Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Game
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Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Developer Vertigo Gaming Inc.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a restaurant simulation video game released in 2012, developed and published by Vertigo Gaming. The player controls the menu and running of a restaurant, with in-game currency being awarded by correctly filling customer orders. Directed by David Galindo, it featured art by Sara Gross and music from Jonathan Geer. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
292 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
86
LovedLoved
158 positive · 25 negative
95% range 81–91%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 158 | 25 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 37 | 3 | 51 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
4,288 of 4,535 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
86% recommend · 151 yes, 25 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 176 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (5,394 of 5,720 positive).
Players describe it as a stressful, fast-paced typing game that simulates working in a busy kitchen. [1][2][3] Many find it challenging yet satisfying, with a good learning curve and addictive gameplay. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize it for being repetitive and not a traditional cooking game. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
typing game disguised as a cooking game. I went in and purchased the bundle expecting something like Delicious Emily's or Diner Dash... and I was quite disappointed. I gave it a try, but this just isn't it for me.
- [1]
Eleven years after its release, Cook Serve Delicious! is still the flagship of stressful restaurant-themed single-player time management games. Where Overcooked makes you hate your friends, CSD makes you hate your life. You take over a zero-star café in Sherrisoda Tower, and make the tactical mistake of opening for customers. As the only cook and janitor, you spend long shifts juggling chores and making orders to …
- [13]
rhythm game for psychopaths who love stress. i love it
- [5]
Challenging, stressful and absolutely satisfying and entertaining. The fact that it can be played solely with the keyboard only makes it all the more easy to get absorbed and keep playing.
- [2]
A stressful combination of reading comprehension, typing dexterity, memorization, muscle memory, time management and juggling. Receive orders, press the prompts in the right order, do it fast, but not fast enough to mess up something. Keep the perfect combo going, remember to do the dishes, take out the trash, kill the rats, and pour the beer. Remember, hiring a cashier, more cooks or someone to clean around is the …
Summarised from 34 of the 282 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Cook, Serve, Delicious! talk about challenging and satisfying gameplay; those who didn't talk about repetitive gameplay loop. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Mal Scott of The Stereogram was very positive about the game, commenting that despite the game being reasonably basic, it was "much, much more than the sum of its parts." Scott also commented that the game was difficult, dubbing it the "Dark Souls of cooking games". Matt Porter of Hooked Gamers gave the game a 7.4 out of 10 rating, commenting that the game is 'surprisingly difficult at times', and that it 'has a lot of charm', but also called the game 'repetitive'. Touch Arcade's Jon Polson gave the iPad version four and a half stars, but did not think the simplified controls made the game better. Lucy Ingram of 148Apps reviewed the app version and observed that the game took "the best…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 292 · most liked firstDisc-nner is served... 🍜 A delicious looking disc for the 1999 cooking game Ori no Ryouri. Inspired a series of fan games that became the commercially released Cook, Serve, Delicious.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey! I'm David Galindo and I'm an indie dev known for the Cook, Serve, Delicious! series and currently working on Cook Serve Forever (a story based chill cooking game) and Cook, Serve, Delicious: Re-Mustard!, a brand new remake of the original, for 2025! Woo! store.steampowered.com/app/2139040/...
neutral · AI labelView post →[CLOSED] [STEAM] Christmas Steam Key Giveaway -- Part 2. You can send me a list of up to 5 titles, and at the end of the day I will send the keys out (randomly choosing if multiple people want the same game). Also check out [Part 1](https://lemmy.ca/post/35607838)! * ~~Caesar III~~ * ~~Caesar IV~~ * ~~Canabalt~~ * Capsized * Car Dealer * Car Mechanic Manager * Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 * Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 + DLC * ~~Car Mechanic Simulator 2018~~ * ~~Carcassonne: Tiles and…
neutral · AI labelView post →All the cooking games I've seen don't appeal to me because they're twitch-based (the Papa Louie stuff) or emphasize speed/coordination (Cook Serve Delicious) or it's just a co-op game with cooking aesthetics (Overcooked). NO, I want to watch pieces of chicken slowly turn opaque in boiling water!!!!
negative · AI labelView post →Games that almost fit the bill: - Across the Obelisk: Slay the Spire but multiple characters (but not local) - Core Keeper: Great mining game, but the bosses and action gets a bit intense to be chill - Cook Serve Delicious series: Epic cooking together, splitting tasks and getting hand cramps
neutral · AI labelView post →WarioWare meets restaurant management in Cook Serve Delicious, and each game captures that core, undeniable appeal in unique, compelling ways. Play 'em all!! store.steampowered.com/bundle/32041...
