Best Value Cooking Games Under $20
The Cooking games on Steam games under $20 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.
- 1Black Desert$0.01/1hr118h74.62%73.52%
- 2inbento$0.13/1hr7h87.59%96.67%
- 3Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.13/1hr44h95.35%98.56%
- 4The Quinfall$0.15/1hr67h65.98%51.25%
- 5PlateUp!$0.18/1hr27h92.07%94.72%
- 6Feed the Cups$0.24/1hr66h79.39%70.79%
- 7Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.24/1hr50h84.51%84.35%
- 8Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.28/1hr21h92.97%99.25%
- 9Core Keeper$0.35/1hr58h91.90%92.95%
- 10Fields of Mistria$0.35/1hr36h94.38%97.45%
- 11Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.37/1hr30h90.44%94.29%
- 12Bloomtown: A Different Story$0.48/1hr21h85.05%85.72%
- 13Moonstone Island$0.48/1hr41h84.55%83.77%
- 14Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.49/1hr14h86.24%96.89%
- 15Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.49/1hr12h88.63%98.69%
- 16Overcooked! 2$0.53/1hr12h89.83%90.41%
- 17Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.55/1hr36h85.42%87.78%
- 18Overcooked$0.57/1hr7h87.88%89.65%
- 19Sailwind$0.69/1hr29h85.68%88.85%
- 20Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$0.69/1hr14h86.17%88.00%
- 21Aeruta$0.71/1hr21h86.83%94.54%
- 22Pizza Possum$0.73/1hr4h86.48%93.43%
- 23Chef RPG$0.74/1hr27h85.56%87.83%
- 24Doloc Town$0.76/1hr21h87.18%95.16%
- 25Ravenous Devils$0.76/1hr7h88.59%92.56%
- 26Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator$0.80/1hr23h84.16%83.19%
- 27Ale & Tale Tavern$0.81/1hr19h87.10%89.21%
- 28Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story$0.87/1hr23h85.66%98.57%
- 29A Webbing Journey$0.88/1hr11h86.54%98.77%
- 30The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.98/1hr10h93.07%94.44%
- 31To Pixelia$1.08/1hr14h83.73%74.30%
- 32The Chef's Shift$1.17/1hr11h87.05%97.81%
- 33Fast Food Simulator$1.22/1hr12h86.41%87.93%
- 34REKA$1.31/1hr15h84.35%82.65%
- 35Bakery Simulator$1.63/1hr10h81.36%66.42%
- 36Kiosk$1.66/1hr2h85.63%88.08%
- 37Venba$2.10/1hr2h86.98%92.54%
- 38Dungeon Munchies$2.25/1hr9h89.91%97.17%
- 39Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!$2.32/1hr9h85.99%90.53%
- 40Cooking Simulator$2.62/1hr8h84.78%84.70%
- 41Arctic Eggs$3.22/1hr3h88.96%95.65%
- 42[Bober Bros] The Hole$3.32/1hr1h84.98%85.52%
- 43Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr5h83.74%48.54%
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.