Cooking Live - Italian Kitchen Simulator
Released Feb 2023
Hello everyone! My name is Jane, and I need your help! I travel around the world and create a blog about local restaurants and cuisine. I’ve seen how big corporations squeeze out talented local cooks and their restaurants! Let’s take matters into our own hands and give them back their zest for life!
74% positive · 2,045 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Cooking Live - Italian Kitchen Simulator launched as a free-to-play game on February 2, 2023, with six DLC packs released on that same day. One additional DLC, "Geek Girl," was released on August 25, 2023. All seven listed DLC packs have shipped. There are no unreleased DLC entries on the store. The developer (Matryoshka) has made zero substantive communications since launch — no patch notes, no announcements, no roadmap posts, and no developer statements about future content across 50 scanned news posts. There is no indication of any planned future content. The last content to ship was the Geek Girl DLC on August 25, 2023, and no further updates have followed in the nearly three years since. The game appears to have launched as a finished product with a one-time optional DLC bundle structure, and content development appears to be complete.
Evidence
Geek Girl DLC released on August 25, 2023 — the most recent content shipped for the game
Six DLC packs (Beginner's, Subscriber's, Blogger's, Expert's, Star's, and Celebrity's Packs) all released on launch day, February 2, 2023
Content
7 of 7 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Matryoshka
Achievements
35
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Cooking Live combines elements of business, time management and cooking games. Progress through the plot step by step and unlock new themed cafe shops and beautiful locations. Whether it's a pizzeria, bakery, or diner, every chef has their own unique taste and their own recipes and stories. Show off your cooking skills and help save every cozy restaurant from the hands of soulless corporations! In this game, you will be traveling around the world in an attempt to revive the failing restaurant business.
Be ready to discover stories and help people make their dreams come true. Each episode develops its own unique story. Here are some of them:
Episode 1. Good Morning!
Good Morning is a cozy restaurant in Amsterdam. The owner, Leah, had gotten tired of her monotonous job at a bank. One day, she decides to change her life and rents an empty building to create a sunny restaurant. But the new work feels too hard, and Leah is about to give up and turn over the location to a fast-food chain. Jane and her cooking show are the last hope to save the restaurant and make Leah’s dream come true!
Episode 3. Get Cool
Get Cool is a retro drive-in cafe in Atlanta, USA. After college, a happily married couple returns to the city of their childhood to buy a drive-in cafe and breathe new life into the place where they met. But nothing goes as planned, and the once-happy couple is facing a relationship crisis. A junk-food company is ready to buy the place for a song. Jane is there to turn things around and make the drive-in cafe more popular than ever before, so the couple can work together and be happy again.
Episode 5. Shell
Shell is a seafood restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. Kaito hears about the sale of an old aquarium complex, and he and his wife Asami decide to buy it. Kaito’s dream is to make a restaurant where Asami can put her many years of experience as a restaurateur and culinary ideas to use. But things get complicated when they are forced to sell their house to pay their bills. Desperate for help, Kaito asks Jane to come, hoping she might make a difference.
We are currently working on:
New episodes:
- Detective Story
New characters for each new episode and their unique stories.
The beginning of Jane and Mike’s story and his betrayal.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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