Recipe for Disaster
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $3.74.
- Length
- 15.7h 23.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 729 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
32 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 69 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off still sits 9 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TasteMaker ($7.19, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Cafe Owner Simulator ($3.79, scores 13).
More about Recipe for Disaster
Of the 479 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 452 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 14:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this game in the beginning. However, as you progress further (and it doesn't take long) you start running into the same things over and over again. The game itself has a great concept and a lot of potential, but unfortunately, it seems like the developers have stopped working on it. It was fun for a few hours, but since it doesn't look like anything is going to change or improve...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Good game. Had a lot of potential but is now abandoned. Would suggest to jst not buy it coz it's buggy and there's a lot of clutter onscreen if u have a lot of employees. If u want to jst go with campaigns u could try.
Recipe for Disaster takes the familiar restaurant-management formula and gives it a stronger emphasis on people, personalities, and the unpredictable problems that emerge when a supposedly efficient business is staffed and visited by individuals with different expectations. Developed by Dapper Penguin Studios and published by Kasedo Games, it combines management, simulation, building, resource planning, and light...
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Cite this score
Recipe for Disaster scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1492360/recipe-for-disasterReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.