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Little Food Horrors

Platform Unity Completed May 2021 Team Solo Genre 3D Action Cooking

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.

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Overview

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.

Little Food Horrors

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

MonsterAppearanceDisruption
ChiliPepper creatureSteals ingredients during cooking and plating phases
EggyEgg creatureThrows drinks causing camera knockback effects
KiwiKiwi fruit creatureRemoves 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.

Recipes
7 Distinct Dishes
Monsters
3 Antagonists
Input
Drag & Drop
Engine
Unity 3D

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