That's 0.2 fried chickens (at ₩20,000 per chicken)
John Whisk is a chef who wields kitchen tools and harbors a grudge. Dive into a dungeon of hostile produce, harvest ingredients off everything you kill, then decide: bank the haul or go deeper. Extract alive, cook the loot, eat it for permanent power or sell it for cash.
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Some chefs source locally. John Whisk sources violently.
The dungeon beneath the kitchen is full of ingredients and every one of them fights back. Carrots hop. Tofu splits when you hit it. Corn detonates into a swarm of popcorn. Cauliflowers heal the things trying to kill you, peppers make them hit harder, and at the bottom of every floor, The Head Chef is waiting to plate you.
John Whisk is an action roguelite where the loot is food, the crafting is cooking, and the only way to keep what you found is to walk out with it.
Fight through fog-shrouded floors with a pan in one hand and a cleaver ready to throw. Every kill drops ingredients into your pouch which is on the line until you decide to go home.
Bank it, or push your luck.
Killing the floor boss gives you two options: go HOME or go DEEPER. Go home, and everything you've collected is yours. Go deeper, and the enemies get stronger, the haul gets bigger, and the risk grows. Die, and you lose the lot, plus the hospital bill.
Back in your kitchen, turn the haul into real dishes. Slice, dice or mince on the cutting board, flip on the pan, watch the pot, time the oven, and plate it clean. Every dish is graded on how well you actually cooked it. A sloppy stir-fry is still edible. A perfect one changes you.
Eat a dish for a permanent stat gain. Slot one as a buff for the next run. Sell the surplus to buy gear, utensil
upgrades and new recipes. Collect matching gear for set bonuses.
- Hand-drawn pixel-art
- Real risk: the only(?) way home is through the boss
- Extract-or-descend choice after every boss, with a pouch you can lose at any moment
- Five cooking minigames: cutting board, frying pan, boiling pot, oven, plating that grade your skill, not just your ingredients
- Permanent character growth through what you eat
- Fog of war, a minimap, and floors that get nastier the deeper you go
- Gear, gear sets, weapons and an expanding recipe book
John Whisk costs ₩4,450 right now.
Based on Wish9's price records and IsThereAnyDeal history, the lowest price is ₩3,560.
The lowest recorded price is ₩3,560. It's 25% higher right now. It has gone on sale 1 time in the past year. The next big Steam sale, the Steam Winter Sale, starts in 34 days. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Recommended: Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 460 or better — Vulkan 1.2 / Direct3D 12, Processor Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 — 4 physical cores, Memory 8 GB RAM. Minimum: Graphics card Intel HD Graphics 510 / AMD Radeon R5 (Kaveri) or better — Direct3D 12 (feature level 12_0) or Vulkan 1.0 required, Processor Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300 — any x86-64 CPU with SSE4.2, Memory 4 GB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.
