Delicious Emily Games in Order: Complete Series Timeline

If you ever burned through a rainy Saturday clicking plates across a diner counter while Emily’s love life quietly imploded in the background, you already know what you’re getting into here. Delicious Emily — GameHouse’s long-running time management series — first opened for business in 2006, developed by Zylom Studios before GameHouse took over the kitchen. What sets it apart from every other “seat the customer, take the order” clone that’s cycled through app stores since is continuity: the same family, the same rotating cast of exes, in-laws, and best friends, aging in something close to real time across two decades. Twenty-plus full games later, it’s still GameHouse’s flagship narrative franchise. This guide runs through the Delicious Emily games in order — release dates, platforms, standout features — bookending the original 2006 diner sim through 2026’s storm-battered Festival of Dreams.

Overview of the Delicious Emily Franchise

Zylom didn’t set out to build a soap opera. The original Delicious (2006) was a straightforward diner sim: serve customers, hit your star quota, unlock the next restaurant. Then Delicious 2 gave Emily an uncle in financial trouble, a recurring cast, and an actual plot — and the formula that’s carried the series ever since clicked into place. Every entry since has paired the same drag-and-serve time management gameplay with the next chapter of Emily O’Malley’s life: her wedding, her honeymoon, her kids, her family’s messiest secrets. GameHouse ran the series solo through most of the 2010s before bringing on studio SQRT3 in 2023, which pushed the games onto Steam with full achievement lists alongside GameHouse’s mobile-first “Premiere” launches. Also Read: Diner Dash Games in Order.

Complete List of Delicious Emily Games in Order

The list below follows release order — how the games actually came out, which is also how most fans discovered them. There are two real wrinkles: 2025’s Delicious – The First Course is a remake set earlier in Emily’s life than the 2006 original, and 2019’s Delicious World is a full continuity reset that never connects back to the O’Malley family story. Both get their own explanation in the chronological order section below. Everything else on this list plays out in the same sequence it actually happened. One more thing worth knowing up front: this is a series that critics largely ignored for most of its run, so “Reception” below leans on Steam user reviews and word of mouth from casual-game outlets rather than Metacritic scores that mostly don’t exist.

1. Delicious (2006)

Release Date: July 13, 2006
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac)
Key Features: Two game modes (City to City story mode and endless Day In, Day Out), seven restaurants, trophy system, no voiced dialogue
Description: The one that started it all. Emily buys her first restaurant and works her way up the ladder, cooking her way through seven increasingly upscale spots. There’s barely a story here — just Emily, a growing menu, and customers who get angrier the longer they wait. It’s rougher than what the series became, but the core loop of watching orders, prepping dishes, and chaining combos for bonus stars is already fully formed. A Winter Edition reskin followed that November.
Reception: No major critic scores exist, but genre outlet Gamezebo gave it 3.5/5 at launch, and it was nominated for Best Casual Game of the Year in 2006 — a strong showing for a studio’s first real release.

2. Delicious 2 (2007)

Release Date: June 28, 2007
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac)
Key Features: Story cutscenes, restaurant decorating, plate-ahead prep, trophy-triggered narrative beats
Description: This is the sequel that actually decided what Delicious would be. Emily’s Uncle Antonio calls in a favor after his son skips town, leaving his restaurants short-staffed, and Emily steps in to bail out the family business. The gameplay got faster and more demanding, but the bigger shift is structural: cutscenes now tie the levels together, and decorating your restaurant becomes part of the goal instead of a bonus. Everything the series does today traces back to this one.
Reception: Also rated 3.5/5 by Gamezebo, though several retrospectives single it out as the moment the series found its footing — the storytelling addition aged well even if the reviews at the time were middling.

3. Delicious: Emily’s Tea Garden (2008)

Release Date: September 24, 2008
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac)
Key Features: Loan/financing subplot, new restaurant types (BBQ Grill, Beach Club, Fine Dining), expanded decorating options
Description: Fresh off saving the family business, Emily sets her sights on something of her own: a tea garden. Getting there means grinding through a loan application and a run of restaurant types the series hadn’t tried yet — a BBQ grill, a beach club, a fine-dining spot — each with its own customer temperament and demands. It’s a low-stakes, workmanlike entry — no shocking twists, just Emily hustling toward a modest dream — but the restaurant variety and expanded decorating options keep the repetitive core from going stale between story beats.
Reception: Generally described by longtime fans as one of the series’ more forgettable middle entries — solid mechanically, thin dramatically, mostly remembered as connective tissue to the games that came next.

