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A Taste of the Past

Sondering Studio · 2022-03-11

Steam

AdventureCasualFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 11, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

What do you do when you lose someone you love? A Taste of the Past is an emotional sidescroller about reconnecting with your Chinese culture while navigating a train to the afterlife. Featuring a wholesome story, cooking minigames, and hope.

98%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
52/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
0.9h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)
A Taste of the Past is a narrative indie cooking game developed by SonderingEmily. It focuses on a young Chinese-American teenage student overcoming loss by cooking her mother's recipe of noodles. The game was released on March 11, 2022.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 63 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (254 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 20,449 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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