Nour: Play With Your Food

Nour: Play With Your Food turns out to be a far more superficial culinary adventure than we expected. Beyond the interactions with food in and of itself - often limited to simply raining ingredients unendingly on deliciously decorated tables - the product of Terrifying Jellyfish has not got much else to offer. Once you see the levels and the dishes inserted in them, you do not feel any desire to return to peep to discover the small situations hidden by the developers (the burning ramen is just an example). It’s a shame, because a gaming take on the complex theme of food would be very much needed.

Nour is more a quick snack than a filling main course. For us, it's like a packet of crisps; lots of flavour and satisfying while it lasts, but it's all over very quickly. You can nosh through this game in an hour or two, after which you're given more ways to mess with each level, but there's little reason to return for seconds. It's a neat novelty, it makes solid use of the DualSense's features, and it looks and sounds great. Ultimately, though, it didn't hold our attention for long. Of course, everyone's taste buds are different, so you may enjoy toying with this endlessly, but for us, it's no more than a yummy appetiser.

Nour: Play With Your Food is an interactive work of art that lets you create your own playful, vibrant and artistic images, with an inviting soundtrack that's all packaged in a cozy game you can take at your own pace, but it ultimately feels lacking and the gameplay loop just didn't ever feel enticing enough.