
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.
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Welcome to the ultimate kitchen playground for players who want skill, freedom, and a little bit of chaos.
Cooking Simulator gives you full control of a pro-level kitchen packed with tools, ingredients, and physics-driven systems that make every action feel alive. Learn the craft, chase perfection, or set everything on fire just to see what happens.
This is your full chef arsenal: ovens, grills, gas burners, pots, pans, plates, knives, blenders, mixers, and more. Stock your pantry with over 140 ingredients including meats, fish, veggies, fruits, dairy, oils, liquids, herbs, and spices.
Everything reacts to your hands. Heat it, cool it, slice it, spill it, burn it, break it. If you can try it in a real kitchen, you can pull it off here.
Every move matters. Pouring soup, flipping steaks, cutting vegetables, tossing ingredients, or knocking something off the counter all play out with real physics.
Go for perfect execution or create the kind of disasters only a videogame kitchen can survive.
Build your reputation from the ground up. Learn techniques, unlock 80+ recipes, improve your timing, speed, and consistency, and grow your restaurant’s fame. Pick perks and skills that fit your cooking style and become a kitchen legend.
No pressure. No rules. Infinite freedom.
Mess around with every tool, recipe, and ingredient right away. Build dishes, run experiments, or push the physics engine to absolute chaos.
Stack cutting boards like dominoes, throw knives, light the kitchen on fire, blow up the oven, then save the day with a fire extinguisher. It’s your playground.
Career and Sandbox modes for structured progression or full creative freedom
80+ recipes ranging from beginner-friendly to chef-tier
140+ realistic ingredients with real-time reactions
Advanced cooking mechanics based on temperature, timing, and precision
Perks and skills to boost speed, stability, and control
A fully interactive kitchen loaded with pro tools
Physics-driven fun that rewards skill - and hilariously punishes chaos
Master the craft, break the rules, or burn the whole place down. It’s your kitchen. Your call.
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Hours played at review time, across 63 reviews with recorded playtime.
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This game is so hyper realistic at simulating cooking that when I crack an egg on my pc it burns to crisp immediately
这个游戏没有新手教程,而且提示巨少,特别是那个菜板,巨巨巨难用,净给一些已知提示,重点提示跟抽奖一样,简直了
Dupa ce am jucat overcookede 1 si 2 am simtit nevoia sa mai cumpar un joc unde fac mancare insa pula asta de joc de la care am avut cele mai multe asteptari datoriat ca chiar parea ca un simulator bun ma dezamagit total si imi pare rau sa spun ca jocul e rau. Tutorialul e neexistent si ca un toromac de alde mine chair mia fost greu sa imi dau seama ce trebuie sa fac. Dupa ce maim dat seama ce trebuie sa fac am realizat ca am prea putin timp si chair si sa stiut ce trebuie sa fca timpul era aproape neexistent. Nu e un joc de cacat dar mie chiar nu mia placut si sper sa faca ceva in legatura cu asta
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I can't really review a cooking sim badly for being a... cooking simulator, I guess I expected more guidance? But theres plenty of instructions, you literally follow step by step recipies, I really enjoyed the baking DLC, mostly cause it was harder to fail at
Before you buy this game, check the completion status for most achievements in this game. That will tell you more than I can ever tell you about it, the game gets tiring after 5 hours, and there is a reason for that. The game is just way too realistic on too many things, like a recipe says cut potatos into chunks, and you are there being like what is chunks, and if that isn't enough, they also need to have a specific weight to them, how am I to know how much is 10 grams, I can calculate that if a potato is 150 grams I will need to get 15 cuts of it for them to be approximately 10 grams each, but there is no way to tell. At least the clients don't seem to care much about that. Yet there are many things in this game like that, to the point that I just refused to have any dishes in the menu that required me to cut potatoes, if there is an easy way to do so, I do not know said way. Also look at my playtime, 12 hours total, that is within over 5 years. The only thing ever bringing me back is nostalgia or a funny Markiplier video, yet I always end up getting bored super fast. Not recommended. PS: I like the pizza DLC yet I don't remember buying it, was it given for free at some point?
Cooking Simulator is a very good game for Campaign players and it offers a really good experience. As for sandbox mode, MASTERPIECE. If you really don't like slow campaign and gradual unlocks, sandbox will keep you satisfied. Also has a nice variety of DLC, and it sometimes can feel like a completely different game. I do only recommend the Pizza DLC, as it is the best one. The other ones are fun too and not to pricey. Good game!
I launch the game and my controller cannot navigate the menu. I need to use a mouse on my TV to start playing. Ok ok maybe it gets better. Walking is really erratic and aiming to click on ingredients is a nightmare. Ok maybe it gets better. When plating the salmon in the tutorial, the plate spasms like a Garry's Mod asset and flings across the room at 100kmph, smashing plate everywhere. Ok that was pretty funny, but now I have to carefully aim to pick up shards of glass which isn't funny. Ok maybe it gets better. The tutorial ends and I realise I am expected to actually remember each recipe in my mind perfectly with no directions on screen. It didn't get better. Maybe this is fun with keyboard and mouse, but I can only play with controller due to disability. So I cannot recommend this, because it's just extremely frustrating.
When I'm trying to lift up the spatula or rotate it, everything froze and I can't interact with anything. Press any key possible but still no use. Game is all fun though and as I was continue playing, game seems like got interesting up for a moment and yeah game crash... wholesome game btw I've always wanted this game.
[h1] Gordon Ramsay would have a heart attack [/h1] [b]10/10 Kitchen Terrorism Simulator. I bought this game to learn how to cook, but instead, I learned how to commit arson with a virtual trout.[/b] [hr][/hr] The physics engine in this game is an absolute masterpiece of comedy. Cutting a tomato feels like trying to perform open-heart surgery with a chainsaw. Half the time, the ingredients clip through the floor or launch themselves into orbit because I placed a plate down slightly too aggressively. [h3] My greatest culinary achievements so far: [/h3] * [i]The Grenade Method:[/i] Exploding a gas cylinder because I forgot how timers work, completely leveling the kitchen. * [i]Floor Spice:[/i] Serving a 5-star soup that was 40% liquid and 60% ingredients I swept off the dirty floor tiles. * [i]Fire Fighter:[/i] Spending more time using the fire extinguisher than actual cooking utensils. [hr][/hr] [b]Verdict:[/b] If you want a realistic cooking guide, go watch YouTube. If you want to burn down a commercial kitchen because a virtual cutting board defied the laws of gravity, buy this immediately. [spoiler] The inspectors are coming, hide the soup. [/spoiler]
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Languages: English*, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, French, Italian, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese*languages with full audio support
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