Kitchen Sabotage (2023)

Kitchen Sabotage is a turn-based card/board game with a goal of gaining points by cooking recipes with various ingredients; through the game, though, players can sabotage each others' creations to try to get ahead! 2-8 players ("chefs") can play (or more with expansion pack madness and/or multiple decks). Each chef works in their own kitchen, gathering/assembling ingredients, cooking/baking them just the right amount of time, and serving them to happy (or not-so-happy) customers. Each round progresses through turns in that order (assemble ingredients, cook, and serve). But here's the twist - there is ample opportunity to sabotage each others' ingredients and cooking methods, to turn their fine cuisine into a gross heap of mush and get ahead in the restaurant game! If you make your food to perfection, you'll be rewarded as such. But if your cooking is off too much thanks to your opponents' sabotaging, you won't be rewarded as much (or maybe even take a penalty). Players tally their earnings and losses at the end to see if anyone made it through the kitchen sabotage with edible food. —description from the publisher