Eat Me Review

assorted and rambling thoughts on the parser game eat me

Created: 2025-02-21

Last Edited: 2025-10-15

Note: So, I am (or I was) planning to play through every recommended game on IFDB for fun (the first five, not everything in the 'more recommendations section') and give a short review of my thoughts. I am (was) currently on Toby's Nose and had previously completed Eat Me. I'm planning on getting back to it eventually, just haven't felt much motivation to play games as of late. On to my thoughts! Of course spoilers follow, so play it here

The premise is that you are a child with an endless appetite, trapped in a strange kingdom populated by anthropomorphic food. You are encouraged to eat vast quantities of food by the narrator, and in fact this is the only action you are allowed to take that can affect the world. To escape your chocolate chains you must eat through them, to kill the food-based enemies you must eat them too. It's told in the style of a fairytale, Hansel and Gretel mixed with Alice in Wonderland.

The puzzles are quite easy, yet still fun to solve. I only spent maybe a day or two figuring the whole game out, and this makes sense considering there is only one way to truly interact with any puzzle. It eliminates guessing which command you need to use, only figuring out which objects you need to interact with and in the correct order. The castle's layout is also simple to map out (I used trizbort) if you enjoy doing that yourself. There are six courses (main puzzles) for you to feast on, and I only used the invisiclues hints for the crying woman puzzle, which is something I probably should've gotten if I weren't being a bit lazy.

Now, on to the main reason why I wrote this...
To me this game has a, albeit unintended, horny vibe to it. It somehow managed the perfect intersection with some of my fetishes. The incredibly vivid descriptions of food every time you must eat, combined with the encouraging though menacing urging of the Sugarplum Fairy to continue eating, as well as the fact that the player character is a child and constantly referred to in indearing terms by the narrator. There are also the stranger moments, such as sucking on the cow's udder at the end, or the ability to weigh yourself to see how many courses are left. This game also ends with you literally getting cooked alive in your own boiling fat, which is just the cherry on top. It's sort of a fetish game when looked at from the right angle, and that little suprise only adds to the fun of it all!

So, if you want to play a IF game with an interesting game mechanic and a dark, yet funny tone you'll enjoy Eat Me a lot ^_^

extra notes: i might post my thoughts on spider and web sometime later this month before continuing on with playing through the recommended section.