February 6, 2019
Bear's Restaurant
Summary
In this restaurant, the dead will have their last supper. Hamburgers, omelets, sushi, pudding, anything. Let us cook your favorite dish when you were alive. This is a story about a “Bear” and a “Cat.” You are a “Cat,” the assistant of a “Bear,” who is the chef of the restaurant. Players can know about the customer’s favorite dishes by “diving” into their memories… but in fact, you yourself do not remember who you are. Not even your favorite dish.
There is no difficult puzzle, no exciting battle, no epic cut scenes. But, you will remember their episodes.
Warning: This game contains potentially distressing materials, such as traffic accident, suicide and murder. However, there is no gore.
Bear's Restaurant System Requirements
🤏 Minimum Requirements
OS:
Windows 7
CPU:
2G Hz
RAM:
1 GB RAM
GPU:
OpenGL 2.1
HDD:
100 MB available space
Bear's Restaurant Trailer
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Critic Reviews2
Bear’s Restaurant offers a unique experience in that it is both more and less than what it appears to be. Its narrative delivers some poignant emotional moments, but it's also interspersed with oddly dark or fantastical elements that undermine its genuine heart. As a prequel to Fishing Paradiso, which Neal reviewed here, it does at least introduce characters that carry over to that follow up, but those looking for something more well rounded and with more pronounced gameplay elements may want to skip the restaurant and go straight to paradise. If you’re up for a story about the afterlife, how people get there, and the desire to hold on to those we’ve lost, pull up a chair at Bear’s Restaurant.
February 3, 2023
Bear’s Restaurant’s setting of serving food at a restaurant is an interesting concept for a videogame, and it is beautifully realized with cute Gameboy Advance-esque 2D sprites. While I wanted the story and characters to be a lot deeper, the bizarre twists in the second half of the game still make the journey worthwhile.
July 6, 2021