positive · AI labelView post →Cook, Serve, Delicious No one believes me when I say this game *reduces* my anxiety. Who cares about a world-wide pandemic when the lunch rush has arrived, I must put my keyboard skills to the test, and the GODDAMN TOILET IS CLOGGED AGAIN??
positive · AI labelView post →It was indeed inspired by other popular cooking games like Overcooked!, PlateUp! or Cook, Serve, Delicious!, but we designed it to be more flexible. For instance, we have a very simple tile based map format and we eventually want to add a map editor which would allow anyone to design and share their own maps.
neutral · AI labelView post →Time to start showing my game! After 5 months into development, ive finally put up a steam page for my game, bar at the edge of papillon, a cozy cooking sim game inspired by "Cook Serve Delicious!" feel free to check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3778600/... #indiegames #wishlistwednesday
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out our Cook, Serve, Delicious! trilogy o' games discounted for the Steam Couch Co-Op Fest right now! Up to 75% off, woo! store.steampowered.com/news/app/100... art by @finchfish.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →My perception of how long I've been playing a game is so incredibly fucked. I seriously played Valheim for 450 hours and Cook, Serve, Delicious for 800?? I mean, I'm obsessed with both, but god damn, I'm really out here type-cooking food more than I am fighting monsters.
positive · AI labelView post →Random Game Saturday Without Ore no Ryouri (俺の料理), there would be no Cook Serve Delicious. An incredibly fun game that utilized the dual analog sticks to chop, stir, flip, and more. Even the packaging is great. The disc is a bowl of ramen that empties when you remove it.
positive · AI labelView post →Next Week on Xbox: New Games for February 26 to March 1. Next Week on Xbox: New Games for February 26 to March 1 ______________________________________ Bio Inc. Redemption – February 27 Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery A complex biomedical simulator in which you make life or death decisions. Create the ultimate illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your patient. Will you be the plague or preserve…
neutral · AI labelView post →the Cook, Serve, Delicious games aren’t dangerous bc they have one of the most addicting & gratifying loop mechanics of any game ever made, they’re dangerous bc after enough rounds you’ll find yourself in your kitchen making cheese sauce & frying tortillas for fully loaded nachos at 3am on a tuesday
positive · AI labelView post →HUGE MEGA ANNOUNCEMENT: Cook, Serve, Delicious: Re-Mustard! is our next game, coming in 2024! Featuring a brand new campaign, new modes, new features, and so much more. Wishlist today on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2139040/Cook_Serve_Delicious_ReMustard/ I'm so so so excited! WOO!!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Eleven years after its release, Cook Serve Delicious! is still the flagship of stressful restaurant-themed single-player time management games. Where Overcooked makes you hate your friends, CSD makes you hate your life. You take over a zero-star café in Sherrisoda Tower, and make the tactical mistake of opening for customers. As the only cook and janitor, you spend long shifts juggling chores and making orders to customer satisfaction by selecting the right keys/buttons while 4-8 other…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Time for a random game that I have been wanting to play and maybe complete! I just need some rest mentally and with a game to straighten things out with Cook Serve Delicious 2! www.twitch.tv/werebearista
neutral · AI labelView post →Ordered by amount of "potential" replayability, vaguely I've played all these through and am confident it'd be ok for 13 yos If they like silly chaos and cooking games, $20 [PlateUp!](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599600/PlateUp/) If they like absolute madness and precise button inputs to make pretty food, $20 [Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1000030/Cook_Serve_Delicious_3/) Rock of ages series I think all have local multiplayer, but I think $30 > on…
neutral · AI labelView post →I've played every Cook Serve Delicious game since the series was called Ore No Ryomi, so trust me when I say that I'm *hyped* for this!! 🍔🥗🍹 @chubigans.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →It's fun and challenging and has a good learning curve. Only downside to this game is you might build up the muscle memory to get far in the game, take a short break to play another game, come back, and it's ALL GONE, so you have to start from scratch. Due to that last part, I couldn't finish it, but it was fun while I played.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Theory: Plateup!, Overcooked!, Papa's Pizzeria, and Cook, Serve Delicious all exist to fill the hole left in everyone's heart when Diner Dash got delisted
neutral · AI labelView post →Surprise! It's demo day for Cook, Serve, Delicious: Remustard! Give it a whirl! Full game out January! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2139040/...
neutral · AI labelView post →rhythm game for psychopaths who love stress. i love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →8. Cook Serve Forever* If the Cook Serve Delicious games were an adaptation of typing tutorials, Cook Serve Forever takes the formula into rhythm game territory. The asynchronous inputs are akin to drumming, and are just as tactile and satisfying to pull off.
