Games like Cooking Companions
If Cooking Companions is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wet steps, Reaplaced and Scarlet Hollow — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters become deeply unsettling, replaying reveals hidden layers and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Cooking Companions: Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
Players who liked Cooking Companions also play
Steam players who put hours into Cooking Companions also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Wet steps
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cooking Companions.
Have a relationship with a charming priestess! An urban fantasy short and brisk visual novel with elements of slavic mythology.
Reaplaced
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cooking Companions.
Second-strongest match for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
A supernatural Halloween whodunnit. Solve a chilling locked-room mystery before the grim reaper reveals the answer!
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cooking Companions.
Third-strongest match for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Sweet Clockwork
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
"To save you, I have repeated death thousands of times." In this time-loop mystery romance, you must use your 'Time Travel Ring' to uncover the identity of the killer 'X' within the endlessly repeating day. Stop the destined tragedy and change your fate. Sweet Clockwork: A Dark Mystery Romance VN
Frequency of Fear : Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Play as Maya, an aspiring urban explorer, and unravel the truth behind every rumor and myth that haunts every dark corner. Traverse the shadows, survive the horrors, and keep your sanity intact as you uncover the secrets buried within.
Vocal Horror Stories - Gaja
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
The first episode of a voice-sensitive episodic horror game, in which you play as Shivani, a young woman battling with phonophobia. Why did her mother go missing? Who is the elephant-headed entity she keeps seeing? Can you speak to him?
Dread Weight
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Cooking Companions.
Ranked #7 for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
Amnesia™: Memories
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cooking Companions.
Ranked #8 for Cooking Companions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cooking Companions.
You awaken to find your memories gone. To learn the truth behind your amnesia, you’ll choose from five romantic paths, each its own world. With 20+ endings, can you write the lasting love story you deserve, or will your love and life come to an end?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cooking Companions at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cooking Companions.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cooking Companions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Cooking Companions.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cooking Companions.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cooking Companions.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cooking Companions.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Cooking Companions
- Does Cooking Companions run on Steam Deck?
- Cooking Companions is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Cooking Companions cost?
- Cooking Companions is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cooking Companions?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cooking Companions are Wet steps, Reaplaced, Scarlet Hollow.
- Who developed Cooking Companions?
- Cooking Companions was developed by Deer Dream Studios and published by Serenity Forge.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Cooking Companions.
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