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HOLIDAY PATHS ANTHOLOGY • THANKSGIVING CHAPTER
The Family Recipe
Grandma's multimillion-dollar heirloom recipe vanished fifteen minutes before dinner. Nine eccentric relatives. One grand dining room. Seven shocking endings.
The Family Recipe
Releasing November 1, 2026 • Browser & Android PWA
“Grandma took one look at the empty mahogany spice box, tightened her apron strings, and locked the dining room doors from the outside. Nobody leaves until the recipe is found.”
The Hawthorne family recipe isn't just a beloved holiday tradition—it's a closely guarded culinary empire formula recently valued at seven figures by national food syndicates. Tonight, greed has taken a seat at the table.
Interactive Whodunit Mechanics
Interrogation Engine
Confront suspects with contradictory timeline statements, cross-examine dinner alibis, and catch eccentric relatives in embarrassing fibs.
Tension Meter
Every question matters. Push a nervous uncle too hard and he flips the gravy boat; tread too softly and the culprit slips away into the pantry.
Physical Clue Inspection
Examine smudged flour palm prints, decipher torn legal codicil scraps, and inspect the locked heirloom cabinet for signs of forced entry.
7 Distinct Endings
Expose a commercial corporate spy, broker a fragile family truce, blackmail the estate attorney, or quietly claim Grandma's formula for yourself.
Instant Zero-Install Play
Engineered in lightweight vanilla web standards. Enjoy full responsive narrative gameplay in any mobile or desktop browser with offline PWA caching.
100% Ad-Free & Private
No paywalls, zero tracking cookies, and no microtransactions. A pure, self-contained story experience crafted for family game nights.
The Dinner Table Suspects
Everyone sitting around this table has an appetite, an alibi, and a desperate financial motive.
The Matriarch
Grandma Evelyn
Keeper of the 92-year-old formula. Secretly testing which relative is loyal enough to inherit the family legacy.
The Indebted Brother
Uncle Harold
Drowning in Atlantic City casino markers. Needs $150,000 before Monday sunrise or his boat gets repossessed.
The Food Influencer
Cousin Chloe
Half a million followers and a book deal on the line. Leaking Grandma's secrets could make her an international culinary icon.
The Estate Attorney
Aunt Beatrice
Arrived with a leather briefcase and an updated codicil. Insists the recipe belongs legally to the family trust.
The Hired Chef
Chef Pierre
Hired for the evening to execute the feast. Furious that Grandma wouldn't let him inspect the spice blend in advance.
The Observant Niece
Maeve (Age 16)
Knows every hidden attic cubbyhole and loose floorboard. Willing to trade critical witness testimony for pie favors.
Victorian Manor Crime Scene Gallery
Explore the atmospheric rooms, locked pantries, and vintage holiday clues illustrated for *The Family Recipe*.
The Manor Prep Kitchen
The Head of the Table
The Locked Oak Pantry
The Stolen Recipe Card
The Suspicious Pumpkin Pie
The Empty Velvet Casket
Pre-Dinner Grace
The Wainscot Hallway
Holiday Paths Seasonal Trilogy
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Family Recipe is the Thanksgiving chapter of the Holiday Paths interactive fiction anthology by Red Planet Apps. It is a comedic whodunit mystery where you interrogate 9 dining room relatives to find Grandma's stolen multimillion-dollar secret recipe before dinner begins.
The Family Recipe officially launches on November 1, 2026. It will be 100% free to play directly in your web browser and as an installable Progressive Web App (PWA) with offline support.
Gameplay features suspect interrogation, cross-referencing dinner timelines, discovering hidden physical clues (recipe cards, smudged flour prints), and managing the Dining Room Tension Meter to avoid an emotional scene before finding the culprit.
No. Every Holiday Paths anthology chapter is an independent story with original characters, themes, and settings. You can play them in any order you choose.