No Rest For The Wicked: Best Meals To Restore Health

No Rest For The Wicked is the latest game from developers, Moon Studios, the team behind Ori And The Blind Forest. However, No Rest For The Wicked is a very different game, an action-RPG with Dark Souls elements.

The souls-like nature of No Rest For The Wicked ensures that players are almost always taking a beating from enemies, especially early on in the game. However, the game also features a cooking system that allows players to cook powerful meals to restore their health.

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The Shepherd’s Pie and Herb-Infused Riverfeast are both great meals that the player can cook in No Rest For The Wicked. These meals restore 80 health to the player and both have their own powerful effects. However, these meals also require a great deal of ingredients to cook, some of which can be difficult to come by, arguably making them worse than the other meals in the game.

8 Crab Chowder / Mushroom Soup

These easy-to-acquire recipes allow players to cook simple meals with a mere one to two ingredients. For Crab Chowder, players simply need a Horseshoe Crab, while Mushroom Soup requires both a Mushroom and an Artemisia Herb.

In exchange for these simple ingredients, players are given a meal that restores thirty-five health points. Although these meals are technically the weakest in terms of health restoration, they are a staple of the early-game diet, and the lack of ingredients required to cook them ensures players will always be able to whip them up in a pinch.

The Crab-Stuffed Mushroom uses a combination of ingredients from Mushroom Soup and Crab Chowder to offer a particularly strong meal. This meal restores 50 health and grants the player 15 bonus health for 600 seconds. However, this meal requires more ingredients than these simpler ones and isn’t as easy to batch-cook.

7 Fish Skewer

This versatile meal allows players to both restore health and gain a great deal of focus. This can be handy for healing small amounts of damage while also regaining precious focus. However, for healing health alone, the Fish Skewer is one of the weaker healing items.

Despite this, the Fish Skewer is still a better healing item than Crab Chowder or Mushroom Soup, as it restores 50 health points instead of 35. Unfortunately, as its name may suggest, the Fish Skewer does require raw fish in order to cook, which can take more time to gather than the ingredients for other meals, such as Mushroom Soup.

6 Dracaena Dumpling / Chewy Steak

The Chewy Steak and Dracaena Dumpling are both solid healing items, restoring 50 health points when used. This can be a massive help during combat, providing a great deal of healing that can get players out of a tight spot.

Furthermore, this large amount of healing ensures players will restore all of their health with one meal, especially in the early game. This is particularly important due to No Rest For The Wicked‘s use of an eating cooldown, which prevents players from shoving down two meals in one go.

5 Herder’s Hearth Stew

Although this hearty meal requires an array of ingredients in order to produce, it can quickly change the tide of battle. Herder’s Hearth Stew is a must-have recipe for players using heavier weapons that consume more stamina.

The reason for this is that Herder’s Hearth Stew not only restores the player’s health but grants them a stamina increase for a full minute. The restored health is greater than that of the aforementioned Chewy Steak and Dracaena Dumpling, and the bonus stamina can often make the difference between life and death.

4 Tomato Bisque

The Tomato Bisque is a great recipe for restoring health, primarily for its simplicity. Tomato Bisque restores a mighty 75 health points, and while it doesn’t have any of the bonus effects that meals such as Mushroom And Meat Curry provide, this massive injection of HP can be a much-needed boost.

Tomato Bisque is also easy to cook; the meal requires a singular Dracaena Herb and two tomatoes, making it easier to cook than more complex meals such as Mushroom And Meat Curry. However, tomatoes are somewhat harder to come by than mushrooms and meat.

3 Fish Salad

The Fish Salad is one of the most powerful healing items in No Rest For The Wicked, thanks to its high health restoration. Furthermore, the Fish Salad also grants the player 50 focus points, which can help them dish out more damage while keeping them in the fight.

Because the Fish Salad is a versatile meal that restores the player’s health and focus, it’s definitely worth the number of ingredients it requires. However, players that want to get the most out of their ingredients may be better off using their Dracaena Herb in combination with raw bass and potatoes to create the superior Angler’s Delight Chowder. Regardless, the Fish Salad is a good way to make use of raw trout.

2 Angler’s Delight Chowder

The Angler’s Delight Chowder is arguably one of the most powerful healing items in No Rest For The Wicked, thanks to its massive restoration of the player’s health and solid restoration of focus. Angler’s Delight Chowder requires fewer ingredients (4) than the Fish Salad (5) and provides 20 more health points, arguably making it the superior meal.

Players who want to access the recipes for both Angler’s Delight Chowder and the other powerful recipes discussed will typically need to complete The Innkeeper’s Husband side-quest. During the quest, players rescue a cook named Gordon, who promptly returns to Sacrament once rescued.

1 Sirloin Platter

This powerful meal restores a massive 150 health to the player, which is already a worthwhile effect for the three ingredients the meal requires. However, Quality Meat Sections can be harder to come by than other ingredients, though they can often be purchased from Gordon.

However, the Sirloin Platter also provides the player with increased health for 600 seconds. The added health gives players extended survivability, and the length of the effect’s duration ensures that it can last throughout the entirety of a boss fight. This makes the Sirloin Platter a great choice for players attempting a particularly hard-hitting boss.