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Cannibal Cuisine

2020 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ96240386 ↗
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Cannibal Cuisine is a cooking simulation game developed and published by Belgium studio Rocket Vulture. In a cooperative or competitive experience, players control a number of cannibals on a tropical island feeding tourists to their god "Hoochooboo". The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch on 20 May 2020. It was ported to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on 25 January 2022, alongside an expansion titled The Curse of the Scarab King.

Gameplay

Players in Cannibal Cuisine each control one cannibal chef, and must collect vegetables, fruits and meat (from killing tourists) to combine into meals on cooking spits. There is one or more Hoochooboos in the level who will request different meals. Delivering correct meals score points for the players, while delivering the wrong meals will cause the Hoochooboo to throw fireballs at the players.

Cannibal Cuisine was designed primarily as a cooperative experience for up to four players, but it also has a competitive multiplayer mode. In competitive multiplayer, two teams compete to score the most points by feeding their Hoochooboo food. It is possible to fight the other team to disrupt their efforts, with ingredients and tourists to be found in a shared area which both teams can access.

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