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Run a first-person kitchen by preparing recipes and growing a restaurant, or experiment freely with physics-driven cooking in Sandbox.
Released 06 Jun 2019
Cook Multi-Step Recipes
Grow Restaurant Fame
Experiment in Sandbox
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.
Developed by Big Cheese Studio · Published by Big Cheese Studio
You take the role of a chef working in a fully equipped kitchen. Prepare dishes from recipes, serve restaurant orders, and build your reputation in Career mode.
Cooking is hands-on: gather ingredients, cut and season them, then fry, boil, bake, blend, and plate each dish. Temperature, timing, quantities, and how you handle tools and food affect the process.
Career mode unlocks recipes and lets you develop perks and skills as you progress. Sandbox mode opens up ingredients, tools, and recipes for free-form cooking and kitchen experiments.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its detailed, hands-on cooking, range of recipes, and the satisfying rhythm of preparing dishes. Many also enjoy how physics can turn routine tasks into funny kitchen mishaps, while Sandbox gives them room to experiment without orders. Some appreciate Career mode’s recipe and skill progression; other reviews describe the controls as frustrating and report bugs that interrupt play.
Welcome to the ultimate kitchen playground for players who want skill, freedom, and a little bit of chaos.
Cooking Simulator gives you full control of a pro-level kitchen packed with tools, ingredients, and physics-driven systems that make every action feel alive. Learn the craft, chase perfection, or set everything on fire just to see what happens.
This is your full chef arsenal: ovens, grills, gas burners, pots, pans, plates, knives, blenders, mixers, and more. Stock your pantry with over 140 ingredients including meats, fish, veggies, fruits, dairy, oils, liquids, herbs, and spices.
Everything reacts to your hands. Heat it, cool it, slice it, spill it, burn it, break it. If you can try it in a real kitchen, you can pull it off here.
Every move matters. Pouring soup, flipping steaks, cutting vegetables, tossing ingredients, or knocking something off the counter all play out with real physics.
Go for perfect execution or create the kind of disasters only a videogame kitchen can survive.
Build your reputation from the ground up. Learn techniques, unlock 80+ recipes, improve your timing, speed, and consistency, and grow your restaurant’s fame. Pick perks and skills that fit your cooking style and become a kitchen legend.
No pressure. No rules. Infinite freedom.
Mess around with every tool, recipe, and ingredient right away. Build dishes, run experiments, or push the physics engine to absolute chaos.
Stack cutting boards like dominoes, throw knives, light the kitchen on fire, blow up the oven, then save the day with a fire extinguisher. It’s your playground.
Career and Sandbox modes for structured progression or full creative freedom
80+ recipes ranging from beginner-friendly to chef-tier
140+ realistic ingredients with real-time reactions
Advanced cooking mechanics based on temperature, timing, and precision
Perks and skills to boost speed, stability, and control
A fully interactive kitchen loaded with pro tools
Physics-driven fun that rewards skill - and hilariously punishes chaos
Master the craft, break the rules, or burn the whole place down. It’s your kitchen. Your call.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 302 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1 |
| Multiplayer | The provided store information lists Cooking Simulator as single-player and includes the Single-player feature. No official multiplayer mode is described in the supplied text. Multiple player reviews explicitly state the game does not have multiplayer and request co-op or online multiplayer. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mods are described in the provided text. One review mentions a WeMod trainer for single-player gameplay changes, not multiplayer. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 7 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 64/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
