Featuring PS1-styled graphics and a hazy VHS video quality, Cookies is a nonlinear narrative game set in a squalid apartment rife with substance abuse, crime, poverty and hyper-violence. Choosing to forgo any direct form of story development, the player is instead given the liberty to roam the housing complex however they so please. Coming across a myriad of different items they can acquire, players can embark on numerous different story paths determined by their use of said items and interactions with the building's other tenants, similar to a "choose-your-own adventure" novel.