Cook, Serve, Delicious!

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aaaaand its a game that promotes the brutal torture, forced impregnation, suffering, and killing of animals 😐🚬

really fun!! get it if you like games like diner dash. bonus if you type fast and like typing games

Its pizza time

Absolutely lovely high action management game. Getting back to it is rough, considering how much of muscle memory it asks from you.

I was happy with this game until robberies, describing robbers to save money and buzz uses a whole different mechanic than typing. It takes way too long, and it looks like I'm not the only one who hates it.
There is a guide here on steam about which ini file to edit to magic away robbers' effects in your career. Psst, don't go overboard or you'll kill your fun and don't cheat in multiplayer.
Now that annoyance is gone I can go back to stressing about what makes this game fun and challenging.

Not bad

I hate how addicted I am to this game.

I am trying to learn to type faster but my right finger dexterity is kind of weak. Many typing games and exercises are booooring. This game hits the spot especially with custom key binds, it's basically like a gamified gym for my fingers.

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Robbers in this just wastes too much time when they pop up....there is no such thing as sexy hair, I much preferred button mashing to catch the robbers from Ore no Ryomi back in the day, i'll skip this one and the rest if they are the same.

Keep Cooking

a little learning curve, but super fun!

Never been more stressed but happy in my life. The gameplay is great and I love the fun little details like the spam emails and texting during shift.

I had fun playing this game at first on Steam Deck, but there came a point in the game where I could tell I would never be able to complete all the competitions because it was impossible for me to move that fast on controller. I managed to get all the achievements by switching to PC and then it became more of a typing game which was much easier. Very satisfying to complete while also quite a challenge.

This is way more of a dexterity game than a cooking game. I would prefer an actual cooking game.

Eleven years after its release, Cook Serve Delicious! is still the flagship of stressful restaurant-themed single-player time management games. Where Overcooked makes you hate your friends, CSD makes you hate your life.

You take over a zero-star café in Sherrisoda Tower, and make the tactical mistake of opening for customers. As the only cook and janitor, you spend long shifts juggling chores and making orders to customer satisfaction by selecting the right keys/buttons while 4-8 other customers wait impatiently. Between shifts, you plan your menu like a battle strategy and upgrade your restaurant. There's not much story, but the lore unfolding in the background is somehow more insane than the game itself; by the third game, you're driving an armored food truck with cyborg sous chefs.

I've played all three installments over the years on various platforms, and particularly enjoyed it at times in my life when I couldn't deal with reality; it's frustrating and it demands all of your attention, but the dopamine rush of getting everything right is so satisfying. This is also the odd game with controller support that I prefer to play with keyboard/mouse.

While CSD2 is often recommended as the better game, it'll be a challenge if you haven't practiced with CSD1. If you liked anything at all about this review, then I'd recommend picking up either the base game or the trilogy bundle.

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4.5/5

why am i sweating right now??

In my opinion, this one is easily the best in the series. It may not have the variety or polished art of the later games, but the core loop is the most satisfying in this one. Where later ones focus more on challenges, in this first one the focus is on building up your restaurant over time. The emails were a fun feature, and I liked tailoring my menu around day to day events and the optional events much more than I enjoyed playing different levels with premade menus. While the second game had more in the way of restaurant customization, your own restaurant was more a side activity where working in other people's restaurants was the main game. From what I understand this one is getting a remake with some of the new features of the later games, which I'm eagerly anticipating.

One relatively minor complaint is that the pacing is way off. Your goal throughout the game is to increase the stars of your restaurant by completing various checklist items over several work days. This is a good system in theory, if it wasn't for the 'work 20 days' requirement you have to do for each star. This is painfully slow and adds nothing to the game, especially considering you can usually wrap up all of the other requirements after 4 or 5 shifts. This pointless grind is extremely annoying, and locks you out of accessing a lot of the content in the game.

I also wish some of the default hotkeys were a bit better thought out, but I think this one actually tends to pick more reasonable binds than some of the absolutely baffling picks in the later games. This one isn't a huge deal though, as you're able to rebind them however you'd like.

