Games like Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
If Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hipster Cafe, Game Builder Tycoon and Recipe for Disaster — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its demographic targeting creates replayability, challenging and immersive. 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 Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game: Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.
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Hipster Cafe
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Top pick for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Ever wanted to design, build and manage a café on your very own home computer? Really? OK then... welcome to HIPSTER CAFÉ. Make stupid food, serve it on a skateboard, and impress your friends by drawing in your coffee.
Game Builder Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Second-strongest match for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.
Recipe for Disaster
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Third-strongest match for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
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!
Restaurant Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Ranked #4 for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
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.
TasteMaker
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Ranked #5 for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.
Project Hospital
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Shares an immersive mood with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Ranked #6 for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
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Ranked #7 for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Ranked #8 for Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
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Priced ~60% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~50% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
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.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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More from Innervoid Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Innervoid Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
ICY: Frostbite Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Another title from Innervoid Interactive, the studio behind Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.
Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Another title from Innervoid Interactive, the studio behind Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Embark on an epic journey, enjoying complete freedom in a dynamic sandbox RPG. The world and its inhabitants will witness your deeds and react accordingly, adapting the narrative to your choices and delivering a truly unique and free experience.
Dustgrave: Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Innervoid Interactive, the studio behind Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game.
Dustgrave: Prologue will let you experience the first hours of Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG, which is set to release later this year! Start your journey in the Prologue, change the world with your choices, and then continue playing with your save once the game is released!
Frequently asked about Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
- Does Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game work on Steam Deck?
- Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game cost?
- Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game are Hipster Cafe, Game Builder Tycoon, Recipe for Disaster.
- Who developed Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game?
- Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game was developed by Innervoid Interactive and published by Digital Tribe.
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