Deep Dish Dungeon Beginner Guide Cooking, Co-op, Steam Deck, Lost Items and Cheats Explained

This Deep Dish Dungeon guide covers the basics you need on day one. The game launched on October 13, 2026 for $14.99 on Steam and Xbox, and it is also on Game Pass. Eat before every trip, carry spare light, craft a Food Basket early and bring every new item back to camp. However, no full recipe list, official cheat list or confirmed backpack bug exists yet, so treat claims about those with caution.

Summary: Deep Dish Dungeon guide

• Release: October 13, 2026 on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC and Game Pass.
• Price: $14.99 in the US.
• Players: solo or online co-op, with three players total on the Steam listing.
• Steam Deck: Verified, announced by the developers on September 30.
• Cooking: food is your main source of strength, and food spoils over time.
• Map: none. The dungeon is hand-built, not randomized.
• Cheats: no official console commands or cheat list found.

What Deep Dish Dungeon Is

Behold Studios built Deep Dish Dungeon, and Raw Fury publishes it. The studio calls it a survival metroidvania, not a cooking game. In other words, cooking is one crafting system that supports exploration.

The dungeon is hand-crafted, so it is not a roguelike. You explore, hit a blocked path, craft or cook something new and come back. Because there is no map or compass, you navigate by landmarks, lighting and shortcuts.

DualShockers also reviewed the game and praised its crafting, which fits how much of your progress depends on camp.

Beginner Tips for Your First Hours

The game explains very little, so these habits matter most:

1. Eat before you leave camp. A hungry character is as weak as at the start of the game, according to the developers, and cannot survive medium falls.
2. Carry a spare light. Torches wear out, and the developers say light, inventory space and resources are all limited.
3. Build a Food Basket early. Food spoils, and the basket slows it down.
4. Bring new items back to camp. Each new find can unlock recipes in your crafting menu.
5. Camp almost anywhere. The developers say you can set up a camp in nearly any spot.
6. Use your shield. Blocking works against some attacks, so do not trade hits with skeletons.
7. Name your landmarks. Calling a room “the statue room” saves time, especially in co-op.

For the opening area, TechRaptor’s walkthrough suggests lighting the campfire with sticks, cooking an apple and a mushroom, and eating both before you climb up toward the first door. Then you find the first key and meet a giant spider, which is easiest to beat by jumping on its back from a nearby pillar.

If you enjoy games that punish bad light management, our 99 Nights in the Forest Deer survival guide covers a similar flashlight-and-fear loop.

Deep Dish Dungeon Cooking Recipes and Food Stats

Cooking is the system players ask about most, and it is also where the biggest gap in public information sits. The developers have not published the full recipe list or exact food stats. Instead, they expect players to document recipes together.

Here are the dishes that official sources name:

Dish	Where it appears
Shepherd’s Pie	Developer blog
Meat and mushroom Stew	Developer blog
Ramen	Developer blog
Meat Soup	Demo patch notes
Rock Soup	Demo patch notes
Scorpion Tail	Cooking pot recipe in the demo

Some meals also grant magical abilities, so a good dish can do more than raise a number. Herbs add modifiers to dishes, which makes experimenting worthwhile.

Cooking stations

You need appliances to cook, and you find or craft them as you go. The confirmed ones are the campfire, the cooking pot, the rotisserie and the cooking table. Be careful with the rotisserie, because food burns if you leave it too long. Likewise, vegetables left over a campfire can turn to charcoal.

Food spoilage rules

The demo’s v1013 update introduced spoilage. These numbers come from the demo, so the full game may differ:

Rule	Detail
Spoil rate	One item at a time, usually about 20 minutes
What spoils	Food, raw items and some ingredients
What does not spoil	Herbs and some dry ingredients
Food Basket	Keeps food fresh for at least one hour

Therefore, cook raw meat soon after you return, and store perishables in a basket, not a chest. Bats and scorpions also leave carcasses that you harvest and take to the cooking table, because they no longer drop food directly.