Overall, I think this is a pretty great game that strikes an unusual balance between typing, management, and arcade gameplay. The game also has a nice fun sense of personality that the later games didn't quite manage to replicate for me.

no matter how many time management games you've played this one will still stress you out enough to be a health hazard

bad game. presents itself as a chill game but in fact is extremely sweaty, perfectionist, and unforgiving.
bad things:
- if you realize you made a mistake you can't bin your dish and make a new one and gotta take the L
- too long
- in game economy is stupidly bad
- repetitive but not fun
- too many options
- too many distractions

good things:
- nothing

It's funny going back how much simpler this is than its sequels
Not that that's bad

Very fun and enjoyable typing game, that makes good use of ingenious mechanics to add complexity to an otherwise simple concept. I especially liked how some recipes created a different flow on the keyboard, while presenting unique challenges you had to overcome.

(I only played on extreme so the experience might be different on normal)

Pros:
- simple and easy to navigate UI (there are some weird menu interactions like how you have to go to the "View/Buy Foods" tab to test recipes, but there aren't that many and you get used to it)
- straightforward gameplay that also needs a bit of strategy to play well
- good humor
- music
- diverse and fun recipe cards
- challenging (I wouldn't say it's especially hard but you need to be able to touch type to have a good time)
- not annoying to get all achievements

Cons:
- a few annoying bugs (mostly in the UI)
- becomes repetitive after a while (especially the final star rating)
- difficulty is somewhat inverse if you play on extreme because you don't have any upgrades in the beginning
- you can't discard a dish to redo it if you failed (its annoying when you miss a perfect day because your hand slipped and added the wrong ingredient in a single soup from like 100+ orders)

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

---{ Graphics }---
☐ Microsoft Flight Simulator
☐ GTA 5
☐ Mechwarrior 5
☑ Mindustry
☐ Dwarf Fortress

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Skyrim
☑ Mount and Blade
☐ Bloons TD
☐ Factorio
☐ Left 4 Dead 2

---{ Audio }---
☐ F-Zero
☐ Bayonetta
☑ Diablo 2
☐ Project Zomboid
☐ Call of Duty

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Smash Bros
☑ Dead by Daylight
☐ League of Legends
☐ Fortnite
☐ Pokemon Go

---{ Grind }---
☐ X4: Foundations
☐ Dyson Sphere Program
☐ Eurotruck Simulator 2
☑ FTL
☐ Emily is Away

---{ Story }---
☐ Kingdom Come: Deliverance
☐ Metal Gear Solid
☐ Fallout
☑ Shenmue
☐ Death Stranding

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Fallout 76
☐ The Sims
☐ Super Mario 64
☐ Goat Simulator
☑ Myst

---{ Overall }---
☐ Satisfactory
☑ State of Decay
☐ Final Fantasy
☐ Civilization
☐ Assassin’s Creed

This game is the shit and the store description is quite honest. A bit grindy on first playthrough but progresses much faster on NG+. I enjoy it despite having played the later CSD games and appreciating their different mechanical approaches to the same dishes and events, and I don't think the three games are truly redundant. The game is written much more seriously overall than the later games as well, though that's saying surprisingly little and ultimately the story is inconsequential here.

Game is soundly assembled and balanced and all the dishes are worth consideration. You will build a lot of keyboard APM playing this game and memorizing combos for further optimizations, though I know of those who prefer joystick controls and are nonetheless quite skilled.

Everything looks and sounds delicious, and almost inspiring, for drawings and exaggerated sound clips but yeah a lot of recipes get oversimplified. You're going to be cooking entire lasagnas and entire pots of soup for individual patrons. I recommend that you don't buy blue stars until you beat the game.

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Cook, Serve, Delicious!

A very fun game. It can get a little dull when you have low buzz and consequently very few customers, then the next day you'll be mashing keys like crazy to get through a mad rush. Cool music and overall a great experience.

Cook, Serve, Delicious! in one word: FAAASTERRR

This game is full of keyboard action and plays a lot like those niche typing games. But instead of reading and typing words, you're reading dish orders and inputting corresponding hotkeys at blistering pace. And yes, you can customize hotkeys for all the dishes, which is pretty sweet. However, there are some notable limitations: the key to serve a dish has to be Enter, and you can only use letters, so [];',. etc. aren't allowed.

