Everyone loves a tasty treat, whether you’re a fan of cooking or munching, so it’s no wonder that the mobile market is full of mouth-watering cooking games. So, we’ve found a whole pantry full of the best cooking games on mobile, from culinary classics like Cooking Mama, to adorable sims like Animal Restaurant, and even unique food-based fantasies like Cooking Quest.
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So without further ado, the best cooking games on mobile are ready to come out of the oven.
Halloween Cooking Games
Any season can be spooky season, so let’s kick things off with a frightfully fun cooking simulator with a Halloween twist. Prepare, cook, and serve up over 175 Halloween-themed dishes across more than 26 food trucks and 13,000 levels, from puking pumpkins to spooky shakes.
You’re visited by a whole host of ghoulish characters, including witches, vampires, werewolves, and more – a fangtastic boredom buster for anyone, any time of year.
Cooking Mama: Cuisine!
The classic cooking game has come to Apple Arcade. In Cooking Mama: Cuisine, you can chop, bake, and stew your way to becoming the best chef around. With content updates coming regularly, this game is always bringing something new along with the nostalgia.
Keeping its signature intuitive controls, this is an easy one to pick up on the go, as you swipe your fingers to chop ingredients, drag them to the pot, and tap to your heart’s content.
SpongeBob: Cooking Fever
Oh who likes to cook burgers under the sea, SpongeBob SquarePants. One of the world’s most famous animated burger chefs has made a splash in the mobile ocean, as he invites you on a madcap culinary adventure through Bikini Bottom.
Join many familiar faces, including Spongebob, Patrick Star, Sandy Cheeks, Squidward, Mr Krabs, and more, as you grill up and serve delicious food and decorate your own restaurant. There’s even a fun storyline to enjoy. For more Bikini Bottom banter, check out our list of the best Spongebob games.
Good Pizza, Great Pizza
Run your own shop and put your pizza skills to the test in this unique and highly stylized gem. With gorgeous artwork, a muted and relaxing color palette, and simple yet challenging gameplay, you’re tasked to meet the orders of your customers and make enough money to stay open.
It’s great fun to tap away, building up your pizzas from start to finish, as you roll out the dough, spread the toppings, and bake to perfection. Good Pizza, Great Pizza is also available on the Switch if you prefer to cook there!
Mama Cooking: Cook Food Puzzle
In this adorable little title, you start out as an amateur chef with a small kitchen, determined to climb the food chain. Combine ingredients to create over 700 dishes, enjoy matching puzzles to snag the top ingredients, and upgrade your kitchen on a quest to be the best.
With customizations for your restaurant, kitchen equipment, decorations, and even outfits, there’s plenty to do in this cute cooking adventure.
Animal Restaurant
Okay, we can’t deny it – we’re pretty addicted to this one. In Animal Restaurant, you start as a stray kitten in the forest, and, before you know it, you’re running the busiest restaurant in town. Earn cod by tapping the promote button, serve customers, buy recipes, equipment, and furniture, and even hire adorable kitty staff to give you a helping paw – all under the supervision of the mighty chef Gumi.
With loads of rare animals and guests to entertain, different ways to expand your land, fun mini-games, and plenty of events, Animal Restaurant is a great place to escape if you want to chill out for a couple of minutes (or hours…).
Hungry Hearts Diner
In this wholesome, Ghibli-esque game, you take the role of a hard-working old lady struggling to manage her family’s restaurant on the edge of a big city. Learn about Japanese cuisine as you cook delicious, classic foods and lend an ear to the colorful characters who stop by to chow down.
It’s a simple but beautiful title, full of emotion and heartwarming stories that just might fill that hole in your hungry heart, as well as your tummy.
Cooking Madness
Become a master chef by cooking, preparing, and serving delicious food from all around the world. With a focus on time management, you need to dash from restaurant to restaurant and throw together tasty dishes at a fast pace in order to keep your customers happy.
Try out different techniques and practice your cooking skills as you unlock multiple restaurants, upgrade your own kitchen, and complete special missions in this fun, classic cooking game.
Cooking Quest
A bit of an outlier on this list, Cooking Quest is a pixel RPG food truck management sim – wow, that was a mouthful, and there are plenty more where that came from. Go out on adventures and battle monsters to gather ingredients and new recipes, so you can lure more customers in.
Then, travel across the kingdom to take part in festivals, hire more chefs, and enhance heroes as you embark on a tasty adventure to become the best food truck in the land.
Cooking Town
Also known as Cooking Witch 2 on the App Store
Cooking Town allows you to build your own restaurant in a fantasy world, then get cooking with magic to serve a range of mystical characters.
Similar to Cooking Madness, this is a cooking frenzy game that will put your memory and time management skills to the test. Create your own unique character, cook gourmet meals, and construct a gorgeous town, bringing in more customers as you go.
Pokémon Café Remix
Pokémon Café Remix combines two of the best things on the planet – Pokémon and food. What could be better? This game is The Pokémon Company’s answer to Disney’s Tsum Tsum, a character-matching puzzle game with adorable chibified creature designs.
Work together with your partner Pokémon to cook up delicious ‘mon-themed munchies to attract new customers to your restaurant. There are plenty of friends to collect and new events almost every week, so there’s always something fun to do.
And that’s our list of the best cooking games on mobile. If you’re feeling refreshed after all those delicious delicacies, go ahead and work them off with our list of the best open-world games on Switch and mobile. Of if you’re looking for more oddly specific genre lists, check out our best volleyball games, cool math games, wrestling games, and geography games guides.