Monster Meals (v1.2.16)

A rolling food truck becomes both kitchen and lifeline in a frantic co-op cooking game where the customers may decide to eat the staff instead of their order. Monster Meals trades cute monster characters and colorful locations for a genuinely hectic race against the clock, sending chefs through deserts, city streets, sewers, and other dangerous stops on a bizarre culinary tour. The humor is gleefully gross rather than scary: rats, pigeons, and cockroaches are ingredients, while impatient creatures wait hungrily at the counter. Its tone lands somewhere between cartoon chaos and survival pressure, especially once a crowded kitchen begins to fall behind.

Each shift revolves around hunting local creatures, bringing them back to the truck, and turning them into requested dishes before customers lose patience. Players chop, fry, bake, and cook using different stations, juggling ingredient collection, preparation order, and the limited room inside the moving kitchen. Twenty levels across four themed location sets steadily add complications and equipment, while truck upgrades expand what the crew can handle. Solo play remains an option, but the game is built around cooperation, supporting online and local play for two chefs in the main stages; local multiplayer requires a controller.

The strongest hook is how it folds ingredient hunting into the familiar restaurant-management scramble, making players leave the relative safety of the kitchen to secure supplies. Survival Mode pushes that idea further with escalating days, truck improvements, and support for up to four players online or locally, turning coordination into a desperate attempt to survive long enough to retire. Anyone who enjoys Overcooked-style shouting, task splitting, and recovering from kitchen disasters should find plenty to like, though the grotesque food theme may not suit every palate. Monster Meals works best with friends who can laugh at failure, communicate quickly, and accept that a missed order can have unusually personal consequences.