4. Delicious: Emily’s Taste of Fame (2009)

Release Date: June 3, 2009
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac)
Key Features: TV-show framing device, road-to-Hollywood structure, Snuggford introduced as a recurring setting
Description: Emily gets offered her own cooking show, but her car breaks down in the small town of Snuggford before she can get there — and she’s broke. So she cooks her way through town to raise the cash. This is the game that quietly introduces Snuggford, which becomes the series’ home base for almost everything that follows. The Hollywood hook gives it more narrative momentum than Tea Garden, even if the “get famous” plot never really pays off.
Reception: Well-liked among longtime fans specifically for setting up Snuggford; reviews at the time praised the pacing but found the show-business plot thread underdeveloped.

5. Delicious: Emily’s Holiday Season (2009)

Release Date: November 18, 2009
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac)
Key Features: Christmas-lodge setting, seasonal minigames, first love-triangle subplot
Description: Emily’s family Christmas trip turns into a job when a lodge owner spots her talent and hires her to run the kitchen. Two men start competing for her attention, and for the first time the series leans hard into romance instead of treating it as background noise. It’s also the series’ first holiday-themed entry, a subgenre GameHouse would return to repeatedly — this is the go-to pick if you want a Delicious game for December specifically.
Reception: A fan favorite for its seasonal atmosphere; it’s frequently cited on “best Christmas casual games” lists even outside dedicated Delicious rankings.

6. Delicious: Emily’s Childhood Memories (2011)

Release Date: February 3, 2011
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS
Key Features: Flashback structure across multiple eras of Emily’s life, farewell-to-childhood-home plot, nostalgia-driven level design
Description: When Emily’s parents decide to sell the family farm, she heads home for one last visit and ends up reliving her childhood, from her earliest memories through her teenage years. It’s the first entry to really slow down and dig into who Emily is rather than what restaurant she’s running next, jumping between different periods of her life as you play. If you’re only going to skip one nostalgia-heavy entry, don’t make it this one — it colors a lot of later character beats.
Reception: Consistently ranked by fans as an emotional high point of the early series, even though it’s mechanically no different from anything else in the catalog.

7. Delicious: Emily’s True Love (2011)

Release Date: November 30, 2011
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS
Key Features: International settings (including Paris), mystery-letter plot hook, introduces Patrick as a long-term love interest
Description: Business is booming, but Emily’s love life isn’t — until a mysterious rose leads her to a years-old love letter and sends her chasing answers across the globe, all the way to Paris. This is the entry that sets up the central relationship the rest of the series builds on, so skipping it means missing the actual beginning of Emily and Patrick’s story. The globe-trotting structure also gives the level design more variety than anything that came before it, trading Snuggford’s familiar streets for a run of unfamiliar cities and cuisines.
Reception: One of the best-reviewed entries of the era — genre site Gamezebo gave it a full 5-star review, a rarity for the series at that point.

8. Delicious: Emily’s Wonder Wedding (2012)

Release Date: November 29, 2012
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Wedding-planning structure, in-law conflict subplot, diamond-based bonus challenges
Description: Following straight on from True Love, this one is exactly what it says: Emily and Patrick’s wedding, and everything that threatens to derail it, including the less-than-warm arrival of Patrick’s mother. The level goals shift from “keep the restaurant running” to “keep the wedding from falling apart,” which gives familiar mechanics a slightly different emotional throughline than the series had used before. New diamond-based bonus challenges also give completionists more to chase between the main story levels than earlier entries offered.
Reception: Well received by the established fanbase, though a few reviewers noted the in-law conflict resolves a little too neatly for how much setup it gets.

