Little Food Horrors
Drag ingredients into a pot and plate your dish before time runs out — while mischievous food-themed monsters steal your ingredients, throw drinks at your camera, and sabotage your kitchen.
Play on Itch.ioOverview
Little Food Horrors is a 3D action cooking game that blends time-pressure cooking mechanics with creature chaos. Players drag ingredients from fridges into a pot, cook the right combinations, and plate dishes — all while three food-themed monsters constantly interfere.
Seven distinct recipes and three antagonist creatures create a frantic, escalating challenge across the game's cooking phases.
Gameplay Phases
1. Ingredients
Open fridges to browse available ingredients. On-screen recipe cards display the target dish. Drag the correct items to the pot before monsters intercept them.
2. Cooking
A collision-detection system verifies correct ingredient combinations and triggers the cooking process. Seven distinct recipes each require unique ingredient sets.
3. Plating
Transfer cooked food to the plate before time expires. Monsters remain active through this final phase — the chaos doesn't stop at the finish line.
Monster Antagonists
| Monster | Appearance | Disruption |
|---|---|---|
| Chili | Pepper creature | Steals ingredients during cooking and plating phases |
| Eggy | Egg creature | Throws drinks causing camera knockback effects |
| Kiwi | Kiwi fruit creature | Removes floor ingredients and discards them |
Assets & Credits
As a solo developer, I utilized premium Unity Asset Store resources for food packs, character animations, and environmental assets — allowing me to focus development time on systems, mechanics, and level layout.