Debut Project: Cooking Café

Debut Project: Cooking Café

GrooveBoxJapan · 2024 · Casual, Action, Singleplayer, Simulation, Cooking

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About Debut Project: Cooking Café

Whip up Like-worthy meals and get tons of fans at a stylish café!Creative cooking in a cool café!As a new café employee, you'll be taking orders and completing challenges on your journey to create recipes which will take social media by storm.Share pics of your cooking to get Likes and boost your café's rating.See if your culinary creativity can earn a million followers for the café!・A new café employee's journey to fame!As a new café employee, you'll take on each day by taking orders from customers.Create recipes worthy of sharing online to get Likes, boost the café's rating, and maybe even get a million followers someday.As the café becomes more popular, big-name influencers will start to visit and you'll even find that you have your very own fans.It's not just the story of the café but your success story too!・Cook to your heart's content choosing from 80 different menu items and 271 toppings!Enjoy making pancakes, crepes, Hamburg steaks, cakes, omelets and more through 13 cooking minigames.Ice cream swirls on sweetcorn? Painting cute pictures on pancakes with syrup? Unleash your imagination choosing from 271 toppings and create Like-worthy, photogenic dishes.With 80 different dishes to create, you won't be bored in the café kitchen!・Share your creations on in-game social media!Will you get Likes and positive comments? See what your followers think about your cooking!Get more Likes to raise your Flavor Rank, allowing you to expand the café's menu.Complete hashtag challenges or try your hand at making your very own special dishes.Reaching certain follower milestones will allow the café to expand!Watch the café grow from small shop into a stylish, multi-floored influencer magnet.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Dec 1, 2024
[h2]Nostalgic DS Vibes & Cozy Cooking[/h2] [i]Debut Project: Cooking Cafe[/i] feels incredibly nostalgic. It reminds me a lot of a cooking game I played on the DS when I was in pre-school. The atmosphere is overly simple and cozy, clearly designed with a younger audience in mind. While it might get repetitive and boring quickly for teens or older players, it is a perfect fit for children looking for a brightly colored and relaxing experience. [h2]The Cafe Loop & Recipes[/h2] The core gameplay loop revolves around serving dishes, earning likes and followers on social media, and learning new recipes along the way. The baking mechanics are very straightforward. It is mostly point-and-click with a few quick-time events thrown in, leaving little room for creativity beyond adding some toppings. Progression unlocks quite a number of recipe items. I have seen negative reviews pointing out that the menu items are just different variations of the same treat, but I really do not see that as a bad thing for a kid. Being a dessert cafe, you unlock different ice creams or pancakes that all get completely new looks. I guess it's a similar excitement when your Pokemon learns a new move. Sure, W…
24 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 4, 2024
Gamer girlies, RISE UP! (and gamer guys, but i dunno, you got baldurs gate or whatever...) I was really confused by the negative reviews, so going into this game I was nervous. I am even more confused now, because this game is so freaking cute and I'm having a lot of fun with it. Yes, its not as "difficult" as other cooking games *cough cough, the mother whom cooks cough cough*. Sometimes you don't want that? It doesn't make this a bad cooking game. First of all, yes, the way you make the foods is overall pretty simple. BESIDES MAKING SANDWICHES. WHY DO MY GRAPES ALWAYS ROLL OFF MY SANDWICH? IF IM MAKING ONE OF THOSE CREAM FRUIT SANDWICHES, MY GRAPE SHOULD STAY IN PLACE! WHY DOES IT ROLL OFF MY ORANGE?!?!?! anyways <3 I still REALLY enjoyed the foods I've created. You start off with (if i recall) 1-2 foods. You get to pick which food you'd like to learn first. After that, you slowly unlock new recipes by cooking more, getting good scores, and getting lots of likes. What are likes?? wow look at u, u must touch grass. Likes are just as they sound like, likes. This game has an in game unnamed social media. You, the chef they hired to cook (yet they have to teach u how to cook? y…
10 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 11, 2024
[h1]Welcome to the cafe! :D[/h1] [h2]Introduction[/h2] [i]Debut Project: Cooking Café[/i] is a cozy, cute, family-friendly, cooking simulation game developed by GrooveBoxJapan and published by D3PUBLISHER. You take on the role of Emma (whose name and appearance can be customized), the newest employee of a stylish cafe. Basically, your job is to cook delicious meals or desserts for your customers and upload the pics to social media in order to get likes and followers. Bring fame to the cafe and become a success story along the way. ^^ For the gameplay, you go through the process of creating your character. Then you're given one meal to cook, which is the traditional pancake. Depending on whether you use your keyboard and mouse or controller, you follow the prompts for making the parts of the meal. Depending on how accurately you follow the instructions, you can earn up to 3 stars for that part of the cooking. In other words, 3 stars equals a perfect rating. After you finish the meal and upload the pic to social media, you'll get lots of likes and followers. The better you cook the meal, the more likes and followers you'll get. There is a flavor ranking system, and when …
8 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 21, 2024
I love this game, it's really nostalgic of the cooking mama games ! If you search for a cosy wholesome sweet experience just play this honnestly. The price seems a little high for the content but if you feel like you miss your childhood cooking games it will hit the spot just right. Also the soundtrack is very cute, the interactions with characters is simple and lovely. This game is also suited for children and allows you to be a little creative with the meals you create. If you are looking for full freedom over the café & meals you prepare this probably won't do it ; but personnally I love this game's simplicity. The social media part is very secondary and the cooking is really the essence of the game, and I really loved it. I can't wait to finish the story mode and unlock all meals ! If you love steam achievements system this game is also really good for that ⸜(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)⸝♡
3 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 11, 2026
If you love adorable, low pressure gameplay, Debut Project Cooking Cafe is pure sweetness. Yes, it’s repetitive and structured, but you’re putting your own cute spin on each dish with different ingredients and styles, and for that, I love this game and I think it’s fun. The controls are super simple and easy to follow no complicated button combos. If you’re looking for a cooking game with high stakes and demanding gameplay, this probably isn’t for you. But if you’re craving something simple and repetitive, this is totally your jam. If you’re a girly girl who loved those nostalgic GirlsGoGames dot com Flash games and three DS cooking games, Debut Project Cooking Cafe is pure magic. The aesthetics give Pretty Princess Party meets simple cooking charm. If you love cuteness, simplicity, and adorable food creations without the stress, this is absolutely for you.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 14, 2025
Such a beautifully-designed game, and a lovely, fun and relaxing game for fans of games like Cooking Mama! Awesome!

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