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Venba

by Visai Games

  • Released Jul 31, 2023
  • $14.99
  • 3 h to beat
  • Mac
  • Nintendo Switch
  • PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • PlayStation 5
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X|S

93%positive reviews

3,602 positive288 negative

What players say

Pros

  • Heartfelt Tamil culture and family story

  • Strong emotional nostalgia

Cons

  • Very short for the price

  • Long dialogue scenes with little cooking

Mixed

  • Some call it a sweet, heartbreaking game, others say it is too short

Media

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System requirements

Minimum:

OS *: Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Processor: 1.8 GHz or faster processor

Memory: 1 GB RAM

Graphics: Direct X 9.0c compatible video card

DirectX: Version 9.0c

Storage: 4 GB available space

Sound Card: Any

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Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.

Venba is a narrative cooking…

Ratings

  • 73IGDB players59 ratings
  • 87Critics3 reviews
  • 80Overall62 scores

Time to beat

  • 3 hStory and extraswith side content
  • 1.8 hCompletionist100%

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Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
English

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