Best Value Cooking Games Under $40
The Cooking games on Steam games under $40 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1The Quinfall$0.03/1hr29h66.03%50.99%
- 2Black Desert$0.05/1hr187h74.64%73.51%
- 3Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.15/1hr41h95.47%98.56%
- 4Fields of Mistria$0.18/1hr79h94.43%97.04%
- 5Feed the Cups$0.18/1hr72h79.51%70.59%
- 6Doloc Town$0.29/1hr69h87.94%94.54%
- 7Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.31/1hr128h90.20%92.17%
- 8Immortal Life$0.31/1hr55h83.56%79.48%
- 9Ale & Tale Tavern$0.31/1hr19h87.25%89.09%
- 10Core Keeper$0.35/1hr57h91.95%92.94%
- 11Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.35/1hr17h93.36%99.26%
- 12Farm Together 2$0.37/1hr59h88.31%93.77%
- 13Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.38/1hr29h90.27%94.26%
- 14Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.40/1hr15h88.95%98.68%
- 15PlateUp!$0.41/1hr37h92.22%94.75%
- 16Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.43/1hr16h86.26%96.10%
- 17Sun Haven$0.43/1hr58h81.87%80.51%
- 18Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.45/1hr78h84.66%84.06%
- 19Sailwind$0.46/1hr43h85.99%88.78%
- 20Farmer's Life$0.54/1hr36h86.07%88.73%
- 21Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.59/1hr34h85.92%87.76%
- 22Chef RPG$0.59/1hr34h85.88%87.83%
- 23Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator$0.62/1hr29h84.45%83.28%
- 24Critter Cove$0.65/1hr39h86.86%94.70%
- 25Fae Farm$0.65/1hr46h83.92%79.98%
- 26Ravenous Devils$0.66/1hr8h88.93%92.56%
- 27SULFUR$0.70/1hr35h86.48%87.52%
- 28Moonstone Island$0.75/1hr26h84.81%83.62%
- 29Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$0.82/1hr37h84.99%83.74%
- 30A Webbing Journey$0.92/1hr9h86.95%98.83%
- 31Hello Kitty Island Adventure$0.94/1hr42h90.09%93.91%
- 32The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.95/1hr11h93.12%94.42%
- 33Aeruta$0.95/1hr21h87.16%94.48%
- 34Party Club$0.95/1hr4h81.86%71.65%
- 35Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$1.00/1hr10h86.39%87.95%
- 36The Chef's Shift$1.06/1hr12h87.42%97.52%
- 37inbento$1.09/1hr5h87.93%96.70%
- 38REKA$1.11/1hr18h84.60%82.48%
- 39Fruitbus$1.29/1hr19h85.48%86.71%
- 40Fast Food Simulator$1.32/1hr11h86.19%87.07%
- 41Bloomtown: A Different Story$1.41/1hr18h85.37%85.55%
- 42Dungeon Munchies$1.49/1hr13h90.35%97.18%
- 43GIRLS MADE PUDDING$1.63/1hr6h86.19%95.45%
- 44Bakery Simulator$1.70/1hr9h81.58%66.20%
- 45Overcooked! 2$1.77/1hr14h89.87%90.41%
- 46Kiosk$1.77/1hr2h85.89%87.83%
- 47Wanderstop$1.81/1hr14h87.15%92.76%
- 48Overcooked$2.14/1hr8h88.01%89.61%
- 49Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town$2.28/1hr13h86.24%95.69%
- 50Pizza Possum$2.44/1hr3h86.82%93.41%
- 51Cooking Simulator$2.67/1hr8h84.88%84.65%
- 52Arctic Eggs$3.01/1hr3h89.24%95.57%
- 53Overcooked! All You Can Eat$3.81/1hr10h79.74%72.96%
- 54Venba$6.42/1hr2h87.29%92.47%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.