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 JustJonut
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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It's a total scam. The game is good, but there are no cookies, much less marijuana. They promise you good prostitutes with considerable-sized breasts, but there are none. For depression, I had to go to the psychologist in Santa Margalida for 69 days.
boring asl
i finished this game a couple weeks back, and i loved it so much! if i remember correctly, there's 12 endings? i had some glitches here and there, but other than that i had lots of fun! everything is so dark and dirty and grungy looking lol, absolutely perfect
got too high and got stuck in an endless loop of walking back and forth, still dunno how tf to play this game
but the design is super nice
please fix this. i want to play it but it keeps bugging out and conversation texts wont even show up
GREAT GAME WITH MANY POSSIBLE ENDINGS. I THINK.
Would like to say. Love this game. It's well made, hours of fun, keeps you on edge.
Fajna gierka/ Nice game
where's the key in the clown roo
Deliciously grungy aesthetic that makes me want to take a shower after playing. A couple of the routes are better than the others, and I largely agree with R. Egbert on his criticisms of "Green Hell," but overall very great environmental storytelling/game design. The only time I was really stumped as to what to do was getting "The Key To Your Heart," but even then I was able to figure it simply by throwing shit at the wall until something worked.
LMFOAOA YEAH, the "key to your heart" got me as well, somehow missed the writing on the wall that says kill this bitch PFF. i just looked up someones playthrough to find the answer
Holy fucking shit this is FREE. Really enjoyed what it has to offer, even though a lil bit buggy but it's still amazing.
Fucking Bloodlines level of legendary. One of my favorite games, the devs are saints for making it free.
lol wtf am i supposed to do
i just got a new jar, its playtime!!!
Always love your epic playthrough! Keep slaying those horror games!
smoke weed everyday
How do you reset the game, I tried to delete the files but it didn't work and I don't know which one I'm supposed to delete. Help me please
This game makes me feel high without taking any drugs...
Amazing game but the floridian film part is way too difficult normally this isnt a complaint i would make but this is a little too much still a great game tho!
will it ever update again?
unbelievably peak
Soo im stuck, What am I meant to do? I cant give the roach the raid and cannot find any videos to help
did you figure it out?
Really impressive atmosphere, the social commentary/parody gives me GTA (positive connotation.) Sadly, I was trying the porn studio plotline and it glitched out two attempts in a row. I'm guessing you're not updating the game further at this point, but I wanted to say that it was QUITE a vibe for the most part. Horrible to look at, listen to, and think about. Great work!
EDIT: went back and finished aaaaall the threads. Kinda obsessed, tbh. Any more projects on the way?
Hoooowww do I give the roach the raid?? Pls help😭
That's the neat part-you don't! The only completion of that thread (to the best of my knowledge) is taking the raid yourself. The roach is just there to give you a hint about the thread. And that's not technically necessary either. Raid was the first thread I finished, and I found the roach while I was working on my seventh one lol
LOL i figured that out after I asked! Tysm! i was just lazy tbh and didnt delete lol!!
THANK YOU FOR CREATING THIS GAME! :D
Love the game!
hey the game blocks every single time after defeating the kfc brothers. by going against the door i can see the employee, but if i click the door it just makes a sound as if it's locked. i did this three times, and even if the music stops, it keeps happening. help anyone
Im actually going to get on my knees and beg for a Mac Book version. Im in the middle of a Barnes N noble and thought "ya know fuck this shit im gonna play cookies!" only to find out its only available in windows, now im crying. );
how long does it take to beat?
Idfk man thats what im looking for
There are essentially 12 "endings," and you could beat any of them in under 10 minutes if you knew the exact course of events. Buuut part of the fun is not being sure of how to progress and messing with things to find your next clue.
I got all twelve endings in three to five hours, and I got them all in two sittings. The only thing that slowed me down too much was that one mission glitched out on me.
lol guys please give me a nickname that sounds like the sky is falling on you (for Newgrounds)