Cooking in Video Games 

I’m not entirely sure why, but I’m always excited when a video game has cooking mechanics, especially when it has a ton of options for foods you can make.

I’m a bit surprised that you didn’t mention the Cooking Simulator games. They have a lot of detail for the food, and a ton of potential recipes. Maybe it was too similar to the Papa’s games, but still worth a mention.

Watching Sora cook in Kingdom Hearts 3 and Link in TOTK is just awesome LET HIM COOK 🔥

I don't know how to cook anything but I'd be lying if I said cooking mini games in games weren't a lot of fun. Kinda interesting how games can simplify something enough to where anyone can do it and have fun.

Thank you for appreciating the small bonding moments in FFXV. The game is very flawed but those brief moments are honestly he best parts of the game

I like cooking in video games, but I hate hunger in video games that don’t need hunger

What about the most stressful cooking game... Overcooked 😭😭😭💀. It can make you or break you

I like these types of videos witch are just nice to have whilst eating or to have in the background, topics witch don’t specifically interest you but are entertaining to watch nonetheless. Keep it up Kiro👍

Fun fact: the director of Sonic Unleashed worked on Final Fantasy 15, which explains the incredibly detailed food models.

LET ME COOK

Let him cook 🔥🔥🔥

10:08 There are, both the Smoker and Campfire can Cook food. Also there are Mods like Pam's Harvestcraft that add more Food items and cooking recipes.

I'd love for a game to have BotW cooking with The World Ends With You digestion system. It could work with a Dungeon Meshi game.

i was falling onto my bed backwards to lie down but since i was watching the video once i hit the bed my phone shot from my hands hitting me directly on the center of my nose

Good pizza, great pizza is also addictive with store customising and memorable customers. Battle chef brigade blends iron chef style battles with monsters and avatar style animation.

I'ts Kiro Talks!, Let him cook. 🧑‍🍳

I like the cooking side tasks in Paper Mario 64 and Thousand Year Door!

Really good pacing on this video, well done Kiro! Your videos keep getting better!

I love being able to cook in games being my own hobby. I’ve been loving the Genshin Impact recipes with how varied and change with the country. My favorite part is finding the real life counterpart of the recipe from Genshin and trying to recreate the meal 🎉

i love cooking games and am always so happy when games have a cooking mechanic (even if it is fairly simple) it really is such a strange genre of games but i’m glad they’ve kept gaining popularity over the years

Your listing the Papa games like a rap was so unexpected I died laughing! Really enjoying your channel, you've you yourself a new sub! 😁

Bro your editing is getting so much better. I've had your bell on for like a year and it's been fun seeing you improve and never once missing. Every video is well done bite sized no bullshit commentary/education goodness. Watching your videos is like eating a nutritious yet chocolatey candy bar delivered by santa clause and handmade by willy wonka himself.

If youve got a coffe maker its even easier you just replace the pot with your cup noodle and hit start with no coffee in there

Man i forgot how DELICIOUS the food in FFXV looked.. they really nailed the textures and everything it makes my mouth water every time

Just wanted to show some praise for just how enjoyable your videos are! Very well paced, sharp editing, with unique concepts that keep things fresh. Definitely excited for each new upload

Sea of Stars has a fun cooking system. You constantly collect ingredients throughout the world. Cooking provides the primary consumables in the game.

You make the best video game video essays on youtube. I'd be honored to have a delicious meal with you.

My fave cooking game in the last 10 years was Battle Chef Brigade by a adult swim games. You're in chef training and you compete against other chefs in arena battles and you have to gather monsters to cook. Has perfect score on Steam apparently

cooking game fans have had quite a lot to eat in the recent years, pun not intended. we've got games like cooking simulator, venba, nainai's recipe, and cook, serve, delicious

I love that I always think FXV when I think about cooking in vídeo games and then... the music is the first thing in this video

It's funny to see how cookie clicker keeps on reaping souls. That game IS insanely addictive and I had to stop, cleared cache and cookies after 2 days of nonstop playing or else I was gonna lose my soul to this game lol

Cooking mama and the papa games were the cooking games of my childhood.