9. Delicious: Emily’s Honeymoon Cruise (2013)

Release Date: September 24, 2013
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Cruise-ship setting, “start a family” subplot, workaholic-Emily character arc
Description: Newlyweds Emily and Patrick set sail, and he’s ready to start trying for kids — she’s not so sure. It’s a quieter, more character-focused entry than the wedding drama that preceded it, using the cruise setting as a backdrop for Emily learning (again, because this series makes her relearn it constantly) how to actually relax. The gameplay itself doesn’t change much from Wonder Wedding, so this one lives or dies on whether you’re invested in the relationship stuff.
Reception: A mid-tier entry by fan consensus — pleasant, competently made, rarely anyone’s favorite.

10. Delicious: Emily’s New Beginning (2014)

Release Date: November 18, 2014
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: New-parent storyline, baby-photo collectibles, Emily’s Place reopening arc
Description: Emily and Patrick have a baby, and reopening Emily’s Place with a newborn in the picture turns out to be a lot harder than either of them expected. Mechanically this is one of the most conservative entries in the whole series — the only real addition is a set of collectible baby photos — but narratively it’s a meaningful pivot, since the series stops being about “will Emily find love” and starts being about her building an actual family and career at the same time.
Reception: Reviewed positively for its earnestness even by critics who found the gameplay stagnant; a later Platinum Edition rerelease added bonus content and a strategy guide. Expansions: Platinum Edition (Steam, bundled bonus content)

11. Delicious: Emily’s Home Sweet Home (2015)

Release Date: June 18, 2015 (public release; limited FunPass early access from June 4)
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Neighborhood-cooking structure (serving neighbors instead of a diner), 90 levels, house-renovation goals
Description: The O’Malleys buy a house, get a frosty welcome from the neighbors, and nearly lose the place to repossession when a turbulent stretch threatens their finances. This one swaps the usual diner setup for something more communal — you’re cooking for neighbors to build goodwill rather than running a single restaurant — and pairs it with one of the series’ larger level counts up to that point, at 90 levels. It’s a bigger, slightly more ambitious entry than the two before it.
Reception: One of the better-reviewed mid-series entries; the neighborhood conceit was singled out as a welcome change of pace from the usual restaurant loop. Expansions: Platinum Edition (Steam, bundled bonus content)

12. Delicious: Emily’s Hopes and Fears (2015)

Release Date: December 2015 (public release; FunPass early access from November 18)
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Playable protagonist switch to Patrick, magical-flower quest structure, sick-child stakes
Description: The stakes get genuinely dark for a series this cheerful: Emily’s daughter Paige is fighting a mystery illness, and Patrick sets out to track down a flower that might be the cure. This is the first (and only, so far) mainline entry where you’re not playing as Emily — Patrick takes the wheel while she stays home with Paige, learning to cook along the way in a plot that gives the usual formula real emotional weight.
Reception: Frequently cited as a series highlight specifically for the protagonist swap and the higher emotional stakes; a Platinum Edition followed on Steam.
Expansions: Platinum Edition (Steam, bundled bonus content)

13. Delicious: Emily’s Message in a Bottle (2016)

Release Date: August 4, 2016 (PC); August 11, 2016 (iOS, Android)
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Italian setting, 90-plus levels, 200-plus dishes, extended-family reunion plot
Description: A message in a bottle from her three-year-old self sends Emily to Italy to reconnect her scattered extended family — her grandfather Vitto is alive after all, and reuniting five estranged brothers who haven’t spoken in years is not a quick job. New country, new cuisine, and one of the larger dish rosters the series had built up to that point at over 200 recipes, all wrapped around a genuinely warm, 90-plus-level family-reunion plot that ranks among the series’ most ambitious to date.
Reception: One of the best-reviewed entries in the series’ Steam era, with a 92% positive user rating — the Italian setting and larger scope were widely praised as a step up in production value.

