Leaving no area of interest untapped

The nice simulation flood continues to ebb and circulation on Steam, and typically, a curious new extremely area of interest PC sport washes ashore. (Thanks, Rock, Paper, Shotgun.) You would possibly assume you’ve seen all of it by now, however then there’s this: ASMR Meals Expertise, a sport about operating a restaurant whereas (hopefully nice) sounds put you in a daze.

The trailer appears proof-of-concept-y, as is usually the best way, however I just like the idea.

And searching over the screenshots — a tomato being slowly sliced, a filet scorching on the stovetop, a splash of water hitting a glass of ice cubes— I can simply “hear” these pictures. Relying on the individual, “ASMR sounds” might be soothing or offputting, and I are likely to fall within the former group extra typically than the latter. An entire sport of ’em? Attention-grabbing.

The pitch for ASMR Meals Expertise is extra concerned than the footage suggests.

“Your activity shall be to run the restaurant and guarantee its brilliant future,” notes Gameparic. “Numerous sorts of challenges will await you, making it tough to attain your targets: from unruly clients to making sure contemporary deliveries of merchandise and reacting to altering climate — all this can happen within the rhythms of the sounds that encompass you.”

As for the audio, “you’ll have full management over what sounds are in it: nature, cooking, cleansing, conversations, or avenue sounds.” ASMR Meals Expertise is within the “early stage” of sport growth, and the group is open to “options and concepts.”

We’ll see if there’s sufficient niche-within-a-niche curiosity to warrant ASMR Meals Expertise ever coming to fruition; so many simulation video games are “introduced” and fail to materialize. This one’s a novelty, for positive. Worst case, I bought a kick out of the trailer.

If “being a stone within the forest” is extra your scene, effectively, there’s Mindfulness Simulator.

Jordan Devore

Jordan is a founding member of Destructoid and poster of seemingly random footage. They’re something however random.