Cookiesaner

FREE DEMO OUT NOW. Play it, then wishlist the full game.

She's a real dog. She's hungry. The whole čaršija is in trouble.

Meet Cookie — a real apricot maltipoo with one rule: every scrap of Balkan food on the street belongs to her. Cookiesaner is a bullet-heaven where Cookie auto-fires grilled ćevapi into an endless horde, and every bite she steals makes her bigger. The bigger she gets, the harder she hits, the slower she moves — and the closer she gets to rolling over the whole street.

Meet the real Cookie — a small, puffy apricot maltipoo who eats like it's her full-time job. The chonk armour is the fantasy. The appetite is 100% real.

Eat your way to GOD MODE

Your stomach is the engine. Snatch baklava, burek, bosanska kahva and hurmašice off the ground and Cookie chonks up through five belly stages — each one changing how she fights. Fill the belly all the way and you hit STAGE 4: GOD MODE: a giant Cookie barrels straight through the swarm, flattening everything in her path. It is exactly as ridiculous as it sounds — and it costs you on the way out: the belly's spent, and she has to eat her way back up. How chonky do you dare to get?

Weapons are food

Cookie doesn't carry a gun — she carries lunch. Build a loadout out of the Balkan kitchen: a somun that boomerangs back to her, orbiting sarma cabbages that grind anything they touch, an ajvar nova that erupts on contact, a lokum shield that blocks one hit, a tufahija dome that throws shots back. Draw build cards three at a time, so every run builds a different Cookie.

Choose your run before it starts

Pick a Pre-Run Plate and commit to a style before the first enemy spawns:

• Sharp Teeth — hit harder all run (aggression)

• Big Heart — start with extra health (tank)

• Keen Nose — pull food in from further away (collector)

Same Cookie. A different run every time.

A real Balkan world — and the showdowns that own it

Cookie raids Ljubljana's autumn Tivoli park or Sarajevo's Baščaršija, slipping past street cats, furious waiters and rival dogs. Three showdowns stand between her and the streets — a mini-boss and two bosses:

• Šinter — the dog-catcher, net in hand, who wants her off his pavement

• Šef Kelner — the head waiter guarding his kitchen, who loses it when he's nearly beaten

• Pas Alpha — the alpha street-dog, who lunges and howls the whole pack down on you

Beat Pas Alpha and the demo ends on a promise: Leon is still out there. (Leon is Cookie's brother. He was taken. That's the whole reason she's fighting.)

Sevdah on the soundtrack

Every other survivors-like runs on the same synth. Cookiesaner runs on sevdah — Balkan folk that turns a screen full of chaos into something that feels like home. Comedy on top, a little heart underneath.

Made by one person

No team, no publisher, no funding. One solo developer, a love of bullet-heavens, and a lot of Balkan food. Cookie is real. Everything else is built around her.

What you get

• A complete, replayable bullet-heaven run — eat, grow, sweep the horde, fight three bosses

• The five-stage Stomach, climaxing in STAGE 4: GOD MODE

• A Balkan-food arsenal of build cards, drawn fresh each run

• Pre-Run Plate builds that reshape a run before it begins

• Two biomes — Tivoli or Sarajevo's Baščaršija, one per run — with more on the Early Access roadmap

• Three boss showdowns, with more bosses planned in Early Access

• Three difficulty modes that change which build wins, not just enemy health

• Steam Achievements

• A sevdah-influenced soundtrack

• Playing in English, Slovenian, Bosnian & Russian

The free demo is out now

Cookiesaner is heading into Early Access, and the free demo is out now. Play it, wishlist the full game, and Steam will tell you the moment Cookie's off the leash. One solo dev, one real dog, the whole Balkans. Come get chonky.

A note on tools

The art and music in Cookiesaner are made with AI tools: image generation for the sprites and backdrops, and AI music. The code was written with an AI coding assistant. The game design and every choice in it are the solo developer's. Nothing is generated while you play; every asset is fixed before it ships.