Cooking Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GTX 660Ti 3GB / R9 270X 4GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 71 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 53 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Job Simulator ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Out of Ore ($24.99, scores 43).
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 8. 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 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 261 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.
The drop-off
76% start to 36% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
74 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
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...
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
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.
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Cooking Simulator scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/641320/cooking-simulatorThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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