Epic Chef is a extremely pleasurable, if generally flawed life-sim sport with a heavy emphasis on cooking and culinary competitions. After all, the most effective facets of life-sim video games equivalent to crafting, farming, and customization are additionally obtainable to you all through your journey. On the floor, Epic Chef would possibly simply appear to be one other farming sport that has flooded the market lately, nonetheless, the sport weaves in a variety of depth and nuance.
Epic Chef does a reasonably respectable job at guiding you alongside its linear questline. Regardless of having a essential quest, there’s a lot to see off the overwhelmed path, or in the event you take your time to discover and chat with each character you come throughout. It is clear the devs at Infinigon Video games took nice pleasure with including in hidden goodies and secrets and techniques, irrespective of how easy or superfluous. Listed below are a few of the finest particulars you could have missed.
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The Cat Individuals
Epic Chef definitely options a variety of weird and quirky characters for Zest to work together with all through his culinary journey. Do you know the world you inhabit is also populated by cat people? The sport by no means goes out of its option to clarify the cat folks however they’re positively there.
It is very laborious to even discover most of them since their cat ears are often hidden beneath a hat and their whiskers generally simply mix in with their face and fur. Nevertheless, one questline does have you ever hunt down a personality’s “youngsters” who simply so occur to be cats.
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Creepy Graveyard
Okay, it is a very unusual one and makes the sport really feel prefer it has hidden horror messages. In the event you take the time to discover your villa’s land, you will discover a really small graveyard to the left of the gate to town. This mini graveyard solely has a couple of mausoleum-type constructions however it’s downright creepy.
Except for the questionable engravings and insignias, it is simply not clear why that is within the sport, nonetheless, it does add to the supernatural thriller that surrounds Zest’s villa.
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Velocity Up Time At The Window
Time passes comparatively slowly every day in Epic Chef which finally ends up working within the sport’s favor as a result of their being fairly a bit to perform every day. If you end up needing to easily get to the following day, whether or not that be for a quest or for a crop, you can speed up time at your bed room window, however it’s not clearly marked.
Zest can solely go to mattress after 8 pm which suggests you might have a variety of time in your arms to finish quests, harvest, craft, and discover. So long as it’s afternoon already then you possibly can head as much as your bed room, stroll to the open window space and pace up time till dusk the place you possibly can then go to mattress correctly.
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Taking part in Some Golf
Epic Chef encompasses a plethora of idle spots you can work together with. These idle spots assist Zest to achieve expertise factors to be able to stage up his chef rating. Most of those come from actions equivalent to chatting with NPCs, sitting on benches, and the like, nonetheless, you may also hit some golf balls out of your seaside deck.
Sure, by strolling via your farm space in the direction of the ocean you’ll find a pleasant deck with a golf tee and balls. Merely stroll as much as it and luxuriate in swinging away at these golf balls. This is not a mini-game or something like that however it’s a enjoyable distraction from the remainder of the sport and is definitely missed.
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The Singing Specters
This hidden element is extremely laborious to stumble throughout until you occur to only be in the suitable place on the proper time. Your villa space is kind of massive and expansive and you may’t even entry a lot of it early on within the sport. If you end up close to the sting of your first farmland throughout dusk then you might just hear some spectral singing going on.
It is laborious to know precisely what this ethereal sound is however it clearly appears like folks chanting or singing, virtually harking back to the singing statue heads from The Haunted Mansion. In the event you stroll to the glowing blue stone and thorny vines then the sounds get louder however with no discernable figures round.
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Carnival Enjoyable
Epic Chef options some random occasions as the times progress however seemingly not ones which might be scheduled. One such occasion that’s extremely simple to overlook is the mini carnival that sits atop the grassy knoll space above the opening space docks. The one option to find out about that is in the event you hear the celebration sounds or occur to stroll up there.
This carnival encompasses a bunch of NPCs having a enjoyable time, having fun with meals and drinks, chatting, and taking part in some video games. You may even participate in a few the video games equivalent to hitting a bell together with your hammer and throwing a knife at a pumpkin. It is a enjoyable little little bit of world-building that you may fully move by.
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Getting Particular Crops
A gameplay side that the sport does not exit of its option to educate you is you can randomly receive particular crops as you proceed to until the soil, plant, and harvest your farmland. One of many first particular crops you obtain is rice. That will not sound all that thrilling, nonetheless, every new crop means you get to check out a brand new ingredient in your cooking.
There is not actually a tough and quick rule for acquiring particular crops so it is inspired to only plant many sorts of seeds subsequent to at least one one other in hopes a particular crop pops up so that you can harvest.
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That Deep Forest Space
Do you know there’s a deep forest space you can discover proper while you obtain your villa and farmland? This deep forest space is basically a maze that you should remedy to be able to make it via. You do that by deciding on a path in hopes that it takes you to the following space, rinse and repeat till you make it via.
So as to discover this deep forest space, head in the direction of the gate to town and make a proper throughout the grass. By doing this you will note a glowing yellow portal-type factor. Upon interacting with it, you might be taken to the deep forest zone.
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