A sixth main series game, Cooking Mama: Cookstar, was released for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2021.

Each minigame represents a different activity in the meal preparation, such as mixing, frying, or chopping the provided ingredients.

The minigame mechanics themselves range from quickly drawing parallel lines in order to chop items, to a rhythm game where ingredients are added to a skillet or the heat is adjusted at precisely the right time.

If the player makes a serious blunder or time expires without sufficient progress being made, that step in the cooking process is considered a failure.

[3] Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, the second Nintendo DS game in the series, was first released in November 2007.

[5] Gardening Mama is a spin-off released for Nintendo DS on March 19, 2009 that focuses on fruits and vegetables.

Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop, the third Nintendo DS game in the series, had a hands-on demo available at E3 2009, and was first released in October 2009.

The game was briefly released on the Nintendo Switch eShop on March 31, 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 IP, Office Create.

In November 2022, an arbitration ruling declared Planet Entertainment was not authorized to release Cooking Mama: Cookstar, and that the rightsholders would work to remove the game from sale.