Major Features: - NEW Boss! Chicken Fingers has come out of the fryer! Make sure youre extra crispy for this fight! - 9 NEW Assistants! Variety Assistant, Bio Assistant, Goblin Assistant, Mystery Assistant, Spicy Assistant, Extra Assistant, Music Assistant, Tato Assistant, and Flip Assistant. - NEW Promotions! Assistants can be promoted for extra stat benefits AND each of them have 2 promotion paths. (*Note* We now have a total of 36 assistants and each of them have alternate abilitiesthat means there are 72 ASSISTANT ABILITIES)! - NEW Unique Tag! Assistants have a small chance to be Unique, giving ALL weapons its ability! - NEW Quests! Earn extra rewards by completing quests scattered around the map! - 12 NEW Weapons! Nougatling Gun, Chopstick, Stock Pot, Spaghetti Wand, Kale Gun, Colander, Spoon, Fork, Butter Knife, Roasting Fork, Basting Brush, and Skillet. - 7 NEW Enemies! Wall Nut, Grim Ryeper, Chicken Drumstick, Tomahawk Steak, Cottage Cheese, Thyme Traveler, and Corn Cobbler. - 2 NEW Elites! Elite Sage and Elite Sau Sage. - 3 NEW Characters! Grill Master, Sommelier, and Salad Chef. - Nearly ALL weapons have been completely overhauled with new effects. Other Features: - Status Effects are now stackable. - Set bonuses are now based on weapon food types. - Improved weapon rerolling system, making it more likely to get a weapon that you already have or similar tags. - Improved enemy spawning systems, making it so that 2-3 kinds of enemies only show per wave (slightly increasing visual clarity) - Improved lunge, swing, and throw animations. - Added manual aim and auto fire settings. - Added keyboard and controller recognition tab. - Large number displays are now abbreviated (i.e. 1,000,000 = 1m, 1,000 = 1k). - Added revive effect to Angel Assistant. - Added new Liquid tag to some weapons. - New wooden texture and other visual improvements implemented to in-game menus and map. - New player bullet visuals. - Dance floor colors now match the current wave food type that youre against. - Changed unlock requirement for Concession Worker to Reach 1 Health. - Damage numbers show for players taking damage. - Blacklist removal has been moved to the main menu. - New unlockable requirements available for each spice level. - Player hit box reduced by 50% (50% of players body). - Added bindings to shortcut buttons. - Disk space for the game has been reduced by 75% via crunch compression and loading times are faster. - Pausing now occurs when viewing steam overlay or using another application. - Added 6 new steam achievements. Bugs: - Fixed a bug where rerolling weapons with michelin locked repeats the confetti effect. - Fixed a previous patch bug where Eye Scream continues screaming when paused. - Fixed a previous patch bug where retro assistants 0.2s nerf did not suffice. - Fixed a bug where shotguns were not shooting more than one bullet. - Fixed a bug where windowed mode would go to full screen every time the game loads a new scene. - Fixed a bug where Eye Scream and Pumpernickel will still scream when the game is muted. - Fixed a bug where attack indicators sometimes get displaced. - Fixed a bug where Run In Background settings does not persist. - Fixed a bug where holding down a key for Next Wave did not register. Buffs: - All rifles deal double damage. - Butcher health increased from 30 to 35 - Couch Potato and Tee Vee Health doubled Nerfs: - All rifles pierce damage reduced from 75% to 50% - All characters' base critical chance reduced from 5% to 0% - Food critic fire assistant ability reduced from 15% to 10% - Bread knife damage decreased by 50% - Non-GMO trait reduced from 2 shields to 1. An important message from me, the main developer: TLDR - Plans for full release are in the works and I will be moving on to the next game with better design intent. As were taking steps towards full release, I wanted to announce that this update will most likely be the last major content/feature push for Let Him Cook. I believe I may have exhausted myself of most the content and features that I wanted for this game. However, that does not mean I will completely halt development, it just simply means the next few updates will be toned down and smaller compared to the previous two updates. I consider the game to be successful at many different levels, but I also think that the game is not being explored to its full potential. Let Him Cook, as a roguelike, is supposed to be replayable, but its not quite hitting the mark Id hope for. There is a lack of incentive to unlock the content due to internal design problems such as unlocks not being as accessible, shop experience being too overwhelming, and builds feeling too similar. Perhaps this update may change that, but I can no longer adjust the game any further fundamentally. As much as I appreciate all the praise Im receiving from you all, the reality is that Im just not getting enough feedback that I need for this Early Access title, which is an important part of the process. Therefore, I want to wrap up the last pieces of content for this game and hopefully I can move on to a new game with the lessons I learned. I hope you all understand how Im feeling towards the current state of development. I will continue to deliver what I promised: a finished product. - Manny Feliciano, Head Chef

