The best cooking games

Video games allow people to do the impossible in everyday life. Become a superhero, explore other worlds... or cook a gourmet restaurant meal. There are tons of video games where anyone can become Gordon Ramsay in their own virtual kitchen.

In some of them, the main thing is to prepare food within a given time. Others share the task of preparing and serving meals on time in a fast-food restaurant. No matter what game you play, success with every dish makes you feel like a master chef. Here are some of the best cooking games.

Katie and Bob.  Bakery

A game of the genre "manager" in which you will manage a bakery, fulfilling the requests of whimsical customers. You have to cook cakes and pastries so as not to leave the local sweet tooth hungry - and they, in turn, will repay you with hard coins, which can be spent on new ovens and exotic ingredients for the bakery.

The game seems casual, but in fact it requires a good reaction, the ability to plan actions several moves ahead and a competent distribution of finances.

Cheerful chef 3

In this cute game of the "manager" genre, you have to try yourself in the role of an employee of a catering establishment: a cafe , a pizzeria, and then your own restaurant!

To achieve success, you will have to learn quickly: master the recipes for various dishes, prepare several orders at the same time, as well as improve the interior, purchase more advanced equipment - in general, do everything so that customers rush to visit your establishment! The game looks casual, but its gameplay - believe me - will make you sweat.

Cupcake Shop 2

A fun time management game dedicated to Emily, an energetic girl who decided to open her own roadside cafe. There is no end of visitors, so you have to act quickly and decisively: bake muffins and other goodies, promptly serve customers, not get confused with orders - and get a good tip for high-quality service! Well, the money earned can be invested in improving the cafe - there are countless upgrades and decor elements.

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Projects from the Cook, Serve, Delicious series are rightfully considered one of the best cooking games. This strategy simulation game brings together elements from nearly all the great games of the delicious genre. The player will have to go from an unrated cafe to a five-star restaurant.

Achieving this goal is completely in the hands of the players, since almost all the possibilities are revealed at the beginning of the game. The assortment of food and drinks is very wide, and players will need not only to prepare food, but also to support the life of their restaurant by washing toilets, taking out the trash and even fighting armed robbers.

Overcooked!

The kitchen is often a terrible mess, so sometimes a little help won't hurt. Or things will get worse. This is exactly what happens in the co-op cooking game Overcooked !

Four players can cook and serve different meals together. Overcooked's plot is a little crazy ... like some of the levels, but it's even more fun to play. There is a limited time to complete each level, and if successful, you move on and discover a collection of wonderful chefs. Especially funny are the levels where the environment itself gets in the way, for example, cutting tables slide on a pirate ship.

Cooking Simulator

Cooking Simulator is the most detailed and realistic simulator of a cook, because here you will be in charge of the kitchen in a first-person view , and processes such as slicing, frying, and even the banal opening of a can of meat are not automatic. More than 80 recipes, dozens of real-life ingredients and spices, an abundance of equipment and kitchen utensils - here you will feel like a real chef.

There is a career mode that offers to go from a beginner to a cooking star. However, it is not necessary to play by the rules - careless handling can lead to an explosion, fire and other troubles. Although ... it's fun.

Also note the realistic physics , thanks to which the described and many other possibilities have become real. We have only one question left - what are you waiting for?

Mary Le Chef - Cooking Passion

Mary Le Chef - Cooking Passion is a classic casual cooking game in which the player takes on the role of aspiring chef Mary, who is just about to get started in the restaurant business . The gameplay is built according to the type of time management - at each level, of which there are over 60, the gamer will try to prepare meals as quickly as possible and make the guests happy.

The game will delight you with some kind of storyline, divided into 6 chapters, 30 additional tests, simple gameplay and nice graphics. Although the game was released in 2017, it will run on very old PCs without any problems.

Good Pizza, Great Pizza

Despite the fact that all the dishes in Good Pizza, Great Pizza are only one kind (as the name implies), it is a very interesting and challenging game . The main task of the player is to fulfill the orders of each guest in the most profitable way from a financial point of view and to develop his pizzeria.

At first glance, everything is simple, but the set of unique characters will not let you relax, as orders can be quite confusing. The rival pizzeria across the street doesn't make life easier either.

Cooking Dash

In Diner Dash, the player seats and serves guests and clears tables, all within a limited time. In Cooking Dash, the gamer becomes a chef, because because of the culinary reality show, Flo's restaurant and other establishments in Diner Town were left without chefs!

