There are many recipes to discover in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Some of them will be a bit of trial and error with different ingredients, others will be given to you as part of a quest. You can serve meals to your fellow villagers in Remy's restaurant, sell them for some Star Coins or eat them yourself to boost your energy levels while you're fishing, mining, or planting crops.

In this guide, we'll take a look at how to make some quest-specific meals and the best three, four, and five-star meals to boost your energy and earn you some cash. There are several ingredients you'll need to cook in Dreamlight Valley, including:

• Fish 
• Spices/ seasoning
• Vegetables
• Fruit
• Grain
• Fat
• Seafood
• Sweet

Disney Dreamlight Valley best recipes to earn Star Coins

Aside from farming pumpkins and other high-value vegetables, another way to earn Star Coins is by cooking some meals. You'll want to stock up on a bunch of high-energy snacks while you run around farming and fishing for these goods, so remember to take a fishing or foraging buddy with you for maximum yield.

Disney Dreamlight Valley energy recipes

All that farming, foraging, and fishing is hard work, so what better way to replenish your energies than eating a tasty meal? Of course, you could just go back to your home for a minute to regain your energy levels, but you won't earn any Dreamlight that way.

Disney Dreamlight Valley quest recipes

We already have guides on how to make ratatouille for Remy, extra fizzy root beer for Scar, and those pesky crudités, but here are a few more quest-based recipes to help you out.

• Sake make: rice, salmon and seaweed
• Tekka maki: tuna, rice, seaweed and soya beans
• Creamy soup: potato, vegetable, milk and a spice/seasoning
• Fish sandwich: fish and wheat

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One of the most intriguing demos I played during the Steam Next Fest back in February was The Past Within. It's an asymmetric co-op puzzle game set in the deeply weird world of Rusty Lake, which until now has been exclusively a singleplayer realm. Despite the move to multiplayer, The Past Within retains all the hallmarks of the series, including unsettling music, creepy narration, and simplistic yet somehow deeply disturbing graphics.

The basic idea is that memories live in cubes, and you're going to explore one of them to uncover the mysteries of Albert Vanderboom, who in life was not a particularly good man. It's a two-part process that places one player in the future, operating the cube containing Vanderboom's memory, and one in the past, in the actual world he inhabited. Players share instructions, clues, and other information as they go, through dedicated voice channels on the Rusty Lake Discord or whatever other method of communication they prefer—the chat bit isn't integrated into the game, so it's up to you to figure something out—in order to solve the puzzles, discover the secrets, and complete the game.

To be clear, the co-op angle is mandatory: You either play with someone else or you buy the game on two separate devices—say, your PC and your phone—and use them simultaneously. Rusty Lake (the name of the game series is also the name of the studio) said in a Q&A on Steam that The Past Within was originally intended to be a singleplayer game, like the other entries in the series, but early testing of a 3D puzzle box with a peephole gave developers other ideas.

"The more we playtested the game, the more it became clear it was way more interesting to separate these worlds and let one player control the inside of the cube (a 2D room like Cube Escape) and the other player the outside of the cube (a 3D puzzle box)," Rusty Lake wrote. "As soon as we changed the experience and tried it with two players, we knew we were onto something new and exciting. For the first time, we saw two fans enjoy communicating and puzzling together while having different perspectives, and for them it came very close to a real-life escape room experience."

This is also Rusty Lake's biggest game ever, involving a core team of eight—previously the studio only had two members—and various freelancers and helpers who brought the total to more than 25 people "that have been working relentlessly behind the scenes."

"The development of the game has been an amazing journey of over 2.5 years that lead us to this point," Rusty Lake wrote in a launch post. "It all started with a simple shoe box idea that turned out to become quite the unique co-op experience which—in our opinion—is the closest we’ve ever gotten to creating a real-life escape room!

"We are incredibly proud that we made it through all the hurdles and can finally share this unique co-op experience with you all. Many of you are probably already familiar with our devlogs where we shared the struggles we had to overcome for this project to come to life: our first 3D project, switching from Flash to Unity, and above all creating our first co-op puzzle game!"

Rusty Lake games have always been creepy—eerie, sinister, ominous, whatever adjective of the sort you prefer—in unexpected ways, and for me the co-op adds to that element. Unless you have a friend who also wants to play, you're going to be talking to a stranger—and not just idle chit-chat, but with a purpose. That's not the easiest thing for some people, and for them it will no doubt elevate the tension, at least in the early going: As one player in the Rusty Lake Discord put it, "It's kinda scary to have to communicate with strangers to play games this complicated."

(For the record, my experiences playing the game so far have been lovely.)

The Past Within is available now on Steam and Itch.io, at a 40% launch week discount, as well as for Android and iOS devices. If you'd like to get a taste of how it plays before you commit, The Past Within demo is still available on Steam, and you can get a crash-course version in the gameplay video below.

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Atomic Heart, the retro-futuristic Soviet FPS from Russian developer Mundfish, finally has a solid release date. In a trailer released earlier today, the game showcased explosions, mutated horrors, robot assassin women, and announced a release date of February 21, 2023. Also, a man flipped the bird at the camera, which is just rude.

The game's release date has been in a sort of flux in the past few months. Originally announced for Q4 2022, the game's release was changed to a slightly more vague "This Winter" after Focus Home Interactive came on board to publish the game in early September. At the time, Focus Home suggested the delay was a matter of "Polishing and delivering a game of the highest quality".

The trailer doesn't tell us anything new, release date aside. It consists mostly of fast cuts between scenes of intense peril: mutated scientists whose heads split apart like orchids, bemasked Soviet soldiers, blood, gore, people having a bad time in prison, and all manner of weird androids. It's nothing we've not seen before, and I think it's finally time we actually got to play the darn thing. With the release date three months away, it looks like Mundfish agrees.

Atomic Heart came out of nowhere when it released a jaunty, surreal trailer in 2018, and it quickly became one of our most anticipated games that we knew least about. We know it's set in an alternate reality in which the USSR still exists, technology has reached the point of robots and holograms, and that you play an unstable KGB agent investigating a manufacturing facility that's gone dark. We also know the developers have unimpeachable taste in '80s Soviet pop music.

Mundfish seems to be drawing inspiration from Stalker, BioShock, and the new Wolfenstein games. You'll get an arsenal of Soviet armaments and superhuman powers and use them to fight a lot of enemies that probably double as metaphors. Based on what we've seen, the best word to describe it is intriguing: It might fail to come together when the game releases, but so far the vibes are immaculate.

Atomic Heart releases on Steam and the Windows Store on February 21, 2023.

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