Hi everyone, I hope you're excited as much as I am because there is a HUGE update in the works. You know what time it is? IT'S TIME TO FRY THAT CHICKEN!!! I hope you're all ready to try out new weapons, assistants, and tackle new enemies, because this is going to be quite the nostalgic update for some of you. If you like seeing these kinds of updates and want to dive deeper into keeping up with smaller updates feel free to join our Discord! Thanks for the support as always, and mark your calendars for December 18th! Manny Feliciano, Head Chef

Update 0.2.04 - Patch Notes - Added several basic and status set bonuses. - Requirements to activate Set Bonuses are randomized to 2, 3, 4 sets. - Added several new Status Effects: Bake, Sautee, Poached, and Grill. - Temporary stats are displayed on the left side of the screen during gameplay. Bugs: - Fixed a bug where status effects were not procing on bonus weapon sets. - Fixed a major bug where party host could not damage during the boss fight.

- Improved visuals on projectiles. - Slight rework to Guy the Chubby Assistant. - Reworked Health Inspector. - Can view status tooltips from bonus sets and inventory. - Changed hex assistants category from Economy to Utility. Buffs: - Buffed corkscrews damage over time from 0.25s to 0.2s. - Buffed miners refund ability from half to full. Nerfs: - Nerfed Retro assistants copy cooldown from 0.1s to 0.2s. Bugs: - Fixed a bug where sometimes no information would show upon hovering a weapon in inventory - Fixed a bug where busser randomly gains +1% bonus damage from other sources. - Fixed a visual stat bug where firing an assistant from food critic does not begin the critical damage carry-over until it passes 100%. - Fixed a few notable corkscrew bugs on Dragonfruit. - Fixed a few bugs with the arrows navigating through bonus sets.

- Preset difficulty spice modifiers have been adjusted prior to beating Scorch (prevents newer players from being confused with the spice levels). - Reduced requirement to unlock breeze assistant from 8 to 7.5. - Utensil and Gun assistants give any free weapon of any rarity instead of just level 1 rarities. Bugs: - Fixed a bug where heal numbers flip if player flips direction. - Fixed a bug where stats were not properly matching upon choosing passives. - Fixed health bars flipping when enemies flip orientation. - Fixed unlock bug for Hex Assistant. - Updated saved/resume run information, making the game playable on resuming runs.

