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The Cooking Game

The Cooking Game

Start The Cooking Game, learn to cook, serve and manage your own restaurants. Show your skills and feed the hungry customers!

Released Oct 21, 2016 Developer Play Spirit Limited Platforms Windows · Mac CasualIndieSimulationCookingTime Management
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.

58.7%positive218 reviews
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Game keeps crashing”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-05 via SteamCharts.

1,342all-time peak
0 50 100 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 66 avg · Dec 2017

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.

49achievements
7.1%median completion
5.0%rarest: High roller
24.0% of players 12.3% of players 12.2% of players 12.1% of players 12.0% of players 11.4% of players 11.2% of players 11.2% of players 11.1% of players 11.1% of players 10.9% of players 10.8% of players 10.6% of players 10.3% of players 10.0% of players 9.7% of players 9.6% of players 9.5% of players 9.1% of players 8.7% of players 7.8% of players 7.6% of players 7.4% of players 7.2% of players 7.1% of players 7.0% of players 6.7% of players 6.7% of players 6.7% of players 6.6% of players 6.5% of players 6.5% of players 6.1% of players 6.0% of players 6.0% of players 5.9% of players 5.9% of players 5.7% of players 5.7% of players 5.6% of players 5.5% of players 5.4% of players 5.4% of players 5.3% of players 5.2% of players 5.2% of players 5.2% of players 5.1% of players 5.0% of players 24.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
24.0%New Waiter — Serve 1 client
12.3%Happy Chef — Complete 5 missions in a row without burning a dish
12.2%Happy Customers — Don’t lose any clients 7 missions in a row
Rarest badges of honor
5.0%High roller — Spend 2000 diamonds
5.1%Restaurant Monopoly — Fully upgrade 5 restaurants
5.2%Show them what you can — Complete total 250 missions with 3 stars in any restaurants

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Dec 12, 2019
The Cooking Game is now free to play!

Dear Steam users, We have decided to make The Cooking Game a "Free to Play" game. 🍔🍟 🍕 It's been years since we released The Cooking Game. However it's a shame that not everyone has the chance to expe

Aug 08, 2018
Oculus GO + The Cooking Game (VR) Giveaway

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620342/8c73718f17d53a97ead2c4ecef0cf7edcc66bed6.png Hi everyone, to show our appreciation to your support all these years, we have

May 18, 2017
FREE: The Cooking Game is now available on Mac Appstore!

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620342/9be084d84d8b1882702a42aabf80004f273a677b.png The Cooking Game is now available on Mac Appstore for FREE! You can now pla

May 18, 2017
FREE: The Cooking Game is now available on Mac Appstore!

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26620342/9be084d84d8b1882702a42aabf80004f273a677b.png The Cooking Game is now available on Mac Appstore for FREE! You can now pla

Mar 10, 2017
Hurry! Get The Cooking Game at 30% OFF

We have just started our 7 days promotion for the Cooking Game. Get it at 30% OFF now http://store.steampowered.com/app/504310

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation
Player tagsCasual · Indie · Simulation · Cooking · Time Management · Free to Play (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · In-App Purchases · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian *
Achievements49
Official sitehttp://thecookinggame.org
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista, 7/8/10 Processor: Pentium IV 1.2 Ghz processor or faster Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 128MB Graphics card or greater Storage: 100 MB available space