Games like TasteMaker
If TasteMaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Tenants, Love Tavern and Fast Food Manager — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About TasteMaker: TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.
Players who liked TasteMaker also play
Steam players who put hours into TasteMaker also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Tenants
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TasteMaker.
Top pick for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with TasteMaker.
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Love Tavern
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TasteMaker.
Second-strongest match for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.
Fast Food Manager
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
Launch your own business from scratch! Starting with a small coffee booth, build the most popular food service chain in town. Experiment, develop, make a profit.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with TasteMaker.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
MilkTea Time
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
"Milk Tea Time" is simulation business game that includes all the elements of production, deployment and construction. You need to make each cup of milk tea. Research new flavors to win customer praise. Build and decorate your milk tea shop by hand. Create your own beautiful milk tea shop!
Startup Company
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with TasteMaker.
Ranked #6 for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Festival Tycoon 🎪
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with TasteMaker.
Ranked #7 for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
Parkitect
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with TasteMaker.
Ranked #8 for TasteMaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below TasteMaker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with TasteMaker.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with TasteMaker.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with TasteMaker.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TasteMaker.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with TasteMaker.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under TasteMaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with TasteMaker.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with TasteMaker.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with TasteMaker.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with TasteMaker.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with TasteMaker.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with TasteMaker.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with TasteMaker.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with TasteMaker.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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Frequently asked about TasteMaker
- Does TasteMaker run on Steam Deck?
- TasteMaker is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does TasteMaker cost?
- TasteMaker is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to TasteMaker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside TasteMaker are The Tenants, Love Tavern, Fast Food Manager.
- Who developed TasteMaker?
- TasteMaker was developed by Jelle Booij.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on TasteMaker.
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