Get ready to experience one of the biggest updates and overhauls of the year. Prepare to encounter the Year Of The Dragonfruit!!! NEW FEATURES: - NEW Boss! Dragonfruit has arrived and is awaiting for you to challenge it on the culinary battlefield! - NEW Difficulty Overhaul! You can now customize your difficulty to specific modifiers (Applies after you beat Scorch). All previous difficulties completed have been converted spice levels. Additionally, a new extreme difficulty has been added called Hellfire for those that want to push their skills to the limit. - NEW Weapon Set Bonuses! Weapons now have complimentary sets that trigger additional bonuses when matching their categories. - NEW Weapons! A Cake 47, Clemington 870, Yuzuzi, Santoku, and Blender. - NEW Assistants! Barbarian Assistant, Fencer Assistant, Retro Assistant, Raiser Assistant, Hex Assistant, and Breeze Assistant. - NEW Boss Perks! We Are Toast, Own Worst Critic, Piece of Cake, Food Stamp. OVERHAULED/IMPROVED FEATURES - Inventory management has been improved by tenfold, allowing you to swap, combine, and refund quicker. - Upcoming waves now show upcoming bosses and elites. - Swing and Lunge weapons are more accurate and their animations have been improved. - Halal Guy, Busser, Party Host, Ice Cream Man and Calm assistant reworked. - You can change the way some assistants move: you have the option to make them follow you, attack enemies, and stay in place - Separated save files from game files (such as unlocks), ensuring that game save files wont be corrupted if the game crashes during a run. - Medkits now have a chance to spawn from enemies (increases with medkit passive). - Couch Potato and Tee Vee have been slightly overhauled. Couch Potato has a new moveset. - Assistants and Character UIs now show tracked abilities, if applicable (i.e. Food critic tracks how much bonus crit chance he has when hovering over his UI). VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS - Added settings options to disable black and white effects, crit bubbles, and slow motion effects. - All attack indicators have been completely redone and improved. - Enemies and their outlines are now shown in the dark. - Enemies, projectiles, and the player are no longer affected by black and white effects. - Added flicker upon taking character damage. - New visuals for combining, swapping, and refunding. BUG FIXES AND OTHER PATCH NOTES - Major fix: Assistants pick up 2 disabled weapons, causing them to be hired multiple times. - Minor fix: Mimic does not replace your higher tier weapon. - Minor fix: Upon defeating Couch Potato, the Tee Vee cannot be damage. - Minor fix: All cook book entries were unlocked. - Minor fix: Once you reach the blacklist limit and resume a run, the game will not run properly. - Minor fix: Mystery waves werent saved properly on resuming run. - Minor fix: Rerolls costs were reset upon resuming run. - Minor fix: Party host couldnt do damage during bossfights. - Minor fix: Some unlocks were not properly unlocking (i.e. Waiter). - Minor fix: Fixed localization error in settings. - Mimic now refunds the weapons that it replaces. - Changed mimics resume from utility to economy. - Couch potato death animation lines up more properly. - Changed peashooter to 3-round burst. - Unlock achievement for live with 1 health for 30 seconds reduced from 30 to 10. - Changed weapon selections for some characters in main menu (i.e. food critic can select level 3 - weapons). - Corkscrew pierces enemies before it attaches. - Explosive weapon projectiles pierce enemies. - Created 3 new steam achievements: Fieri, Bourdain, and Ramsay - You can view the stats of weapons and check how weapons and characters were unlocked. Buffs - Slight buff to dessert eagle (lower rarity end) damage. - Reduced italian subs CDR by -0.25s. - Dodgy assistant has an addition 10% speed boost. Nerfs - Nerfed food damage assistants from +5 to +3. - Nerfed regeneration cap from 5 to 3. ===The Let Him Cook Roadmap=== The Let Him Cook Roadmap is outlined on our Discord channel. If you would like to take a look, please visit our Discord for more Details. As stated in the Early Access outline, Let Him Cook will continue to be under the development cycle for at least another year. Progress has been amazing so far with the help and support of you all! Enjoy the new update! - Manny Feliciano, Head Chef

Hey everyone! Some of you are probably wondering what's been cooking in the oven and I gotta say: This next upcoming update is absolutely PACKED with new and improved features, QOL, and content. I'm really excited to show you guys the changes and I want to thank each and every one of you for the suggestions and feedback. Your contributions helped me work on core systems to the game beyond anything I could imagine. GET READY FOR THE YEAR OF THE DRAGONFRUIT UPDATE COMING MID-AUGUST I'll let you guys simmer on that one until August Manny Feliciano, Head Chef

Some more polishing to the game. Small update but very good boost to QOL. Bugs: - Fixed a major bug where you cannot resume your runs. - Fixed a bug where if you disable screen shake, the boss intro scene has a slight offset - Fixed outline bug where random sprites overlay on some enemies QOL/Visual: - New loading animation - New main menu animation - Smaller experience size for better visual clarity - Spawn cages like cereal bowls and taxis now fade out with enemies in them - Cereal bowl new particle effects - Reduced american and swiss cheese fighting particles - Optimized performance with dessert eagle, shotgun espresso, and shotgun beer. Nerfs: - Decreased pomegrenade spawn rate - Slightly increased the cost of nobu

