Cooking Companions
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$4.27BANGER
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
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
The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. 53 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 34 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.27. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59) and Garten of Banban 7 ($6.99, scores 56).
1 of the 372 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 2.7 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to 14% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game is good overall, but I was disappointed. You can buy it on sale, but definitely not at full price.
I love "cooking" with my "companions"! One of the most unique games I've played in the Visual Novel genre! It's such a different type of story compared to most other visual novels and I'm all for it. Ever since I played the Appetizer Edition, I fell in love with the game as the game's overall charm kept me wanting more of what it's offering. Please give this underrated gem a try! I bet they would be dying to try out...
Cooking Companions is a fun little horror VN you can easily finish in a night. While some of it's art can be quite rudimentary (Anatoly's sprite at the table comes to mind) and the scares primarily rely on scary faces, it's nonetheless enjoyable for it's short 2-3 hr runtime. I would advise getting this game on sale, as it's short with very little branching paths and mostly statics sprites except for the occasional...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cooking Companions scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1263230/cooking-companionsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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