14. Delicious: Emily’s Christmas Carol (2016)

Release Date: December 14, 2016
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Six Christmas locations, 90-plus levels, family holiday-trip framing
Description: The O’Malleys head to a holiday cottage up north, and the game structures its 90-plus levels around six distinct Christmas locations rather than a single restaurant. It’s less plot-heavy than Message in a Bottle — this is comfort food, not a big narrative swing — but it’s the series’ most fully realized Christmas entry, with more seasonal content and locations than Holiday Season managed back in 2009. Expect plenty of cocoa, fireplace scenes, and gently competing suitors along the way.
Reception: Well liked as a seasonal palate cleanser between the bigger story arcs; not a critical darling, but a reliable December pick according to fan forums.

15. Delicious: Emily’s Miracle of Life (2017)

Release Date: June 28, 2017 (iOS); August 2, 2017 (PC, Android)
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Pregnancy-themed level goals, daily challenges, nursery customization, twin-birth story climax
Description: After being told they couldn’t have more children, Emily and Patrick get surprise news: she’s pregnant, with twins. Levels are built around the ups and downs of the pregnancy — checkups, yoga classes, an over-excited extended family, a nursery to decorate — alongside the usual diner work across six locations, and the whole thing builds to an actual birth scene that longtime fans still bring up years later. It’s one of the series’ bigger emotional set pieces, and daily challenges give it more replay value than most entries.
Reception: Mixed-to-positive on release, with some player pushback on difficulty balance, but it’s remembered fondly for its milestone story beat; it later got a bonus Apple Arcade re-release as Miracle of Life+.

16. Delicious: Emily’s Moms vs Dads (2017)

Release Date: December 19, 2017
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Dual-family structure (four couples), “who’s the better parent” competition framing, daily-event challenges
Description: Emily starts to feel like Patrick isn’t pulling his weight around the house, and what starts as a passing complaint turns into a full-blown competition between four couples in the neighborhood over who’s the better parent — moms or dads. It’s a direct sequel to Miracle of Life, and structurally one of the more ambitious entries in the pre-hiatus catalog — you’re managing both sides of four households across six locations rather than following just one family through the story.
Reception: Reviewed as a fun, well-balanced entry with more variety than its immediate predecessor, though the “moms vs. dads” framing struck a few reviewers as a dated hook even at the time.

17. Delicious: Emily’s Road Trip (2019)

Release Date: May 23, 2019 (PC); May 30, 2019 (iOS, Android)
Platforms: PC (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Route 66 setting, revisited restaurants from earlier entries, campsite customization
Description: With their original travel plans falling through, the O’Malleys pile into a van for an all-American road trip down Route 66, revisiting familiar faces and even a redesigned version of Betty’s Restaurant from Taste of Fame. It’s the last entry made under the “Blue Giraffe” development banner before the series went quiet for four years, and it plays things comfortably safe — no real mechanical surprises, just a nostalgic, campsite-customizing send-off to close out the franchise’s first era before its long hiatus.
Reception: Steam users rate it around 82% positive — solid but unspectacular, generally seen as a comfortable, if unambitious, closer to the series’ first era.

18. Delicious: Emily’s Cooking and Romance (2023)

Release Date: September 21, 2023 (GameHouse Premiere, mobile); November 3, 2023 (PC via Steam)
Platforms: PC via Steam (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: First entry co-developed with studio SQRT3, Steam achievements, grown-up Paige and Vito Jr., film-production subplot
Description: Four years of silence end when Hollywood producers pick Snuggford as the set for a rom-com, and Emily has to juggle wife, mother, restaurant owner, chef, and de facto film producer all at once. This is the series’ comeback after its longest gap, and it shows — better production values, a full achievement list on Steam, and grown-up versions of Emily’s kids getting their own subplots (Paige’s first crush, guided by family friend Francois) for the first time.
Reception: Mostly Positive on Steam (around 76-79%), with praise for the visual upgrade and returning cast, though some longtime fans found the pacing slower than the pre-hiatus entries.

19. Delicious: Emily’s Mansion Mystery (2024)

Release Date: January 16, 2024 (GameHouse Premiere, mobile); August 1, 2024 (PC via Steam)
Platforms: PC via Steam (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Whodunit structure, Francois as co-lead, engagement-party setting, point-and-click investigation segments
Description: Emily caters a lavish countryside engagement party — until the host is poisoned, and what should’ve been a straightforward catering gig turns into an actual murder-adjacent mystery. Francois steps up as Emily’s investigative partner while the rest of the family stays home, and the game leans harder into point-and-click detective beats than any prior entry, layering them over the usual time management core rather than replacing it outright, with 91 achievements’ worth of side content to chase.
Reception: Positive on Steam (around 82%), with the mystery framing singled out as a genuinely fresh twist on a two-decade-old formula.

