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* BilingualBonus: An elective candidate in one of the advertisement boards found throughout the game has his name written on his clothes in Traditional Chinese is literally called Diabetes, which is [[TakeThat a jab on how most politicians love to sugarcoat their words]].


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* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Thanks to the [[RespawnPoint Automated Recycling Bins]] stationed around the dungeon, Simmers can resurrect you no matter how many times you kick the bucket.
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* BagOfHolding: You have a Nice Plastic Bag for carrying all your ingredients. It's apparently an "interdimensional pouch" that can carry an infinite amount of items, and keep them fresh beside, but they're apparently not indestructible; the flavour text for Blade Grass says the PC is worried about it damaging the bag.

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* BagOfHolding: You have a Nice Plastic Bag for carrying all your ingredients. It's apparently an "interdimensional pouch" that can carry an infinite amount of items, and keep them fresh beside, but they're apparently not indestructible; the flavour text for Blade Grass says the PC is worried about it damaging the bag.

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* BagOfHolding: You have a Nice Plastic Bag for carrying all your ingredients. It's apparently an "interdimensional pouch" that can carry an infinite amount of items, and keep them fresh beside, but they're apparently not indestructible; the flavour text for Blade Grass says the PC is worried about it damaging the bag.



* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic superhero manga is "[[DrunkMaster Captain DUI]]", whereby the hero outwits villains with his incredibly unpredictable driving, achieved by getting shitfaced with resolve. In the game's native language, it directly tells you that it's a superhero comic while the English translation makes no mention of it.

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* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic superhero manga is "[[DrunkMaster "[[DrunkenMaster Captain DUI]]", whereby the hero outwits villains with his incredibly unpredictable driving, achieved by getting shitfaced with resolve. In the game's native language, it directly tells you that it's a superhero comic while the English translation makes no mention of it.

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* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic superhero manga is "[[DrunkDriver Captain DUI]]", whereby the hero outwits villains with his incredibly unpredictable driving, achieved by getting shitfaced with resolve. In the game's native language, it directly tells you that it's a superhero comic while the English translation makes no mention of it.

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* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic superhero manga is "[[DrunkDriver "[[DrunkMaster Captain DUI]]", whereby the hero outwits villains with his incredibly unpredictable driving, achieved by getting shitfaced with resolve. In the game's native language, it directly tells you that it's a superhero comic while the English translation makes no mention of it.



* BodyHorror: Rife with it. From the PowerUpgradingDeformation below, to the entire nature of [[spoiler:C-04]], and its vicitms.

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* BodyHorror: Rife with it. From the PowerUpgradingDeformation below, to the entire nature of [[spoiler:C-04]], and its vicitms.victims.
* CoolGate: [[spoiler:The humans on Earth created the Stargate to reunite with the people who traveled in outer space to find a new home. The name Stargate not only references its function of interstellar travel, but also its shape as an octagonal star. This is key to Simmer's ultimate goal, by reactivating the Stargate and teleporting you all to wherever the humans that fled earth have hopefully created a new society.]]



* DestructiveTeleportation: Simmer claims her fast travel shrines has {{teleportation}} magic at first, but Khumal explains that it actually works by tearing you into easily transportable pieces that they bring to your desired location.



* ImMelting: Near the [[spoiler:end of Chapter 1, you come across a mortally wounded Grill, who has her body melting after a confrontation with C-04 that have escaped from the research facility. She begs you not to open the Stargate as her last words in fear of the destruction of the dungeon.]]



* {{Teleportation}}: Simmer claims her fast travel shrines has magic that does this, but the others explain that it actually tears you into easily transportable pieces that they bring to your desired location. [[spoiler:This is also key to Simmer's ultimate goal, by reactivating the Stargate and teleporting you all to wherever the humans that fled earth have hopefully created a new society.]]
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* DoubleJump: Fried mosquitos gives the player a pair of insects to do this. [[spoiler:Later on in the game, Simmers gives you the first forced surgery that grants you the permanent ability to double jump by giving you extra feet on your heels, rendering Fried Mosquitos obsolete.]]

