A scene from Hot Pot For One, with a dialogue bubble saying "Look at the outside, how beautiful! It's Christmas Eve!"

A cooking scene from the game Hot Pot For One. A pot of boiling stew sits on a burner surrounded by plates of food and a snowman.

A refrigerator in the game Hot Pot For One, filled with various food items, sauces, and drinks.

A screenshot from the game Hot Pot For One, showing a kitchen with a laptop on the counter and a microwave.

Hot Pot for One is a game about soothing one’s loneliness with piping hot homemade food.

It’s Christmas time and you are all alone in your own house while the snow falls outside. You’ve got no one to spend time with and no one to come visiting. What can you do to while away your misery? Cook a meal for six people and eat it all with a hot pot dish.

A microgame that’s less than an hour-long, Hot Pot for One is a physics-based first-person sim where you prepare your own meal. Enjoy a snowy evening with life-like food, a realistic kitchen environment, 30 pieces of hand-drawn illustrations that you can collect, full animations for cooking and eating, and a soothing atmosphere with musical accompaniment.

The developers have stated that Hot Pot for One comes from their experiences as university students living abroad. It evokes the feeling of bitterness and loneliness that can be soothed by eating food from your hometown, and realizing that it’s the simple things in life that can give us the strength to keep going.

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Technical information
Official website
Categories : Casual, Simulation
Editor : Rachel Li
Developer : Rachel Li
Release date : 12 June 2021
System Requirements
- Minimum
- OS: Windows 7 SP1+
- CPU : SSE2 instruction set support
- GPU : DirectX 10