Huge variety of foods and restaurants
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“There is also an absurd amount of different food and beverages you can serve.”
Steam review · 75.8 h played ↗
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
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Very Positive · 91%Very Positive · 91%Vertigo Gaming Inc.2017Management · Casual · Arcade
$14.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 59 min ago
The verdict
A frantic, stressful keyboard-memorization cooking game with huge food variety, great art and co-op. Skip it if you want CSD1's restaurant-building progression or hate perfect-run gold medals.
Great for
Players who enjoy fast, stressful muscle-memory challenges, keyboard play, and co-op with friends
Main risk
Little progression, punishing perfect-run gold medals, and screen/resolution bugs on some PCs
What players love
Addictive, stressful fast-paced gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“It's so satisfying and stressful and exhilarating. Makes me hungry every time.”
Steam review · 187.4 h played ↗
Holding stations and Cook for Hire add depth
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Each restaurant in the campaign has its own set of foods, and each level of the restaurant gets progressively harder”
Steam review · 17.1 h played ↗
Gorgeous, appetizing food art
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“has hands-down the best, most artisticly pleasing food I've ever witnessned in a game or otherwise.”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗
Great for typing and muscle memory
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“playing this game all the time unintentionally has helped get my typing speed up to 100 WPM”
Steam review · 107.2 h played ↗
Fun local co-op
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“My wife and I love the local co-op.”
Steam review · 15.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Lack of progression compared to CSD1
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“There is no campaign, no progression, the game lost all its charm.”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗
Confusing UI and arbitrary key bindings
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“keys are not associated with a logical letter, so if you don't learn the keys by heart, you're way too slow to keep the pace.”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗
Brutal difficulty and perfect-day gold medals
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“you have to get perfect on every single level if you want to be able to unlock everything. That means I now have to restart a level every time I make a single mistake.”
Steam review · 3.9 h played ↗
Fullscreen, resolution and ultrawide bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“It doesn't want to stay in full screen for me :/”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗
Foods feel samey and repetitive
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“now you'll be stuck making 3 different types of chicken nuggets the exact same way.”
Steam review · 19.3 h played ↗
Audio and Windows 11 compatibility issues
Mentioned in ~1 in 75 negative reviews
“This game will not play audio on windows 11.”
Steam review · 156.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support
Minimum
OSWindows 10/11+
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGPU with at least 256MB of VRAM
Recommended
OSWindows 10/11+
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsGPU with at least 512MB of VRAM or better
OSWindows 10/11+
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGPU with at least 256MB of VRAM
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