Cookies
A downloadable game for Windows
"best described as, “wow, Silent Hill, Twin Peaks, and The Wire made messy love all over Candyman while watching reruns of Bozo the Clown.”" - DreadXP
Named #17 in Slant Magazine's "25 Best Games of 2021"
Where the ordinary and the hard-to-believe meet in a gutter, the population of "The Darb" simply call it "home". Gang violence, poverty, and substance abuse leave Darby rife with drifters, murderers, and cash maniacs whose sole purpose in life is finding the next high or die trying. The town of the same name exists as a swollen, caustic juxtaposition of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and reruns of Twin Peaks gestating in the sweltering heat of Southern Florida.
The optimistically named Orange Grove Houses, a dilapidated flop house of an apartment building where the only thing more parasitic than the rats and roaches are the residents, squats obscenely at the end of a long abandoned housing development. A lone drug pusher hawks his wares to sun-deprived addicts when he's not falling prey to his own stock. After an especially odd trip, he finds himself tangled in a devil's weave of crime and hallucinations in halls that even God has given up on.
Inspired by black comedy Trash Humpers and VHS slashers like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cookies is an obscene PSX-coated blend of Satanic cults, meth-dealing clowns and online torture chambers, all under the same backwards-ass roof.
NOTE: This game features heavy use of camera filters/effects to simulate the video quality of a VHS tape, which may be triggering to photosensitive players. I strongly suggest tweaking the game's visual settings to suit your monitor's resolution upon startup, as the game may be too grainy/blurry depending on your screen size.
Cookies
Developed by Stef Pinto
In partnership with Penquin Games
With music by Johar Ibrahim
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Development log
- Cookies v1.1 - "The Fresh Batch" HotfixesApr 24, 2021
- Cookies - Release UpdateApr 23, 2021
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hi ,, i like ure game ,, maybe we can make a collaboration in the future !!
Are You Ready To Get High With Cookies?
One of the most interesting games i played here,unfortunately i got only two endings,i tried to play it again to get new endings,but i don't understood what to do with items i got and how to move on,but i still liked it,it really gives you this atmosphere of living in slums and ghettos,5\5
Crazy game 👍
takes the VHS style that many developers try to recreate and pushes it to 1000. very interesting!
i remember playing this game when i was tripping on DMT. made some good memories with my buddies. this is genuinely one of my favorite games. There's just so much to do and see and you're always left sitting there thinking "the fuck?" but in a good way.
I am not exaggerating when I say this is one of my favourite itch.io games ever. So many games on here are barely even games, but this is really great and a very nice surprise.
100% agree, one of the most underrated games of all time.
Triple AGREE! This was so much fun to play and edit! We need more games like this
Great game, alot of replay ability value. Wanted to unlock all endings but it seems kinda buggy at times to achieve different endings.
I could've played this game for days! There were so many hidden easter eggs. I want to know what the beef with the clown was and why couldn't I kill it but it could kill me?! I have a big grudge lol. Other than that, I am proud that I cooked those CBD brownies. OMNOMNOM!! Starts at 6:13 until 01:36:18!
This game was amazing, I was up until 4 in the morning playing it... Tried to get all the endings but unfortunately #7 and #10 were too difficult to figure out, regardless, I was enthralled with the experience. Definitely reminiscent of Manhunt (aesthetically). Thank you for making this, I hope you continue to make more games like this in the future!
Wow, i can even smell this game, absolutely crazy, all in a good way of course
I just send you a tip of 12 dollars because oh meeen... this game is awesome! just keep going doing good games, or you can make the second part of cookies.
póngalo para steam plssss
I killed the rat king with the three piece. Pretty sure I sequence broke the game lol. I would like to see some sort of checkpoint/save system in the future.
fuster clucks is super broken, respawn with the carrols either has them frozen or spawns you in the kitchen area with no way to get back in the freezer other than main menu
this is the first itch game that actually has replay value lol, love this
i play a lot of indie horror but this one was a surprise gem.
This was a strange one and I loved every second of it.
Esta buenísimo
Super jeu!
you should change the controls of the inventory to TAB instead of keeping it as I, cause it is easier
Hi Stef Pinto it's there any chance that i could help to translate the game to Spanish? i don't know anything about how to do it but i would like to help your game reach more people. (My first/main language it's spanish so it would be a good translation)
How can i save in this game?
The game autosaves whenever you complete a storyline.
can we have a sequel please
I love the game its a really cool concept with a great environment. also is the whole snuff fight portion slightly inspired by manhunt
Im super stuck.
I've completed the cookies storyline but after the boss fight I get no cut scene or anything, and I've seen in some game play it's meant to end :/ I've replayed it atleast 10 times now .
