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Also Cooking and Crafting, like Cooking Simulator.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 3)
- Deck Playable
- 2022
Games like Cooking Simulator
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The closest matches to Cooking Simulator: Food Truck Simulator, Bakery Simulator, Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator, Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator, and Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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- Deck Playable
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Overcooked! 2
Why this: Shares dlc expansion with Cooking Simulator.
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- Released: 2019
- Developer: Big Cheese Studio
- Price: $19.99checked Nov 4
- Steam Deck: Deck Verified
- 86% of 8,509 reviews
- Genres: Simulation, Casual
- Metacritic 64
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Chaos is entertaining and absurd
- Dlcs add unique culinary challenges
- Physics makes cooking feel realistically messy
- Dlc expansion
- Ingredient handling
- Kitchen destruction
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Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator
Why this: Also Cooking and Crafting, like Cooking Simulator.
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Why this: Shares dlc expansion with Cooking Simulator.
About Cooking Simulator
The closest matches to Cooking Simulator: Food Truck Simulator, Bakery Simulator, Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator, Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator, and Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Cooking Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Food Truck Simulator, Bakery Simulator and Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dlc expansion and ingredient handling. 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.
About Cooking Simulator: A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.
Is Cooking Simulator worth buying?
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 86% of 8,509 Steam reviews are positive.
- Last 30 days: 82% positive across 63 new reviews, in line with its all-time score.
- Price: $19.99 (checked Nov 9).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 6 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 3 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Verified.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Chaos is entertaining and absurd
- Dlcs add unique culinary challenges
- Physics makes cooking feel realistically messy
- Satisfying when things go right despite the mess
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“In the start I thought I could play the game for hours. Eventually as I progressed I realized that it would only get harder and more boring. It is very repetetive, and cutting with a knife and moving everyting around the kitchen is just a…”
“What have you done to the controls???? Theres no setting to remap the right joystick, it is bugged out and the game ignores any attempt to remap with steam input No longer playable.”
People who play it also play: Food Truck Simulator, Bakery Simulator, Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Frequently asked about Cooking Simulator
Can I run it?
Is Cooking Simulator verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Cooking Simulator is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Cooking Simulator cost?
Cooking Simulator is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cooking Simulator?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cooking Simulator are Food Truck Simulator, Bakery Simulator, Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator.
Who developed Cooking Simulator?
Cooking Simulator was developed by Big Cheese Studio.