Cook, Serve, Delicious! Demo

Being a chef is not all about providing the customers with the meal they asked for, since you must also create new dishes on a regular basis and try to attract more clients by making use of your prestige. Some chefs also happen to be the owners of the restaurants they work in, which adds even more responsibility on top of the already mentioned ones.

Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a cooking game that takes matters a bit more seriously and challenges you to achieve greatness through creativity and a lot of hard work. Hence, beside the fact that you have to prepare the meals for your starving, yet pretentious clients, you must also take care of the actual restaurant business and decorate it in order to provide the customers with everything they might need.

The main plot talks about a skyscraper that used to house a very famous restaurant, yet it was foreclosed when the entire city went through a rough economic time. However, a sudden population and income growth in the city motivate the owners of the tower to provide you with a chance to rebuild your former restaurant and bring it back to a five-star rating.

The mechanics are a bit more complicated than the usual ‘click on the ingredients in the right order’ you might see in other such games, since you must also keep an eye on finances, decorate the place and try to attract customers using various marketing schemes. You even have a mailbox that’s constantly filled with spam and thank you emails from happy customers.

Thankfully, the rest of the game lives up to the expectations as well, given the fact that the graphics are very nice and the gameplay is highly intuitive. Almost everything is drawn by hand and there are no jagged edges or blurry models, which makes for some impressive environments and tasty-looking dishes. Moreover, the music is soothing and there are a lot of funny sound effects to complete the experience.

Cook, Serve, Delicious! gets a lot of things right and it does manage to captivate you from the first few minutes, even if you are not the type to play such video games. On the other hand, the gameplay can become quite repetitive after a while, at least if you do not keep yourself entertained.