Cooking, we all do it at some point. Much like gaming, cooking can be one of the best hobbies to do in your off time. In order to do the later, much like having access to a gaming manual, you will need a cookbook.
I’m the “house chef”, the one who cooks. My mother taught me a few of the basics of cooking, forced me to take cooking classes during High School, and made sure that once I was out of the house, I could survive on my own or cook for loved ones.
Today, I cook as a passion, one I really do not talk about much on this website since gaming and cooking rarely interact… Until you find out that there is a HUGE selection of Gaming cookbooks out there featuring a lot of your favorite franchises. A while ago, my interest was peaked through getting a copy of the Ultimate FINAL FANTASY XIV Cookbook.
So here are some suggestions of gaming cookbooks for you to get for yourselves and see what it would be like to cook, and eat, some of your favorite video game meals.
Hardcover – 31 December 2023
Who knew that Sonic enjoyed more than just Chilli Dogs? Sonic The Hedgehog: The Official Cookbook will give you a lot of treats that can be linked to many of the characters from the Sonic universe. From Evil Cookies from Doctor Robotnik to The Perfect Chilli Dog from Sonic himself, this cookbook will give you many different ideas for your upcoming 90s themed cartoon party or something similiar.
Recommended Recipes
- The Perfect Chili Dog
- Evil Cookies
- Roll with the Punches
Available on Amazon: Sonic the Hedgehog: The Official Cookbook
Hardcover – 7 June 2023
Want something more blocky after spending hours out in the forest punching trees for wood? Then this Minecraft cookbook is for you! Featuring everything from family-friendly Cakes or some more adult beverages, you’ll be crafting away at all the food you can eat to regain hearts while waiting for those iron ingots to smelt.
Recommended Recipes
- Suspicious Stew
- Slimeball Tea
- The Cake
Available on Amazon: Minecraft: Gather, Cook, Eat! Official Cookbook
Hardcover – 1 March 2019
Hello Stranger… I haven’t seen you before…
Yep, you’ve woken up on the back of a wagon and you’re hungry. Luckily you have access to The Elder Scrolls cookbook on hand to give you a full three-course menu (plus drinks). Not everything is roast beasts and bread as you go through recipes based around Skyrim, Morrowind, and Tamriel. So get out your gathering bag and steal yourself some spices as you prepare to feed yourself and some friends while telling tales around the campfire.
Recommended Recipes
- Leek and Cheese Crostata
- Imperial Mushroom Sauce
- The Holy Sweetroll
Available on Amazon: The Elder Scrolls Cookbook
Hardcover – 14 February 2024
Journey through Sanctuary and prepare to feast on over 60 unique culinary delights inspired by Diablo in this one-of-a-kind cookbook experience. From the humble town of Tristram to the towering Mount Arreat, you will learn how to survive the horrors of this dark, nightmarish fantasy world by enjoying delicious dishes from the Burning Hells to the High Heavens. Each immersive recipe features straightforward step-by-step instructions, mouthwatering full-color photos, and pairing suggestions, as well as numerous substitution tips. Whether you’re cooking up a lavish banquet spread fit for a countess or some vittles for a solo quest, Diablo: The Official Cookbook brings the flavors of Sanctuary to your table.
Recommended Recipes
- Longshoreman’s Crab Salad Buns
- Port Town Potato-Crusted Cod
- Orbei Monastery Lamb Stew
Available on Amazon: Diablo: The Official Cookbook: Recipes and Tales from the Inns of Sanctuary
Hardcover – 1 September 2022
With 40 recipes across ten full menus – each inspired by the times and places where the most famous Assassins lived and fought – you can relive the highlights of the Italian Renaissance, the French Revolution and even Victorian London. Follow Altaïr, Ezio, Arno, Evie, Jacob and all the Assassins of the Brotherhood while enjoying their most celebrated dishes: Masyaf Moutabel, Davenport Homestead Soup, Boston Apple Pie, Colonial Coleslaw, Meringues Mirabeau, Rooks’ Bread Pudding and many more.
Recommended Recipes
- Davenport Homestead Soup
- The Brotherhood’s Jambalaya
- Bayou-Style Chess Pie
Available on Amazon: Assassins Creed: The Culinary Codex
Hardcover – 19 January 2022
Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide is a thrilling and delicious tutorial on recipes based on the cultural history of the many locations Lara Croft has visited throughout her 25 years of global adventures—bringing the taste back home to you. Inspired by the hit Tomb Raider videogame franchise, this book features over 40 recipes from the many locations Lara Croft visits and explores across the globe, with food and drinks inspired by key characters and locations. Also included is expert information on the cultural history of the many beautiful cities and countries to which she travels. A global exploration, this unique cookbook and travel guide takes fans on an exclusive journey across the planet chasing the thrills and adventures of Lara Croft. Featuring beautiful full color photography as well as stunning art from the games, this is the ultimate gift for fans, travelers, and food aficionados alike.
