Games like Recipe for Disaster
If Recipe for Disaster is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rise of Industry, Hipster Cafe and Comic Company Manager — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and funny. 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 Recipe for Disaster: Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
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Steam players who put hours into Recipe for Disaster 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.
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Recipe for Disaster.
Top pick for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Hipster Cafe
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
Ever wanted to design, build and manage a café on your very own home computer? Really? OK then... welcome to HIPSTER CAFÉ. Make stupid food, serve it on a skateboard, and impress your friends by drawing in your coffee.
Comic Company Manager
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
Comic Company Manager is a comic book themed management game. Create your own comic publishing company and design your own ideas from combining 100+ concepts. Hire and manage artists to create comics for you and expand your company. Grow to dominate the industry
TasteMaker
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
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.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
Restaurant Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Recipe for Disaster.
Ranked #6 for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
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.
Business Simulator 2026
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Recipe for Disaster.
Ranked #7 for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
In Business Simulator 2026, you start with a small capital and aim to build a business empire in the city by deciding which business to start in which shop and deciding the prices. Business Simulator 2026 is a business simulation that will test your business acumen and strategic planning skills.
Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Recipe for Disaster.
Ranked #8 for Recipe for Disaster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.
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Restaurant Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Recipe for Disaster.
Reviewers of Recipe for Disaster cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
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.
PlateUp!
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Recipe for Disaster cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Recipe for Disaster.
Reviewers of Recipe for Disaster cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Recipe for Disaster.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Recipe for Disaster at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
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 ~67% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Recipe for Disaster.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Recipe for Disaster.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
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 ~67% under Recipe for Disaster on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Recipe for Disaster.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Recipe for Disaster.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Recipe for Disaster.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Recipe for Disaster.
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!
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Frequently asked about Recipe for Disaster
- Does Recipe for Disaster run on Steam Deck?
- Recipe for Disaster 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 Recipe for Disaster cost?
- Recipe for Disaster is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Recipe for Disaster?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Recipe for Disaster are Rise of Industry, Hipster Cafe, Comic Company Manager.
- Who developed Recipe for Disaster?
- Recipe for Disaster was developed by Dapper Penguin Studios and published by Kasedo Games.
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