The Supper: the Voice that orders Ms. Appleton to cook for distinguished guests

A grotesque cooking adventure that most praise for fitting into a single sitting — and that at least one person found too short to be worth the plate.

A Voice giving the orders in the kitchen

Ms. Appleton wakes up in the kitchen of her own tavern with a Voice lodged inside her head — one that won't let her go and demands she prepare an out-of-the-ordinary dinner for distinguished guests. You steer that quest: you comb the kitchen and the docks for recipe inspiration, you solve the puzzles that unlock the ingredients, and you finish each dish with a dose of the "special sauce" as you bring it to the table.

The credits pin the work on a single name, Octavi Navarro, who had already brought the same short format to Midnight Scenes, Unwelcome and The Librarian — the same hand behind the art and the story here. Publishing fell to White Blanket Games, and the store files The Supper under horror, adventure and point-and-click. It arrived on March 20, 2023, and that same store page still flags the title as early access, years after release.

A sweet ending after the grotesque

The person who wrote on June 16, 2023 sums up the point that comes up most: the length. The adventure fits into roughly 20 minutes, and even in the worst case you don't walk away feeling you wasted your time.

Whoever wrote on September 21, 2023 calls the look strange and charming, its art style grotesque and cute at once, carrying the atmosphere on its own, and singles out an ending that catches you off guard: sweet, after so much heaviness. The write-up from November 26 of the same year goes further, praising masterful narration and pointing to the fit between characters, pacing and atmosphere as a balance that is rare to strike in something this brief. A French-language piece from May 25, 2023 admits to preferring another title by the same creator, yet still praises the music, the mood and the story.

The puzzles split people less: those who played them call them simple, with the odd stranger solution that takes trial and error, though never enough to stall anyone just passing through the kitchen.

When the meal is over too soon

Not everyone buys that argument. The person who wrote on August 10, 2024 gave the lowest score of all the takes gathered here. The complaint is the exact opposite of what the others celebrate: for this person, the 10 minutes it took to finish make the experience short to the point of being unacceptable. If what you demand from a game is length, the complaint holds. It is the same economy that wins one writer over and drives another away — the game asks for the time of someone sitting down to a full meal and serves the equivalent of an appetizer; for some that is exactly the point, for this person it is the failing.

For anyone with room for one sitting

If you want a self-contained story, ready to begin and end in one sitting, The Supper delivers exactly that: morbid humor, careful atmosphere and an ending that keeps the conversation going long after the screen goes dark — that is the audience most write-ups describe. Anyone after a difficulty curve or hours of exploration hits the same wall as the August 10, 2024 write-up: the meal ends early, just as it began.