Games like The Chef's Shift: First Course
If The Chef's Shift: First Course is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Chef's Shift, Cook, Serve, Delicious! and Fine Dying — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cute mafia storyline, challenging and comedic. 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 The Chef's Shift: First Course: A fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING. Play through the Italian restaurant and get a taste of The Chef's Shift!
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The Chef's Shift
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Shares time management, cozy and a comedic mood with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Top pick for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
The Chef’s Shift is a fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING.
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
WHY THIS
Shares restaurant upgrades with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Second-strongest match for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
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!
Fine Dying
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Third-strongest match for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
A strange kitchen. Endless orders. Limited minutes. Serve, grow, survive. Bon Appétit!
Drinks Down Under
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Ranked #4 for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
“Drinks Down Under” is a Cozy Bartending Game where you bring an old bar back to life! Explore strange ingredients, talk with unusual customers and survive to see another day in The Underground.
Mango & Berry's Sorbet Syndicate
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Ranked #5 for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Fruit is outlawed, and Mango and Berry are aspiring fruit lords! Manage a criminal, underground sorbet shop solo or online co-op. Smuggle goods, upgrade your shop, trade fruit or grow your own underground supply. Will Mango & Berry rise to power? Or are they headed for a tragic downfall?
Ravenous Devils
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Shares time management and a cozy mood with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Ranked #6 for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a challenging mood with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Ranked #7 for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
The massive sequel to the original cult classic! Plan your menu, decorate your restaurant, cook hundreds of foods, and for the first time ever - earn medals by mastering dozens of themed restaurants!
HackHub: Free Trial
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Shares a challenging mood with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Ranked #8 for The Chef's Shift: First Course fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Free To Play with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in HackHub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
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Cook, Serve, Delicious!
WHY THIS
Shares restaurant upgrades with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
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!
Ravenous Devils
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a cozy mood with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a challenging mood with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Chef's Shift: First Course.
The massive sequel to the original cult classic! Plan your menu, decorate your restaurant, cook hundreds of foods, and for the first time ever - earn medals by mastering dozens of themed restaurants!
Frequently asked about The Chef's Shift: First Course
- Is The Chef's Shift: First Course free to play?
- Yes — The Chef's Shift: First Course is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Chef's Shift: First Course?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Chef's Shift: First Course are The Chef's Shift, Cook, Serve, Delicious!, Fine Dying.
- Who developed The Chef's Shift: First Course?
- The Chef's Shift: First Course was developed by Panitia GameDev and published by Catoptric 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 The Chef's Shift: First Course.
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