CooKing

CooKing is a puzzle game about discovering dishes by combining ingredients. You start with a pantry and a menu of unknown recipes, then work out which ingredients make each dish. Some recipes require you to create an intermediate ingredient first: egg and oil make a fried egg, while flour, egg and milk make batter, which you can combine with chicken and oil to make fried chicken.

Discover dishes

The game includes over a hundred dishes across eight national cuisines, presented on hand-drawn menus. Each kitchen has 10–12 dishes, with around 5–6 hours of play in total. The recipes range from fast-food burgers to French and Hungarian classics, and grow more difficult as you progress. Even the first restaurant includes recipes with two or three ingredients, as well as dishes that need an intermediate ingredient.

Each kitchen gives you a fresh pantry. Recipes you have figured out remain familiar, but you must assemble them again for a new menu, and a dish that was a finished recipe in one kitchen may become an ingredient in another. Every discovery also comes with its own line, including puns, and the in-game cookbook provides a real recipe for each dish that you can make at home.

Play at your own pace

There is no timer or health bar, and you do not chop onions, deal with burning pans or wash dishes. You can take as long as you like on each puzzle, and ask the hint system for help with any single dish if you get stuck.