Cook, Serve, Delicious!
BANGER · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $12.99.
- Length
- 19.1h
- Value
- $0.68/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128MB Graphics card or greater, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Hungry? Take your restaurant from a one star abomination to a five star wonder in Cook, Serve, Delicious! Plan your menu, upgrade your equipment, and master challenges with easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in June 2015. It has been discounted 106 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Papa's Freezeria Deluxe ($5.99, scores 99) beats it on value, while it beats Hacker Evolution ($4.99, scores 20).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $20.80. It costs $12.99.
This site sampled 346 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 399 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
41% start to 2% 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
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Played 1, 2 & 3 and the first one is easily the best. I bet 2 & 3 have their own charm too, but I'm a nostalgia-baited stubborn ass that sticks with my comfort zone. :) And my brain refusing to adapt when the sequels change the muscle memory T.T SORRY
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Cook, Serve, Delicious! scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247020/cook-serve-deliciousThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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