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* DoubleJump: Fried mosquitos gives the player a pair of insects to do this. [[spoiler:Later Later on in the game, Simmers gives you the first forced surgery that grants you the permanent ability to double jump by giving you extra feet on your heels, rendering Fried Mosquitos obsolete.]]
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* MakingASplash
** [[GiantEnemyCrab Enemy crabs that about the same size as you]] shoot several water bullets out of their pincers. If they receive too much damage, they will surround themselves with an aquatic barrier that deals CollisionDamage and blocks projectiles.
** Water Spirits are clams that submerge themselves in a floating bubble of water. They attack by forming CombatTentacles from the water around them.


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* WallJump: Your second forced surgery gives you a pair of extra hands on the side of the hips, allowing you to climb any vertical surface as long it doesn't have spikes on them.

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* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic racing manga is "DUI Driver," whereby a street racer outwits his opponents with his incredibly unpredictable driving, achieved by getting shitfaced before every race.

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* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic racing superhero manga is "DUI Driver," "[[DrunkDriver Captain DUI]]", whereby a street racer the hero outwits his opponents villains with his incredibly unpredictable driving, achieved by getting shitfaced before every race.with resolve. In the game's native language, it directly tells you that it's a superhero comic while the English translation makes no mention of it.


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* NoDeathRun: The game will reward you an achievement if you manage to beat a chapter without a single death.
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* DoubleJump: Fried mosquitos gives the player a pair of insects to do this. [[spoiler:Later on in the game, Simmers gives you the first forced surgery that grants you the permanent ability to double jump by giving you extra feet on your heels, rendering Fried Mosquitos obsolete.]]
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* SentientStars: The [Sun turns out to be one. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for all life on earth and possibly the other planets, it decides to leave one day after having had enough of watching humans, plants, and animals grow and evolve, and is off to go explore the universe and see if there are any other sentient stars just like it.]]

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* SentientStars: The [Sun Sun turns out to be one. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for all life on earth and possibly the other planets, it decides to leave one day after having had enough of watching humans, plants, and animals grow and evolve, and is off to go explore the universe and see if there are any other sentient stars just like it.]]
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* BigBad: The Lord Protector is the one standing between you and Simmer's plans, from trying to propagate and sell her series of cookbooks to [[spoiler:escaping the underground complex to a hopefully better life elsewhere.]]
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:C-04. Aside from the fact that you've already killed the Lord Protector AKA Grill, it was responsible for the apocalypse in the first place, and now it's free to wreak havoc and reproduce once more.]]
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* SentientStars: The Sun turns out to be one. Unfortunately for all life on earth and possibly the other planets, it decides to leave one day after having had enough of watching humans, plants, and animals grow and evolve, and is off to go explore the universe and see if there are any other sentient stars just like it.

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* SentientStars: The Sun [Sun turns out to be one. Unfortunately [[spoiler:Unfortunately for all life on earth and possibly the other planets, it decides to leave one day after having had enough of watching humans, plants, and animals grow and evolve, and is off to go explore the universe and see if there are any other sentient stars just like it.]]
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* BodyHorror: Rife with it. From the PowerUpgradingDeformations below, to the entire nature of [[spoiler:C-04]], and its vicitms.

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* BodyHorror: Rife with it. From the PowerUpgradingDeformations PowerUpgradingDeformation below, to the entire nature of [[spoiler:C-04]], and its vicitms.

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* BodyHorror: Consuming food causes you to grow all manner of bizarre mutations, such as insect wings, grossly massive muscles, and plants growing out of you. Simmer's "forced surgery" also gives you such pleasantries as an extra pair of feet (for double jumping), smaller arms on your waists (for wall climbing), and a new butt with a compressed air tank (for air dashing).

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* BodyHorror: Consuming food causes you to grow all manner of bizarre mutations, such as insect wings, grossly massive muscles, and plants growing out of you. Simmer's "forced surgery" also gives you such pleasantries as an extra pair of feet (for double jumping), smaller arms on your waists (for wall climbing), and a new butt Rife with a compressed air tank (for air dashing).it. From the PowerUpgradingDeformations below, to the entire nature of [[spoiler:C-04]], and its vicitms.