20. Delicious – The First Course (2025)

Release Date: January 30, 2025 (mobile); November 10, 2025 (PC via Steam)
Platforms: PC via Steam (Windows, Mac), iOS, Android
Key Features: Full remake of the 2006 original, eight new restaurants, endless-mode levels, no dialogue (matching the original’s structure)
Description: A ground-up remake of the very first Delicious, with sharper visuals and modernized systems layered onto the same basic premise: young Emily working her way through eight all-new restaurants, spanning American comfort food to Indian and Mexican menus, before any of the soap-opera stuff kicks in. There’s deliberately no story here, which makes it an odd but genuinely welcoming entry point — you get the series’ purest gameplay loop, plus endless-mode levels, without twenty years of continuity to catch up on first.
Reception: Reviewers called it a faithful, well-made remake that leans a little too heavily on repetition for extended sessions — a solid pick for short bursts, less so for marathon play.

21. Delicious: Emily’s Taste of Truth (2025)

Release Date: September 5, 2025
Platforms: iOS, Android (PC via Steam)
Key Features: Southern-US road trip setting, six restaurants, 90 levels, estranged-parent reveal plot
Description: Patrick’s estranged father resurfaces with an invitation to Florida, and what starts as a sunny family getaway turns into a road trip across the American South that unearths a long-buried secret. It picks up plot threads from Cooking and Romance — Paige’s growing social-media presence and the strain it puts on her parents among them — while giving the family drama a genuinely weightier hook than most entries manage, spread across six new restaurants and 90 levels of cooking challenges along the way.
Reception: Well received by players for its writing, with several reviews and App Store comments specifically praising the story and an original song written for one of the levels.

22. Delicious: Emily’s Recipe for Renewal (2026)

Release Date: February 5, 2026
Platforms: PC via Steam (Windows), iOS, Android
Key Features: Six restaurants, viral-scandal plot hook, custom diorama-building, profile customization
Description: After a scathing viral review and a disaster threaten her culinary empire, Emily has to reinvent herself across six trend-chasing restaurants to reclaim her reputation as culinary queen. It’s a more contemporary hook than the series usually reaches for — social media backlash instead of family drama — paired with 60 story levels, 30 bonus challenges, and new customization systems like a buildable diorama and unlockable profile ranks that give the formula a fresher coat of paint than it’s had in years.
Reception: Early user reviews are positive, praising the new customization options; too recent for a broad critical consensus to have formed.

23. Delicious: Emily’s Festival of Dreams (2026)

Release Date: Late June 2026 (GameHouse Premiere)
Platforms: iOS, Android (PC via Steam)
Key Features: Disaster-survival framing, multi-character gameplay roles (cooking, medical care, shelter-building), six festival locations, buildable festival tent
Description: The newest entry as of this writing, and the series’ biggest tonal swing yet: a storm rips through Snuggford’s community festival, and the goal shifts from serving fast to keeping people safe. You’re not just cooking — you’re helping Dr. Heart treat the injured, working with Angela to get people dry clothes and mended outfits, and helping Francois rig up shelter and light from repurposed festival supplies, all across six locations and 60 levels under the same time-limit pressure the series has always run on.
Reception: Too new for a settled consensus, but early buzz has focused on the disaster-survival framing as one of the more inventive structural swings the series has taken in years.

Delicious Emily Games in Chronological/Story Order

For the twenty games from the original Delicious through Festival of Dreams listed above (minus two), release order and story order are the same thing — this series has always told its story in the order it shipped it. The two exceptions:

Delicious – The First Course (2025) is set before the 2006 original, following Emily through eight restaurants that predate the diner we see in Delicious. GameHouse built it without dialogue specifically to keep it separate from the ongoing continuity — it’s a prequel in setting only, not a piece you need to slot into your playthrough for plot reasons. Play it whenever you want a low-commitment nostalgia hit.

