Steam Game Review] During the self-restraint, make your own cooking debut and aim for the Instagram! Cooking Simulator" - A real cooking fool game!

In this series, Mina Tsujimura, aka SteamMania, a core gamer on Steam, reviews in detail the recommended games available on Steam, a PC game platform that is currently enjoying a lot of popularity. She introduces the fun of the games.

With the declaration of a state of emergency and priority measures to prevent the spread of the disease, people are being asked to refrain from going out, and an increasing number of people are starting to cook their own meals because they have fewer opportunities to eat out. As an example, I too have become addicted to cooking for myself and baking sweets. In this context, I would like to introduce "Cooking Simulator," a game that allows you to have fun learning to cook in a real kitchen. With a game, you don't waste any ingredients even if you fail, and the only thing you waste is electricity and time!　You can try more and more difficult dishes without fear of failure.

An "elaborately recreated kitchen" that is so beautiful that you can't help but admire it!

As mentioned above, no matter how much you cook in this game, you will never waste any ingredients!　And the recipes in the game are so delicious that you can actually cook them.

The recipes that get more and more gorgeous as you progress through the game are also a sight to behold. Furthermore, the kitchen looks like a stylish restaurant kitchen, with many unusual seasonings that you have never seen before and herbs such as parsley and basil growing in the kitchen. It is like a kitchen in a fashionable restaurant, where you can enjoy an area that the general public is not allowed to enter, saying, "I see.

Basically, the game is a simulation game in which you work as a chef and unlock recipes as you build your career. The game modes include a career mode where you work as a chef and release recipes, a sandbox mode where there are no rules at all and you can do anything, a cooking school mode where you can play tutorials, and a mode where you can create party menus for the Christmas season.

I tried cooking in the tutorial "Cooking School!

Now let's actually start playing with the cooking school. This time, we will cook a dish called "Steak with Fries" in the practical training course!　First, season the steak meat with salt and black pepper.

After seasoning, grill the meat for 45 seconds on each side. The sizzling sound of the meat is very realistic and stimulates hunger. The grill marks look nice and tasty!

Once the meat is done grilling, transfer it to a plate and cut the potatoes into 15g pieces.

Once the potatoes are cut, pour oil into the fryer, turn it on, and place the potatoes in the basket and fry for 30 seconds.

Serve the potatoes and sprinkle with rosemary for decoration!　How do you like it?　The potatoes are a little splattered, but it's not too bad, is it?　As an unparalleled potato lover, I can't get enough of this dish.

My goal is to become a three-star Michelin restaurant!　I tried playing in career mode.

After successfully graduating from culinary school, the next step is to work in a restaurant.

What do you think of the view?　The restaurant where you are going to work looks like a sophisticated restaurant in a big city.

My first order of the day is oven-baked trout. The trout is seasoned with black pepper, dried thyme, and dried dill, and baked in the oven for 90 seconds.

After baking, sprinkle with dried horseradish, place on a plate with lemon wedges, and finally garnish with fresh parsley leaves.

Finished!　Isn't it so stylish?　Grilling fish tends to cause a smell in the room, so in real life, we tend to hesitate ....... With this game, you can cook such fish dishes without any worries.

The rating was all 5 stars!　Even though it's a game, it's nice to get this kind of feedback on the dishes you make. It makes me want to make more and more dishes.

Furthermore, I was able to unlock one more park with the increased experience. This time, I got the "heat-resistant glove," which allows me to hold hot food.

I made a delicious and sumptuous dish in Christmas mode.

Finally, I decided to play the "Winter Holidays Mode" as the culmination of my life as a chef. In this mode, you can hold a Christmas dinner party. First, choose the number of guests to invite from 1 to 8. Naturally, the more guests you have, the more dishes you have to make, which makes it more difficult. Once you have decided on the guests, you must decide on your own recipes to make. All of the dishes in the Winter Holidays mode are gorgeous and fun to look at.

Guests are randomly assigned a favorite ingredient, so you will receive more points if you make a dish using that ingredient. In addition, each dish has a difficulty level from 1 to 5. This time, the guest's favorite food is jalapenos!　So, let's try the "Spicy Shakshuka" (right), a dish with jalapeños and difficulty level 5.

Here is the recipe for "Spicy Shakshuka." First, you need to get vegetables and seasonings from the pantry according to the recipe. There are so many ingredients that it is hard to gather them all.

Once all the ingredients are gathered, cut the onion, red bell pepper, tomato, and garlic into bite-sized pieces according to the recipe.

Once the ingredients are cut, saute them in olive oil, smoked pepper, turmeric, cumin, and salt and pepper to taste. Once cooked, add more water or eggs and additional salt and pepper and saute for 30 seconds. They already look delicious.

Finally, serve with goat cheese cut into 10 grams each and toast that has been grilled on both sides.

Oh, my...my hands got a little rough!　I just got a little rough with my hands and successfully spilled all the liquid. The Spicy Shakshuka without Sauce is ready. ......

The guests' reaction was ...... amazing!　By the way, it is quite surreal to see the food being sucked into the panel board with humans on it. The fantasy world view is also wonderful.

As you can see, the food has popped out of the plate about half more as a reaction to the placement of the food, but the guests are eating it with relish, so the result is all right!

The road to becoming a three-star chef was not as sweet as I thought it would be.

This time, I tried making three dishes: "Steak with French Fries," "Oven-Baked Trout," and "Spicy Shakshuka," but I got the impression that they were more challenging than I had imagined. Particularly difficult was the operation of serving the finished dishes. Even if you think you are placing the dish gently, the slightest touch of tongs or a frying pan will immediately cause the dish to break or the ingredients to scatter, so you have to be very careful when serving the dish. ...... Furthermore, it is often the case that you try to put down a frying pan but it somehow blows up and goes missing, clogging up the .......

Nevertheless, the variety of dishes, seasonings, and cooking utensils, and especially the high degree of freedom in the cooking process, are excellent, and I think the game is an unquestionable simulation game.

The gorgeous downloadable content (DLC) that takes advantage of the simple genre of cooking is another attraction. There is a wide variety, including the ability to become a pizza maker, a cake maker, or a cooking show actor.

In addition, the Fallout-style end-of-century DLC "Shelter," which allows players to hunt mutant animals and grow glowing mushrooms in an underground shelter at the end of the century, will be released soon. This is definitely a game that you can play for a long time, and we are looking forward to it!

Title Information

Cooking Simulator (Big Cheese Studio)
Released June 7, 2019
Price: 2,050 yen (as of June 2, 2021)
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Author：Suchimu Mana (Mina Tsujimura)

Writer and gamer at Office Mica. Her favorite game genres include sandbox survival games and horror games. Her style of game playing is a text-chatting game player who is afraid of VC players.

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