Feed giant kaiju in this co-op indie cooking game, Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking is just what it sounds like

Strang Scaffold, the team behind such ridiculous games as Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 and Clickolding has revealed their next game. Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking is exactly as it sounds; it’s a co-op game about cooking meals for gigantic monsters. This seems to be chasing after the same genre as games like Lethal Company and Content Warning, where players are tasked with delving into a dangerous dungeon to bring back ingredients for the perfect meal. But there is a key difference.

Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking is exactly what it sounds like, Strange Scaffold makes another strange game

From the trailer, a group of two, four, or more players take on the role of a group of monks. Gigantic kaiju monsters appear from out of the ocean, approach the castle, demanding to be fed. Properly appeasing each beast helps stave off the apocalyptic level destruction an unhappy kaiju would cause. Each kaiju comes with preferences and instructions, but that’s not all the players will need to worry about.

To find the various ingredients needed for each meal, players will have to explore a dangerous dungeon, or the larder. Players can use traps to capture and kill monsters that lurk in the shadows, or fall victim to them themselves if they’re not careful. Find ingredients and bring them back to the surface where players can prepare them. Once the food is ready, catapult it into the kaiju’s waiting jaws. Also, you only have ten minutes.

This is the first ever multiplayer game from Strange Scaffold, and it’s already living up to the studio’s odd tendencies. Where games like Lethal Company are essentially infinitely replayable, Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking has more of a linear progression. From the Steam page, it contains “a story about grappling with your faiths as your leaders begin to die off, leaving you to carry the torch, told across 13 levels.” So there’s more to the story here than a continuous, never-ending race to appease the kaijus.

Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking is having a free playtest right now on Steam. The game is planned to launch in just a few weeks on July 29th, but if you join the playtest “you can play the full game for free, and see the project complete its final weeks of development in real time…” via the Steam page. Even if you don’t have time for the playtest right now, adding Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking to your wishlist is an easy, free way to support these indie devs and their unique vision. This will be Strange Scaffold’s seventh game in two years, so clearly they are doing something a little differently than most developers.

• indie games
• multiplayer
• co-op