Spices of the Heart (You're a Chef!)

In “Spices of the Heart,” you step into the shoes of an ambitious chef who has landed a job at a prestigious restaurant known for its innovation and artistry. While working in the fast-paced kitchen, you’ll encounter a diverse cast of characters, each with their own stories and motivations. Your culinary creations aren’t the only things heating up in the kitchen. Behind the scenes, relationships are simmering, adding a dash of spice to your professional journey.

Will you prioritize the pursuit of culinary excellence, or will you succumb to forbidden passions with one of four romance options?

Key Features:

  • Play as cis, trans, non-binary; gay, straight, bi, or poly.
  • Choose a background for your character, disapproving father or late brother who always dreamed of opening a restaurant with you.
  • Hire new kitchen staff, and as the new chef you get to interview NPCs before hiring them.
  • Fire kitchen staff: there’s one staff you can fire.
  • Four love interests: all romanceable simultaneously until you choose one or decide to stay single.
  • Stats Matter: based on your stats, you’ll have the opportunity to buy the restaurant, build ties with the community, or earn a second Michelin star.

ROs:

Eve/Evan: the charismatic and charming food critic. Will you be able to satisfy their discerning palates, both in the kitchen and in bed?

Julie/Julien: the fearless Sous Chef, whose bold culinary techniques and even bolder personality have captured your attention. Will their fiery determination ignite a flame beyond the stovetops?

Your ex: they’re back in your life, begging for forgiveness. Will you take them back?

Alexis: the owner of the pizza joint next to your apartment can use some help with kneading pizza dough. Will you give them a hand, or something more?

Hookup options: Perry, the teddy bear. :bear:
Céline was just added as a hookup option! Yes! (Please keep in mind this option will only be for wlw)

What type of feedback I’m looking for?
Grammar, typos, continuity errors, stats not rising or increasing. Anything else that is constructive.

Heads up!
As of right now, there is no spice in the game. I mean there is spice, but not the kind of spice you expect from a Heart’s Choice game. So all the smut is coming, and it will be chapters 3 and 4 which will be the next update.

Play the first two chapters now! Demo:
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Indulge in a tale where every dish tells a story, and every relationship adds a unique flavor of spice.

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Placeholder for food video 2.

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I’m looking forward to the umami and spice inside @CC_Hill!

Great to see this posted!

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This is going to be so delicious! Yay!

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Oh, this one is going to be fun!

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C.C watches “The Bear” once and then procedes to make a whole new game for us.
Truly amazing.

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This was great as usual, however one thing that stuck out to me was the various mentions of Perry’s pride flag - we’ve been told about it once already, I feel we don’t need the constant mentions of it when speaking to him, it’s been established that he’s trans, but as a trans guy it feels the over use of it makes it feel odd.

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That is great feedback. Thank you. I think I added it a second time because you can skip the meeting with Perry the first time. :sweat_smile: I will fix that.

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The bit where you’re asked about your favourite dish could use some sort of signifier to indicate a savory dish. I chose to write in my own because I didn’t see any sweets listed, and the next page was…what’s your favourite sweet.

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Damn. I love all your works, but this one… just damn. You are really cooking with this one. I think it’s my favorite already.

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This is really fun! I actually really like the connection a collaboration/staff-focused MC can have with their team and the best friend so early into the plot, and I found the character development and relationship potential with them even more interesting than the romance routes–which is usually opposite for me, as I want my MC’s to seduce everything.

This gives me so much found family and hurt/comfort vibes that I just wanted to stay friends with the RO’s because it was so cute. Even the sous chef (annoying as they can be) really clicked on a friendly path with my calm-empathetic MC.

I think this might be the first story where I’ve just wanted to be everybody’s mother hen.

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Is it normal that the twins share your surname?

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No, I belive you just chose the same surname as them.

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Hm ok, feels Strange though :smile:

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We did the same thing :joy:.

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Well I changed the name and the twins Name changed with it, so it seems to be a bug

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Still not called Heartatouille, smh. :stuck_out_tongue:

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It’s not a bug. :grinning:

It’s an easter egg and me connecting all my games. Leo and Lea are the twins from The Midnight Saga. They are all grown up and the last name is a wink at “In another timeline, they were related to MC”

Same thing in Laws of Passion. MC and Terry are eating at Ciboulette.

Best name ever. :blush:

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