Deep Dish Dungeon 3-Player Co-op Setup

You can play solo or with friends online. The current Steam listing and the press fact sheet say up to two friends, which makes three players total. However, Raw Fury’s own game page still says up to three friends, so one official page is out of date. Based on current information, plan for three players and check the store page for any correction.

Steam does not publish click-by-click setup steps, so here is what is confirmed:

• Online co-op: the game supports it, and the Xbox listing mentions Play Anywhere.
• Cross-platform: the current store listing mentions it, so confirm it on your platform before you buy.
• Same build: keep everyone on the latest version.
• Rejoining: demo patch notes mention an Offline Players menu for co-op.
• Shared carrying: objects are physical, so you can pass items to a friend.

Co-op also helps with inventory, since teammates act as extra carrying space. In addition, the developers designed the dungeon around cooperation, so talk through blocked doors and keys out loud.

Is Deep Dish Dungeon Steam Deck Verified?

Yes. Behold Studios announced the Steam Deck Verified rating on September 30, 2026. That badge means Valve tested the game for controls, readability and compatibility.

I could not find an official list of recommended Deck settings. So start with the default settings and adjust only if you see slowdowns. Also, remember that Verified does not guarantee a frame rate.

Deep Dish Dungeon Backpack Glitch and Lost Items

I found no developer-confirmed backpack bug for Deep Dish Dungeon. Some search results about a missing backpack come from other games, so do not use their fixes here.

If items seem to vanish, check these causes first:

1. Spoilage. Food and raw items rot, so they may be gone because of time.
2. Camp storage. Look through your chests and baskets at camp.
3. Co-op carrying. A teammate may hold the item or have dropped it nearby.
4. Restart and rejoin. A fresh session can fix a display problem.

If an item truly disappears, copy your save folder before you try anything else, then report the problem on the Steam community hub. As of the latest update, no official fix exists.

Console Commands and Cheats List

No official console commands, cheat codes or developer console exist that I could verify. Some third-party sites claim working commands, but those pages also sell trainers, and they contradict themselves on whether commands work at all. Therefore, do not trust any “complete list” you find.

There are practical reasons to skip trainers and cheat tables:

• Co-op breakage. Modified values can desync you from friends.
• Save risk. Editing memory can corrupt a run.
• Security. Downloads from unofficial sites can carry malware.
• No official support. The Steam listing has no Workshop or developer modding tool.

If the game feels too hard, play co-op and prepare better meals instead. That is the intended answer.

Common Mistakes

• Skipping meals. Hunger leaves you too weak to fight or survive falls.
• Storing raw food in chests. It spoils and loses value.
• Leaving the rotisserie alone. Food burns.
• Trusting recipe lists. The full list is not public yet.
• Expecting a map. The game has none by design.
• Using other games’ fixes. A backpack fix for a different title may do nothing here.

Conclusion

Deep Dish Dungeon rewards preparation, so build a routine of cooking, packing light and returning to camp with new finds. Co-op for up to three players, Steam Deck Verified status and a $14.99 price make it easy to try. However, official recipe stats, cheats and bug fixes are still missing, so rely on the developers’ notes. Everything here is accurate as of October 14, 2026, and patches may change details. If you like survival crafting expansions, our Once Human Isles of Abyss guide covers another one.

FAQs

When did Deep Dish Dungeon come out?

It launched on October 13, 2026 on Steam and Xbox, with day-one Game Pass.

How much does Deep Dish Dungeon cost?

It costs $14.99 in the US.

How many players can play Deep Dish Dungeon co-op?

The Steam listing says three players total, which means you plus two friends. Raw Fury’s page still says three friends, so check for a correction.

Is Deep Dish Dungeon Steam Deck Verified?

Yes. The developers announced the rating on September 30, 2026.

Does Deep Dish Dungeon have console commands?

No official commands exist as far as I could verify.

Does Deep Dish Dungeon have a map?

No. The developers intentionally left out a map and a compass.

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