A covered plate waits on the hatch shelf in front of a cell, under a single caged bulb

Last Meal

Every night, someone gets a last meal.

A narrative pixel-art cooking game set on death row. Cook the condemned their final meals, carry what comes back through the hatch, and decide what the truth is worth.

Status
Coming soon
Platforms
  • Windows PC
Players
Single-player

Coming soon to Steam

About the game

The kitchen is the bloodstream.

You took the night shift at Blackridge Penitentiary. The kitchen was built against the death-watch cell in 1931, “so the last meal would arrive hot” — and now it is yours.

Every final-meal night, a condemned prisoner tells you what they want. What they don’t say out loud matters more. Investigate, cook it right, and carry what comes back through the hatch: a note for a son, pages for the outside, a cassette for a daughter. Slowly, quietly, you become the most important person in the building.

“The guards have keys. You have the bloodstream.”

Ilse Marrow, Night One

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Trailer

With sound. Captured in-game.

Screenshots

In the game

9 screenshots, captured in-engine. Select one to enlarge.

Features

What’s inside

  • Cook it for real

    Wash, chop to the knife’s rhythm, juggle a pot and a pan, season and plate. There are no scores, only how it tastes to them.

  • Every recipe carries a message

    Secret ingredients unlock confessions. Recipe cards hide notes passed between prisoners. Cloves mean: don’t trust whoever carries it.

  • Choices that come back

    Favours, lies and the papers you keep return chapters later: on the news, at the hatch, at home.

  • Sixteen chapters

    Final-meal nights, a day shift, a lockdown, a supply run, a blackout and a crisis, with quiet scenes at home in between.

  • Five endings

    The Witness, the Ally, the Company Man, the Match or the Neutral. No ending saves everyone.

  • Made by hand, down to the sound

    An original score and physically modelled sound design, fully translated into six languages.

A brass plaque on the kitchen wall: 1931, so the last meal would arrive hot. Blackridge State Board.

Three rules. Cook what’s approved. Serve it. Don’t get involved.

Pruitt, kitchen supervisor, on your first night

Final-meal nights

Tonight’s orders

Every request is a story. Some of them are lies.

  1. Night OneNo. 01
    Portrait of Ilse Marrow

    Ilse Marrow

    “What everyone else is eating.”

    The approved stew. Or Marta’s lentil soup, with lemon, if you ask properly.

  2. Night TwoNo. 02
    Portrait of Hassan Idrissi

    Hassan Idrissi

    “What my mother made.”

    Red rice and lamb, with the cinnamon from his mother’s blue tin.

  3. Nights 3–7Sealed

    +5

    more orders, kept in the envelope. You’ll read them on the night they arrive.

    Not tonight
Five endingsNo ending saves everyone

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