Thanks for the Soup is the most fun I've had in a horror game in a long time — thanks to the broccoli

I went into the immersive horror sim Thanks for the Soup with few expectations and ended up obsessed with organic broccoli farming. The game's premise is simple: from 5pm to 1am you deliver soup to patrons stuck inside by a vague lockdown or busy schedules. Fulfilling orders earns money you can spend on food, fishing, or farming. I funneled my wages into a small organic broccoli plot, and the delivery run became a side hustle.

The town is unnerving—residents are odd, nights grow very dark, random flashes of light and thick white fog appear, and you sometimes experience a heavenly vision—but cycling between houses is oddly peaceful if I focus on my crops. I also found five types of mushrooms around town and, in the name of science (and farming), ate them all; one, the Zuzu mushroom, badly wrecked my depth perception.