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The Cooking Game
Start The Cooking Game, learn to cook, serve and manage your own restaurants. Show your skills and feed the hungry customers!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Game keeps crashing”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 23:00 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
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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
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Casual · Indie · Simulation · Cooking · Time Management · Free to Play (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · In-App Purchases · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian * |
| Achievements | 49 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://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