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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This is a wild game and I added a lot MORE fun to this game!! AMAZING WORK Stef Pinto!!
Soo im stuck, What am I meant to do? I cant give the roach the raid and cannot find any videos to help
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😭
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)
i have played your game several months ago and i decided play this masterpiece again but...i dont know why but this game saved all my progress even after deleting and installing it again...
how can i fix it? I never experience this with other games
And if any other players experienced it please tell me how do you reset it
Hi do you tryed to delete your save file from the game files
i fully deleted all game files...there are a difference between this two actions?
Im stuck on endings 7 and 10. They are the only 2 endings i have left and i just have no idea how to get them going. I got to the part where the cartel guys killed the cop and the hints just kept saying "take care of your dawgs" but i tried attacking and talking to the rapper guys but nothing worked.
This one tripped me up a bit too. Once you've talked to the cartel boss in the dead pig room, go back to the rappers and chat with them. The lights will go out. Then go hunt around the building a bit for things that have changed.
coming back to this game for the third time and it gets better every time.
God bless Darby County lul.
7.4/10 - A rough diamond that is definitely a great experience, (3 hours, 100% completion). A grungy game with character, whether it's the environment or all the characters, references or exploration, finding new things is a trip. It's dark, funny, shows how extreme society is and combine that with a whole lotta DRUGS. But there are issues with this game such as it feeling repetitive with how the quests works, slow pacing due to movement speed, no sensitivity slider, glitches with the inventory where I had to reset quests multiple times and some game breaking bugs which I could recreate if needed. But overall I'm excited for your future projects and can't wait to see what you have cooking!
An amazing game with clever references, great atmosphere, and lots of style. I only wish you could walk faster to cut down on retracing steps through the apartment building.
A sequel would be great too!
On the 7 thread/ending for some reason after I kill all the gang members it doesn't cut to the ending. I've looked around online and im doing all the rights steps. Is there a fix to this?
I didn't
I would like to play this game but my English is very bad, can I make a translation into Spanish? or try to do it, because I have never done anything similar
Hi
Is anybody able to give any tips on how to go about getting into the last 4 threads? I've done a bunch of exploring and I'm not finding much
It's been a while since taking a look at the project but if my memory serves me correctly:
The 7th thread is triggered by catching up with two of your gangsta rapper friends on the second floor.
The 8th thread is unlocked after completing 7 threads. Its cue can be found in the apartment of a rather conspiracy prone tenant.
The 9th thread is unlocked after completing 5 threads, and its cue is to take your business to a local eatery.
The 10th and final thread is unlocked once all other 9 are completed, and the cue for that one is in your apartment once that requirement is met so it will be hard to miss.
That should be it for threads 7-10, unless you meant a different set of threads.
Hi thanks so much for getting back to me. I managed to do all the threads bar 8 and 10 and had a lot of fun working through them. I'm slightly bummed out now though as whenever I start a new playthrough things get very buggy. I can no longer control the player character the pov just shoots all over the place. Its almost like the mouse sensitivity is like 100x too high. Any ideas of a possible workaround? I would love to be able to finish the game
Thanks again :)
This game is an absolute trip. I genuinely cant remember the last time I was so captivated and eager to explore. Working through the threads and uncovering more and more with each session has really been a joy.
I adore the vibe and overall direction the developer took things in with the art style and setting, very reminiscent of games like manhunt, Condemned etc where the urban decay is front and center.
The dev has really knocked it out of the park with this one.
This game looks really good, but it's pretty much unplayable without mouse sensitivity settings. Please fix that.
add a way to change sensitivity
killing salvador soft locks
STILL the funniest experience I’ve had in a game 😂 If you like the video, please subscribe 😎👊🏽
just watched your video & lmaooooooooooo
I’m going to go play this game right now!!
I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but not this! This game... wow what a trip! I love the surrealism and the atmosphere. really well done. Bravo! Kudos!
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I did not play this game
I hope the brainrot pills start working for you.
Any chance to adjust mouse sensitivity? Game is unplayable for me just because that one problem
This game is WILD, BONKERS and AWESOME!