Bento – the Japanese way of preparing delish food in a compartmentalized box is quite a rage in Japan and the world over. Bento box simple means lunch box, but the aesthetics and benefits are what make them unique. These compact meals are a kid’s favorite, and mothers leave no stone unturned to make them as assorted and visually appealing as possible to make their kids eat a wholesome lunch. Lately, bento design has been quite out-of-the-box (pun intended). “Kyara Bento” style boxes feature lunches designed and based on popular Japanese comic books, animation, and video games. Then there are the “Oekaki Bento” boxes that contain food shaped like cute animals, people, and plants.
Japanese lunch boxes are part of popular culture. There are even some games based on them. They let you prepare your own lunchtime in-game, decorate boxes with stickers and make their virtual food as visually enticing as possible. Here are some of the best bento box game apps on Android:
Lip-Smacking Lunch Box Games
Inbento
A Kawaii food-themed puzzle game, Inbento lets you arrange food items in bento boxes by placing food blocks in the appropriate tiles inside the box. You can move and rotate food blocks to fit in the bento box to complete a puzzle level. The game has more than 100 puzzles and is known for its unique pattern-matching gameplay.
As you progress solving bento puzzles, you will discover a cute wordless story about a cat family.
Inbento is a premium app with no ads and a unique textless story mode. If you are a fan of Japanese aesthetics and are fascinated by bento boxes, then this unique puzzle game is for you.
Adorable Home
Preparing a scrumptious bento for your partner is one of the mini-games in Adorable Home. You will have to prepare this lunchbox before your partner leaves for work. Preparation includes a main dish, a side dish, and a dessert. Purchase food and bento boxes of different shapes and sizes from the in-game shop menu. You can use hearts to purchase the main course, side dishes, and desserts from the shop.
Create delish combos to win more hearts from your partner. There are more than 15 bento combos to discover. You can purchase and choose from seven different bento boxes to prepare your lunch.
While Adorable Home is not an out-and-out bento box game app for Android, its bento-making mini-game is extremely addictive and a great addition to this casual sim game.
Hello Kitty Lunchbox
Hello Kitty Lunchbox is one of the best bento box games for kids. It lets you prepare four appetizing lunch box recipes, such as kabobs, cupcakes, sandwiches, and yummy soups. It simulates lunchtime preparation, making gameplay engaging, fun, and satisfying.
For example, to prepare a sandwich, a player has to choose a loaf, make the pesto by blending ingredients in a blender, spread the pesto on bread, cut veggies and slice cheese, and add them to your sandwich. Finally, use different types of toothpick toppers to decorate the sandwich. Once the food is ready, you can start decorating your lunch boxes with fun stickers and backgrounds. Finally, put the delicious sandwich in the lunchbox.
Hello Kitty Lunch Box offers a host of decorations and appliances to make a delicious meal. There are unlimited ways to create and design your own bento box.
The game also has fun quests - just make the recipe the way Hello Kitty wants and get supercute rewards, such as bento box shapes, cute stickers, and lovely new backgrounds.
Lunch Box Master
Lunch Box Master lets you own a small "lunch shop" under the beautiful cherry tree. Make a variety of lunch boxes for your customers, launch recipes, and take advantage of various tools and boosts to expand your business.
It's a time-management game inspired by games like Cooking Dash. Customers will order their favorite lunch boxes at your eatery, you will have to tap on a customer to know the menu and then put the ingredients in the boxes to prepare delish meals for them.
Lunch Box Master has over 500 levels, each more challenging than the other. There are more than five hundred different lunch box menus and 150 ingredients to make special bento boxes for customers.
Fluffy! Cute Lunchbox
Fluffy Cute Lunchbox is a 2048-inspired merge game that lets you make delicious animal-themed bento boxes by swiping and merging adorable garnishes.
The lunchboxes take the shape of a grid with a few random ingredients sprinkled in it. Swipe the screen vertically or horizontally with your finger to merge ingredients of the same number and create new garnishes for your bento box.
Keep merging items to fill the box with several new and yummy ingredients. Once the grid is full, a new bento box is prepared. You can then share it with your friends.
The objective of this game is to unlock and collect all garnishes, such as "Fried Shrimps Seal" and "Panda Seaweed Rice Ball". The game also lets you choose different lunch box designs, and decor items, such as flagpoles, and also unlock new garnishes using points.
Bento Jigsaw Puzzle - KITINTO
Bento jigsaw puzzle lets you make delicious Japanese lunch boxes across 300 stages. In each stage, you will have to put all food items in their right place inside a lunch box. The box type and the item list vary from one stage to another, so expect a lot of challenges as you advance through levels.
Since the game is like a jigsaw puzzle, the rules are pretty simple, All you have to do is to tap and hold a food item and move to the box to fit the piece in the right place. It's one of the very few puzzle-themed bento box game apps for Android, available on the Play Store.