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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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.
  1. 1Black Desert$0.01/1hr
  2. 2inbento$0.13/1hr
  3. 3Touhou Mystia's Izakaya$0.13/1hr
  4. 4The Quinfall$0.15/1hr
  5. 5Farm Together 2$0.17/1hr
  6. 6PlateUp!$0.18/1hr
  7. 7Feed the Cups$0.24/1hr
  8. 8Stranded: Alien Dawn$0.24/1hr
  9. 9Papa's Freezeria Deluxe$0.28/1hr
  10. 10Core Keeper$0.35/1hr
  11. 11Fields of Mistria$0.35/1hr
  12. 12Sun Haven$0.36/1hr
  13. 13Yog-Sothoth’s Yard$0.37/1hr
  14. 14Critter Cove$0.38/1hr
  15. 15Disney Dreamlight Valley$0.40/1hr
  16. 16Bloomtown: A Different Story$0.48/1hr
  17. 17Moonstone Island$0.48/1hr
  18. 18Burgie's Cozy Kitchen$0.49/1hr
  19. 19Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe$0.49/1hr
  20. 20Overcooked! 2$0.53/1hr
  21. 21Echoes of the Plum Grove$0.55/1hr
  22. 22Overcooked$0.57/1hr
  23. 23Sailwind$0.69/1hr
  24. 24Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game$0.69/1hr
  25. 25Aeruta$0.71/1hr
  26. 26Pizza Possum$0.73/1hr
  27. 27SULFUR$0.73/1hr
  28. 28Chef RPG$0.74/1hr
  29. 29Doloc Town$0.76/1hr
  30. 30Ravenous Devils$0.76/1hr
  31. 31Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator$0.80/1hr
  32. 32Ale & Tale Tavern$0.81/1hr
  33. 33Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story$0.87/1hr
  34. 34A Webbing Journey$0.88/1hr
  35. 35The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty$0.98/1hr
  36. 36Fae Farm$1.04/1hr
  37. 37Hello Kitty Island Adventure$1.05/1hr
  38. 38To Pixelia$1.08/1hr
  39. 39Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator$1.15/1hr
  40. 40The Chef's Shift$1.17/1hr
  41. 41Fast Food Simulator$1.22/1hr
  42. 42REKA$1.31/1hr
  43. 43Bakery Simulator$1.63/1hr
  44. 44Kiosk$1.66/1hr
  45. 45Wanderstop$1.89/1hr
  46. 46Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town$2.01/1hr
  47. 47Venba$2.10/1hr
  48. 48Overcooked! All You Can Eat$2.15/1hr
  49. 49Dungeon Munchies$2.25/1hr
  50. 50Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!$2.32/1hr
  51. 51Cooking Simulator$2.62/1hr
  52. 52Arctic Eggs$3.22/1hr
  53. 53[Bober Bros] The Hole$3.32/1hr
  54. 54Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr

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.