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10 best Android cooking games and restaurant sims
Cooking games are a fun genre. Very few actually let you cook anything. However, you get elements of arcade, simulation, puzzle, and strategy in most titles. The most popular games in this genre revolve around running restaurants, putting dishes together, and serving customers. You try to maintain the balance between food quality, customer satisfaction, and profit margins. They can be rather relaxing and most games in the genre are playable for a good long time. In any case, we think we found a pretty good mix of games for this list. Here are the best cooking games for Android! In addition to being fun, most of these games are also kid-friendly.
The best cooking games for Android
Burger Shop
Price: Free / $1.99
Burger Shop is a more complex version of Burger above. You receive various orders and prepare them as fast as possible. This game features 160 total levels, a challenge mode, a relax mode, 60 food items, and eight restaurants. The relaxing mode is actually quite nice if you want to just chill and waste some time while the 80 expert story levels provide a surprisingly good challenge for players. It won’t blow your mind but it plays pretty well anyway.
See also: The best arcade games for Android
Cafeteria Nipponica
Price: $5.49
Cafeteria Nipponica is a cooking sim where you run a whole cafeteria. Players run the whole restaurant, find ingredients, research recipes, and try to make as many customers happy as possible. This one is by Kairosoft, a master of the simulation genre on mobile. The graphics are a bit retro, but it’s an excellent play overall. Kairosoft also does The Ramen Sensei, another excellent cooking game if you would rather go that route. Both games are premium games with no in-app purchases or ads.
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Price: $3.99
Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a simple, but fun cooking game. NPCs come into your shop and order various things. You make those things and earn some money. Players aim to do so as quickly as possible. You start with a few grand and some foods to choose from. From there you play, unlock more food, and earn more money. The ultimate goal is to get cast for an Iron Cook television show to show off your true skills. The gameplay is simple, but the unlockable content and secret content make it much deeper than it looks. The only downside is the game hasn’t seen an update since 2017 as of the time of this writing so it may not work on the newest versions of Android. Test it out before the refund time expires.
See also: The best simulation games for Android
Cooking Mama: Let’s Cook
Price: Free to play
Cooking Mama is one of the better cooking games because it actually lets you do a bit of cooking. For instance, you can slice an onion and saute it in a fry pan by swiping your fingers. In addition, you have to cultivate some of your own ingredients. There are some non-cooking mini-games to play along with things like weekly challenges and various events. The game is free to play with some in-app purchases, but nothing too awful.
Good Pizza, Great Pizza
Price: Free to play
Good Pizza, Great Pizza is a title a lot of people like to recommend. It plays like most restaurant sims. Customers come in and give you an order. You make the order, cook it up, and ship it off. Players make money as they go and must also manage customer morale as they play. The game features 100 unique customers with varying orders, various things to upgrade, and a much less stressful overall approach to the mechanics than most games. It’s a free-to-play game with microtransactions, but it doesn’t really detract from the game play at all.
Gordon Ramsay: Chef Blast
Price: Free to play
Gordon Ramsay: Chef Blast is the newest cooking game on the list. It heavily features Gordon Ramsay as you try and become a top chef. The game is technically a match-three game. However, there is a component where you do get to cook food with Ramsay. There are recipes you can try in real life, a ton of levels to play through, and there are social elements as well. It’s pretty decent as a time killer as far as time killers go. It’s free to play, but the microtransactions aren’t too bad.
Hunt Cook: Catch and Serve
Price: Free to play
Hunt Cook is a mixture of a hunting game and a cooking game. You start by hunting down your prey with your trusty dog and various hunting implements. Players then butcher the animals and prepare them for money. This is an interesting take on the whole genre. Most games give you a garden or something for fresh veggies, but none of them let you hunt animals for meat. The game is equally split between hunting and cooking so it’s not the deepest game in either genre, but it plays well when combined.
See also: The best hunting games for Android
Rising Super Chef
Price: Free to play
Rising Super Chef is a fairly typical cooking game and restaurant sim. It just happens to hit most of the checkboxes for a good one. The game is also massive. There are over 1,000 levels, 200 ingredients, 700 foods, and it’s playable offline. In return, you have to deal with some questionable translations and the game becomes a grind fest in later levels. This is one of those ones you can passively play over the course of a long time because there is so much to do. It is, however, a free-to-play game with some of those pitfalls so watch out for that.
SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off
Price: Free to play
SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off is the newest cooking game on the list and one of the few good games with famous characters in it. It’s a fairly typical restaurant sim except all of the characters are from Bikini Bottom. You grill up various items, including the famous Krabby Patties, for all of your guests and try to earn more as you go. There are various decorations and upgrades to choose from and there are even some customizations. It’s a fun game, especially for SpongeBob fans. The only downside is the free-to-play stuff but most people don’t seem to mind it. There is a Gordon Ramsay-themed cooking game as well, but this one is more friendly to players.
See also: The best kids games for Android
Star Chef
Price: Free to play
Star Chef is a restaurant sim similar to Cafeteria Nipponica. You get a great big cafeteria-style restaurant and you must make it successful. You upgrade and improve your restaurant as you go with a variety of recipes, decorations, and expansions. It gives you the option to grow some of your own food and even add stuff like a drive-thru. It’s a free-to-play game and some players believe it to be a little too aggressive. Otherwise, it plays pretty well.
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