Embrace cooking techniques like never before

After being fired from a previous job as a line cook, a young chef is hungry for new work. One morning a mysterious job offer appears that beckons you towards a mysterious, magical restaurant.

Culinary Wizard is a traditional 2D action-platformer made in a cozy 32-bit pixel art style. Bring ingredients to life and travel between unique worlds, battling hunger one customer at a time. Refine your palette and master the techniques of the culinary arts to deliver tasty meals to happy customers, no matter the request.

Game Features

Traditional side-scroller action in a retro pixel art style, with a dash of modern zest.
Level up with powerful skills and abilities! Smash your way to victory with a mighty tenderizer, throw in a dash of salt when in a pinch, or slice foes to pieces with a cutting edge chefs knife. Take your skills to new heights with your trusty spatula, or roll through the competition with a wooden rolling pin.
Become an interdimensional chef and travel between distant worlds to cook for quirky customers with absurd appetites that are almost as bad as their jokes.
Spice up your fashion sense with over 15 wacky costumes to wear! Choose your favorite cooking styles to make your culinary journey unique.
A vast selection of sweet and savory food-based enemies all brought to life with traditional 2D frame-by-frame animations.
Hand crafted environments with seamless parallax, giving that sense of depth to a flat world.
A handful of sound effects custom made for each enemy that gives them some extra flavor.
20 trophies to earn and display proudly in your bedroom as you advance through your cooking career.
Flexible keyboard/controller inputs that let you rebind buttons to anything you want to best fit your gaming playstyle.
Hungry for more? Complete Culinary Wizard to unlock recipes from the secret menu; a chef's greatest challenge!

Expand your palette as an interdimensional chef

Each new world you travel to along your culinary journey is just as weird as the last, with level layouts carefully hand crafted in a traditional 32-bit pixel art style.

As you discover new worlds, a variety of new ingredients become available that make each world feel unique and full of life. Hang out by the beach and catch some sun with the bros, or venture down into the rotten depths of the restaurant and uncover a rotten surprise.

If you enjoy traditional platforming gameplay, have a hunger for adventure, and love corny jokes, then start your journey today to become a Culinary Wizard!

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