shoutouts to fantasy life on the 3ds as well as its coming sequel on the switch, having an entire life (aka a job) dedicated to cooking, there are plenty of cool and even optional quest recipes that you get rewarded for a minigame is usually done AND you get rewarded with better quality items and/or multiples of the recipe you were already making; not to mention as you make the same recipe you also unlock making stacks of said recipe all the way up to just getting to skip the minigame (if you WANT), but youre still highly rewarded for doing the minigame even after mastering the recipe

Caves of Qud has nice cooking mechanics, you just gather ingredients and cook them together. The thing is, each ingredient has unique effects and ultimately allow you to become GOD in the late game.

ive been here since your second vid. keep up the great work!

No Cook, Serve, Delicious! that was my favorite cooking game

yes! i love cooking in games, i wish there were more in depth ones.

I love cooking in games so much that i literally can't play Minecraft anymore without the Farmer's Delight mod and its addons

Minecraft: So you can have your cake *and* eat it too. My first intro to a cooking system in a game was Tales of Symphonia. It was great, and I always thought more games should have that kind of thing, especially rpg's. You shouldn't be too surprised by the embedded advertising tho. That's gonna be the new normal soon.

Cant wait to try these food hacks irl

Are u gonna mention pokemon u forgot to in the desert video Pokémon has some cool deserts 😅

What a nice and relaxing video, thank you c:

One second in and I heard FFXV’s Relax & Reflect I knew this is going to be a good vid

At the end there you forgot the actual best part about cup noodles! Killing giant monsters for the ingredients!

The ending of this video lmaooo I just got done eating Ramen noodles and then you start talking about cup noodles! I was meant to see this!

Legitimately this should be the perfect video to place a hello fresh sponsor in the video, and I was kinda expecting something like that, and ngl, I felt it is a crime that did not happen tbh. :) Total big missed opportunity in such a good video though. :)

So glad to end on FFXV. They went out by a river and set up a camping table and made all of the dishes in real life, took tons of photos, and used them as references for the models. The way the food jiggles is perfect. When you make just plain toast, the bread almost slides off the plate. Ignis is just like "I can't believe you made me make you toast." Gladio's VA also totally delivered it as a line on purpose and went over the top. We'll make our noodle dream a reality.

“This might be a good spot to find some ingredients”

Dragons crown had a great cooking section as a rest between areas and you could use the parts of the monsters you killed in the previous section in your meals. The art was mouth watering too!

Can't believe this video isn't sponsored by Hello Fresh or something

One of the best cooking games I've played is Epic Chef, its cute little goofy story aside, all ingredients can be put in any of 3 slots, but they all have effects when used with something else, either a grain or a tomato, or whatever, so theres all sorts of combos you can use.

1:23 You just got lucky there and got a critical cook. Which is a mechanic in Breath of the Wild and the sequel Tears of the Kingdom.

Sonic cooking at the spitroast tho. Certainly his most memorable moment in gaming. xD

I used to play Papa's Freezaria a lot as a kid It's really fun you should try it

Sukuna of rice and ruin has the wildest cooking system. All you do is grow rice so you need to either send forage parties for or trade for most ingredients.They ingredients spoil in days. Pairing small meals in the Japanese style gets you various stat buffs and cutscenes. Then you use your poop to make fertilizer for the rice. Amazing The cooking/crafting in new horizons is very shallow

You keep finding more and more things I would have never thought of and make them interesting and entertaining. I haven't done much cooking in video games just because I haven't played those games. I know there is a Game & Watch game called Chef or Cook, I forget. I played a version of it when you play as Peach on Game & Watch Gallery 4 on GBA. But really you're just bouncing dough off a frying pan enough times for it to warm up and then you let it fall in Yoshi's mouth I think. I know in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl you can mix berries into poffins which is sort of like cooking. You're just stirring it with the touch stylus. Oh yeah and I did do a little cooking in Pokemon Shield.

