Single-player games like Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
Below are 19 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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Sushi Bar Express
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Experience the dizzying life of a top sushi chef as you prepare sushi dishes in this exciting time-management cooking adventure.
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Morning Brew: Coffee Shop Management Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Run and expand your own cozy restaurant in a peaceful Italian village. Serve bakery items and coffee to customers while customizing and upgrading your space. A relaxing simulation with resource management and building, perfect for stress-free, creative gameplay.
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Pizza Boy
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
A pizzeria simulator where you can take customers orders, make pizzas, and manage your shop.
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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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Baker Business 3
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Manage your very own bakery. Discover recipes, bake tasty treats and sell them to your customers. Unlock upgrades such as ovens and display shelves to expand your bakery. Customize the interior and exterior style to create your dream bakery.
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My Café Manager Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Cozy café store management simulator: renovate and decorate, stock shelves, and run the checkout. Roll in deliveries with a cart, set up promotions and hire staff as you expand from a tiny shop into a bustling café.
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Arctic Motel Simulator
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Have you ever been to the Arctic? Do you want to open a motel in the Arctic? With the company of aurora, blizzards, polar days and nights, primeval forests, and wild animals, can you turn a run-down motel into a landmark in the Arctic?
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Dragon's Brew
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator.
Run the board game cafe of your dreams! Craft food and drink, deliver orders to the townsfolk, collect board games, and customise your space, your way!
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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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Carrie's Order Up!
Single-player alternative to Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cute, 2D arcade action game starring crustacean waitresses serving food to other aquatic folk.
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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.