Games like Chef RPG
If Chef RPG is your kind of game, the closest matches are Travellers Rest, Farm in another world and Monsterest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful pixel art, quirky characters and stories and relaxing gameplay flow. 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 →Chef RPG is a 2024 adventure simulation RPG developed by World 2 Studio, currently available in Early Access for $19.99. The game tasks players with managing restaurants while exploring an open world, gathering ingredients through foraging and hunting, and building relationships with local characters through its quest system. Mini-game challenges form the core cooking mechanics. Reviewers highlight the beautiful pixel art and quirky characters and stories that drive player engagement. Players describe the gameplay flow as relaxing, with a vibrant town featuring evolving NPC relationships. The game runs Playable on Steam Deck and sits in the medium length range with a chill difficulty. It holds an 89% positive rating from 1803 Steam reviews.
About Chef RPG: 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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Steam players who put hours into Chef RPG 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.
Travellers Rest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chef RPG.
Top pick for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Chef RPG.
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Farm in another world
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Chef RPG.
Farm in another world tells about the events of a young man born in another world. A World where you can be agriculture, warrior or fisherman! It's up to you to complete this disappearance story! Don't forget to get along with the people in town!
Monsterest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
Manage a monster-friendly inn. Every day, a new monster guest visits. Chop down trees to make furniture and decorate the rooms. You'll need to catch fish, hunt, and prepare meals. Satisfied guests will return to your inn next time.
Dragon's Brew
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Ranked #4 for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
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!
Gendo The Gatherer
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Ranked #5 for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Chef RPG.
Forage, Fish and Filet your way through Gendo's journey discovering a mystical, ever changing forest. After long days of gathering goodies, return to your cozy home and relax, cook and interact with the local townsfolk. Join Gendo and his quaint neighbors on an adventure of making yourself at home.
Rivendale: Second Chance
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Ranked #6 for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
Start a new life in the cozy town of Rivendale and build your own culinary business. Grow ingredients, explore the world, create unique dishes, and develop relationships with the town's residents.
Starsand Island
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Chef RPG.
Ranked #7 for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
Tired of the city grind? Escape to Starsand Island and embrace the simple joys of country life! Live alongside capybaras, cats, and dogs, reel in a big catch, and explore the enchanting Moonlit Forest. Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise.
Mirthwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chef RPG.
Ranked #8 for Chef RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
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Travellers Rest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Chef RPG.
Reviewers of Chef RPG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Chef RPG.
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Chef RPG.
Reviewers of Chef RPG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Cooking Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Chef RPG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Chef RPG.
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.
Potion Permit
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Reviewers of Chef RPG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Chef RPG.
Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Chef RPG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Chef RPG cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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!
Diner Bros
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Chef RPG.
Reviewers of Chef RPG cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Diner Bros is a cooking and restaurant management game. Cook and serve meals as fast as you can, but don’t get the orders wrong or else your customers will get angry – and hungry! Upgrade your restaurant and hire staff to help you… or play with your friends in 2-4 local co-op!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chef RPG at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Chef RPG on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef RPG.
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 Chef RPG on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Chef RPG.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chef RPG on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef RPG.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Chef RPG on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Chef RPG.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Chef RPG on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Chef RPG.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Chef RPG.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chef RPG.
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 Simulation and RPG with Chef RPG.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Chef RPG.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Chef RPG.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Chef RPG.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Chef RPG.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chef RPG.
『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.
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Frequently asked about Chef RPG
- Does Chef RPG run on Steam Deck?
- Chef RPG 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 Chef RPG cost?
- Chef RPG is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chef RPG?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chef RPG are Travellers Rest, Farm in another world, Monsterest.
- Who developed Chef RPG?
- Chef RPG was developed by World 2 Studio.
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 Chef RPG.
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