Games like Cook Fest
If Cook Fest is your kind of game, the closest matches are PlateUp!, Keep Keepers and One Step From Eden — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Cook Fest: Cook Fest is a unique combination of tower defense and cooking genres. Create and design your own complex maze. Cook and serve dishes to satisfy your customers & unlock new recipes. With unexpected roguelite elements & fast-paced gameplay, you can play solo or in chaotic co-op with your fellow chef!
Players who liked Cook Fest also play
Steam players who put hours into Cook Fest 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.
PlateUp!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
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!
Keep Keepers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
30XX
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cook Fest.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Octogeddon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cook Fest.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Flotilla
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cook Fest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cook Fest.
Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cook Fest at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cook Fest.
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 ~50% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cook Fest.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cook Fest.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cook Fest.
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 ~50% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cook Fest.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cook Fest.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cook Fest.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cook Fest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cook Fest.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cook Fest.
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 Action and Indie with Cook Fest.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cook Fest.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Cook Fest.
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 Action and Indie with Cook Fest.
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 Cook Fest.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cook Fest.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
PlateUp!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
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!
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Octogeddon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.
You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!
Frequently asked about Cook Fest
- How much does Cook Fest cost?
- Cook Fest is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cook Fest have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cook Fest supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Cook Fest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cook Fest are PlateUp!, Keep Keepers, One Step From Eden.
- Who developed Cook Fest?
- Cook Fest was developed by Sigma Indie.
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 Cook Fest.
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