Food can sometimes make or break whether you make it to the next point in a game. When it's not a lifeline, it's usually either iconic or just pretty to look at. Artists are always somehow able to use their creative magic to make us drool over meals in games. In fact, it's so much so that many people feel inspired to attempt to recreate those in real life.
Food should taste good, but the presentation is sometimes what can really execute a dish's appeal. Take ramen for example and the way all of its components are always carefully placed in a specific way. Here are all the best-looking foods in games.
10 Pork Cutlets - Cooking Mama: Cookstar
Cooking Mama is a classic game series where you make meals with a motherly chef who will probably beat you up if you don't get every little bit of batter out of a bowl. You make many recipes in Cooking Mama, but nothing beats the gorgeous simplicity of the tonkatsu with cabbage salad. Everybody loves a cutlet whether it's pork, chicken, beef, or eggplant - when it comes to the treat of fried food, you can't go wrong.
9 Salmon With Mushrooms - Emiya Family
Everyday Today's Menu For The Emiya Family is a spinoff of the Fate Stay Night anime that takes place in a slice-of-life universe where the protagonist Shirou Emiya and his friends cook dinner. It's very similar to Cooking Mama but with a unique art style. Emiya loves to make delicious food, but as a high school student, he doesn't have much money.
One of the dishes Emiya makes when he's on a limited budget is salmon that he finds on sale. Salmon can be a real hit-or-miss protein, but it's hard to deny that seeing it baked to a shiny tender with butter and mushrooms makes you want to try it.
8 Beef Stew - Red Dead Redemption 2
In Red Dead Redemption 2, saloons tend to serve things like stews, soups, grilled or fried meats. Stews can be made as a hearty meal in big quantities with minimal ingredients and can feed a lot of people for not a ton of money. The browned meat, the red broth, and the bright vegetables make this look like a mouth-watering dish you know would warm you on a cold day.
7 Canteen Food - Monster Hunter World
The extravagant meals served at the Astera Canteen in Monster Hunter World look like true feasts. Not only do these meals look great but, similar to the Bunny Dango of Monster Hunter Rise, they give you stamina and health buffs that will make hunting a lot easier. You can't beat a meal that also helps you in battle.
6 Curry - Pokemon Sword & Shield
Pokemon Sword & Shield introduced a mechanic where you can go camping with your team, allowing you to interact with your Pokemon. Whilst camping, you can play with your pokemon using various toys and cook with them, specifically curry.
There are many ways to make curry with many different ingredients to mix together and no matter what combination it is, it always looks delicious. The amount of curry will even change depending on the size of the Pokemon you're making it with.
5 Creamy Crustacean Omelette - Final Fantasy 15
Released in 2016, Final Fantasy 15 allowed you to cook meals through best boy Ignis, the group's dedicated chef. There are many different foods you can eat, but none quite as appealing as the omelette, specifically the Creamy Crustacean Omelette. This dish proves that omelettes don't need to have cheese, and can be made to look great with just about anything.
4 Puppy Paw Hashbrowns - Genshin Impact
We love fun-shaped food - there's a reason Disneyworld sells so many Mickey-shaped snacks. Genshin Impact has many meals you can cook, but none are as adorable as the puppy paw hashbrowns that are Razor's signature dish. To have a chance to make them, you need to make regular Mondstadt hash browns with Razor after finishing the Temple of the Wolf domain once you reach Adventure Rank 15. These cute snacks will restore 40 percent of your HP and add an extra 2350 HP as well.
3 Ramen - Dragon Ball Z Kakarot
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot is a retelling of the anime's story in an RPG-style format. Meals are important in Kakarot because they can restore your HP and give you buffs, but more importantly, all of the food looks delicious. Chi-Chi has really outdone herself with some of these dishes.
2 Bunny Dango - Monster Hunter Rise
Food looks so much cooler when it comes on a stick. In Monster Hunter Rise, your main source is food is Bunny Dango, a sweet snack that can contain many kinds of buffs that can help you on your hunts.
Made by the Kamura village chef Yomogi, Bunny Dango comes in a variety of colors and patterns, all of which look delicious together no matter the combo. Not to mention that the hot steamy cup of matcha tea an order comes with looks like it warms the soul.
1 Pizza - Devil May Cry
Every Devil May Cry fan knows Dante's favorite food is pizza. In Devil May 3, one of the opening scenes is him simultaneously destroying demons as he eats a slice of pizza that he also somehow uses as a weapon. No matter what the scenario, every single time this treat shows up, it has everything a pizza should - the cheesy pull, the crispy crust, the perfect topping... just looking at it makes you wanna pick up the phone for delivery.