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A cozy pixel game about food from everywhere. Shop at a market, fill a small fridge and cook dishes from around the world, with chiku the dog beside you. Made for kids and for grown ups. On Google Play it is for ages 6 and over.
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Pick foods from the stalls. The basket holds three, and a food goes in only if the fridge has a spot for it.
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Foods wait in a small fridge with only so many spots. When it is full, cook something to make room.
3
Put up to three foods in the pot and stir. Some mixes make a dish from somewhere in the world. Any other mix makes a soup.
foods from everywhere
The market has five stalls: fruit, vegetables, roots, herbs and spices, and grains, beans and nuts. Twenty seven foods wait on them, each drawn as a small pixel sticker. Choose a food and put it in the basket.
The fruit and vegetable stalls are free. The other three open with the kitchen pass, which is for grown ups.
tap. drag. stir.
Drag foods from the shelves into the pot, then stir. When a step is new, a little hand shows the way.
The pot takes three foods, and the staples that are always home, like milk and yogurt, are on the shelf.
a new dish every day
Each day chiku wishes for a dish, like a mango lassi, which is a cold yogurt drink from India. Cook it, see it on the table, and tap the real recipe to cook it with a grown up.
There are eight dishes from around the world, and a soup for any other mix. Every knife, stove and blender step in a real recipe is marked for a grown up.
your recipe book
Every food a child meets is taped into the book as a sticker, with a star card of its own, and every dish cooked goes in with the place it comes from. When a child spots one in a real shop, a tap on I saw one for real gives the card a spotted stamp.
calm by design
Your game stays on your phone. There is no account to make, there are no ads, and there are no streaks to keep. At the end of the day chiku says goodnight.
Grown ups have a door of their own. A small question, a times table in words, stands before every purchase, every link out, the grown up corner and the real fridge.
Behind it: no ads, ever; nothing made here is sent to us; no advice about food. And what a child learns, without being told:
One optional purchase, the kitchen pass, opens the other three stalls and what comes later. It lives behind the grown up door too, next to the real fridge: type a date and chiku counts to it. chiku never says whether food can be eaten, how to store it, or when it turns. That call is always yours.
we are reweave, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. we also make moo, who nudges you to move.
Chiku: Food Game is a cozy pixel game about food from everywhere. A child shops at a market, keeps foods in a small fridge and cooks dishes from around the world, with chiku the dog showing the way. It is made by Reweave, a nonprofit.
Children and grown ups. On Google Play it is for ages 6 and over. Every player is treated as a child: there is no account, there are no ads, and a grown up door stands before any purchase, link out or the real fridge.
The fruit and vegetable stalls are free, and so is the rest of the day: the fridge, the kitchen, the words and the book. The other three stalls open with the kitchen pass, one optional purchase for grown ups.
No. There is no sign up, no email and no password. Open the game and chiku is there.
On your phone. There is no server holding the game, and this website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Purchases are handled by the app store through RevenueCat, and the privacy page says exactly what that involves. Deleting the app deletes the game.
A small question for grown ups, a times table in words. It stands before every purchase, every link out, the grown up corner and the real fridge, and it is asked again each time.
More answers on the faq, or write to support@reweave.org