Demo served up for Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster

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New and improved, fully voiced collection of every adventure of Ines and Uncle Lee coming soon to Steam

Having a mad genius for an uncle sounds like it would satisfy any intrepid gamer’s appetite, and in the upcoming Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster, developer Relatively Painless Games promises to bring enough helpings of “point & click gloriousness” to ensure no adventurer goes hungry.

All her life, Ines has known she’s in for a headache whenever Uncle Lee is around. Whether it’s him “butt-dial[ing] a time machine and leav[ing] Ines stranded in time with nothing but a broken reality-fixing device” or recruiting her to save his strangely deserted, Halloween-obsessed hometown from a “paranormal infestation,” she’s come to expect him to repeatedly turn her life upside-down – sometimes literally. And who knows what he’s liable to get her for a birthday present. And so, the “rebellious” Ines keeps having to overcome whatever wacky scenarios arise from the “fallout of her Uncle Lee’s experiments / inventions / cooking.” At various points throughout her young life, Ines begrudgingly accepts the need to “save the universe.” Again. “And again. And again.”

Rather than being an original new game, Uncle Lee’s Cookbook is actually a “revised and improved” collection of all five previous freeware adventures of the scientist and his beleaguered niece, packaged together with full voice acting for the first time. Each episode of the collection is “self-contained,” presenting a variety of “ways to break the universe” that Ines will need to piece back together by solving “reality-bending puzzles” and engaging in “witty dialogues” with “weird characters.” Everything is depicted in a stylish retro pixel art presentation evocative of golden age classics, but with a simple single-click interface, fully descriptive hotspot labels, and a hint system to ensure that adventurers don’t get too stuck. 

Anyone who wants to see what Uncle Lee’s been cooking up can dive into the playable demo on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux. For more than just a taste, the full version of Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster, published by Dionous Games, is due to arrive sometime later this spring. In the meantime, if you’d like to see the games in their original browser-based forms, all five are still available on itch.io.

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