The Cooking Game

Cooking time management with fast food, noodles, pizza, and sushi

Play Spirit Limited · Released Oct 21, 2016

Reviews: Mixed; 61% of 245
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update on Steam: 6 years ago; Dec 12, 2019
Minimum PC: 128MB; 2 GB RAM · 0.1 GB disk; Full requirements

What is The Cooking Game?

A free-to-play, single-player cooking and time-management game in which you build a restaurant business with Chef Jennifer's guidance. Starting with a fast-food cafe, you prepare dishes, serve customers, upgrade kitchens, and furnish interiors across eight restaurants and more than 300 levels.

For you if...

+you enjoy juggling orders, cooking tasks, and resource management

Not for you if...

−you prefer open-ended play to progressing through set levels

What players say

61% of 245 reviews are positive

Players praise the cooking routine as a way to pass time. Recent complaints center on tutorial freezes and crashes, particularly when opening achievements. Older reviews also criticize repetitive grinding for diamonds and sharp difficulty spikes.

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The Cooking Game system requirements

Minimum: 128MB, 2 GB RAM, 0.1 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

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

Does The Cooking Game have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does The Cooking Game run on Steam Deck?

Unsupported No: Valve rates it Unsupported on Steam Deck.

Not supported on SteamOS

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Achievements: 49
Steam features: Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards, In-app purchases
Languages: Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian.

Does The Cooking Game use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam