All posts tagged in Cooking Game
Mar 13, 2026
SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure is a couch co-op cooking adventure with vibrant, fun graphics and an interesting storyline. Play as Som and Gon while they work together to prepare iconic Southeast Asian dishes while travelling across dangerous Khaya Island. Each level is a little bit different, with a variety of recipes, ingredients, obstacles, and enemies. You’ll have to explore each level to find the ingredients you need, process them in the kitchen, and cook a perfect dish!
Exciting Fun
Now, I played this SEDAP! on easy mode since I played solo, but I had a ton of fun with it. Even on easy mode, the game was just challenging enough not to get boring. Having to hunt down ingredients and sometimes even fight enemies to get the ingredient also adds a bit of freshness to things.
Sprinkling in bits of story between levels was a nice touch, too. This avoids long cutscenes or info-dumping. It’s short little smatterings of cutscenes that give you enough information to set the stage. It also serves to break up the gameplay a little. I also love the variety of dishes that are prepared, as well as the focus being on Southeast Asian food. Too many games use the same cuisine, so this is refreshing!
My one complaint for SEDAP! is the fishing. The minigame for fishing is awful. It ranks up there with the Stardew Valley fishing minigame for me, which I also hate. Tapping a button to align the dot within a bar to fill up the meter is nervewracking in a timed setting. The bar also jumped around so much on some fish, it was difficult to align the dot appropriately. It just wasn’t a nice experience catching fish.
Final Thoughts
Overall, I really enjoyed SEDAP. I binge-played it over a few days and finished pretty quickly. It was great for capturing my attention, but not requiring too much brain space to play. I recommend it for folks who enjoy games like Overcooked, but really want an easy mode for solo play!
You can find this fun game on Steam, Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!
- Feb 28, 2026
Chef RPG is a beautiful culinary adventure set in a lovely pixel art world. You recently became the owner of a derelict restaurant called Le Sequoia, once managed by a world-famous chef. Even the town of White Ash Harbor has seen better days. Your job is to not only prove yourself as a chef and rocket Le Sequoia back to fame, but to restore White Ash Harbor, too. Get to know several fantastic characters and even fall in love. Hunt, fish, harvest, and buy ingredients to create the tastiest dishes around to prove yourself as a chef. You have big shoes to fill, after all!
Flavors Update
This major Chef RPG update features some excellent general improvements and fixes, but it also includes so much more! For one, the player’s home has been overhauled. The house is located just past Le Sequoia, which is convenient! It’s not just for sleeping, though. You can also conduct culinary research there. Visit your kitchen and place the ingredients within the fridge. Once you have enough ingredients ready, use the central table to begin research. There are some specialized research facilities to unlock that will become extensions of your home. Sleep is necessary, but all of your culinary research will help you become a renowned chef.
Furthermore, there are new ingredient makers to use and qualities for the dishes you make. The Chocolate Maker and Soup Vat blueprints can now be unlocked from the new standard research tree. You can also unlock a Cheese Maker and Cream Churner through research. Making Cheese and Cream requires Milk, a new consumable (not an ingredient!) you can buy from shops and vending machines. Dishes you cook now have new qualities. There is Flavors and Temperature. These qualities will be determined by which ingredients you use, but only a few quests use them for now.
You’ll encounter the Sea Traders, boat-fairing shops, on certain days of the week in Chef RPG. Run (you can do that now!) down to the docks on Tuesdays to find the veggie seller and on Wednesdays for the junk seller. Saturdays and Sundays, you’ll find the SS Ambrose. This large trading ship has a furniture store where you’ll find new furniture items, a seed seller, an ingredients seller, and a rare items shop. Also aboard the SS Ambrose is the brand new romanceable character Sahim. Just note that the romance system is still a work in progress, but you can still get to know this tatted-up cutie. There are some new character quests you can complete that serve as the first part of their personal stories. You can check out the Steam news for details (with spoilers) on how to access those quests.
Release Date
The Flavors Update was released today for everyone to play. Now is a great time to pick up Chef RPG and play through this lovely game! Pick it up today on Steam.
- Feb 23, 2026
Farm to Table is a unique farm and restaurant management sim because it has a bit of freedom to build. You aren’t forced into building in specific spots! That means you can configure your restaurant however you want. Give the kitchen the warm, sandy beach view and the customers the calming forest overlook, or vice versa. Grow your own tasty ingredients and rocket your business to 5-star success.
Build and design your Farm to Table restaurant by placing walls, floors, and decor. Then, design your farm to grow tomatoes, corn, carrots, and more. Even raise cows and chickens! Go explore the world around you to see what fresh ingredients you can find. Cast your line to pull up fish for tasty seafood dishes and gather things like mushrooms, berries, and more, so you can create a menu full of diverse recipes. Carefully manage your resources, improve recipes, and use machines to turn ingredients into better food. Hiring staff to help run the restaurant will be beneficial as well!
Release Date
Farm to Table is coming to Steam this year. Add it to your Wishlist now to get notified of its release. And try out the demo!
- Dec 18, 2025
Chef RPG is a beautiful pixel art game where you play as an aspiring chef. You inherit an old restaurant once run by a world-famous chef, but it’s seen better days. In fact, so has the whole town of White Ash Harbor. Your goal is to restore the restaurant, make a name for yourself in the cooking world, and to restore the town. Spend your days gathering and hunting for fresh ingredients. Get to know the quirky townspeople, and perhaps even fall in love. Set the menu daily and whip up some fantastic dishes to impress your customers with, and see what heights you can take the restaurant to!
Major New Update Brings Quality of Life Improvements
Just in time for the holidays, Chef RPG has released a brand new update full of quality of life goodness. That means there are no new quests to complete, NPCs to meet, areas to explore, or challenges for the restaurant. All of those things are coming in the next update after the new year, though! This update has overhauls, upgrades, improvements, and more.
The Chef RPG character menu had a complete UI overhaul. It’s easier to read, but it also has two new pages called the Pocket Menu and the Ingredients Page. Pocket Menu lets you set the restaurant’s menu from anywhere at any time. The Ingredients Page shows what ingredients you have stored away, and how many of the missing ingredients you need in order to complete the dishes on the menu.
Other UI improvements in Chef RPG include viewing unlocked Research Skills from the skills page. Inventory has sorting features. You can also view quests you’ve already finished and total unlocked recipes. Prestige has higher priority and its own page. Biggest yet, though, it’s the overhaul to the Skill Tree. The skill tree has separate branches for minigame cooking and autocook. There are 19 new skills, ability level caps are now 20 instead of 15, and max player level is now 70. Skill requirement costs have been adjusted accordingly. You also don’t need to be player level 30 to reset skills, and the cooldown for reset has been reduced from 5 days to 4.
As for the other lovely Chef RPG improvements, there’s a new bar that shows you how fast customers will arrive. Increasing your prestige will increase the number of customers. Fishing spots now have signs that show what fish are currently available to catch. Buffs have their own page now, too. Better yet are the improvements to cloud saves, resulting in fewer instances of saves being lost. The new gameplay settings also allow you to better control your gaming experience. Plus, there’s a whole ton of other improvements that you can find listed on Steam!
Release Date
This brand new update for Chef RPG is available now on Steam! So, go update your games and enjoy the long list of great improvements.
- Oct 14, 2025
Kokoro Kitchen is an adorable cooking restaurant management game that takes place in the spirit world. Of course, that means you’re dead and you don’t even remember how you got there! Don’t worry, though, there’s nothing scary about this cute game. Alan, the friendly (and grumpy) poultry-geist has a plan to restore a rundown Japanese restaurant with your help. That means it’s pretty much up to you to run and manage this restaurant. Alan’s a chicken, after all!
What does it take to run a spirit world restaurant? Fresh ingredients, of course! You’ll manage a small farm with a handful of crop plots that need watering and harvesting. Plus, there are a few animal pens where you can keep cows and chickens. Play mini-games to prepare the ingredients for your dishes, then cook a tasty variety of meals. You get to choose what’s on the menu everyday and even prepare to-go orders for customers. Spend points to upgrade the shop, then spend some money to buy new crops for the farm and decorations for your bedroom. There’s no sense in leaving your room bare!
Release Date
Kokoro Kitchen is coming to Steam on October 17th! That’s just 3 short days away. Add it to your Wishlist to get a notification when it becomes available. There’s also a demo right now, so you can check out this adorable little game before you buy it.
- Oct 8, 2025
Dragon Song Tavern: Cozy & Adventurous lets you play as one of two siblings who have moved to a charming small town after purchasing a coastal tavern. There, you discover a small baby dragon! Together with this cutie, you’ll run your own tavern business. They’ll act as your oven and help you cook food to serve your customers! Plus, you’ll make friends with other adorable animal companions, and just revel in your new tranquil life through fishing, farming, and general adventuring.
Start your new tavern-keeping adventure by choosing one of the siblings and customizing them. Dragon Song Tavern has several hairstyles and colors to pick from, choose your favorite outfit, and get going! Cultivate your own crops and harvest other resources while out and about the island where you’ll explore beautiful beaches, flowering meadows, and more. You can even set sail from the docks to explore some uncharted islands for even more fun. The animal companions you can befriend will even help you with your farm, which will be helpful as that farm helps supply your tavern. There, you’ll prepare food and drinks in the kitchen and serve your loyal customers. Play solo or co-op with someone to build a thriving tavern and cozy adventure!
Release Date
You can find Dragon Song Tavern: Cozy & Adventurous on Steam now. It’s even on sale until October 8th!
- Sep 4, 2025
Thank you to Broccoli Games for a copy of this lovely game!
Coffee Caravan by developer Broccoli Games is a wholesome and cozy cafe management game. Think PlateUp!, but with a pastel color palette, you only serve variations of coffee, and there are difficulty levels that affect the whole game. Start your coffee-making adventure with the smallest trailer and basic equipment. Serve a variety of different customers in order to earn money. And experience an enjoyable, but sometimes challenging cozy game with a roguelite element!
This charming game puts you in charge of running your very own, albeit tiny, coffee shop. You start your journey with the smallest trailer possible and with the basic necessities like coffee beans, a grinder, coffee pot, sink, and cups. As you complete levels and earn money, you’ll be able to access the shop to buy upgrades to your equipment, new equipment and helpful items like counters, and add more coffee recipes to your list. If you successfully complete a whole run from start to end, you’ll receive a larger trailer, too! Plus, there are decorations you can buy that offer useful buffs and you have control over how your kitchen, seating area, and decor is set up. So, organize the kitchen to best suit you, and serve some coffee!
The Coziest of Coffee Management Games
I love everything about Coffee Caravan. No, seriously. The start menu is relaxing and easy to navigate. The background music is chill, but upbeat. I enjoy the pastel aesthetic and the faceless character design adds a charm to the game. Being able to select recipes, organize my space, and decorate is a lot of fun too. The choice of easy, normal, and hard difficulties is perfect for different days. Some days I want the easy game, some days I prefer the challenge of hard difficulty. So, I have a save slot for each one!
What I’d never thought I needed was a roguelite element to my cozy games, but I love how it plays out in this one. No game will play the same as your roadmap will be different each time. And how you choose to play one map may differ from how you play others. The unique way this game lays out level choices adds freshness, too. You can choose from a laid-back level, or maybe visit the shop. Unless you prefer the challenge of a more hectic day, then choose that one and then hop on over to a bonus stage that might reward you with a new item, extra money, or even be a chance at another shopping spree at the shop. Or you’ll earn new customers or conditions to play through.
Roadmap
That’s not all that this game will have, though! In fact, the developers have just released an update for players who use macOS. This release also sees the addition of some great QoL updates like being able to switch the item in your hand with the item on a customer’s table! So, no more running to an open table or counter to free up hands. Just switch them out! There were some missing icons on recipes that have been added in, as well as a new confirmation for deleting a save on a gamepad. Then there were some optimizations to make the game even better.
The lovely developers have also release a roadmap that gives a general idea of what they’re working on and what to look forward to. First was the macOS release, which is to be followed by improvements for the Steam Deck, and the launch of a Discord server. Their goal for this summer is to release the Ice Cream World update so you can serve delicious, frosty treats instead of coffee. Plus, you get to look forward to new character accessories for customization and Russian and Korean localization. Later on this year, with no release date determined, Coffee Caravan will see the addition of Endless Mode for greater challenging fun, cat pets for you to enjoy, Twitch integration, Freeplay mode, and a new demo.
