Guides
When a Cooking Game Is Not a Cooking Game
A large number of games described as cooking games contain no preparation at all. This is not a complaint about them — several are…
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Practical guides to the games in this catalogue: which order a kitchen rush wants you to work in, what separates a decorating game from a baking one, and what to check before handing a tablet to a child.
Written from the games themselves rather than from their store blurbs, and updated when a game changes.
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How Browser Kitchens Handle Heat — and Why It Matters
Heat is the one thing a kitchen game cannot avoid modelling, and how a game chooses to model it says more about how it…
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Choosing Cooking Games for a Young Child
Kitchen games are a good genre for small children. They are calm, they are about making rather than beating, and the subject is something…
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Baking Games and Decorating Games Are Not the Same Thing
Two games, both showing a cake, both promising you will make one. In one of them you will mix a batter, wait for an…
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Why Timed Kitchens Are Won at the Oven, Not at the Counter
Every timed kitchen game on this site gives you more to do than there is time for. That is the genre. What varies is…
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