskey, and sake.[[/labelnote]] that boost Kyle's Instinct (for counterattacks and higher attack power).
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'': Starting in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'', you can buy food at different restaurants and street vendors to replenish your health. These range from fast food joints to diners to fine dining, and each restaurant has its own menu to choose from.
* ''VideoGame/HoldYourOwn'': Different foods can be concocted with different resources, including bottled water, baked potatoes, apples, chicken, crocodile, juice, boiled corn, and fish.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Cooking is one of the game's central mechanics. Food items are divided into meat and fish, fruit, vegetables, and spices. Certain items like fruits can be consumed on the spot, but others need to be cooked to be useful. In addition, cooking fruits can give them more benefit than eating them raw. Eating certain items yields temporary effects, such as eating spicy items to get a resistance to cold environments. Cooking certain foods together produces new dishes that have a list of effects, but if foods that don't mix together are cooked, they produce an item called "dubious food", which is censored by pixelation and grants a measly one heart if eaten.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Along with having a hunger bar to determine when you should eat and when you can't, there is a wide plethora of food with which to keep it full, such as apples, carrots, steaks, cakes, pies, etc. In the Java edition, there's an advancement for eating at least one of every food item.
** ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsModBringingMiddleEarthToMinecraft'': This mod adds dozens of new food items, including fruits, veggies, meats, and desserts of an impressively wide variety. In addition, the mod adds an entire system of drink brewing, adding over twenty alcoholic drinks, as well as several magical drinks.
* ''VideoGame/{{Raft}}'': A hunger (and thirst) mechanic makes obtaining food important - whether by fishing, foraging, growing your own, or hunting hostile game such as boars or sharks. You can also grill food to make it more nutritious, as well as set up a cooking pot and cook actual meals that grant buffs.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': There are two main categories of consumables - tonics and provisions. The former consists of a variety of items that [[HealingPotion restore health]], [[ManaPotion stamina, or Dead Eye]] and are either store-bought or [[PotionBrewingMechanic brewed by the player]] at a campfire. The latter consists mostly of actual food and drink, falling squarely into this trope, and consuming them increases one or two Cores, which govern the regeneration of the meter they're tied to. Fruits, vegetables and snacks restore the Health Core, coffee, chocolate and other stimulants restore the Stamina Core, and [[SmokingIsCool cigarettes, cigars]] and [[TheAlcoholic various types of alcohol]] restore the Dead Eye Core. Lastly, campfire-cooked [[RealMenEatMeat meat]] restores all three Cores at once - the bigger the game, the bigger the recovery. Cores are always constantly draining, and while the player can't starve to death, having completely empty Cores often puts the player at a disadvantage.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'': Plenty of different produce, meats, and other foods, some of which can be combined into other, more complex meals. Since it takes place in space, there are plenty of [[WeirdWorldWeirdFood weird food items]], including fruits [[EyesDoNotBelongThere shaped like eyes]] or [[EatDirtCheap made of metal]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'': Both games require food and drink with regularity on Survival and Hardcore mode. All small fish can be caught and eaten, cooked or raw (though the latter reduce your water levels, representing poisoning from unsavory organs and other contaminants that are otherwise removed when cooked), and you can grow various crops for sustainability. There are also coffee, snacks, and nutrient blocks, and the sequel even has a very potent cooked meal you can learn to make.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': There is a good variety of food and drinks that can be either crafted or dropped by slained enemies, including hot dogs, dragon fruits, shrimp po'boys, [=BBQ=] ribs, bloody moscatos, cooked marshmallows, bacon, and fruit salad. Food can provide three levels of buffs in Well Fed, Plenty Satisfied, and Exquisitely Stuffed while the Ale and Sake drink provide the Tipsy debuff.
* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'': These games have a truly massive selection of restaurants and bars serving a variety of food and drinks including ramen, sushi, pasta, takoyaki, burgers, tea, coffee and alcoholic drinks, plus convenience stores stocked with inventory items like onigiri and sandwiches. As you sit down to eat, your character will comment on the food, and there's even an in-game checklist keeping track of what you've eaten and completion points gotten from eating everything at a restaurant. Furthermore, in ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' and ''[[VideoGame/Yakuza2 Yakuza Kiwami 2]]'', eating meals at restaurants bestows various forms of experience points onto the player, with bonuses gained by eating certain items as a set meal (a burger with fries and a soft drink, for example).
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* ''Happy Animals'': The object involves raising your animals' happiness by giving them presents and sending them off to the park. Many of the presents you can give them are food items such as various fruits, broccoli, waffles, pancakes, cake, sushi, burgers, grilled cheeses, ice cream, snow cones, chocolate milk, pretzels, cookies, and donuts.
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%% I will leave it to someone more knowledgeable to add an entry here about ''Bistro Heroes''. I was not able to find any list of its actual delicacies.

%% Need some recipe examples from ''VideoGame/TheTaleOfFood''.

Most games only provide a few ways to regain health, whether it be through {{Healing Potion}}s, first-aid kits, or [[HyperactiveMetabolism specific foods]]. However, some games transcend this, providing a wide range of different foods for consumption. Higher-quality foods will usually provide more healing, will score the player [[EdibleCollectible more points]], or may give the player various buffs for other gameplay purposes.

*** ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry Torna: The Golden Country]] has three of its own cooks in the party. Jin mainly focuses on meals with easily aquireable ingredients (since Jin, Lora, and Haze are poor), including wildflower salad, various sandwiches, and bunnit[[note]]series unique wild rabbits that fight with clubs[[/note]] stuffed peppers. Aegaeon focuses on Ardanian cuisine, including dumplings, fried fish, and tempura. Mythra, on the other hand, is a LethalChef who mixes in ingreidents that may or may not work together, including a pudding made with fish and a sausage filled with multiple different meats, with her only good recipie being her final one, [[MeaningfulName miracle]] parfait.

** There are also a few cooks the party can recruit and can make pouch items unavalible anywhere else. Main party member Pyra can cook a large number of foods by gathering recipies from across the world, including meatball pot-au-feu, a wasabi salad, baked fish, and pies. Optional party member Vez is a OneNoteCook solely making extremely good rice balls. DLC Blade Crossette is trying to become a cook like her idol Pyra, but she applies the "everything is edible if you apply enough fire" mentallity to cooking at first, making her salsa and curry too hot to eat, although she becomes good enough with some tutoring to make some of Pyra's acqua pazza.
** ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry Torna: The Golden Country]] has three of its own cooks in the party. Jin mainly focuses on meals with easily aquireable ingredients (since Jin, Lora, and Haze are poor), including wildflower salad, various sandwiches, and bunnit[[note]]series unique wild rabbits that fight with clubs[[/note]] stuffed peppers. Aegaeon focuses on Ardanian cuisine, including dumplings, fried fish, and tempura. Mythra, on the other hand, is a LethalChef who mixes in ingreidents that may or may not work together, including a pudding made with fish and a sausage filled with multiple different meats, with her only good recipie being her final one, [[MeaningfulName miracle]] parfait.
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': One or two recipes can be found in each area of the game and brought to [[TeamCook Manana]] to cook up to increase the party's exp and CP gains and/or increase enemy and collectable drops. Some of these dishes include mixed-veg torpedo wraps, Yapolta veggie beans, fish-fillet toasties, and meat 'n' veg leclati. Most of these recipies can be aquired by eating at the various resturaunts across Aionios with Manana putting her own spin on the dish.

** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': One or two recipes can be found in each area of the game and brought to Manana to cook up to increase the party's exp and CP gains. Some of these dishes include mixed-veg torpedo wraps, Yapolta veggie beans, fish-fillet toasties, and meat 'n' veg leclati.

In a certain kind of way, in-game dishes and cooking can be an UnconventionalLearningExperience for real life cooking, such as replicating and {{defictionaliz|ation}}ing the in-game dishes using or substituting real life ingredients.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated:]]Dwarves will butcher ''any'' non-sapient, technically edible creature they can get their hands on, up to and including unicorns[[note]]a delicacy whose flesh improves the value of the meal[[/note]] and [[OurMonstersAreWeird forgotten beasts]]. And they use ''every'' part of the body, with organs including brains and eyes put into the food stockpile and expressly labeled as such. They also make use of eggs, milk, honey, and any potentially edible and/or brewable plant life they can get their hands on, including a number of underground crops. [[ForeignQueasine And they are not picky]]; even if the individual ingredients aren't unconventional, they see nothing wrong with an [[BizarreTasteInFood oyster, cheese, and strawberry stew]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'' the player character needs to eat, having several options for food source. Fruits and vegetables have little nutrition, but some of them has special properties. Slime mold being a special type of "fruit"[[note]]in real life, slime molds are not edible, neither are they fruits[[/note]] that's more nutritious than others and is the character's TrademarkFavoriteFood. There are prepared food such as food rations, K- and C-rations, or [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings lembas wafers]] which are the same as food rations but lighter. It is also possible to eat the corpses of monsters, but there are caveats. Not all of them are edible (but some of them give you special abilities) and even if they are, they spoil after a short time. There is the option to tin corpses, preventing them from spoiling, but you also need a tin opener otherwise it's difficult to open tins.

* ''VideoGame/PacMan'': The Championship Edition's bonus roster was greatly expanded to include not only fruits, but golden fruits, pastries, vegetables, meats, candies, drinks, ice creams, and even plenty of different non-food items. [[http://www.androidguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/PAC-MAN-Tournament-fruits-bonus-20121219a.png All on display here.]]

Most games only provide a few ways to regain health, whether it be through {{Healing Potion}}s, first-aid kits or [[HyperactiveMetabolism specific foods]]. However, some games transcend this, providing a wide range of different foods for consumption. Higher-quality foods will usually provide more healing, will score the player [[EdibleCollectible more points]], or may give the player various buffs for other gameplay purposes.

It is no secret that video gameplay is not meant to be taken literally. The way food works is no exception. You know how it goes: You either walk over a foodstuff in question or select it on the item screen. Whoever consumes it (presumably in one gulp) either [[EdibleCollectible gains points]] or [[HyperactiveMetabolism recovers damage]], or something or other. Such also applies to other similar-purposed things, like first-aid kits.

%% * VideoGame/HoldYourOwn