I would also love it if they used real recipes for things, like the ones from Lobscouse & Spotted Dog, which is a tremendously well-researched and well-written book that has the recipes from the Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin series. This includes a recipe for boiled shit and millers (rats) in onion sauce.

As food supply dwindles you're forced to cook with more and more spoiled ingredients. Leading to sickness and hallucinations on top of the strange supernatural influence. Sleep won't come any more. Whatever is on the ship makes it impossible to rest. Vision is blurry and hearing is off. Which voices are real, which are the ghosts, which are purely your own? The wind has stopped and the ship hasn't moved is a week as the waves rock. People who you thought had jumped overboard are back making requests for dishes from their childhood. Spices you don't remember stocking and couldn't possibly be on board turn up in unexpected places. This looks like saffron. Does saffron taste like that all the time or is this something else entirely?

eldritch fish...

Well, there's your collab with Dredge already written!

Add in increasingly brutal reactions to bad meals from getting yelled at near the beginning to getting knocked to the floor and some ingredients stolen then eventually a guy takes a couple of your fingers off with a clever and walks away laughing as he pops them in his mouth

I heard of an art / board game like this as well, loading trains with as much cargo as possible. Once you get to the end of the game you discover what the cargo was.

That idea was stolen from the famous board game Train

i love using the Holocaust as a cheap twist ending just for the shock value.

Off (Video Game) does this

if nautical horror is something you like

(Seriously thanks for the rec though. I've heard that name before but haven't checked it out.)

And Dredge

Not exactly the same but this game looks awesome, thanks for dropping it here.

Dredge was so much fun, just wish it was a bit longer or had more replayability. Also there's achievements you just straight up can't get yet so even though I've gotten 100% of the achievements that are possible, steam doesn't show it's 100%

Yeah, that game some great environmental storytelling, so much lore but you're just the janitor

Among us in real live 🌚

except instead of playing as guybrush, your just a chef he keeps stopping by telling you about his increasingly weird forays with a pirate