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Single-player games like Cook Fest

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cook Fest, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    PlateUp! — Steam game cover

    PlateUp!

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.

    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!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Keep Keepers — Steam game cover

    Keep Keepers

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.

    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?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie11.69 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    One Step From Eden — Steam game cover

    One Step From Eden

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.

    Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    30XX — Steam game cover

    30XX

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cook Fest.

    Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CRYPTARK — Steam game cover

    CRYPTARK

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.

    Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Octogeddon — Steam game cover

    Octogeddon

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cook Fest.

    You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!

    2018ActionStrategyIndie8.88 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legend of Dungeon — Steam game cover

    Legend of Dungeon

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cook Fest.

    Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.

    2013ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Flotilla — Steam game cover

    Flotilla

    Single-player alternative to Cook Fest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cook Fest.

    Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!

    2010StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →