Games Like Cooking Mama: Step-by-Step Cooking Games
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Games like Cooking Mama are cooking games where you do every step of a recipe yourself: chop, stir, fry and plate, one short task after another. The first Cooking Mama came out for the Nintendo DS in 2006. The games below are original browser titles by independent studios, from slicing games to full recipes.
How Cooking Mama plays
In Cooking Mama you follow the instructions of Mama to cook a meal, mostly with the touch screen. Each task, such as chopping vegetables, slicing meat, flipping food in a pan or plating, is a minigame that usually lasts less than 10 seconds. Chopping means quickly drawing parallel lines, and frying is a rhythm game where you add ingredients or adjust the heat at the right moment. A serious mistake or running out of time fails the step.
A dish takes anywhere from one minigame to a dozen. When it is done, you are rated on the average result of its minigames and earn a bronze, silver or gold medal. So the game is a chain of short, hands-on steps. This table shows where the games below ask for the same.
| What you do in Cooking Mama | Games that ask the same |
|---|---|
| Chop and slice | Perfect Cutter, Kinfe Invincible |
| Follow a prompt for each step | Baking Cooking Fun, Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich, Chinese And Asian Cooking Game |
| Boil, fry and stir | Chinese.Food, Chips bakery simulator, Boo Brew |
| Finish and decorate the dish | Cheese Cake Homemade Cooking, Cotton candy cooking, Yummy Churros Ice Cream 2 |
| Get a result on the dish | Chef Righty Mix, Yummy Churros Ice Cream 2 |
Chop and slice
- Perfect Cutter has you tap and hold the screen to cut and lift your finger to raise the kitchen knife, so it does not slice the obstacles on the way. Its difficulty rises step by step with time.
- Kinfe Invincible puts you at the knife like a real chef: vegetables ride a conveyor belt, each level brings different ones, and a wrong cut costs you time.
Follow a prompt for each step
- Baking Cooking Fun is the closest to the prompt-by-prompt feel. You follow the gesture, arrow and icon prompts to cook step by step, try different tools, mix ingredients and decorate with sprinkles, candies and fruits. On a desktop you click and drag, and on mobile you tap and slide.
- Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich has two recipes, peanut butter jelly and chicken sandwich. You follow the tips and operate step by step. A mouse click or a tap plays it.
- Chinese And Asian Cooking Game takes you step by step through dishes from noodles and fried rice to street food. You click the buttons with the mouse.
- Delicious Breakfast Cooking Game has four breakfasts to cook, from classic fried bacon and eggs to a fancy latte. You follow the instructions, with a mouse or a tap.
Boil, fry and stir
- Chinese.Food lets you choose dumplings, sweet and sour chicken or noodles and cook them in different ways: boil, chop, steam, fry or puree. The kitchen tools include a whisk and a rolling pin, and its description promises no rules and no stress.
- Chips bakery simulator runs a potato chip line: wash raw potatoes, slice them ultra-thin, fry them golden, toss them with seasonings, then bag them and sell. A mouse click or a tap plays it.
- Boo Brew is a Halloween potion café. You tap or drag ingredients into the cauldron, tap Stir to swirl the pot, and serve the matching monster customer before its patience runs out.
- Chef Righty Mix has you click the food or flavoring you want and press Add to put it in the basket. When the basket is full you cook and serve, and mixing up the ingredients ruins the dish.
Finish and decorate
- Cheese Cake Homemade Cooking runs the whole job: buy the items from the list, go to the kitchen, clean it, bake and decorate with fruit and details. You play with the mouse.
- Cotton candy cooking splits the dessert into four steps: purchase the items, clean the kitchen, cook the sweets and decorate them. You use the mouse.
- Yummy Churros Ice Cream 2 gives you a task list. You go through every step, pick a flavor, finish with syrups and toppings, and earn achievements by completing the list. You use the mouse.
Restaurants with orders and customers are a different kind of cooking game, covered in cooking games online, and the cooking page lists them all.
Tips for step-by-step cooking games
- Read the prompt before you act. Baking Cooking Fun shows gesture, arrow and icon prompts for each step.
- Lift as well as press. In Perfect Cutter you tap and hold to cut, and you lift your finger to raise the knife over an obstacle.
- Keep the order of the steps. Cotton candy cooking asks for purchase, clean, cook and decorate in that sequence.
- Pick ingredients with care. In Chef Righty Mix, mixing up the ingredients ruins the dish.
- Watch the clock where there is one. In Boo Brew, a customer's patience runs out.
Games like Cooking Mama FAQ
Are there free games like Cooking Mama online?
Yes. The games above play free in the browser, with no install and no registration.
Are there games like Cooking Mama for PC?
Yes. They run in the browser of a computer as well as a phone or a tablet. Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich and Chips bakery simulator with a mouse click or a tap, and Baking Cooking Fun with click and drag.
Are there games like Cooking Mama for mobile?
Several of them. Baking Cooking Fun lists tap and slide on mobile, Perfect Cutter says to tap and hold the mobile screen, and Delicious Breakfast Cooking Game plays with a tap. The site works in the browser of a phone, a tablet and a computer.
What is an alternative to Cooking Mama?
Baking Cooking Fun: every step comes with a prompt, and you cook by following it. For the short knife tasks, try Perfect Cutter or Kinfe Invincible.
Follow the prompt, finish the step, and move on to the next one.
