Summary
- Cooking games can be fun and interactive, offering various cuisines and swift order management.
- Games like Venba and Chef RPG offer a story-rich experience and unique twists in the cooking genre.
- Chef RPG incorporates RPG elements and requires sourcing ingredients like wild plants and hunting.
Cooking games can be as fun as making delicious meals in a real kitchen. It gets even better if you can experience trying out a wide variety of cuisines. You also need to be swift in managing various orders, and if you mess up you might end up losing your customer’s satisfaction.
While many games require you to run and manage a restaurant, there are a few that are highly story-driven and others that put you in the role of a head chef and give you an immersive feel of a real kitchen. If you’re ready to put your chef’s hat on, these are the best cooking games you can find on Steam.
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Good Pizza, Great Pizza
Good Pizza, Great Pizza
- Released
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December 2, 2014
- Developer
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TapBlaze
- Publisher
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TapBlaze, PM Studios
There is only one goal in Good Pizza, Great Pizza, and that is to serve your customers the best pizza they have ever tasted. The game focuses solely on decorating and baking various pizzas, and that’s all you will need from this cozy game.
There are many toppings available to put on your pizza. You will use them to cater to the customer’s needs as best as you can. Make sure to maintain your income and investments to run the place smoothly. You will also have a rival to compete against and make your pizzeria the best in town.
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Chef RPG
- Released
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September 12, 2024
- Developer(s)
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World 2 Studio
- Publisher(s)
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World 2 Studio
Chef RPG brings a twist to the cooking genre, as it’s an RPG that focuses on managing a restaurant. You will need to source ingredients for your dishes around your surroundings. You can do that by collecting wild plants, fishing, and hunting animals.
You also need to set out the layout for your Restaurant. As you progress, you will eventually purchase new equipment, which increases the number of dishes you can make. While interacting with machines, a minigame will pop up to prepare food.
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Papa’s Freezeria Deluxe
Papa’s Freezeris is all about preparing a variety of milkshakes based on your customer’s preferences. There are many flavors and topping options which you can choose from, and the game becomes more challenging as you progress, as keeping up with the pace can get harder without powerups. You can also play some fun mini-games to get in-game currency.
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Take care of everything on your plate while avoiding unnecessary obstacles in Chef RPG.
The game also features some special toppings based on the events and holidays on the island. Once you hire a driver, you can also make your custom sundaes to sell in town. Making shakes in the game is a step-by-step process, and you will use different stations to whip out one.
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Venba
Venba
- Released
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July 31, 2023
- Developer(s)
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Visai Games
- Publisher(s)
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Visai Games
- OpenCritic Rating
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Strong
There aren’t many story-rich cooking games, but Venba is a beautiful visual novel game that uses cooking to preserve tradition. The story follows an Indian mother and her son, who are trying to settle down in a foreign country. The boy is forgetting the roots of his hometown, and disrespecting culture due to being ridiculed by others around him. Venba aims to make him feel proud by making delicious dishes.
The cooking mechanics in Venba are relatively simple compared to other cooking games on Steam, but it has the strongest storyline.
You will be given an old cookbook with traditional recipes. The gameplay focuses on trying to decipher the information from it to make perfect dishes. Cooking them to perfection may, however, take a few tries.
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Cooking Simulator
Cooking Simulator
- Released
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June 6, 2019
- Developer
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Big Cheese Studio
- Publisher
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Big Cheese Studio, PlayWay S.A., Forever Entertainment
- OpenCritic Rating
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Fair
Cooking Simulator gives you a feel of what it’s like to work as a chef. You are free to whip up whatever you want using a huge variety of ingredients available in your kitchen. You can also follow various recipes if you are a beginner and have trouble cooking. You can also go freestyle and make strange dishes. The utensils don’t work automatically, and you need to control them, making it evn more realistic.
Your kitchen is huge and has a variety of appliances, so you can prepare a good assortment of dishes for your customers. After preparing cakes, you can decorate them with many options. You can also experiment with ingredients to make different kinds of pizza.
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Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
Chef Life puts you in the role of a head chef. You can have a menu with cuisines from all over the world, including Italian and Japanese food.
For the most part, you will be following the default recipes to get the hang of things. While cooking, you will make use of your senses as a chef to season the dishes to perfection. The final step includes plating and to make sure your dish looks extremely delicious and appetizing, you can arrange it specifically or add toppings.
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Overcooked: All You Can Eat
Overcooked
- Released
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August 2, 2016
- Developer(s)
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Ghost Town Games
- OpenCritic Rating
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Strong
Overcooked is best enjoyed when you play with friends. You need a great score to clear a level, and slowing down at any point will have consequences. Managing a huge number of orders can get chaotic in the kitchen, and your teamwork and coordination with other players can get you through it.
New recipes unlock as you clear stages. They are quite simple to prepare, but the catch is that you need to be quick while preparing them. You also need to make sure that you have washed enough dishes to serve your guests. A few ingredients might burn on the stove if you leave them unattended. In case of a fire, you will need to use a fire extinguisher to prevent more chaos.
Overcooked: All You Can Eat contains both Overcooked and Overcooked 2 content.
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