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Cuisineer

BattleBrew Productions · Marvelous Europe · 2023-11-09

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ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 09, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 28, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 28, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Jan 28, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!

Cuisineer is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2023, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 2,090 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-04

31
playing now
77%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
1
Nexus mods (6.3k downloads)
4.46★
PlayStation Store rating (394 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

31 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Welcome to the world of Cuisineer, a wholesome food-focused game where you play as Pom, a young adventurer turned restaurateur. One day, you return to your hometown of Paell to manage your parents’ restaurant only to find it closed for business and deep in debt. The only way to pay your debt is to re-open the restaurant and make it thrive. And to do THAT you've got to go dungeon-delving! Pursue adventure in the world outside Paell, wielding your cooking utensils against giant chickens, artillery shrimps, fire-breathing peppers, and other pesky perils, sipping boba tea along the way. Collect(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 31 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 95 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~12/week).
  • · Review velocity down 48% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (835 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 42k–94k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,090 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.47 at Gamer Thor (2025-10-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 88 of 94 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
64264220232026Week of 2023-11-01: 642 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 193 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

42112026-09-15 16:00 — 36 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 22 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 17 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 42 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 25 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 16 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 22 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 11 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 28 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 24 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 11 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 20 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 16 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 18 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 20 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 12 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 16 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 20 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 18 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 26 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 17 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 12 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 31 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
92618Nov 2023Aug 2026Nov 2023 — avg 926 · peak 2,986Dec 2023 — avg 271 · peak 606Jan 2024 — avg 171 · peak 526Feb 2024 — avg 98 · peak 302Mar 2024 — avg 90 · peak 184Apr 2024 — avg 73 · peak 179May 2024 — avg 59 · peak 139Jun 2024 — avg 40 · peak 109Jul 2024 — avg 59 · peak 135Aug 2024 — avg 51 · peak 127Sep 2024 — avg 43 · peak 114Oct 2024 — avg 36 · peak 90Nov 2024 — avg 63 · peak 147Dec 2024 — avg 51 · peak 115Jan 2025 — avg 52 · peak 133Feb 2025 — avg 106 · peak 227Mar 2025 — avg 59 · peak 119Apr 2025 — avg 35 · peak 84May 2025 — avg 26 · peak 48Jun 2025 — avg 83 · peak 197Jul 2025 — avg 44 · peak 83Aug 2025 — avg 35 · peak 87Sep 2025 — avg 32 · peak 70Oct 2025 — avg 28 · peak 60Nov 2025 — avg 37 · peak 82Dec 2025 — avg 28 · peak 57Jan 2026 — avg 36 · peak 74Feb 2026 — avg 21 · peak 47Mar 2026 — avg 27 · peak 55Apr 2026 — avg 18 · peak 42May 2026 — avg 24 · peak 54Jun 2026 — avg 20 · peak 60Jul 2026 — avg 31 · peak 59Aug 2026 — avg 18 · peak 46
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$7.472023-11-022026-10-092023-11-02 — best price $22.222023-12-21 — best price $17.192024-02-03 — best price $17.192024-02-25 — best price $22.392024-03-27 — best price $19.992024-04-13 — best price $21.482024-05-15 — best price $19.882024-06-05 — best price $21.192024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-08-10 — best price $18.852024-09-14 — best price $24.992024-09-26 — best price $17.032024-10-11 — best price $14.832024-11-24 — best price $17.372024-12-06 — best price $22.492024-12-27 — best price $14.992025-02-11 — best price $19.152025-03-31 — best price $24.992025-06-26 — best price $19.302025-07-22 — best price $14.942025-08-12 — best price $22.442025-09-09 — best price $21.252025-10-15 — best price $23.542025-11-08 — best price $23.222025-12-08 — best price $23.122026-01-19 — best price $24.992026-03-05 — best price $22.392026-04-20 — best price $18.892026-05-18 — best price $10.992026-06-26 — best price $12.502026-08-01 — best price $21.652026-09-11 — best price $29.992026-10-09 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
91%
earned "YOU CAN COOK: IDIOT SANDWICH"
30.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-11-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,5043%70
PS5 (PlayStation)45431%53
Xbox Series (Xbox)18712%52
Switch (Nintendo)200%0
Switch (Nintendo)150%0
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CuteJRPGAnimeCasualCookingFantasyWholesomeHand-drawnManagementRogue-lite

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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