Every dinner service is already a stressful session for kitchen workers around the world, some may describe these shifts as a battlefield.
Developer Ingame Studios (Crime Boss: Rockay City) is making a new multiplayer FPS with an unconventional but maybe cathartic premise: Prepare meals in a commercial kitchen while gunning down enemies that storms into your workspace.
Mayhem À La Carte, to be published by 505 Games, will make you prep dinner in a team of up to 4 players, but also fend off the kitchen from attackers. With guns. But also food.
Prepare meals under duress like an Overcooked! experience. Make mistakes and you can ruin the meal or ingredients. But you can weaponise them to stop whoever the hell decided to step into Hell’s Kitchen knowing the chefs are armed. No word on whether you can prepare to defend your base, i.e. a mise en place phase.
Think of Mayhem À La Carte as Overcooked! for the Call Of Duty bros and gals. For the real chefs out there who had PTSD from the incredibly high-pressure service industry, maybe it’ll be a stress reliever that you they can pull out a gun for once.
Service begins for Mayhem À La Carte in 2027 for PC as an Early Access release. For now, let them cook.