Every day that you do well, you get "buzz", i.e. the game speeds up. There's no significant bonus related to this other than that you get more customers and earn more money. Most importantly, it makes the game speed fit your skill level. So this is just good game design.

The game also has great humor. If you stay a bit in the intro, you get people saying Cook, Serve, Delicious in every way possible. The e-mails you receive every day are full of character and humor as well.

All that is to say, these developers really know what they're doing, and I look forward to getting 100% for this game!

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The first Cook, Serve, Delicious is a good starting point to the franchise. No Zen mode here, so you can get slammed by impatient customers, but all-in-all a fun game. CSD 2 is probably the best version in my opinion. Takes a lot from the first release and adds a lot of features and menu items to it, along with graphic enhancements.

Iron Cook American Challenge can kick rocks. Do the developers get off on making it as difficult as possible? Ridiculous. Mind you that you need to complete all the Iron Cook challeneges to advance to 4 stars.

Also I tried CSD 2&3 and they ruined the gameplay by adding the HS (holding stations), so definitely don't get those games.

Fun little restaurant simulator. It can get a bit hectic but that's true to real-life food service too.

As someone who grew up playing Ore no Ryomi 1 & 2 until the wee hours of the night, it's very cool that most of the shortcuts in this game are exactly the same.

I'm obsessed with this game - this is the kind of game where getting good just feels so... good. Making big complicated recipes while balancing a bunch of orders is so satisfying and fun.

muscle memory enjoyable clicker

A fun game that keeps you on your toes with various tasks. Definitely worth it for the amount of time I played (more than 12 hours, don't know why Steam doesn't show it all.)

It's like Diner Dash on steroids 🗿

Really liked the concept of the game where you open a restaurant and develop it with your culinary skills. You can learn pretty much on how a restaurant runs. The graphics and music make the game quite relaxing.

The game offers you to cook nearly 40+ dishes and each dish in turn has many recipes, but the game becomes more of a rogue-like after exploring all the options. The food-contests and challenges are decent but a bit boring. There are some fun aspects like dating, preventing a robbery, and investing in some equipment but the rewards are just mediocre.

Good game to pass time but I recommend to buy it on sale.

I've only played a little bit, but I can tell I'm going to like this game.
The best way I can describe it is like if there was a WarioWare style cooking game.
You have little mini cooking segments you have to get through, and it's very fast-paced.

This game is great for my English learning,but it's a destructive blow to my keyboard.

Although I think the game is beginning to show its age (which is why I'm excited for the remaster), the original CSD is still the time management game that has managed to captivate me the most over the course of my life. This is one of those games where I can start playing and look up realizing it's suddenly four hours later. There's a real sense of satisfaction and rhythm to the game.

i feel like the guy from the bear

Great Game. Fast paced. Different enough from the sequels that each game individually is worth playing. Looking forwards to the remaster.

Never knew typing could make me feel so alive.

My partner has told me I practically "go into a trance" when I play this game 4.5/5

It's the medium-rare of the series, in the sense that its merits are more subtle. Compared to the sequels, the game feels much tighter and nuanced, for example in the sequels you have a grace period where orders gets called a second or third time which allows for leeway in the order queue, but here you have to be smart about it and deliberately slow down the service rush through foods that have a long cook time or complex foods that has higher patience. This affects how your menu is composed, against the daily buffs and debuffs, and we are balancing between profits, difficulty and garbage generation both in service as well as in between days. That isn't to say the sequels didn't keep up with this tradition, but here it feels very intimate, and it's the fantasy of being a struggling chef opening their own restaurant and dealing with all the little details around it. Absolutely love it, hands/10

Awesome game, amazing soundtrack. Satisfying gameplay and if you get quick at it it feels like executing combos in a fighting game. Extreme mode is fun but you don't get the progression from base game so you get basically the same throughout 1-2 star to 5 star. Great and addictive game. Highly recommend it.