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The Cooking Game

Play Spirit Limited · 2016-10-21

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Side view

Releases: Oct 21, 2016 (Mac), Oct 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 12, 2015 (iOS), Nov 26, 2015 (Android)

Start The Cooking Game, learn to cook, serve and manage your own restaurants. Show your skills and feed the hungry customers!

The Cooking Game is a Casual, Indie and Simulation game released in 2016, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (59% of 218 reviews).

1
playing now
59%
positive of 218 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (40 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 29,120 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2019-11-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.09 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
393920162026Week of 2016-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.002016-10-212026-07-282016-10-21 — best price $9.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-03-16 — best price $9.992017-04-03 — best price $9.992017-06-05 — best price $6.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $6.992017-12-21 — best price $6.992018-02-05 — best price $9.992018-04-02 — best price $2.992018-04-30 — best price $5.002018-06-22 — best price $4.192018-07-16 — best price $9.992018-08-04 — best price $9.992018-09-10 — best price $5.992018-10-29 — best price $4.192018-11-21 — best price $4.192019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-02-04 — best price $4.192019-03-22 — best price $4.992019-05-13 — best price $5.992019-07-09 — best price $5.992019-08-12 — best price $5.992019-09-27 — best price $5.992019-11-25 — best price $5.992020-01-04 — best price $9.992022-01-21 — best price $2.492023-04-25 — best price $7.992023-10-05 — best price $6.992024-05-30 — best price $2.492026-07-28 — best price $1.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

49
achievements tracked
24%
earned "New Waiter"
7.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopIn-App PurchasesSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-03-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)33710%49

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

Player tags

IndieCasualCookingSimulationFree to PlayTime Management

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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