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Abra-Cooking-Dabra

Released: 11/17/2025

Critics
83
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Users
80

Score Breakdown

83.3

Critic Average

3 reviews

80

Steam User Score

215 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
+2.9

83 vs 80

Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
+2.9

Average of both sources

Review Disparities

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12/8/2025

Launch Window

Abra-Cooking-Dabra is a small, cozy, and focused game that wisely avoids competing with grander cooking or management titles. Its orderly gameplay, colorful design, and gentle soundtrack make it an ideal choice for players seeking a calm, mindful experience. While shortcomings like slow onboarding, limited replayability, and a lack of fresh challenges later on prevent it from becoming a lasting masterpiece, the game completely succeeds in its core mission: delivering a charming, stress-free fantasy cooking getaway.

75

75/100

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12/1/2025

Launch Window

Abra-Cooking-Dabra comes with a theme we've seen many times before, but the game manages to handle it in a unique style, which is definitely appreciated. Cooking with cards thus becomes solid fun.

85

85/100

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11/24/2025

Launch Window

Abra‑Cooking‑Dabra earns a high score for its inventive fusion of deckbuilding and culinary puzzling, its distinctive Wonderland charm, and a deeply satisfying loop of recipe discovery and optimization. The art, animation, and sound design give the café a memorable personality, and the pauseable, card‑driven gameplay rewards planning, creative combos, and careful resource juggling in a way that feels both clever and compulsively replayable. Points are docked for practical frictions; tight counter space, repetitive reselling for rare ingredients, uneven level pacing, and a handful of disruptive bugs; that occasionally turn a great run into a frustrating reset. Those issues are largely fixable, however, and they don’t erase the core pleasure of assembling elegant solutions under pressure. For players who enjoy methodical, card‑based strategy with a whimsical coat of paint, this is a strongly recommended pick, especially at a discount.

90

90/100

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