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Venba cover art

Venba

Visai Games · 2023-07-31

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Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 28, 2025 (Mac), Jul 31, 2023 (Xbox One), Jul 31, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 31, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 31, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 31, 2023 (PlayStation 5)

Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.

4
playing now
93%
positive of 3.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
87/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
73/100
IGDB user rating (59 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more. Cook Mouth Watering Dishes - Venba's recipe book gets damaged when she moves to Canada. Restore the lost recipes to cook delicious mouth watering dishes that serve as a connection to the home left behind. Explore. Converse, Experience - Get to know the family well, hold branching conversations, and explore as you face the ch(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 357 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~45/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
Estimated sales: 75k–168k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,726 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.75-75%
GOG$14.99
Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2026-07-31) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 28 of 55 observed days · $11.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
41941920232026Week of 2023-07-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 419 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2322026-08-07 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 14 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 23 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 20 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 15 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.742023-07-312026-08-302023-07-31 — best price $12.742023-08-15 — best price $14.992023-11-21 — best price $11.992023-12-07 — best price $11.242024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-02-12 — best price $14.992024-05-09 — best price $9.742024-06-27 — best price $8.992024-09-18 — best price $8.992024-11-18 — best price $14.992024-12-02 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $7.492025-05-08 — best price $14.992025-05-28 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-07-26 — best price $14.992025-08-11 — best price $14.992025-09-15 — best price $5.992025-10-09 — best price $5.992025-11-05 — best price $4.942025-11-25 — best price $14.992026-01-03 — best price $4.942026-01-16 — best price $14.992026-02-12 — best price $14.992026-02-28 — best price $14.992026-03-16 — best price $14.992026-04-03 — best price $4.992026-04-23 — best price $14.992026-05-14 — best price $4.952026-06-06 — best price $4.952026-06-25 — best price $4.942026-07-24 — best price $3.752026-08-14 — best price $3.752026-08-17 — best price $3.752026-08-28 — best price $14.992026-08-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
91.7%
earned "Put Chutney"
65.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)10,63748%15
PS5 (PlayStation)5,60673%16
Steam (Steam)2,57736%15
Switch (Nintendo)760%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

1980sIndieCasualPuzzleCookingStylizedCinematicEmotionalNarrativeStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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