PlayStation 4 Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook

Eat anything and grow stronger

An unusual feast of dungeon survival and tactical role-playing: eat, get lost and grow stronger!

Takehito Harada and Nippon Ichi Software present this simulation RPG. Command adventurers who have lost their way deep inside a dungeon, gathering food and materials and cooking meals as you try to escape and return to the surface alive.

Character creation and dungeon survival come together in a tactical role-playing game. Survival, with its strategies for staying alive in a harsh environment, is fully combined with the tactics of developing and commanding your units.

Create your adventurers

Freely choose your adventurers' gender, appearance and profession in character creation, then form a party of up to four adventurers.

Distinctive professions such as swordsman, mage, cook and thief affect how each character develops. Create unique characters unlike any others in the world and assemble your ideal party.

Devour adventure meals and become stronger

You cannot adventure on an empty stomach: food is essential for exploring the dungeon.

Obtain ingredients by hunting monsters and exploring the field. Use them flexibly as the situation demands: eat them to develop your abilities, cook them into new dishes, or feed them to enemies to weaken them.

Your adventurers' abilities grow as they eat their adventure meals. Eat delicious things, strange things—anything it takes to survive!

Dungeon exploration meets survival

Adventurers consume calories and hydration according to their actions. Once these run out, they will be in no state to continue adventuring.

Defeat monsters and eat, then eat and press onward. Maintain a well-balanced diet for your adventures.

Tactical battles using ingredients

Combat follows the simulation RPG approach of giving characters commands on a field divided into squares.

As you explore the randomly extending field map, the place where you encounter a monster becomes the battlefield itself. Use the terrain to your advantage or lure only weaker enemies toward you for strategic battles.

Every attack and movement reduces your calories and hydration. Decide whether to fight or avoid a confrontation, and judge when to use the food you are carrying as you advance through the dungeon.

Defeating monsters yields a variety of ingredients that differ from monster to monster. Eating these ingredients can temporarily strengthen your adventurers, while feeding them to monsters can be a way to weaken your opponents.

Cook adventure meals with the ingredients you gather

Combine several ingredients to prepare dishes that increase your characters' stats.

If you have a character with a high cooking skill, even the same recipe can produce a dish with more powerful effects.