It's cartoonish enough to welcome you in with a smile, but also a grim little meat grinder that's worth your attention.Įach fight is an ongoing battle between endless armies over a large map with changing objectives. Why fight if not for broth? It's an open-world, top-down soldier sim. I still think the base movement needs speeding up and a better, higher jump given as standard, and it really needs a quicksave and not just a daily back-up, but it's a surprisingly moresome broth and recommended.Īs is Running With Rifles, though the fight is for control of a map and not the universal soup market. There is some trouble with the controls: the game can't decide if you're using a joypad or not, and it didn't recognise mine when it was plugged in, despite being able to control menus with it. The relaxing soup making game and factory sim is good enough. I'm not a huge fan of the fights, that turn it into a slight Tower Defense game. There's the added pressure of MEGA-SOUP Inc's progress, who launch raids on your facility at regulars intervals. The world also has wandering creatures who'll populate your growing soup empire, walking off with anything you leave lying around and making the world feel annoyingly alive. The little ecosystem is fascinating: you can plant the ingredients to create a little farm, so you can have easy access to ingredients to mix and match and create new soups.