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Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition

Deer Dream Studios · 2020-10-06

Steam

CasualFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 06, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?

88%
positive of 397 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

Play hide and seek with Cabbage and the Chompettes in this self contained story! Who knows what mysteries you'll discover? Featuring Eastern European folklore in an unexpected package, the Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition will give you a taste of what's to come. More than a demo: -Six available endings -Different dialogue with each playthrough! -Short and sweet: 40 minutes to play through it once, longer to unravel the mystery! -No swearing -No sex, nudity or fanservice -No blood or gore -Easter eggs and secrets...but be careful! For the true Cooking Companions experience, this game sh(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (125 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 18,686 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11811820202026Week of 2020-10-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

15
achievements tracked
63.8%
earned "Let the games begin!"
29%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-10-06 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)51662%15

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CuteAnimeCasualHorrorFantasyNarrationDating SimStory RichFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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