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Cooking Buddies playtest
by Liljon2k15
Run salad, burger and pizza restaurants with friends in a cozy 3D co-op cooking game. Serve customers, upgrade your kitchen, explore Buddy World, and chase achievements — grab your apron and don’t let the lunch rush win.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Jul 1, 2026
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- Liljon2k15
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Co-op, Multiplayer, Online co-op, Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Cooking Buddies playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Cooking Buddies playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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About Cooking Buddies
Welcome to Buddy World — a cozy multiplayer cooking game where you and your friends run restaurants, serve hungry customers, and grow your buddy empire together.
Cook together over Steam — Team up with your Steam friends: one buddy hosts a world in Buddy World and invites friends through the Steam overlay. Everyone jumps into the same kitchen — plating orders, working the grill, washing dishes, and putting out fires together. Up to 6 players, no separate server needed.
Run real restaurants! Start at the Salad Bar — pack orders, wash dishes, and keep customers happy before their patience runs out. Unlock Pizza Place and master dough, sauce, toppings, the oven, and the pizza box station. Expand your kitchen, buy upgrades, and push through day after day as things get busier.
Salad Bar — build bowls, manage the line, keep the dining room clean \[] Pizza Place — roll dough, top pizzas, bake, box, and serve \[] Drive-thru — cars don’t wait. Neither should you. \[] Buddy Delivery — take orders on the road and chase streak bonuses.
More than the kitchen When the shift ends, head back to Buddy World — a shared hub where you can add friends, invite players to your world, climb leaderboards, tend the community garden, sell produce to your restaurants, and unwind at the fishing dock.
Grow your buddy Earn Buddy Coins, level up your restaurant, unlock perks, customize your chef, and spend earnings in the shop on extra stations, bigger tables, dishwashers, and more. Every world slot saves your progress so you can build something worth coming back to.
Built for playing with people — Multiplayer runs over Steam friend invites: send an invite from the in-game panel or the Steam overlay (Shift+Tab) and friends drop straight into your restaurant. Solo play is fully supported too.
Grab your apron. Friendly. Fast. A little frantic. Cooking Buddies is the game for players who want a wholesome co-op cooking loop with friends — and just enough chaos to keep every shift memorable.
From the game's Steam page.
