Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook (2023) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook

A survival strategy RPG that combines exploration, tactical combat, and cooking mechanics to create the perfect dish of dungeon-crawling adventure! Customize the class, appearance, voice, and pose of your…

77 27 January 2023

What Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook is

Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

When a group of adventurers plunge into the depths of an uncharted dungeon, they quickly realize they’ve bit off more than they can chew. Hopelessly lost, they must find whatever food they can while searching for a way out.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook launched on 27 January 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered and Hi-Fi Rush. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Metroid Prime Remastered, Hi-Fi Rush.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer