Game Description:
Mystery Cookbook serves up a sumptuous feast of Hidden Object fun! Scour your screen for cleverly hidden objects, find matching shapes and point out the differences between similar pictures in Mystery Cookbook, a sumptuous feast of Hidden Object fun! Six exciting mini-games are like the cherry on the cake!
Game size: 19.9 MB
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Review from: GameZebo

It's not because I just returned from visiting Pixar Animation Studios that I find similarities in the story between the animated flick, Ratatouille, and Alawar's new hidden object game, Mystery Cookbook. After all, both follow a mouse/rat who wants to be a skilled chef. Um, sound familiar? While we won't dock points for story unoriginality, we must in the gameplay department, and for other issues, which we'll soon get to.

As a result, Mystery Cookbook is a fun but flawed game that might hold your interest for a while but don't expect much from this casual download.

Boot up this attractive hidden object game and you'll meet Mousy, a rodent who wants to master the fine art of professional cooking. To help him achieve this lofty goal, you'll meet many bizarre animal characters, visit nearly a dozen locations and search for hundreds of well-hidden items in order to find pages of a secret cookbook. If you don't like the humorous dialogue between Mousy and a cat, dog, fish, bird, hamster and so on, you can just click to fast-forward to the game-play.

If you're familiar with hidden object games, you'll have no trouble playing Mystery Cookbook: players are presented with a busy scene, such as a restaurant kitchen, and a number of items to find, such as a fork, wine glass, basket, apple or flowers. Sometimes you'll see the items listed as words, like "bread," while other levels will show you a silhouette of an item to find, such as an outline of a sugar bowl, and you'll need to look for it on the screen. You must find all the items within the allotted time or else you need to replay the level. Click on the wrong item a few times and 20 seconds will be removed from the clock as a penalty...
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Review from: Game Mile

The first thing that is very attractive in the game is its graphics. It’s fun to get into the world of cartoon-styled animals that have some problems to solve. According to the story, you are to help Mousy become a skilled chef. The story reminds the Ratatouille cartoon, but it’s not the same anyway.

So you go to different locations in search of the pages of a secret cookbook. You’ll also meet cute funny animal characters on your way. They are going to help Mousy, but if you are not interested in their dialogues you can always skip them.

Get ready to have to find a lot of items in the hidden object levels. Some of them will be listed as words, some as silhouettes. There are hints to help you if you are stuck. You click on a cheese platter and you can replenish it by finding pieces of cheese on the screens...
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Review from: Casualicious dot Com

In the Mystery Cookbook game from Shape Games, you play as a mouse (named Mousy) on a quest to become a great chef, perhaps amongst domesticated animal-kind. But in order for him to do just that, he must search for the missing pages of a certain cookbook first. The Mystery Cookbook left by a famous all-around chef, but now separated into several ways by his students. And so, armed with only his determination and vitamin-enriched eyes, he travels all across town to rebuild the lost cookbook and mark his place in culinary history forever.

Anyway, being a Hidden Object game, your main objective in Mystery Cookbook is to find all the objects given to you as a list or in the form of a white silhouette. There are also scenes where you’re to spot the difference between two panels too, but aside from these features and an occasional puzzle mini-game, there’s really nothing, in terms of game play, that sets Mystery Cookbook apart from other Hidden Object games. You just have to follow the linear flow of the game, try to finish a level within the time limit, and gather enough cheese to use for hints.

Not saying it’s all bad though, because the Mystery Cookbook game has its many good points too…
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Review from: Play First

Mystery Cookbook is a delightful hidden object game that actually had me longing for more when the trial ended. First off, the storyline is simply adorable, as you play a "mousey" who dreams of becoming a gourmet chef. You must complete the quests of numerous animal friends in places ranging from kitchens to bakeries to dumpsters by locating missing items and torn cookbook pages...
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