Decent Time Wasting/Typing Game
It definitely seems like a mobile game given its premise and the various design elements. However, this is very much not a mobile game. Yes, Cook Serve Delicious (CSD from this point onwards) does have mobile ports, they are VERY differently from the PC version available here. On mobile, you swipe and press, as you would expect on a touchscreen. Here, you have to press a variety of different keys.
CSD on the PC, therefore, is a semi-repetitive typing game in which you perform a series of (customizable) keystrokes in order to prepare certain dishes. The dishes can range from relatively simple ones with few keys such as fries to much more complex dishes such as kebabs. Each dish can have numerous variations, which breaks up the monotony, and there are also chores such as washing dishes and even foiling robberies to keep things at least somewhat interesting.
The game also has a good sense of progression in its main story mode. You start off with a humble restaurant that barely looks better than a street stall. Eventually, you upgrade the restaurant to an (impossibly) elegant six star restaurant. Along the way, you'll accumulate upgrades, purchase new dishes to prepare in your restaurant, go on dates, deal with cooking bets, and a number of other activities, although inexplicably, you are always the only person who works in your restaurant.
The main game itself isn't too terribly challenging, but there are definitely things to try once you're done with the main game. For instance, there's an extreme mode in which orders fly in ridiculously quickly, which is a welcome challenge to fast typers like me. There's also the Battle Kitchen mode, which allows you to participate in a variety of challenges and, assuming it's like the steam version, upload your scores to a leaderboard and unlock new portraits.
I'm running out of space, so I'll just point out that CSD is a good game. It will and does get repetitive at times, but can be addictive nonetheless.
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