Best Cooking Games on Steam
Games about preparing food, managing kitchens, recipes, timing, or restaurants.
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1Overcooked! 2 - Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Aug 7, 2018
In this game, you can…
- throw ingredients across the kitchen, get them caught mid-chop, then toss them back again to keep prep moving
- work in kitchens that change shape mid-order, including moving platforms you control to ferry the team between stations
- unlock hidden Kevin bonus stages, including levels where you cook dog food under tough conditions
- get split up mid-service by teleporters that send chefs to different parts of the level
- accidentally set parts of the kitchen on fire by overcooking, then scramble to put it out while orders keep coming
- fall off platforms, drop into water, or get run over by cars, forcing the whole team to recover on the fly
- cook in levels with BBQs and firepits where you chop wood and use blowers to crank up heat so food cooks faster
- play solo by controlling two chefs yourself and switching between them while the kitchen keeps shifting
2The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty - He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
Apr 22, 2024
In this game, you can…
- start as a bandit escorting four girls for sale, then learn the "buyer" is a thousand-year-old swine demon who eats children yearly.
- make choices so wrong that Man Sui kills you on the spot, and the death scene can expose her real motives early.
- spare a charming scumbag partner you chose to trust, then watch that mercy immediately backfire at a crucial moment.
- use a route flowchart to jump between branches, track endings, and see exactly where your choices split the story.
- hit a point where just three key dialogue choices set your relationship level and decide whether you get the best ending.
- replay deadly branches to uncover new context, turning earlier scenes into clues once you've seen what happens in other runs.
- travel through famine-ravaged late Ming China while flashbacks peel back the girls' pasts, shifting the trip from escort job to personal horror.
3Touhou Mystia's Izakaya - A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!
Oct 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- literally sing to your food to boost it, then earn buffs like tossing orders to tables instead of walking them over.
- decode rare customers' cryptic food hints using their likes, dislikes, and past visits, then build a dish that hits multiple preference tags.
- chain rare-guest satisfactions into combo rewards that snowball into spell-card effects, bonus resources, and huge profits.
- scavenge for ingredients on a strict day schedule, where every trip, chat, or quest burns a limited time slot.
- improvise dishes by manually adding ingredients to a base recipe to give it extra tags and match someone's weird cravings.
- preload your night by choosing cookware and station setups that trade off speed, follow-up orders, and handling special guests.
- expand from a tiny food cart into a larger izakaya with more capacity and cooking space, unlocking new equipment along the way.
- befriend characters to unlock recipes and recruit them as helpers, then send them on ingredient-gathering expeditions to keep you stocked.
4Fields of Mistria - Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
Aug 5, 2024
In this game, you can…
- rebuild a town after an earthquake alongside everyone who lives there.
- walk into the inn on Friday night and catch ongoing group conversations that continue from week to week.
- dive into water to grab underwater goodies, then swim and jump your way across the map.
- watch villagers talk to each other on their own, reacting to recent events and even your museum donations.
- use magic to refill stamina and health, then push deeper into farming and dungeon runs.
- track every villager on the town map so you can find them instantly for gifts, quests, or a quick chat.
- fight through mines with shifting themes every 20 floors, new creatures by depth, treasure floors from perks, and monsters with attack patterns you have to read.
5One-armed cook - One-armed cook is a chaotic co-op cooking game for up to 4 people. Work as a team or cook on your own, set your own pace, and don't let the stress of a full restaurant catch up to you. The goofy physics-based aspect of the game gives this cooking game a new twist.
Aug 30, 2022
In this game, you can…
- catch rats in traps, deep-fry them, and serve them as menu items.
- cook an entire shift using only one arm.
- have the delivery truck keep dropping off buns and sausages until the stock, rats, and fire combine into a full restaurant meltdown.
- build a full menu out of rat food like rat hotdogs, rat burgers, rat pizza, and fried rat.
- cook food directly on a customer's table, then serve it from there.
- set the kitchen on fire, lose the fire extinguisher, and end up launching plates and burgers across the room while orders pile up.
- get a line of twelve customers, assemble a double-scoop cone, then accidentally touch it and send it flying across the restaurant.
- load in, skip the tutorial, set everything on fire, then build a burnt burger and slam it onto a customer until it falls apart.
6PlateUp! - Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
Aug 4, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn a hands-on kitchen into a self-running restaurant where appliances cook, plate, and deliver food for you.
- have multiple people join the same online session from the same PC, so a remote friend can jump into your couch co-op team.
- tear your restaurant apart between shifts and rebuild the whole layout, moving every station to shave off a single step.
- daisy-chain conveyor belts, grabbers, portioners, and auto-platers until your kitchen runs like a factory line.
