The update continues the studio’s post-launch support, focusing on improving the player experience, expanding progression systems, and streamlining restaurant management through new tools and quality-of-life features.
To celebrate the update, Cooking Simulator 2 is currently available at 30% off on Steam until June 25, making it a great time for new players to jump into the kitchen and for returning chefs to see everything that's been added since launch.
Link to the game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2455360/Cooking_Simulator_2_Better_Together/
The headline feature of the update is the new Customer Wiki, which allows players to track discovered customer preferences and better understand the guests visiting their restaurant.
Players can now:
- Track discovered flavor preferences
- Monitor customer-specific tags
- View progression for each customer type
- See overall preference discovery progress
- Unlock special golden customer profiles after discovering all preferences
The system also includes backward compatibility for existing save files, ensuring previously completed preference-related progression is preserved.
The Character Creator has received a substantial content update with new appearance options, including:
- 3 new female heads
- 3 new male heads
- New male and female outfits
- New hairstyles
- Additional glasses
- New gloves
- New earrings
These additions provide players with more opportunities to personalize their chef avatar.
A major focus of the update is making cooking and plating smoother and faster.
New features include:
- Automatic pickup of matching ingredients during assembly
- Re-entering completed plates for further adjustments
- Direct puree transfer using a spoon
- Direct transfers from spawners to containers, grill plates, and assembly stations
The assembly experience has also been refined through improved animations, enhanced HUD feedback, more accurate ingredient placement, and better ingredient availability tracking.
The update delivers another round of optimizations across the entire game, including:
- Improved ingredient and object processing
- Reduced memory allocations
- Better thermal processing performance
- Faster dish screenshot saving
- Improved animation and visual effects performance
- Optimized ingredient textures and assets
- Reduced overall resource usage
These improvements are designed to provide smoother gameplay across both single-player and multiplayer sessions.
The game's tutorial systems have undergone another major revision.
The update improves onboarding during the early days of Career Mode with:
- Better quest guidance
- Improved progression flow
- Clearer visual hints
- Enhanced upgrade tutorials
- Improved shop and inventory explanations
- Additional guidance for advanced systems such as blueprints and multi-select functionality
These changes help new players learn the game's mechanics more naturally while reducing progression blockers.
The update also introduces:
- Saved pinned blueprints
- Expanded spoilage visualization
- Improved multiselect functionality
- Better XP progression calculations
- Improved autofill behavior
- More reliable save settings
- Additional interaction improvements throughout the kitchen
Since launch, Big Cheese Studio has released multiple major patches and hotfixes for Cooking Simulator 2, continuously refining gameplay based on community feedback.
"We've been closely following player feedback since release, and many of the additions in this update come directly from community requests," said the development team. "The Customer Wiki, assembly improvements, tutorial updates, and quality-of-life features are all part of our ongoing effort to make Cooking Simulator 2 the best experience possible for both new and returning players."
The update is available now on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2455360/view/669493881546475684
Cooking Simulator 2 is the next evolution of the cooking simulation genre, allowing players to build and manage their own restaurant, master increasingly complex recipes, unlock new equipment and upgrades, discover customer preferences, and cooperate with friends in multiplayer kitchen chaos.
Cooking Simulator 2 is currently available on Steam with a 30% discount until June 25, alongside this latest major update.
Big Cheese Studio is an independent game development studio focused on creating immersive simulation experiences for players around the world. The studio is best known for the Cooking Simulator franchise, which has attracted millions of players across PC, consoles, and VR platforms.