Games like PlateUp!
If PlateUp! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cook Fest, No Heroes Here 2 and Overcooked! 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its highly replayable with mods, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →PlateUp! is a challenging kitchen chaos roguelite released in 2022 that tasks players with cooking, serving, and automating restaurants across procedurally generated locations. The core loop combines time-pressured cooking action with permanent roguelite progression, allowing players to unlock new dishes, abilities, and upgrades across runs. Its asymmetric co-op supports shared kitchen duties or solo play. Reviewers highlight the game's massive length and tactical positioning matters throughout each run, with players describing it as increasingly atmospheric and whimsical as they expand their culinary empire. The game has earned a 96% positive rating from over 11,900 Steam reviews and is verified to run on Steam Deck.
About PlateUp!: 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!
Players who liked PlateUp! also play
Steam players who put hours into PlateUp! 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.
Cook Fest
WHY THIS
Top pick for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with PlateUp!.
Cook Fest is a unique combination of tower defense and cooking genres. Create and design your own complex maze. Cook and serve dishes to satisfy your customers & unlock new recipes. With unexpected roguelite elements & fast-paced gameplay, you can play solo or in chaotic co-op with your fellow chef!
No Heroes Here 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with PlateUp!.
A group of non-adventurers is the last hope in defending the castle in this chaotic co-op tower defense game with roguelike features. With up to 4 players, your party must organize the castle, work as a team to craft ammo, and shoot at enemies to protect your kingdom!
Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Keep Keepers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with PlateUp!.
Ranked #4 for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with PlateUp!.
Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?
Unrailed!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
Party Club
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with PlateUp!.
Seat customers, serve drinks, and manage chaos with up to 4 players! Keep the peace by considering customer types while seating them. Survive disasters, handle quirky customers, and design the perfect venue to keep the party going!
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with PlateUp!.
Ranked #7 for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for PlateUp! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Reviewers mention these as similar to PlateUp!
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Overcooked
WHY THIS
Reviewers of PlateUp! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
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.
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with PlateUp!.
Reviewers of PlateUp! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with PlateUp!.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of PlateUp! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with PlateUp!.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of PlateUp! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Ship of Fools
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with PlateUp!.
Reviewers of PlateUp! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Ship of Fools is a seafaring cooperative roguelite. Set sail, man the cannons and battle sea monsters through the tempestuous seas of the Archipelago. Are you fool enough to stop the Aquapocalypse?
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression with PlateUp!.
Reviewers of PlateUp! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with PlateUp!.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PlateUp! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under PlateUp! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with PlateUp!.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PlateUp! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PlateUp! on Steam right now. Shares Action with PlateUp!.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PlateUp! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PlateUp! on Steam right now. Shares Action with PlateUp!.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
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 with PlateUp!.
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 Casual with PlateUp!.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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 PlateUp!.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PlateUp!.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Unrailed!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
Party Club
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with PlateUp!.
Seat customers, serve drinks, and manage chaos with up to 4 players! Keep the peace by considering customer types while seating them. Survive disasters, handle quirky customers, and design the perfect venue to keep the party going!
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with PlateUp!.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with PlateUp!.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Frequently asked about PlateUp!
- Is PlateUp! verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — PlateUp! is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does PlateUp! cost?
- PlateUp! is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does PlateUp! have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — PlateUp! supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to PlateUp!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PlateUp! are Cook Fest, No Heroes Here 2, Overcooked! 2.
- Who developed PlateUp!?
- PlateUp! was developed by It's happening and published by Yogscast Games, Gamersky Games.
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 PlateUp!.
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