Single-player games like Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Cooking Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.
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Cafe Owner Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.
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Bakery Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.
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Parisian Bistro Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Run your Parisian bistro in the heart of Paris, solo or in co-op with up to 8 players! Curate your menu, manage supplies, serve customers, and expand with new floors, a terrace, and a rooftop to become a true Parisian institution.
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Wrap House Simulator🌯
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Welcome to Wrap House Simulator! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!
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Restaurant Empire II
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.
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Chef RPG
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
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Supermarket Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
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Overcooked
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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Call of Cthulhu®
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
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Styx: Master of Shadows
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.
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Styx: Shards of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
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Blood Bowl 3
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Brutal, crazy, tactical… this is BLOOD BOWL! The iconic death sport returns with the new video game of fantasy football faithfully using the latest board game rules and new content. Create your team, then crush, mulch and cheat your way to the top... leaving your opponents in the graveyard.
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Of Orcs And Men
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You have been appointed to fulfill an extremely dangerous mission, deep in enemy territory: to kill one man... the Emperor himself. Lead the revolution of the Orcs and Goblins!
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Rogue Lords
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A dark fantasy roguelike where you play as the Devil! Lead famous evil geniuses through events and turn-based fights to spread terror and corruption. Create synergies between your disciples, use your evil powers and take revenge on those miserable Demon Hunters.
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are Cahal, a powerful Garou who chose to go into exile after losing control of his destructive rage. He can transform into a wolf and a Crinos, a huge ferocious beast. Master your three forms and their powers to punish those who defile Gaia.
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Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.