Final Thoughts
Overall, it’s a great little single player game. Play on whichever setting you prefer, and experience an ever-changing game with fascinating roguelite features. There’s also tea service you can unlock, and coming with the free summer update is ice cream! It’s a perfectly cozy game, or make it as challenging as you want, if you prefer that. Coffee Caravan really aims to provide a varied gameplay experience and they achieve that! I can’t recommend this game enough to the casual gamers out there.
I give it:
You can find Coffee Caravan on Steam now!
- Sep 1, 2025
In ChefRPG, you get to craft your very own culinary adventure. You’re an aspiring chef who is tasked with reviving a once famous restaurant. Le Sequoia was once the place to be, and brought tourists from all over to charming White Ash Harbor. Now, both the restaurant and town need a little love as they’ve seen better days. With your loving touch and a lot of hard work, you can revive both!
Spend your days exploring the gorgeous forests and murky swamp to gather ingredients like watercress and asparagus. Hunt boar, deet, and pheasant. Fish off the town pier for shrimp, salmon, and more. Then, use your fresh ingredients to craft the most delicious dishes to serve at Le Sequoia. Get to know over 20 beautifully designed characters and romance some of them. Complete quests, buy a house, decorate, and collect 240+ recipes. And with the latest Food and Festivals update, you can engage in some exciting seasonal fun.
Food and Festivals
The latest ChefRPG update adds some really cool things that I had a blast playing through. There were some bug fixes, of course, but there were mostly some added things. Random NPCs will interact with objects on the map and some can fish or water plants. Chatting with an NPC twice in a day will earn you a final chat with dialogue that’s dependent on your friendship level. All of this brings some great life to the game, while the increased magnet and pickup range makes collection a little bit easier. There’s also 10 new music tracks to enjoy and 100 new lines of dialogue to read.
Even the cooking got some updating. The Barista Machine mini game was totally redesigned into a physics-based game with no fixed time to complete. The Blender is now a Mixing Station with a redesigned mini game. The Stove, Oven, and Cooking Counters all have overhauled visuals and gameplay polish.
The best part of the Food and Festivals Update, though, are the festivals! ChefRPG is such a charming game set in a beautiful little town and the festivals just add even more charm to the world. There are 5 festivals that take place over the year and each has a token shop you can buy themed decor from. The Spring Harvest is a non-competitive festival that lets you enjoy the food stall, some small tasks, and fun low-stakes gambling mini game. Then comes Beach Solstice in the summer. This festival celebrates the seaside with its ocean-themed lamps, booths designed like elaborate shells, and is complete with beach chairs to sun on. There you’ll team up with an NPC of your choice to collect materials and craft lanterns that you then light. Compete against other NPC teams by building the most lanterns, with more points for accuracy.
Autumn is a busy season in White Ash Harbor with two festivals to enjoy. The first, which is my personal favorite, is the Pumpkin Hunt. This festival takes place in the swamp, which is fitting for the celebration’s slightly spooky vibes. You’ll compete against NPCs to earn the most points by running around town smashing pumpkins. The more points you earn, the better your reward. Then there’s the second festival of autumn which is Night of Spirits where the town comes together to honor and remember the spirits of the area. It’s a more somber affair, but still has a competition where you must collect resources, craft oil, and light lamps to lead the deer, boar, and dog spirits to their feast. Light the most lamps to come in first and earn the best prize.
The last festival of the year in ChefRPG is the Gingerbread Bake-Off. This joyous affair not only draws tourists from all over, but the whole town competes in it. While it is a competition, the ultimate goal is to build a life-sized gingerbread house! You’ll team up with an NPC, then take off across town hunting down gift boxes that contain the ingredients you need. Take them back to the temporary kitchen in the event space and bake gingerbread, whip up icing, and create gumdrops. Earn points and festival tokens when you turn in a finished product and win the competition by earning the most points.
Available Now
You can pick up the excellent ChefRPG on Steam, and the Food and Festivals update is live now! Which means now is the perfect time to start this game if you haven’t already. These are some of the most unique, engaging festivals I’ve played in a cozy game. I mean, who doesn’t love smashing pumpkins? Plus, the token shop decor from each festival is excellent, too!