Recommended Recipes
- Lomo Saltado
- Beans on Toast
- Okonomiyaki
Available on Amazon: Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide
With the Innkeeper’s Tavern Cookbook, fans will unlock Hearthstone-inspired eats, cocktails, and mocktails. A replica of Harth Stonebrew’s own private cookbook, this delightful guide contains more than fifty all-new recipes perfect for any Fireside Gathering or game night, from Sarge’s Easy Mac & Cheese to Medivh’s favorite martini—and, of course, funnel cake. Complete with mouthwatering color photos and Harth’s personal notations, recipe modifications, and reflections, the Innkeeper’s Tavern Cookbook brings the world of Hearthstone to life like never before. Hearthstone is a fast-paced digital card game where players sling spells, summon minions, and command powerful heroes in duels of epic strategy. Featuring familiar characters from the Warcraft® universe, Hearthstone has won over legions of fans with its humor and deceptively simple gameplay.
Recommended Recipes
- Fireside Log
- Proundmoore Platter
- Polymorph Puffs
Available on Amazon: Hearthstone: Innkeeper’s Tavern Cookbook
Welcome to Stardew Valley, where each season brings a new crop of bountiful food to make for friends and family. From farm staples like veggies, fruit, milk, and eggs to foraged mushrooms and berries to fresh fish, there’s always something delicious to put on the table. These 50 recipes are based on in-game meals and food, allowing you to cook and eat all your home-grown and fresh-caught ingredients in real life. The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook is organized by season and has recipes from your favorite characters, including the Queen of Sauce and Gus at the Stardrop Saloon. Written in collaboration with independent game creator ConcernedApe and packed with original illustrations and food photography, The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook helps you bring the Valley’s incredible flavors to the dinner table, giving you the energy to take on the world.
Recommended Recipes
- Farmer’s Lunch
- Crab Cakes
- Pumpkin Soup
Available on Amazon: The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook
Hardcover – 18 October 2016
Prepare a feast fit for a warchief with World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook, a compendium of sweet and savory recipes inspired by the hit game from Blizzard Entertainment. Presenting delicacies favored by the Horde and the Alliance alike, this authorized cookbook teaches apprentice chefs how to conjure up a menu of food and drink from across the realm of Azeroth.
Featuring food pairings for each dish, ideas for creating your own Azerothian feasts, and tips on adapting meals to specific diets, this otherworldly culinary guide offers something for everyone. The aromatic Spiced Blossom Soup is perfect for plant-loving druids, and orcs will go berserk for the fall-off-the-bone Beer-Basted Boar Ribs. With alternatives to the more obscure ingredients—just in case you don’t have Chimaerok Chops lying around—this comprehensive cookbook will ensure that you have no trouble staying Well Fed.
Recommended Recipes
- Beer-Basted Boar Ribs
- Winter Veil Roast
- Forest Strider Drumsticks
Available on Amazon: World of Warcraft The Official Cookbook
Hardcover – 31 May 2021
Journey through Azeroth and prepare to feast on new culinary delights inspired by this officially-licensed World of Warcraft cookbook.
In this cookbook, Pandaren chef Nomi has collected the best recipes gathered during his travels and will instruct you in everything you need to know as you feast your way through Azeroth. As a young boy in Pandaria, Nomi answered the beckoning call of the Cooking School Bell and quickly grew into a promising chef. Through the years, this intrepid cook has traveled across Azeroth, learning countless regional recipes and techniques from Pandaria, the Broken Isles, and even the mysterious Shadowlands. Each chapter features easy-to-follow dishes, as well as numerous tips on how to not burn your food. Let culinary expert Nomi be your guide in World of Warcraft: New Flavors of Azeroth.
Recommended Recipes
- Quiethounds
- Arden Apple Pie
- Gnomeregan Gnuggets
Available on Amazon: World of Warcraft: Flavors of Azeroth: The Official Cookbook
Hardcover – 1 January 2019
Based on Blizzard Entertainment’s global phenomenon Overwatch, this official cookbook is packed with scores of authentic recipes inspired by the game’s diverse heroes hailing from all corners of the universe.
Building from the game’s compelling narrative and variety of characters, this cookbook features international food and drink recipes from each hero’s homeland. Each recipe includes straightforward step-by-step instructions, mouthwatering full-color photos, pairing suggestions, and more.
Overwatch: The Official Cookbook is the ultimate compendium of Overwatch delicacies and is sure to satisfy even the hungriest gamer with fun and delicious recipes.
Recommended Recipes
- Tracer’s Pulse Bomb Bangers and Mash
- McCree’s Huckleberry Pie
- Genji’s Dragonblade Roll
Available on Amazon: Overwatch: The Official Cookbook
Hardcover – 1 December 2018
Based on the irradiated delicacies of the world of Bethesda Entertainment’s Fallout, this Vault-Tec–approved cookbook provides fans of the award-winning series with recipes inspired by their favorite Fallout foods. Whip up tasty versions of the Mirelurk egg omelette, throw some deathclaw meat on the grill, and re-create BlamCo Mac & Cheese with Fallout: The Official Cookbook.
Recommended Recipes
- Nuka-Cola BBQ Sauce
- Deathclaw Wellingham
- Piper’s Special Soda Bread
Available on Amazon: Fallout: The Vault Dweller’s Official Cookbook
Hardcover – 21 July 2020
Based on Bungie’s acclaimed video game series Destiny, this official cookbook is filled with recipes inspired by the Guardians and locations seen throughout the game’s expansive universe.
Eva Levante has traveled around the world after the events of the Red War, gathering a variety of recipes after crossing paths with many Guardians along the way and learning from their adventures. Craft, mouthwatering food from her diverse list of recipes inspired by the game’s unique world, plus step-by-step instructions and full-color photos, help guide and inspire fans to go on their own culinary adventure through the solar system.
Perfect for all Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks, Destiny: The Official Cookbook is packed with amazing recipes and stories that celebrate Destiny’s vast multiplayer universe.
Recommended Recipes
- Spicy Ramen
- Gjallardoodles
- Coldslaw
Available on Amazon: Destiny: The Official Cookbook
Hardcover – 1 November 2023
Delight in over forty tasty recipes inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy’s games, with gorgeous, eye-popping photography! From Freddy Fazbear’s Pepperoni X-Press and Chica’s Ultimate Thai Chicken Burger, to Foxy’s Fruity Cove Coolor and El Chip’s Fully Loaded Tortillas, the official Five Nights at Freddy’s Cookbook is packed with mouthwatering recipes that are hauntingly delicious.
Recommended Recipes
- Bonnie’s Ultimate Burger with crispy buttermilk onions
- Foxy’s Fazer Blast Pulled Pork Tacos
- Freddy Fazbear’s Pepperoni X-Press
Available on Amazon: The Official Five Nights at Freddy’s Cookbook
They say an army marches on its stomach, and the UNSC is no exception! Learn to make awesome appetizers, sumptuous snacks, decadent desserts, and main dishes to fuel even the hungriest of Spartans on the longest of missions. With step-by-step instructions and beautiful photography, this book gives you everything you need to go from Master Chief to Master Chef.
Recommended Recipes
- Full-Stack Ground Pounder Burger
- Custard Pie
- Tom yum
Available on Amazon: Halo: The Official Cookbook Hardcover
Hardcover – 1 August 2021
Inspired by the diverse nationalities of the iconic characters in Capcom’s Street Fighter™ video game franchise, Street Fighter: The Official Street Food Cookbook offers easy-to-make recipes that are perfect for your next party or one-on-one showdown.
Sakura Kasugano: High school student, martial artist, and world traveler. Join her as she embarks on a trip around the globe, training, fighting, and trying out delicious new street food snacks. In this book, she shares the stories of her encounters with other fighters and their favorite recipes from their hometowns.
This cookbook features delectable treats found in food stalls on the streets of Japan, Spanish tapas from a flamenco tavern, snacks on a pier in the Amazon River basin, and much more. With easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, this cookbook features recipes and characters from every iteration of Capcom’s hit Street Fighter series.
Recommended Recipes
- Ken’s Spaghetti Carbonara
- Blanka’s Platanos Maduros
- Guile’s Everything Bagel
Available on Amazon: Street Fighter: The Official Street Food Cookbook
Hardcover – 21 June 2023
Craft mouthwatering dishes from the Norse realms of Midgard, Alfheim, Jötunheim, and beyond in God of War: The Official Cookbook of the Nine Realms—the first officially licensed cookbook featuring the world of Santa Monica Studio’s beloved video game franchise.
Step-by-step directions and gorgeous, full-color photography ensure fans have everything they need to embark on their own cooking adventure, whether they’re a mere fledgling kitchen wanderer or a seasoned culinary god. Filled with delicious recipes and exclusive custom-created art, this book features never-before-seen stories from every realm as told by Týr, the unconventional Norse god of war.
Recommended Recipes
- Sausage Rolls
- Freakin’ Gratitude
- Mercimekli Kofte
Available on Amazon: God of War: The Official Cookbook of the Nine Realms
Hardcover – 2 February 2021
From the D&D experts behind Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana comes a cookbook that invites fantasy lovers to celebrate the unique culinary creations and traditions of their favorite fictional cultures. With this book, you can prepare dishes delicate enough to dine like elves and their drow cousins or hearty enough to feast like a dwarven clan or an orcish horde. All eighty dishes—developed by a professional chef—are delicious, easy to prepare, and composed of wholesome ingredients readily found in our world.
Heroes’ Feast includes recipes for snacking, such as Elven Bread, Iron Rations, savory Hand Pies, and Orc Bacon, as well as hearty vegetarian, meaty, and fish mains, such as Amphail Braised Beef, Hommlet Golden Brown Roasted Turkey, Drow Mushroom Steaks, and Pan-Fried Knucklehead Trout—all which pair perfectly with a side of Otik’s famous fried spiced potatoes. There are also featured desserts and cocktails—such as Heartlands Rose Apple and Blackberry Pie, Trolltide Candied Apples, Evermead, Potion of Restoration, and Goodberry Blend—and everything in between, to satisfy a craving for any adventure.
Recommended Recipes
- Elven Bread
- Drow Mushroom Steaks
- Otik’s famous fried spiced potatoes
Available on Amazon: Heroes’ Feast (Dungeons & Dragons): The Official D&D Cookbook
