Food Therapist

Sweet and sour. Peanut butter and jelly. Bacon and maple syrup. The world is full of a diverse array of relationships. Sometimes people you never expect make the best couples.

But even the best couples need help from time to time, and that's where you come in. In this short comedy visual novel, you are Doctor Pineapple M.D. As a couples' therapist, it's your job to help couples through the difficult patches in their relationships. But perhaps the one relationship Doctor Pineapple can't fix is their own.

Can you put love back on the table, or will your advice be a recipe for disaster?

About the Game

This game was created for the Girly Game Jam 2025.

Food Therapist is a comedy visual novel about romance. You play as a relationship counsellor for a series of foody couples.  You can choose whether to support the couples to address their problems, or be an agent of chaos. 

The game lasts around 10-15 minutes, or longer if you want to see all the routes through each scene.

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Content Warning

This game contains numerous puns, some euphemisms related to sex and minor curse words.

This game is a light-hearted and silly comedy, but it deals with themes of feelings of inadequacy in relationships, fear of infidelity, unrequited affection, toxic behaviour and trauma over the loss of a partner.

How to Play

On the main menu, select Play to start from the beginning or Chapters to skip to a specific scene.* To unlock the third scene,  you have to finish the first two first.

To advance the dialogue, simply left-click or press Enter. Select dialogue options with the mouse cursor and left-click.

There are lots of different paths through the game and every scene has multiple endings. You can skip through dialogue you've already read. ** During the game, click the Options button in the bottom right and then select 'Read'. Then, hold the Ctrl button to advance through dialogue quickly until you reach a new line or a choice.

*Choices in one scene don't affect the other two scenes so if you're replaying to get all endings, you can just skip to the chapter you want to replay.

**We have found the skipping to be a little buggy, so sorry if it doesn't always work for you. You can try changing the Skip mode to Unread. It will skip quickly THROUGH all dialogue until you reach a choice, but this is still useful when replaying.

Credits

Code and graphic design by Argo Ashton

Character art by Melissa Wilkinson

Written by Jim Huxter

With production and editing support by Eddie Dearden

Made with Visual Novel Maker [Copyright] ©2018 KADOKAWA CORPORATION ©2018 Degica

Food Therapist Copyright © 2025 Whimberry Studio

Sound Effects, Music and Images

• "Zazie",  "Vibing Over Venus" and "Smooth Lovin" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
• Loose Classic Bike Bell, Single Ding 2 by manofham -- https://freesound.org/s/701032/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
• Door, Front, Opening, A.wav by InspectorJ -- https://freesound.org/s/431117/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
• Door, Front, Closing, A.wav by InspectorJ -- https://freesound.org/s/431118/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
• Architecture-design-house-interior from Pixabay under the Pixabay license
• Door-doorway-wall-interior-design from Pixabay under the Pixabay license