I remembered i played a lot of Order Up on the Wii. Its a decent cooking sim game. It used the motion controls fairly well

I found this video in hopes of a discussion of the game design behind cooking mechanics in games. A lil disappointed that it was just "heres a game with cooking, heres how it works." like a weird tutorial video for multiple different systems in multiple different games, but ah well. One thing I wanted to add is that Minecraft's cooking is very, VERY, barebones. I personally play with a mod that adds onto this barebones system, called Farmer's Delight. It's a small little mod that adds a new system of actual cooking, the Cooking Pot, where you can make a plethora of new soups and stews, as well as some other assembled meals crafted at the regular ol' crafting table. It also gives these meals effects, such as Comfort (increases natural health regeneration even with low Hunger), and Nourishment (prevents hunger drain entirely), the main idea is to provide more overall meal options to the game, with effects that prevent the need to eat as often so you can focus on other more important aspects of the game. I genuinely struggle to play without some of those extra food options sometimes, they're just that good.

7:34 LIN MANUEL MIRANDA MOMENT

you forgot the best cooking series, burger shop

11:12 Don’t forget the campfire! Aside from being a source of light and making more convincing chimney smoke for builds, you can also use the campfire to cook four pieces of food at a time (in Bedrock, idk if you can do it in Java too)

Can you next do final bosses in video games for your next video?

What's with videogame NPCs named Mindy, I swear

I want to mention the Wii/PS3 game Order Up!!!, it’s like the Papas games, but the key differences is that you can hire up to 2 assistant to do a task, with each of them having a gimmick/specializations, and a spice mechanic

Here's a video suggestion: Fishing in video games

this is the best video ever

cooking mama is honestly fire

They should add cooking to gta 6. Also add more food, fridge system like in mafia 2 etc.

loved hearing this guy yap about cooking in games i already know, just sitting here like "mhm yep thats true :3" i loove cooking. food is lyfe

The Palico chef’s dishes in Monster Hunter World always had my mouth watering 🤤

Fantastic Video sir

I couldn't have been the only one who misread the thumbnail

I cannot look at Coleman products without getting emotional thanks to Final Fantasy XV.

I eat dimensions for lunch.

I always thought FF15s food system was so good. Eating well gives you enormous buffs. Got a big boss fight coming up? Better eat well. Loved that so much, dont get why more games dont adopt that. Natural motivation to really open up the cooking systems whether its collecting ingredients or cooking minigame or fleshing out the game world with all the different cuisines

Gordon ramsay will gonna love it

my favorite cooking game is competitive gen 3 pokemon, where you can grab even the most doodoo looking low tier and cook like crazy with it, like this one guy who brought a duskull to a huge tournament and it soloed 2 enemy pokemon for the win

I recommend you to play “Grande Pizza Buona Pizza”

Yummy food great because I’m hungry so this is some what good

14:13 why does he sound like the voice Tim Rogers does in his videos sometimes lol

🥚 ➡️ ✨ 🟰 *mousse*

If I want to eat any meal from a game. I’d enjoyably eat from Tears Of The Kingdom’s variety of dishes, cause they all look delicious 😋.

I like cooking in real life and in games 😂

Burger shop 1 and 2 are really good games with a lot of content and food

This video is amazing!! Dare I say… you cooked? Subscribed :)

Great video ^^

This video makes me hungry, only to realize: I haven't had breakfast yet! Also, with the Cooking Mama series, some of the DS games are pretty good and the 5th one called: Bon Appetite is easily the best one on 3DS. Console versions aren't quite as good from what I've heard.

you will need to go to the replies to know the original message in this comment >:)

IM SO HUNGRY RIGHT NOW

all i do is eat meat in Minecraft i never thought about crafting the recipes lol

Games with cooking mechanics should also have diarrhea mechanics.

You just hit me with a wave of nostalgia by mentioning the Papa's series. Another game I really enjoy the cooking mechanics of is Project Zomboid. It's very freeflow, and you gotta make sure it's not too unhealthy for ur character otherwise there may be side effects to your survival :)

I like to cook in fighting games 💪🏻 👨‍🍳

I love your videos

Thought that said choking lol

No order up??!?!?

sad that you didn't mention the best cooking game out there, cooking simulator

Kiro Cooks

Oh man. The ending of this video just made me remember how mid American cup noodle is compared to japan. Like seriously, there are so many more ingredients in japans version.

do a tax evasion in video games next pls