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Single-player games like What's On The Menu?

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to What's On The Menu?, 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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    Restaurant Empire II — Steam game cover

    Restaurant Empire II

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.

    2009StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Recipe for Disaster — Steam game cover

    Recipe for Disaster

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Moose Miners — Steam game cover

    Moose Miners

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Block Factory — Steam game cover

    Block Factory

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gamblers Table — Steam game cover

    Gamblers Table

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mad Games Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Mad Games Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Learning Factory — Steam game cover

    Learning Factory

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rise of Industry — Steam game cover

    Rise of Industry

    Single-player alternative to What's On The Menu? — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with What's On The Menu?.

    Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →