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Review of Ravenous Devils - a lot of violence and cruelty, but with a touch of humor

Hilda and Percival have established their own waste-free, harmless, environmentally friendly and economically stable production. It's true, you have to kill people...
Review of Ravenous Devils - a lot of violence and cruelty, but with a touch of humor

Ravenous Devils review

  • Author : Anton Latoshkin
  • Where Buy : Steam
  • Release date : 04/29/2022
  • Platform : PC

Ravenous Devils is a new cooking and atelier simulation with horror elements from Bad Vice Games. If you like dark humor, you are not sick of the abundance of meat and blood, then we recommend that you pay attention to this unusual horror diner and atelier simulator. And the horror here comes not only from the way you get meat for the pie, cutlets or sausages, but also from the very composure of the main characters, Hilda and Percival (wife and husband).

Plot

Ravenous Devils is exactly the phrase that can describe Hilda and Percival. Translated from English. - "Insatiable devils." It all starts with the fact that late at night Percival and Hilda are forced to leave their home. All due to well-founded suspicions of violence, so they were forced to go to another place. This is not the first time they have had to leave the shelter in a hurry.

When they arrive at their new home, they each immediately start their own business. Hilda turns the ground floor into a tavern and the basement serves as her kitchen. And Percival at this time equips the studio on the second floor. After opening their stores, they soon receive a letter from a mysterious stranger, Mr. Jack. He knows everything about them, but is willing to keep their secrets if they follow his orders.

Обзор Ravenous Devils — много насилия и жестокости, но с ноткам юмора

Gameplay

Before you decide that Revenous Devils is just a simple store/business sim, I can assure you that something completely different awaits you. In addition to the dark and twisted story that revolves around Hilda and Percival, there are several unique gameplay mechanics.

To begin with, you have to manage two productions at the same time. Percival is in charge of the atelier, and Hilda is in charge of the kitchen and the tavern counter. Both businesses are directly linked, and Hilda and Percival are a well-coordinated team that understands what she needs.

Customers come to Percival's store to take measurements for a new suit. Instead, Percival plunges a tailor's knife into their throats, resulting in instant death. He then removes their old clothes to use the fabric to make new outfits, and then dumps the corpses through a trapdoor into the basement, into Hilda's kitchen. I think now you will understand what happens next. Hilda literally grinds the corpses, getting minced meat. Then you can open other devices that allow you to process corpses into sausages and so on. She then uses a baking sheet and an oven. There is a recipe book that will be updated over time. At first, you will be able to make cutlets and meat pies, and then sausages and much more.

Обзор Ravenous Devils — много насилия и жестокости, но с ноткам юмора

You will be able to upgrade the tavern to serve more customers, install more ovens, mannequins for clothes, discover new recipes and so on. And then there will be a greenhouse where you can grow vegetables. I suppose I do not need to write again about what they will use as fertilizer?

And then we conclude from the meta description above: “Hilda and Percival have established their own waste-free, harmless, environmentally friendly and economically stable production. True, people have to be killed ... ".

In most store simulations, the emphasis is on lack of time or ingredients to serve customers. Ravenous Devils doesn't have that. No need to work at a frantic pace. Instead, you should find a more measured, manageable approach. Although sometimes, when the "zapara" begins, you have to work hard to establish production in both stores. However, once you find your rhythm, you'll be able to run the stores without any problems and enjoy the improvements and history.

Just to prove it all, before the day starts, you can spend as much time as you want setting up your store. You can bake pies, fill stalls, sew on clothes, and so on. Of course, if you have enough raw materials. And you should definitely have enough. When stores close, you can use the upgrade window to spend your hard earned money.

Conclusion

Ravenous Devils is a fantastic, dark, twisted game. Hilda and Percival are the real sadistic psychopaths. The story is slow but intriguing. Sometimes the gameplay gets boring, but this is only until the next significant improvements in your business. The ending disappointed me a little. I talked with my friend the scriptwriter, who also played this game. And he asked who he thought Mr. Jack might be. He named the character. And you know? His version would be much more logical, interesting and to some extent more spectacular than the one that the creators of the game turned out to be.

Regardless, I genuinely enjoyed my time with the Ravenous Devils. The game seems too short, it could be extended, so hopefully there will be a continuation of the story of Hilda and Percival. There's a lot of room for gameplay expansion, and I can see Ravenous Devils growing into a brilliant, beloved franchise. Of course, you can't do without marketing.

Author:
Anton Latoshkin
Date of publication
3 May 2022
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