- pause before each day to reorganize the entire kitchen, then commit to keeping or trashing tools when service starts.
- run both the dining room and the kitchen at once, seating customers, taking orders, and racing their patience timers.
- practice in a test kitchen where the customers are kittens, while you try recipes and tweak your setup before a real run.
- fail a run, unlock new dishes and furniture anyway, and start the next restaurant with more options than last time.
7Disney Dreamlight Valley - Explore a world filled with the magic of Disney as you discover rich stories and build the perfect neighborhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains in this new life-sim adventure game. Welcome to Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Dec 5, 2023
In this game, you can…
- free the Dream Castle, unlock character realms, solve their puzzles, then bring those Disney and Pixar characters to live in your valley.
- set up a themed scene, dress for the prompt, take a photo for DreamSnaps, and earn moonstones from public voting.
- tame critters like raccoons that appear at specific times, feeding them repeatedly until they finally count as collected.
- hang out with a character as your buddy, level friendship, and get extra drops while you mine, fish, farm, or forage together.
- plant huge fields of money crops like pumpkins or okra, harvest them in bulk, and turn farming into your main gold-making engine.
- plant and water crops in timed intervals, then come back later because they won't wither if you ignore them for a while.
- piece together the valley's backstory by finding hidden memory fragments while you explore and clear the world.
- decorate an entire neighborhood and home with massive amounts of furniture and themed buildings for different Disney characters.
8Overcooked - Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Aug 3, 2016
In this game, you can…
- cook between moving trucks on a highway while the counters slide around and the gap between vehicles changes under your feet.
- adapt while a haunted-house kitchen rearranges the entire layout mid-service, swapping stations around as orders keep coming.
- lose ingredients to a rat that scurries in and steals a tomato right off the floor mid-rush.
- cook and serve meals on kitchens set on pirate ships, ice floes, speeding trucks, and even in the underworld.
- time ingredient handoffs on conveyor belts and moving platforms so your food doesn't ride straight into a bottomless trash bin.
- dash to move faster, even though the game doesn't actually teach you that you can.
- run a kitchen where fires spread fast enough that someone can end up dedicated to carrying the fire extinguisher all round.
- push your friends off the map during co-op and keep playing like nothing happened.
9Papa's Freezeria Deluxe - Return to Calypso Island to serve seasonal sundae treats in Papa's Freezeria Deluxe! Craft sundaes in the Freezeria for all your quirky customers while earning tips, points and Special Recipes. Switch gears and take a trip in the Food Truck to concoct your own chilly creations and see who shows up!
Mar 31, 2023
In this game, you can…
- hire a driver and use a food truck to freestyle whatever sundaes you want, including mixing ingredients across different holidays.
- finish a workday and jump into a rotating set of totally different mini-games, from reflex challenges to pipe puzzles to route-planning escapes.
- hit each holiday and get new seasonal syrups, mixables, toppings, outfits, and decorations as customers show up in themed costumes.
- run a one-person sundae shop across multiple hands-on stations, measuring scoops, mixing fruit, blending to a specific smoothness, then topping and serving.
- start a blend, sprint off to take another order, then race back to stop the mixer at the exact moment they want.
- watch your score drop because one sprinkle is slightly off-center or a tiny drop of syrup is left on the counter.
- chase special recipes you discover over time, then use them for gameplay bonuses instead of just collecting them.
- build your own worker and an assistant, then dress them in holiday outfits and customize their look across the year.
10Hello Kitty Island Adventure - Embark on a cozy, open-world adventure with Hello Kitty and Friends. Befriend beloved characters as you explore and restore a mysterious island, solve ancient puzzles, cook delicious dishes, customize yourself and your cabins, and so much more.
Jan 30, 2025
In this game, you can…
- build cabins to attract specific visitors, meet their exact furniture requirements, and have them come back repeatedly before they ask to move in.
- watch Retsuko go full Aggretsuko and unlock a concert outfit while she screams heavy metal to blow off steam.
- log in to a refreshed island each day, scoop up respawned loot and quests, and chase weather events that make new critters and chests appear.
- unlock a snorkel by befriending characters, then dive under the sea to reach new areas and secrets.
- solve hidden puzzle ruins scattered around the island, and bring a friend in co-op to tackle the same rooms together.
- breed flowers into rare colors and patterns by watering and crossbreeding, then use your garden to show off and unlock more collecting goals.
- climb snowy mountains, sail across the ocean, and trek through a volcano, then realize the map still has more regions opening up afterward.
- recruit best-friend companions who grant abilities, then have villagers gather one material per day for you as a late-game reward.
