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Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?

What works

  • Intriguing psychological horror story with multiple endings
  • Cute and unique art style with charming characters
  • Free to play demo with good replay value
  • Engaging mystery and lore encouraging theory crafting
  • Developer interaction and active community interest

Things to keep in mind

  • Jump scares considered cheap or predictable by some players
  • Some bugs and achievement issues reported
  • Limited gameplay depth beyond narrative choices
  • Short length and demo status limits content
  • Horror elements may not appeal to all players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Lunar Mirror:The Pavilion of Desire

  • MetaWare High School (Demo)

  • Amelie

  • 第七号列车 - Train No. 7

  • STEINS;GATE 0

  • EXS1～EthnologySister：Cultural functionalism

More expressive

Games that feels like Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition but with more self-expression and customization

  • Dr. Frank's Build a Boyfriend

  • StopGate

  • Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

  • Elisa: The Innkeeper - Prequel

  • Starlight Vega

  • Cemetery Mary

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Lake of Voices

  • Cooking Companions

  • Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS

  • Lucid9: Inciting Incident

  • Midnight Witch

  • Corpse Party (2021)

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026