loved the art style, very creative and creepy storyline, fun playthrough, adhd brain happy

Loved all the lil jump scares. Short but satisfying

There is a slapstick sensibility to all of the cooking that I truly loved. It did not take long before I had given up on the propriety of having things organized and sanitary; very quickly I was just reaching down to grab heads of lettuce from the floor and hurling cooked sausages across the room onto a plate rather than picking them up and carrying them.

The silly, cozy loop of cooking and serving customers is absolutely the strong suit of this game. And that is a good thing, because there really is not very much more to it than that. The progression in the story mode opens up a new type of food that you can prepare each day, so the complexity of the orders grows as you play. I would almost want to compare it to something like Cook, Service, Delicious! in the satisfaction that you can derive from a job well done in the kitchen, though there is zero pressure to cook quickly or efficiently in the story mode. You are completely free to go at your own pace.

I suppose that my biggest disappointment comes from the lack of replay value. This immediately struck me as a nice companion piece to Creature Kitchen, another creepy cooking game that just recently came out, and I found myself replaying Creature Kitchen several times just because it was so satisfying. With Kiosk, however, the Relax mode just did not do anything for me. Maybe it is the lack of customer interactions. If the relax mode felt a little more like the story mode, maybe with something like procedurally generated text from the customers, I would want to spend more time it in. Once I was done with the story, however, the Relax mode and Endless modes just did not hold any appeal for me. That said, I would probably play the story mode again now that I feel more confident in my cooking abilities.

One last word on the actual horror elements: there are some creepy moments, and a couple of fairly harmless jump scares. The building tension made me more curious about what was actually going to happen than anything else. When it does crescendo at the end in an extremely and surprisingly tense moment of actual action, it was effectively shocking. If you have a fairly low tolerance for scares and horror like me, you do not have very much to worry about in this one.