The Cooking Game
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 45h 53.8h to 100%
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 59% of 217 positive
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
About the game
Start The Cooking Game, learn to cook, serve and manage your own restaurants. Show your skills and feed the hungry customers!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128MB Graphics card or greater, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Bakery Simulator ($1.11, scores 18) and Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game ($9.99, scores 56) both outscore it.
2 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 18, 03:55 UTC.
The drop-off
24% start to 5% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 03:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is MEHHHH, so here Ingredients for making Egg Tart for 8 people instead: - All-purpose flour 400 gr - Margarine butter, slightly salted 200 gr (Margarine) - Sugar 1 tablespoon - 2 egg yolks - 3 chicken eggs - Condensed milk 60 ml - Unsweetened fresh milk 200 ml - Vanilla 1 teaspoon 1) Knead and roll the dough First, measure 100g of all-purpose flour into a bowl, add 200g of Margarine butter and knead well...
1 more review, not recommended
I am a sucker for casual cooking games and I really enjoyed the first 25 or so hours I played, but after that I started it find more and more boring and repetitive. Plus one restaurant is literally impossible to complete even after the devs have lowered the difficulty of it twice. Shame.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Cooking Game scores 7/100 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/504310/the-cooking-gameReviews 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 30. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.