I only have 2 endings left to unlock but this one doesn't seem to want to unlock and i don't know how to activate the next last one.
Hey, sorry for the delay with replying to your last message and this one, I've been a tad busy recently. Could you give some specifics as to what storyline you're trying to achieve, and what you're doing right before its supposed to end? The tenth and final storyline only unlocks when the other nine are completed which is why you haven't been able to access it yet.
Sorry for any frustration this has caused.
it's totally fine, don't worry :)
So I've completed them all except 07 and 10.
So im on 07 , everything works fine until I have to deal with the sinners, once I've dealt with them on the other floor I make my way to the basement to deal with the boss and his throwable weapon,
he is actually pretty easy to deal with but once he's dead nothing happens.
I've wondered around the whole game and can't figure out what I've done wrong.
Also no need be sorry , im enjoying this game and the only frustration happening is that I want to see how the game finishes and I cant haha
Wooo i did it.
not sure what it was, might have been a glitch but I loaded up again today and it worked first time. Finally unlocked 07 ♡ now I'm gonna start the 10 ♡
Didnt take to long to complete 10 ♡
I really enjoyed this game and I am super interested to see what you come up with next ♡
Okay so im back, im really enjoying it , ive done afew different ending now and im loving ♡
I went back and got past that clown. After afew failed attempts I managed to complete that story which was cool:)
I got stuck on the p*rno storyline and had to go back to menu and went on another path. I didnt want to spoil the game for myself by looking it up.
and i dont want to spoil it for anyone else
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So I got to a fight with only a throwing object and I keep dying , like I've died atleast 30 times.
Any Spoiler free tips would be great.
Like is it possible to do this with only the throwing item? (no health or anything)
Is my pc just being to slow and it should be an easy ass fight?.
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Anyways yeah any tips are welcome, I really want to get all endings for this game as I am really enjoying it.
I have found afew bugs like falling through the floor and being able to see rooms before I've gone into them.
I've also put stuff down and it disappeared. And sometimes the ui doubles up its slots in the inventory, sometimes ending in lost items.
Anyways it is a great game ♡
Would love to see it get some AAA attention ♡
This was fantastic
okay so i have only played part of this game so far, (had to take a break, the old school camera style is great but made me feel a little sick) but so far i love it <3
its weird and great and i am excited to see what else pops up in the game.
the little box shop dude is my fave so far just because <3
im working on my own spoopy game so this was a really nice find :)
edit - looking at the comments, it may be my pc that has made me feel sick not the game haha, my pc is oldddd.
This game is great. Nothing else like it I've ever seen, it's like in your own horror/thriller flick. I've only found 3 of the endings so far but so excited to come back and find the others.The addition of game controller support would be the only thing I would ask for, though using a program like Joy2Key works just fine. As other have mentioned mouse sensitivity would be a plus, but I didn't find it to a hindrance on the experience. Found this game through a bundle but specifically wanted to make sure a few dollars flew the dev's way for this genuine gem of a title.
Is there any way to adjust the mouse sensitivity? I tried booting it up and it's insanely hard to play because of it. The quit button also seems to be broken (as when the Confirm Yes/No prompt pops up, hitting either button does nothing.)
I literally have the same problem and it drives me nuts. Have you found any solution yet? I've tried everything I could think of.
no unfortunately , i just didn't end up playing the game :( pretty depressing , it looks really interesting otherwise
I see. :( Thank you for the reply regardless, my friend.
love the game thank you
Genuine diamond in the rough game mad with love and care
fuckin loved it
I would not reccomend playing this unless your computer's dpi is higher than the dev, mine is set to 1k and turning is like moving my hand across the table for the last supper to try to give jesus a handshake before i leave. Not only this i found a bug at the beginning of the game where when activating the door you press escape then your cursor rides the screen like a blonde in a porno. Other then that this is a game and it wouldn't be that bad if a sensitivity bar was placed into settings so i don't have to screw with dpi every time the game crashes.
oh shut up
I have the same problem and I tried changing the mouse sensitivity in my PC settings from the lowest to the highest and it still doesn't work for me. Do you maybe have any advice or solution on what I can do? :,)
No i was never actually able to fix the issue which is why i wrote this review. Only thing really to do is hope the dev is seeing these and fixes it.
I understand, thank you for the reply regardless bro. :) <3
had to come back to this comments sections because i revisited a few endings in Cookies the other night and i'm still stunned by how much i love the wildness of this game.
can't wait to see what you'll make next!
I came back for another batch of cookies and it was definitely some bomb shit, haha. I got mixed up with the wrong crowd and ended up shooting a bunch of cops. Good times.
Thanks so much man, looking forward to seeing you tackle the rest of the game. Hopefully the design/code quirks won't give you too much of a hassle.