Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!

Worth it · Action · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
46h
Value
$0.43/hr
Reviews
91% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
1% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 46-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
46h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
86.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.43
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
2,310 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
79
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU with at least 256MB of VRAM, 1.2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Hit the road in this massive sequel to the million-selling Cook, Serve, Delicious series. Manage your food truck, cook delicious dishes and serve customers as you take the road trip of a lifetime across war-torn America.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.44/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement1% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
Length46 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 417 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was November 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 66 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cook, Serve, Delicious! ($12.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Party Club ($0.99, scores 32).

Critics scored it 79. Players sit 12 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 46-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 417 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 284 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

35% start to 1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 46-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Players

23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 18:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I love this game. It's silly, it's pretty, and it is a real test of pressing buttons good. For me, it helps with tension that builds up in my body too, which is an unexpected bonus. I played a bunch during Covid, which helped me process that stress, and then more recently picked it up again, and it still hits. 10/10 recommend for button press good people.
doveinthesandRecommendedafter 382hJul 2026Read on Steam
First of all, welcome to CSD. This is an immaculate trilogy. The game I actually recommend to you is CSD:R, but since it's not OUT yet, I'll allow you to play this one instead. This game is the best CSD to play while you wait for CSD:R. It has the perfected input system from CSD2 combined with the most interesting campaign. I have a softspot for the original campaign, but CSD is too outdated now that I've enjoyed...
andy hamRecommendedafter 92hJul 2026Read on Steam
Fun for beginner levels, but it gets really unintuitive when it comes to high point dishes, where the letter doesn't map the spelling of ingredient names, and that's when it became not fun anymore.
intrépideNot recommendedafter 6.5h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1000030/cook-serve-delicious-3
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+12
Critics
79
Players
91
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 2,310 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVertigo Gaming Inc.
PublisherVertigo Gaming Inc.
GenreAction
Released2020
Achievements57