positive · AI labelView post →A stressful combination of reading comprehension, typing dexterity, memorization, muscle memory, time management and juggling. Receive orders, press the prompts in the right order, do it fast, but not fast enough to mess up something. Keep the perfect combo going, remember to do the dishes, take out the trash, kill the rats, and pour the beer. Remember, hiring a cashier, more cooks or someone to clean around is the coward way. A really man cooks 3 pizzas and 3 single serving bowls of soup at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a way more active game than I was expecting - it's got that Cook, Serve, Delicious thing where you're constantly in motion and keeping your timing correct, though you also can automate things and change what you're frantically doing. Really neat game! Looking forward to the full version.
positive · AI labelView post →With Cook Serve Delicious! Remustard coming out in January, I need to play through the first game with a friend and tease them about how every meal that we make is going down their gullet. This is a necessary part of the game, I assure you.
positive · AI labelView post →Time Crisis is truly the perfect name - it's a title that could almost fit every game ever made. Cook Serve Delicious? That's a (Multitasking) Time Crisis. Death Stranding? That's a Time(fall) Crisis. Unpacking? That's an (Existential) Time Crisis.
neutral · AI labelView post →aka: the Dark Souls of cooking games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⚠️⚠️⚠️ i'm still going through all my Spare Game Keys, but i have at least the following to give away on stream: 👉 Sticky Business 👉 Cook Serve Delicious 👉 For The King: Deluxe Edition 👉 Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX [ #streamer #vtuber #furry ]
neutral · AI labelView post →Arranger is a great place to start. A Short Hike is a wonderful little game if you like short exploratory meditations. Wheels of Aurelia is one of the more unique driving games I’ve played. And Cook, Serve, Delicious is one of my fav restaurant games.
positive · AI labelView post →Seeing Giant Bomb do their Top 10 Games of the Decade So Far stream inspired me to make my own Top 10 Games of the Decade list on the site. Will update with descriptions on why each game is on the list when I'm able to. Otherwise COOK, SERVE, DELICIOUS 3 DA GOAT! www.giantbomb.com/profile/mocb...
positive · AI labelView post →Platinum Trophy #780 - Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 (PS5)! I don’t tend to share my stacks, but I’m super proud that I’ve now done all 3 stacks of this mindless fun management game.~ My first stack took 179.5 hours, and this final one took me 61 hours. 🤩🏆💖 #TrophyHunter #PlayStation #PlatinumTrophy
positive · AI labelView post →Hey as part of the current steam sale, one of my absolute favorite game series has a bundle for only $7. Pick up @chubigans.bsky.social Cook, Serve, Delicious 1/2/3; store.steampowered.com/bundle/13553... (Not sponsored. Just a fan. Go play them, all)
positive · AI labelView post →Picking Up Steam continues with a review of Cook, Serve, Delicious!! thegamehoard.com/2026/05/03/p... #gaming #videogames #indiegames #pcgaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Super fun typing game that really emulates the feeling of working a kitchen during rush hour lol. Definitely not a relaxing game, but it's easy to jump in and out of since it's so simple mechanically. There's a little bit of a grind and I kind of wish there was more foods unlocked for 4 and 5 star restaurants, but there's no lack of content and fun value in the game as-is. Highly recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Make sure you join us tonight on www.twitch.tv/scanlinemedia as @six.scanlinemedia.com plays the @chubigans.bsky.social game series Cook, Serve, Delicious! while we raise funds for the Pomona Valley Food Bank and Capital Area Food Bank!
neutral · AI labelView post →An incredibly hectic microgame-based restaurant sim. In Cook, Serve, Delicious! you play as a restaurateur, opening your little cookhouse and hoping to reel in enough customers and cash to upgrade your tiny place into a 5-star world-renowned eatery. During the day you'll have customers trickle - or eventually pile - in to your restaurant and order food. Each item has an associated microgame, from opening a bottle of wine to putting the right toppings on a pizza, and getting it wrong can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →13ish years ago I thought I was just bad at this game and it was hard. Now after several years in tech and becoming very skilled with a keyboard (I was mostly a console gamer back then cause broke child cannot afford good PC) I'm slaying. Not sure why I got a sudden urge to play this game and go back to the first in the series buy hey, here I am.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[There are sticky notes beneath this notice that read:] ✧ hiatus is done homies !!! ✧ but we're making some Changes ✧ i also have some Game Keys to give away (Sticky Business, Cook Serve Delicious, probs more) ✧ this is not really an event . but if you don't attend i'll be mad just fyi so thanks .
neutral · AI labelView post →why is this classifying Cook Serve Delicious 3 as a copycat game when it as a series has existed since 2012?
negative · AI labelView post →10 random games to get to know me: - Untitled Goose Game - Earthbound - Fallout New Vegas (any of them, really) - Katamari Forever (any of them, really) - Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 - Simpsons Hit and Run - GTA Vice City - Parasite Eve 2 - Duck Tales for GameBoy - Through the Darkest of Times
neutral · AI labelView post →We're in the final stretch! Just 13 hours left! For just $10 you'll get our game Primrows, you'll get hits like A Short Hike, classics like They Bleed Pixels and Cook, Serve, Delicious!, new releases like Arranger and Dirtbag Mahjong and still over 100 more titles to discover!
