Games like Life, the Universe, and Restaurants
If Life, the Universe, and Restaurants is your kind of game, the closest matches are F.E.A.S.T, Bone's Cafe and Overwork Empire — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Life, the Universe, and Restaurants: Run your own restaurant in a bizarre universe! Cook for the gods; deploy robot and build automated production lines. Experiment with different builds to win over divine appetites. Earn massive profits and create the #1 restaurant in the universe! Tip: Your chef's knife isn't just for cooking…
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F.E.A.S.T
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Top pick for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Congratulations! You've been hired by an elite organization that cooks for gods. Farm, automate, and cook gourmet meals to appease divine beings.
Bone's Cafe
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Second-strongest match for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.
Overwork Empire
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Third-strongest match for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Manage, defend, exploit! As the boss, use cards to build, assign staff, and force overtime for profit in this sim/tower defense/card blend. Experience overtime culture from the boss view.
Sintopia
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Ranked #4 for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.
Burger Flipper: A Fast Food Restaurant Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Welcome to the Burger Flipper team! As our first hire, you’ll put a smile on customers’ faces as you prepare and serve their orders... And clean the kitchen and stock inventory. But we promote within! One day, you’ll be the manager, hiring new flippers, purchasing equipment, and choosing the menu!
Idyll Isle
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Ranked #6 for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
A cozy idle island sim that lives quietly above your taskbar. Five islanders — a farmer, woodcutter, fisherman, miner, and chef — farm, fish, mine, cook, and craft on their own. Build a self-sustaining isle while you work or browse.
Snacktorio
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Ranked #7 for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Snacktorio is a factory-cooking automation game where you build and scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what’s stirring their growing appetites...
Winter Burrow
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Ranked #8 for Life, the Universe, and Restaurants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life, the Universe, and Restaurants.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Life, the Universe, and Restaurants
- What games are most similar to Life, the Universe, and Restaurants?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life, the Universe, and Restaurants are F.E.A.S.T, Bone's Cafe, Overwork Empire.
- Who developed Life, the Universe, and Restaurants?
- Life, the Universe, and Restaurants was developed by GARRY and published by Gamersky Games.
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