Cooking Mama: Cookstar
| Cooking Mama: Cookstar | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | 1st Playable Productions |
| Publisher(s) | Planet Entertainment (first North American release) Ravenscourt (European, Australian, and second North American releases) |
| Composer(s) | Sara Sakurai Satoshi Okubo Masayoshi Ishi |
| Series | Cooking Mama |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 |
| Release | Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 |
| Genre(s) | Simulation, minigame |
| Mode(s) | Single-player only |
Cooking Mama: Cookstar is a cookery simulation-styled minigame compilation video game, and the unofficial sixth installment in the Cooking Mama series of video games. The game was the first entry in the Cooking Mama series since Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit! (2014), and the first Cooking Mama game to release on a home console since Cooking Mama: World Kitchen (2008) or Babysitting Mama (2010).
The game was briefly released before its official release date on the Nintendo Switch eShop on March 26, 2020, but was taken down just a few hours later due to legal issues between the publisher, Planet Entertainment, and the owner of the Cooking Mama intellectual property (IP), Office Create. Office Create publicly issued a statement condemning the breach of contract on April 15, 2020. The game was eventually re-released by the publisher Ravenscourt in March 2021, who also published it in Europe and Australia in 2020. Cooking Mama: Cookstar is no longer available for purchase as of November 2022, when the International Court of Arbitration ruled that Office Create's IP rights had been infringed by the game and granted their request to have it removed from sale. After its removal, it was revamped into another game called Yum Yum Cookstar.