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently chilling out to this: youtu.be/oBkzcA6mIUk From @chubigans.bsky.social (of Cook Serve Delicious fame), a game that went under the radar, I think. I didn't play a ton of it, I admit, but the music is loads of this excellent moody slow-electronica, like, mirror-universe Weather Channel.
neutral · AI labelView post →typing game disguised as a cooking game. I went in and purchased the bundle expecting something like Delicious Emily's or Diner Dash... and I was quite disappointed. I gave it a try, but this just isn't it for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so fast AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Love it tho, plus improved my muscle memory on the keyboard :P
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Platinum Trophy #1003 - Cook, Serve Delicious 3 (PS5)! My third and final stack of this game. This stack took me 85 hours whilst my first took me 200+. 🤣 Now I have all the stacks for 2 & 3! But do I go back to do the first game? 🤔 #TrophyHunter #CSD3 #CookServeDelicious #PlatinumTrophy
positive · AI labelView post →Evolution of Cook Serve Delicious - CSD 1 Gameplay. Just a few videos to show CSD1 to CSD 3 (CSF can be seen in my Let's Play) and how the Gameplay Changed. youtu.be/Pe6ECrG35gs Game Series is by @chubigans.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Some games to get to know me! 💛 🎮 Bioshock (Infinite) 🎮 Portal 1 and 2 🎮 Cook Serve Delicious 1, 2, 3, and Forever 🎮 Animal Crossing 🎮 Fallout 🎮 Magical Delicacy 🎮 SOS 🎮 Galaxy Burger 🎮 Minami Lane 🎮 Phasmophobia 🎮 Good Pizza, Great Pizza Any type of cozy, simulation, or asymmetrical game 💛.
neutral · AI labelView post →8) Cook, Serve, Delicious: Remustard! I love CSD, it was the first game I streamed for Fia and I look back on it exceedingly fondly. I'd started to fall off the series after Forever completely lost me, so my hopes were a little dulled, but no I love this. Every bit as fun as its ever been.
positive · AI labelView post →Played this game years ago and decided to come back to it a few weeks ago. It still holds up and it is for sure the best Cook Serve game to start off with. It can get a bit repetitive, but it's different from other cooking games and honestly a step up in the genre. A lot of typing is required if you use keyboard controls, but it adds to the challenge and you might even improve at typing speed a little!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm almost a third of the way on getting all of the gold medals in Cook, Serve, Delicious 3! Wish me good luck while I get shot, rammed and shot some more in this game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Challenging, stressful and absolutely satisfying and entertaining. The fact that it can be played solely with the keyboard only makes it all the more easy to get absorbed and keep playing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game, this game inspired me to make The Chef's Shift XD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today I found out that @chubigans.bsky.social is making a remake for the original Cook Serve Delicious! I loved that game, and am very excited to see what the remake does
positive · AI labelView post →Hiya Everyone! Feeling a bit too tired to do shooty games today, so how about a cooking game instead? How stressful could that be? We're going live with Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 in about ten minutes, hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/aura_and_alloy #vtuber #CookServeDelicious3
neutral · AI labelView post →Cook, Serve, Delicious! - A game where you are the chef, you need to manage your menu, each item has bonuses, buffs, debuffs and gets stale after a while on your menu. Quite a bit in-depth mechanics behind the scenes and how to perfectly serve the items to customers. Recommend if you like being a virtual chef, this is the game for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is way more of a dexterity game than a cooking game. I would prefer an actual cooking game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cook, Serve, Delicious! in one word: FAAASTERRR This game is full of keyboard action and plays a lot like those niche typing games. But instead of reading and typing words, you're reading dish orders and inputting corresponding hotkeys at blistering pace and superb accuracy. And yes, you can customize hotkeys for all the dishes, which is pretty sweet. However, there are some notable limitations: the key to serve a dish has to be Enter, and you can only use letters, so [];',. etc. aren't…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My wife played this game almost every evening for quite a while, while I mostly sat there watching her play. The gameplay itself is pretty simple in principle — basically, you press the right buttons to add the required ingredients and complete the recipes. That said, especially in the later levels, things can get extremely stressful and sometimes downright frustrating. My wife needed a bit of extra help here and there to keep from losing her mind, but she still had a lot of fun with it.…
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