Cooking Witch

Cooking Witch

Fair · Action · 2017

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $0.69. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.5h 3.2h to 100%
Value
$0.28/hr
Reviews
86% of 250 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

It is 65% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $0.80/hr
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 42 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

In Cooking Witch you are a witch flying to a party in the woods, abducting the children and cooking and eating them.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 100 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.69 at 65 percent off still sits 77 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, pureya ($5.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Will Glow the Wisp ($1.99, scores 62).

The drop-off

15% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Cooking Witch, developed and published by VaragtP, is an unapologetically bizarre arcade-style action game that leans heavily into absurd dark humor and simple, fast-paced mechanics. Released as a low-cost indie title, it quickly built a niche following thanks to its outrageous premise and straightforward gameplay loop. Rather than aiming for narrative depth or mechanical complexity, the game embraces shock value...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hMar 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Non Vegan Recipe I was searching the store for the non-violent game about the witch in the woods who cooks vegan potions. I found this instead. Whilst not what I was originally looking for, it's a good.casual game to kill a little bit of time, and a large number of children. gameplay is very simple but fluid, and overall it's great fun. Good use of classical music as background tracks.
SickRamenRecommendedafter 2.9hMay 2024Read on Steam
Why are all these kids having a circus meatup in the woods? Nobody knows, and "Cooking Witch" is no seasoned delight, overstaying its welcome way past the point of boiling and ending up as all mops and brooms. Before you go flying on this one, save your breath to cool your porridge and let's hope "No Life" - the next release by the developer - will be better put together than this oathless piecemeal.
SynantiNot recommendedafter 1.2hNov 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Cooking Witch scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/514580/cooking-witch
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVaragtP
PublisherVaragtP
GenreAction
Released2017
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40