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* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Consuming food causes you to grow all manner of bizarre mutations, such as insect wings, grossly massive muscles, and plants growing out of you. Simmer's "forced surgery" also gives you such pleasantries as an extra pair of feet (for double jumping), smaller arms on your waists (for wall climbing), and a new butt with a compressed air tank (for air dashing).
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* PhallicWeapon: One of your first weapons is a long, hard, sturdy tree branch obtained from a sentient tree who had it growing from a... suspect area of its trunk.
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* VisualPun: The grass sword is a ''blade'' of grass.
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* EndlessWinter: The state of [[spoiler:The Surface, thanks to the (sentient) Sun removing itself from orbit from the entire solar system and exploring the galaxy.]]

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* {{Teleportation}}: Simmer claims her fast travel shrines has magic that does this, but the others explain that it actually tears you into easily transportable pieces that they bring to your desired location.

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* {{Teleportation}}: Simmer claims her fast travel shrines has magic that does this, but the others explain that it actually tears you into easily transportable pieces that they bring to your desired location. [[spoiler:This is also key to Simmer's ultimate goal, by reactivating the Stargate and teleporting you all to wherever the humans that fled earth have hopefully created a new society.]]


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* PunnyName: "Lickspittle" is the Lord Protector's messenger, and is fond of showering everyone who's capable of hearing with praise and adulation for its deity.[[note]]You could say they're quite the ''bootlicker.''[[/note]]

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* HellFire: What Simmer uses to cook her meals.

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* HellFire: What Simmer uses to cook her meals.meals, as well as what she imbues her undead "employees" with to give them life.


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* MundaneUtility: Simmer and [[spoiler:Grill]] both use their supernatural fire for cooking.
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* CreatorProvincialism: The developers are Chinese, and though there are English subtitles and text, the language on the signs is Chinese, and the architecture of the game is heavily based off of urban areas in that country such as Hong Kong.

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* CreatorProvincialism: The developers are Chinese, Taiwanese, and though there are English subtitles and text, the language on the signs is Traditional Chinese, and the architecture of the game is heavily based off of urban areas in that country such as Hong Kong.East Asian regions.
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* ChefOfIron: You become one over the course of the game, and as Simmer shows in the climax, she hasn't let death and becoming a spirit dull her skills any.


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* HellFire: What Simmer uses to cook her meals.


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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Simmer is heavily implied to have been a demon from hell when she was still alive. She has horns sprouting from her head, and also had easy access to hellfire, equally useful for necromancy as well as cooking magical creatures.

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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: If it's alive, and not undead like Simmer, you, or your fellow employees, it's probably trying to put you into the dirt for good at the behest of the Lord Protector, or eat your delicious, rotting flesh

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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: If it's alive, and not undead like Simmer, you, or your fellow employees, it's probably trying to put you into the dirt for good at the behest of the Lord Protector, or eat your delicious, rotting fleshflesh.
* EvilFormerFriend: Simmer and the Lord Protector used to be close friends and roommates, before the apocalypse happened.


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* PlayingWithFire: The Lord Protector has fire powers, which glow an ominous green. Ironic for a guardian deity of mutated plants, until you learn [[spoiler:she was never divine in the first place, and was just a normal dragonborn college student before the apocalypse.]]


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* TechnicolorFire: The Lord Protector's flames are green.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: If it's alive, and not undead like Simmer, you, or your fellow employees, it's probably trying to put you into the dirt for good at the behest of the Lord Protector, or eat your delicious, rotting flesh
* FoodChainOfEvil: As a zombie born of supernatural powers, you hunt down magical creatures, harvest their body parts, and cook delicious meals to make them safe to eat and use to satisfy your eternal hunger.


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* {{Planimal}}: Uncontrolled evolution, scientific experimentation, and the Lord Protector's tinkering have spawned animals that have plant traits, such as flowers and moss growing right on their hides.
* PlantMooks: The Lord Protector's followers are mutated vegetables and fruits that she sicks on you. Interestingly enough, a good portion of them are rebelling against her.


