Cooking Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.5972% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 19,781
- Critics
- 64 players 21 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 13% Strategy
Holding it back: Refunds, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.1h
- To 100%
- 21.8h 2.7x the story
- Finish
- 36% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 302
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 53% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 34d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 85 now
- Recent reviews
- 84% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
76% start to 36% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 73 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 53 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. The nearest things to it, Cooking Simulator VR ($19.99, scores 23) and Food Truck Simulator ($19.99, scores 20), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Cooking Simulator
Critics scored it 64. Players sit 21 points higher at 85 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 36 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 33 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 240 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 33 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 2,720 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 8.1 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 2.7 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 11 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I've been waiting for a great sale to get this game, and I'm so glad I did because if I had wasted a bunch of money, I would be pretty mad right now. Got thru the first tutorial, was enjoying it, then got stuck on blending the tomato soup in the second tutorial, like, literally still in the tutorial, and I'm having problems. The stupid blender won't connect with the soup. That's it. I can't blend soup if the blender...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Went through the tutorial until the blending step. The tutorial didn't register that I had already blended the soup but possibly because I didn't turn off the burner before transferring the contents to the blender and doing it after the fact wasn't good enough. Then finished the recipe in spite of the tutorial being stuck but was not allowed to serve the food. If I'm in the tutorial and already getting stuck I think...
game lags horrifically when adding layers to cakes and when mousing over cake towers
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GTX 660Ti 3GB / R9 270X 4GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Cooking Simulator scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/641320/cooking-simulatorReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.