Hey everyone, happy 4th! I hope everyone has been enjoying Let Him Cook so far! It's been an incredible first few weeks already and I'm ready to cook up the game even more. We are getting ready to release our first real update since Early Access with lots of QOL changes and tweaks, especially for controller players: - NEW Button shortcuts for controller and keyboard, reducing the constant button UI navigation by tenfold. - NEW Weapons that replace (not combine) other weapons of a lower rarity now auto-refunds your money back! -NEW Manage tab: you now have the ability to quick swap all weapons in one succession! -Huge optimization improvements across the board, benchmarked at 60fps+ with hundreds of bullets on your screen -Increased the enemy spawn cap from 75 to 100 due to optimization -Enemy projectiles visual revamp for improved clarity -Buying weapons creates a slight new visual -Upcoming waves visual revamp -More UI navigation polish -Let Him Cook new visual logo -Cook book descriptions updated Buffs: Corkscrew has extremely low cooldowns (0.5s to 0.1s) Bumped up food critic's fire assistant passive (12% to 15%) Bugs: Fixed a major bug where sometimes the player does not receive damage from enemies Fixed corkscrew and hot crossbow reload Fixed utensil and gunsmith assistant high rarity weapon bug Fixed settings bug where text disappears (localization error) Hopefully these QOL changes will improve your overall experience with the game. We have lots of content lined up for you all later this Summer. Thanks for all the support and feedback! Enjoy your holiday and keep it up chefs! Head Chef - Manny Feliciano

Friends, it is time to don your aprons and that stylish, iconic chef's hat. Sharpen your knives, prepare your spices, and rev up those fryers. It's time...TO COOK We are absolutely thrilled to serve our best dish yet! And it's truly something. Prepared with a base of top-down action roguelike gameplay, layered with bullet heaven and hell mechanics, and garnished with a comedic culinary personality. Our head chef,@Manny Feliciano, has cooked this one up with love. TODAY, Let Him Cook is officially releasing in Early Access on Steam! New Features: - The Cook Book - 5 Elites - More Assistants - More Weapons - More Enemies - More Controller Options

A huge update to our demo: elites, new mechanics, and a bigger map! Elites Elites are here to add some spiciness to your runs. If you want their rewards, cook them before the timer ends on the wave. Watch out. They are much more dangerous than their smaller counterparts. Brand New UI We cooked up a brand new menu for you to navigate through, thats the whole thing for that. Hope you like it! Blacklisting Assistants If you ever felt like you kept getting too many Joes in your hiring booth (We dont know why you would ever feel this way), then you can permanently get rid of his resume, letting you skew for the assistants you want. You only have 5 resumes you can blacklist per run! A slew of Quality Of Life fixes as well ...We made the map bigger Yup, we just made the map bigger. Trust us, it was a big enough job that we feel like we need to list it.

"Small" update to the demo. Gameplay is now customizable via Visibilty settings! Enjoy! ***Customizable with several different colors! Player Outlines Enemy Outlines Assistant Outlines Enemy Projectiles Toggle Weapon Outlines (No color changes) Reduce clutter on the screen: Disable crowds in the background during boss fights and DJ dance floors Reduce particle effects from weapons, enemies, and more Adjust brightness, contrast, dance floor lights, and weapon opacity These settings can be a game changer to some and a good QOL to all. I personally love these new settings. Thank you all for the support!

Hello everyone, this is a major update that has gone live with LOTS of new features and content. This update brings us one step closer to the complete demo and Early Access is now currently being developed: New and final 5th character: The Busser New Assistants: Turret Assistant (Julia), Crazy Assistant (Craig), Calm Assistant (Calvin), Banker Assistant (Nobu) New Weapons: Blowtorch and Scooper New Enemies: The Cabbage New Endless Mode You now have the ability to SAVE AND RESUME RUNS outside of the main game Added a small meta progression for unlocking characters Thank you all for the support. All feedback is welcome! Tell us what you think in our Discord Manny Feliciano, Head Chef Also, check out our new trailer ;) [previewyoutube=ZCFRAZl0hJg;full][/previewyoutube]