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* SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious: The reason wild monsters are trying to kill you is because reanimated human flesh is quite the healthy delicacy to them.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Heavily implied to be the reason for the Lord Protector's mental state, and why she is so far from the friend Simmer and the others used to know.
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* BlackComedyBurst: By the time you reach [[spoiler:The Surface]], the plot and the tone of the game will be well into dark, serious, and grim horror. But if you read the log about the Sun and why [[spoiler:it has disappeared and left the entire solar system to freeze over, you discover a casually written break-up letter.]]
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* CreatorProvincialism: The developers are Chinese, and though there are English subtitles and text, the language on the signs is Chinese, and the architecture of the game is heavily based off of urban areas in that country such as Hong Kong.
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* {{Irony}}: The plants are rebelling against the Lord Protector, their guardian deity, accusing her of wanting to kill them. [[spoiler:This is probably because she was never a goddess in the first place, they just mistook her for one and she took advantage of that for her own purposes.]]

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* {{Irony}}: The plants are rebelling against the Lord Protector, their guardian deity, accusing her of wanting raising and protecting them only to kill them.them and feed them to her animals. [[spoiler:This is probably because she was never a goddess in the first place, they just mistook her for one and she took advantage of that for her own purposes.]]

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* ApocalypseHow: Stellar, Species Extinction. Humans are all dead, [[spoiler:have fled to a new solar system and habitable planet]], or are undead, like the player character. All that remains are animals and sentient plants, the remainders of scientific experiments gone loose.



* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic racing manga is "DUI Driver," whereby a street racer outwits his opponents by getting shitfaced before every race.

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* {{Irony}}: The plants are rebelling against the Lord Protector, their guardian deity. [[spoiler:Probably because she was never a goddess in the first place, they just mistook her for one and she took advantage of that.]]

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* {{Irony}}: The plants are rebelling against the Lord Protector, their guardian deity. [[spoiler:Probably deity, accusing her of wanting to kill them. [[spoiler:This is probably because she was never a goddess in the first place, they just mistook her for one and she took advantage of that.that for her own purposes.]]


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* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified: There is an ongoing revolution of the sentient plants against the Lord Protector, and they're most definitely on your side. It helps that [[spoiler:the Lord Protector really doesn't have the plants' best interests in mind.]]

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* AfterTheEnd: Strongly implied. The complex is desolate and abandoned, filled with inhuman monsters, Simmer is a ghost, you are a zombie, her other employees are all skeletons, and alongside selling and spreading her cooking, she talks about preserving your culture as the last (un)living survivors of it.

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* AfterTheEnd: Strongly implied. The complex is desolate and abandoned, filled with inhuman monsters, Simmer is a ghost, you are a zombie, her other employees are all skeletons, and alongside selling and spreading her cooking, she talks about preserving your culture as the last (un)living survivors of it.it.
* ApocalypticLog: Aside from dialog with Simmer, your fellow employees, and the Lord Protector, you learn more about the world and the state it's in through reading signs, logs on abandoned computers, and ancient notes that still managed to survive.
* TheAssimilator: The primary shtick of [[spoiler:C-04, the true BigBad of the game. The research notes you do find that are unredacted note that it consumes and reproduces so quickly, any personnel that come into contact with it are to be killed and incinerated on-site by security, with the guards put into quarantine for 30 days afterward just to be sure.]]
* BlackComedy: Frequently. For example, Simmer's favourite comedic racing manga is "DUI Driver," whereby a street racer outwits his opponents by getting shitfaced before every race.
* BodyHorror: Consuming food causes you to grow all manner of bizarre mutations, such as insect wings, grossly massive muscles, and plants growing out of you. Simmer's "forced surgery" also gives you such pleasantries as an extra pair of feet (for double jumping), smaller arms on your waists (for wall climbing), and a new butt with a compressed air tank (for air dashing).
* CuteGhostGirl: Simmer's current form.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Simmer and the Lord Protector (AKA [[spoiler:Grill]]) were most definitely not human, given the horns they have naturally growing out of their heads, but are otherwise mostly human in appearance.
* DemBones: Every one of Simmer's employees--except for you--are animated, talking, and sentient skeletons. Simmer's numerous notes implies that they also used to be zombies, until they were attacked and had all the rotting flesh stripped from them by the local wildlife.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Simmer's named "employees" were her former classmates from college. Grill also used to be her best friend and roommate, until their relationship soured.]]



