{"id":192866,"date":"2025-09-25T04:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2145007"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:46:28","slug":"venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song recently (something pop-punk, a la Head Automatica), I came across Fran Lebowitz talking about the power of music in her Pretend It&#8217;s a City series on Netflix. &#8220;No one is loved like musicians, because they give people the ability to express their emotions and their memories,&#8221; she says. &#8220;There&#8217;s no other form that does that. I really think that musicians, probably musicians and cooks, are responsible for the most pleasure in human life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the emotions I&#8217;m wondering will be present in <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1491670\/Venba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venba<\/a>, an upcoming cooking-based narrative game arriving this November from artist Sam Elkana and designer\/programmer Abhi from Toronto. The story follows the life of an Indian immigrant mother in 1980s Canada, cooking for her family and having discussions with them.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via Skype, Abhi&#8217;s explanation for making this the game&#8217;s centre seems both obvious and unique. &#8220;I personally find a lot of media that relates to immigrant stories, they tend to focus on the second generation kids &#8211; just the kids. But I think the parents have the cooler sorry to tell,&#8221; he argues. &#8220;Because they up and leave their country at the age of 40 or 50, and they move to a brand new place. So that sort of makes it super challenging for them and I think we&#8217;re not doing enough to keep that in mind. So Venba is more about exploring that relationship between these assimilated children versus their non-native parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-13-venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-13-venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song recently (something pop-punk, a la Head Automatica), I came across Fran Lebowitz talking about the power of music in her Pretend It&#8217;s a City series on Netflix. &#8220;No one is loved like musicians, because they give people the ability to express their emotions and their memories,&#8221; she says. &#8220;There&#8217;s no other form that does that. I really think that musicians, probably musicians and cooks, are responsible for the most pleasure in human life.&#8221; It&#8217;s one of the emotions I&#8217;m wondering will be present in Venba, an upcoming cooking-based narrative game arriving this November from artist Sam Elkana and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-25T04:46:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"168\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arcade News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"headline\":\"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-25T04:46:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":285,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Eurogamer\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/\",\"name\":\"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food | Arcader News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-25T04:46:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\"},\"description\":\"Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":168,\"caption\":\"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"description\":\"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839\",\"name\":\"Arcade News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Arcade News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cricketgames.tv\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/arcader.org\\\/news\\\/author\\\/arcade-news\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food | Arcader News","description":"Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food | Arcader News","og_description":"Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song","og_url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/","og_site_name":"Arcade News","article_published_time":"2025-09-25T04:46:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":168,"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Arcade News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Arcade News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/"},"author":{"name":"Arcade News","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"headline":"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food","datePublished":"2025-09-25T04:46:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/"},"wordCount":285,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg","articleSection":["Eurogamer"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/","name":"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food | Arcader News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg","datePublished":"2025-09-25T04:46:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839"},"description":"Like most people who survived 2020, my brain now seems incapable of recovering past memories or creating new ones. But as I was recalling an old song","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food.jpg","width":300,"height":168,"caption":"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/venba-is-a-cooking-game-obsessed-with-the-emotional-impact-of-food\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Venba is a cooking game obsessed with the emotional impact of food"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/","name":"Arcade News","description":"Free Arcade News from the Best Online Sources","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8460f5e5076b52fb2369f2f7ce6f2839","name":"Arcade News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea48a614d86edd987bc7bb25f4707c69546d4b1f78ad4aa20b26316bad1f9d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Arcade News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/cricketgames.tv"],"url":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/author\/arcade-news\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335686,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192866\/revisions\/1335686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}