Cuisineer
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 24.2h
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 (4096 MB) / Radeon RX 560X (4096 MB), 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!
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
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. 27 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, PlateUp! ($19.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Feed the Cups ($15.99, scores 27).
Of the 717 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 70 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 24.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 50, 2.0 times as much.
The drop-off
91% start to 4% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 20:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's pretty solid. Style is cute, and the food close-ups look delicious. The combat works well enough. The weirdest part of the game is the cooking, which is pretty much selecting an item on the menu and stare at it cooking itself. I think a very optional small mini game where you use the R stick to stir, flip, spritz, or chop the food for a bit of extra tip would give enough feeling of cooking for me, and also give...
cuisineer has a lot of heart, and i enjoyed playing through the game! there was a surprising amount of stuff hidden away into the very end (like the league and some other spoilers) that i'm glad i kept going for, and overall i found the characters endearing, the restaurant aspect fun to decorate, and the art absolutely lovely. a lot of the criticism for this game remains true; i found it oddly paced and quite...
I really want to like it but killing most of the regular enemies just takes sooo long since they have such high HP. The dungeon maps also keep feeling the same and I'm drowning in eggs and flour. On top, playing on SD, there is always this small delay when you leave the restaurant where it first has to entirely load up the NPCs into the city.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Cuisineer scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1963570/cuisineerReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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