* {{Irony}}: The plants are rebelling against the Lord Protector, their guardian deity. [[spoiler:Probably because she was never a goddess in the first place, they just mistook her for one and she took advantage of that.]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As much as Simmer has trouble expressing herself honestly face-to-face, she really does want to find a better future for all of you, where you can taste your food, other people can enjoy your cooking, and you don't have to spend eternity in a monster infested hellhole. Before everything went to hell, she also enjoyed cooking for other people to see them enjoying her food.
* KillItWithFire: Standard procedure for disposing of [[spoiler:C-04]] and its victims.
* MeatMoss: Upon reaching the Cold Storage section of the Sorbett Biological Facility, you will discover that [[spoiler:C-04 has been assimilating and spreading like wildfire, covering the walls, the ceiling, and the floors with fleshy, disgusting biomass, along with semi-intelligent, mobile, and very deadly growths.]]
* {{Necromancer}}: Simmer is an especially talented one, and had it for her college major. Her skeleton employee Emma is also one, but much less powerful and talented.



* UrbanFantasy: Simmer and her employees are explicitly stated to be magical in nature, but the setting you're in is definitely a post-apocalyptic modern metropolis, similar to Hong Kong.

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* SentientStars: The Sun turns out to be one. Unfortunately for all life on earth and possibly the other planets, it decides to leave one day after having had enough of watching humans, plants, and animals grow and evolve, and is off to go explore the universe and see if there are any other sentient stars just like it.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Comedy at the start, then things quickly get serious and horrific after you beat the Lord Protector.
* {{Teleportation}}: Simmer claims her fast travel shrines has magic that does this, but the others explain that it actually tears you into easily transportable pieces that they bring to your desired location.
* UrbanFantasy: Simmer and her employees are explicitly stated to be magical in nature, but nature. Numerous notes and information in the setting you're in is definitely a post-apocalyptic modern metropolis, similar world also point to Hong Kong.science and magic coexisting just fine.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Simmer and the Lord Protector (AKA [[spoiler:Grill]]) used to be roommates and best friends, especially since Simmer was so fond of cooking for her and her friends.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Kill. Cook. Eat. Repeat.]]
''Dungeon Munchies'' is a side-scrolling RPG developed and published by maJAja. As of June 2019, it is on Steam Early Access.

You are a regular office worker in the big city--until you find yourself rising up from your coffin at your own funeral. Disoriented and confused, you leave and find yourself in a giant, mysterious, monster-filled underground complex, and encounter a ghost named Simmer, and her "workforce" of skeletons. She explains she brought you back from your grave for a very important mission:

Hunt down magical monsters, make delicious meals with their body parts, and help her spread word of and sell her series of cookbooks!

Thus, you descend, upgrading your equipment, devouring your creations and gaining new mutations, with the odd bit of forced surgery.
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* AfterTheEnd: Strongly implied. The complex is desolate and abandoned, filled with inhuman monsters, Simmer is a ghost, you are a zombie, her other employees are all skeletons, and alongside selling and spreading her cooking, she talks about preserving your culture as the last (un)living survivors of it.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Simmer compares the act of cooking to necromancy, as you're giving new life and purpose to dead things.
* ItemCrafting: A large component of the game is using all the dismembered body parts and monster remains to craft better weapons and armour, to take on even more dangerous foes.
* PowerUpFood: Cooking and eating the various meals from Simmer's cookbooks will have beneficial buffs or mutations to you, such as fins for swimming faster underwater, increased movement speed on ground, and double-jump capabilities. You're only able to have so many of them in your stomach at once, though.
* UrbanFantasy: Simmer and her employees are explicitly stated to be magical in nature, but the setting you're in is definitely a post-apocalyptic modern metropolis, similar to Hong Kong.

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