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Games like Astro Chef

If Astro Chef is your kind of game, the closest matches are Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending, Cook-Out and Taquero Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Astro Chef: Dive into Astro Chef, a VR culinary adventure like no other! Serve exotic dishes to unique alien customers and rebuild the restaurant's reputation. Master alien ingredients, tackle cosmic puzzles, and experience the thrill of VR cooking solo or in co-op mode.

2024IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDWindowsby Fusion
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Players who liked Astro Chef also play

Steam players who put hours into Astro Chef 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.

  1. Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    Prepare for your unexpected enrollment into the Startenders Academy. Your goal is to create bizarre beverages for colourful customers in the hope that no one notices you haven’t the slightest clue what’s going on.

    2024IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Cook-Out

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    Get your aprons ready… things are about to get messy in this award-winning multiplayer VR game from Resolution Games!

    2021IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Taquero Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    Clients are piling up, and they won't wait for long, mijo. Are you ready for the challenge? Prende your grill, chop your vegetables, and grab your carnes, it's time to become el mejor taquero there has ever been!

    2024IndieSimulationCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Coffee Quest VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    The ultimate coffee shop simulator where you become a professional barista

    2024IndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Cooking Game VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    Embark on a culinary adventure in "The Cooking Game VR." Cook up a storm in two themed restaurants, battling against AI or friends in thrilling PvP mode. Tackle kitchen chaos, earn coins, upgrade tools, and achieve gastronomic greatness. Ready, set, cook!

    2024IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Space Docker VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    A hardcore flight simulator for VR! Get in the cockpit, pilot a ship, and navigate hazardous environments on a journey to become an expert docker!

    2021IndieSimulation5.09 USDSteam ↗
  7. Rags to Dishes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    Rags to Dishes is a single player, virtual reality (VR) cooking game where you’ll have the chance to travel back in time to the medieval ages and serve some delicious dishes to hungry villagers!

    2020IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Cook, Serve, Delicious!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Astro Chef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    Hungry? Take your restaurant from a one star abomination to a five star wonder in Cook, Serve, Delicious! Plan your menu, upgrade your equipment, and master challenges with easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay!

    2013ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Astro Chef at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Astro Chef.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Kerbal Space Program

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Astro Chef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Chef.

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Astro Chef.

    『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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astro Chef.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Astro Chef

How much does Astro Chef cost?
Astro Chef is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Astro Chef have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Astro Chef supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Astro Chef?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astro Chef are Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending, Cook-Out, Taquero Simulator.
Who developed Astro Chef?
Astro Chef was developed by Fusion and published by Lion Castle, Current 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 Astro Chef.

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