Delicious World (2019) isn’t really part of this timeline at all. It’s a full continuity reset — same Emily, same basic premise, but the O’Malley family from every other game is gone, replaced with a new set of relationships players build from scratch as Emily travels the world. It ran as a live, regularly updated mobile game from 2019 until GameHouse wound down new content for it in 2024. If you go in expecting it to connect to Patrick, Paige, or anyone else from the mainline story, you’ll be disappointed — treat it as a spin-off, not a chapter.

Evolution of the Delicious Emily Series

The jump from Delicious to Delicious 2 is the series’ real origin point — that’s where cutscenes, decorating, and an actual plot got bolted onto what had been a pure score-attack diner sim. From there the formula barely changed for over a decade, with each entry mostly adding a new life event and a slightly bigger level count. The bigger technical leap came in 2023, when Cooking and Romance brought studio SQRT3 on board after a four-year gap, moving the series onto Steam proper with full achievement support and noticeably sharper art. Since then, entries have gotten structurally bolder — a murder mystery in Mansion Mystery, a viral-scandal plot in Recipe for Renewal, a full disaster-survival framing in Festival of Dreams — even as the core click-and-serve gameplay has stayed almost untouched since 2007.

Which Delicious Emily Game Should You Play?

New players who want the gentlest on-ramp should start with Delicious – The First Course — it’s got the sharpest production values of any entry that doesn’t assume twenty years of backstory, and there’s no soap opera to catch up on.

If you’d rather start where the story actually starts, Delicious 2 is the real jumping-on point; skip straight past the plotless original unless you’re a completionist. Fans chasing the emotional high points without playing all twenty-three games should prioritize Delicious: Emily’s True Love (where the central romance begins), Emily’s Hopes and Fears (the series’ one real tonal swing, with Patrick as protagonist), and Emily’s Miracle of Life (the twins). Veterans who want the full multi-generational saga, in-jokes and all, should just play it beginning to end — that continuity is the entire point. And if you’re mainly here for the newest, most ambitious mechanics, Emily’s Festival of Dreams is the current high-water mark.

Frequently Asked Questions

What order should I play Delicious Emily games in? Release order works fine for almost the entire series, since story order and release order match for all but two games. The only adjustments: play the 2025 remake Delicious – The First Course whenever you like, since it’s a standalone prequel with no dialogue, and skip Delicious World entirely unless you specifically want its separate, rebooted continuity. Following the Delicious Emily games in order as listed above will take you through the O’Malley family’s story exactly as it happened.

How many Delicious Emily games are there? Twenty-three mainline, story-connected entries as of Festival of Dreams in 2026, plus a handful of genre-shifting spin-offs (like the match-3 title Delicious – Bed & Breakfast and the rebooted mobile game Delicious World) that sit outside the main numbered series.

Do I need to play the spin-offs/DLC? No. Delicious World and Delicious – Bed & Breakfast don’t connect to the O’Malley family storyline at all, and most mainline entries’ “Platinum Edition” or “Collector’s Edition” re-releases just add a strategy guide and some wallpapers — nice bonuses, not required reading.

What’s the next Delicious Emily game? Delicious: Emily’s Festival of Dreams is the newest release as of this writing, having launched in late June 2026. GameHouse hasn’t announced anything beyond it, but given the series has shipped a new entry roughly every few months since its 2023 comeback, don’t expect the wait for the next one to be long.

Conclusion

Twenty years, twenty-three mainline entries, and one family that’s aged through weddings, babies, a murder mystery, and now an actual natural disaster — working through the Delicious Emily games in order is as much a soap opera marathon as it is a genre-game deep dive. Whether you start with the 2006 original or jump straight into the newest release, the click-and-serve core hasn’t lost its grip in two decades. Got a favorite era of the O’Malley saga, or a game here you think we’re too easy on? Drop it in the comments. And if time management sims are your thing, check out our guide to Diner Dash games in order next.

Delicious Emily Games in Order: Complete Series Timeline

Overview of the Delicious Emily Franchise