The potential for environmental(?) storytelling with this is amazing. Crew that have been hoarding fruit bringing it to you during restricted rations then the rest of the crew finds out and they just stop showing up, or being bribed to redirect better food from the captain's table, or trying to manage the rationing requirements given to you by an increasingly insane captain while at the same time having to keep the crew happy or they'll turn on you.

Parrots stuffed with crackers, long saltpork, barrels of infinte biscuits, huge oysters, eldtritch fish, trying to keep the nightmares from stealing your ingredients while still serving dinner on time, your knives all go missing so you have to improvise all your recipies without them...

yeah, there's a lot of potential here.

In the book Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, the main character Sadie is a video game designer who created his game in which you play a worker creating factory parts. If you ignore what's going on around you and just focus on winning the game by making the parts better and faster, eventually the game ends and it becomes clear that you were creating equipment for Nazis during the Holocaust and, thus, you lose the game.

Movies love to have twist endings in which something would have been obvious if you were paying better attention. I think more video games need to do this as well.

Well it’s not the same concept, but if nautical horror is something you like, try Return of the Obra Dinn.

I would 100% watch a YouTube let's play about this game.

... Dredge?

Return of the Obra Diner

its not the same, but have you guys tried return of the obra dinn?

it has this sorta vibes.

Being able to look out the porthole, sometimes seeing a kraken. Crew in the mess start getting possessed, eyes turn red, etc. BGM turns from jovial shanties to mixed with eldritch whispering.

Sounds so much fun

Reminds me a bit of Viscera Cleanup Detail

https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_Detail/

You’re a janitor at some kind of secret science facility where monsters start killing people. Never played it, but love the concept.

Try Closing At 2. It's a bartender version of what's described...kind of. Gets very insane very quick.

That sounds like something from the Unfathomable board game

I would play the shit out of this. No cannibalism any %

Fatal Feast

"Cooking horror" reminds me of the game Adam Millard talked about in his last video.

This could be the prequel to PO'd.

There's a horror game where you bake pizzas in a restaurant

This sounds like that "can you fry an egg at the top of Mt Everest" game.

Lacey's Diner.

The latest Monkey Island