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Kitchen Crisis cover art

Kitchen Crisis

Team Samoyed · 2024-04-02

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 02, 2024 (Linux), Apr 02, 2024 (Mac), Apr 02, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 05, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Kitchen Crisis is a culinary defense game. You are abducted by aliens and must satisfy their appetite. If you want to live to see another day, efficiently arrange your cooking appliances, upgrade your ingredients and tools! In order to survive, make wise decisions according to everchaning recipes.

76%
positive of 323 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (271 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 14,077 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.5k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 323 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2026-03-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19119120242026Week of 2024-04-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$11.992024-04-032026-07-092024-04-03 — best price $14.992026-03-09 — best price $11.992026-03-16 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
82.3%
earned "Favorite Menu"
17.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing3 DLC

5 supported languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2024-04-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1021%30
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteFunnySpaceCasualCookingTutorialIsometricAutomationController

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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