The game is similar to Diner Dash in terms of testing the player's time management skills. It's pretty easy at first, but it gets harder and more hectic on subsequent levels. With five restaurants (each with its own unique cuisine) and more than 50 levels, Cooking Dash will provide hours of fun.

Cake mania

Cooking delicious meals is not the only skill a master chef needs, sometimes he has to be a good pastry chef! In the games in the Cake Mania series, players are given the chance to try their hand at confectionery.

The main character of Cake Mania is Jill, a skilled pastry chef and owner of her own bakery. The gameplay in all games of the series is the same: correctly and on time to fulfill orders of guests in order to earn money. They can buy upgrades like more ovens, better equipment, and even speeding shoes to help Jill do the job better.

Battle chef brigade

Battle Chef Brigade is arguably the strangest cooking game on this list. In the fantasy kingdom of Victusia, the player as Mina and Thresh will compete for a place in the elite of the main Battle Chef Brigade, who prepare delicious food from the defeated deadly monsters of Victusia.

The game combines elements of combo-related brawls and puzzles , creating an interesting gameplay. Collect ingredients for dishes from defeated monsters, and then cook them forming bright combinations. The character designs are beautiful and the dishes look delicious.

Campfire Cooking

What's the coolest thing about hiking? Cook over the fire, of course! Campfire Cooking will allow everyone to do this at any time. The player will have to manage the family on a camping trip, which tells stories and cooks over an open fire.

The gameplay is a puzzle game where you need to rotate, position and turn skewers to prepare the perfect meal. As you progress through the levels, it gets more difficult and new dishes appear, such as the roast, which adds a new level of difficulty to the game, as you must simultaneously cook the roast and roast the marshmallows.

Samurai cooking

In Samurai Cooking, you become not just a chef, but a samurai chef. Forget about traditional cooking methods, as here your knife is an ultra-sharp katana that can chop a whole tree in half. True, you still have to cut vegetables, fruits, groceries, meat and other food, trying to make the perfect burger.

This is just a fun simulator that is designed to brighten up a couple of hours of your time and cheer you up. Naturally, it will not be possible to chop everything exactly, and this is the highlight of Samurai Cooking. Give it a try - especially since the game can be downloaded for free on Steam.

Counter fight 3

Counter Fight 3 offers to try on the shape of a pizza maker and cook delicious pizza (and other fast food), standing behind the counter of a small cafe. And not just cook, but do it in virtual reality, since VR glasses are required to play.

The cooking process is simplified - you don't need to knead the dough, and you don't have to diligently spread the pepperoni. But still, the gameplay is quite addicting and will require attentiveness, and will also make you feel like a chef.

Another plus is that the gameplay doesn't end with cooking. An unpretentious thief or even a zombie can look into the cafe , and then you can pick up something stronger and swing it in all directions. However, try not to get into visitors.

Diner bros

While Diner Bros is similar to Overcooked and poses similar challenges, there are unique elements that make this game good in its own right. Diner Bros is another cooperative cooking simulation game where players have to cook and serve food together. But unlike Overcooked, guest satisfaction is a key element of the gameplay.

But here you have to not only cook for the guests. Players have a variety of household tasks such as modernizing and expanding a restaurant, cleaning tables, and even preventing dishonest guests from stealing! And in the single player campaign, the player can also hire staff.

Order Up!

Order Up! will surely appeal to those who like the Cooking Mama series. Here we have to become a novice chef who finds himself in one of the most important points of the culinary map of the world.

The player begins by working in a fast food, but eventually becomes the owner of his own restaurant. Order Up! focuses more on serving multiple meals on time, rather than preparing one. In addition, there are several non-cooking mini-games where you need to, for example, wash dishes or poison cockroaches.

Cooking Mama

Cooking Mama is a simulator consisting of several different mini-games. In each of them, the player must follow Mom's directions and use the touch screen to cut, chop and mix different ingredients to prepare different dishes.

A time limit is set for each dish, and each cooking step must be performed correctly. Despite the cute appearance of the game, many of the dishes are quite complex. But it is all the more pleasant to get the "Even Better Mom" ​​rating when Mom smiles with pride.

Bakery Simulator

Bakery Simulator inherits the idea of ​​Cooking Simulator, albeit without kitchen trash. In this first-person game, you will master the difficult profession of a baker and open your own establishment. Your responsibilities include not only cooking (the process of which, by the way, is performed in several stages and takes into account various details), but also business matters. That is, you independently deliver orders by truck (there is an open world ), distribute profits, purchase equipment and make sure that customers are satisfied.

An indisputable advantage is the presence of modern three-dimensional graphics, which will require a medium-sized PC to play.