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Games like Automachef

If Automachef is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bake It Tight, 10000 Pizzas Please and Little Big Workshop — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and relaxing. 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.

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About Automachef: Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

2019IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 71Windowsby Rhombico Games
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Players who liked Automachef also play

Steam players who put hours into Automachef also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Bake It Tight

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    A cookie factory automation puzzle where new orders force you to rework a running factory. Combine dough colors, shapes, and toppings, share limited machines and modules across production lines, and split or merge rails. One expired order ends the run. How long can you keep the ovens running?

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. 10000 Pizzas Please

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Build and program a pizza factory to feed an endless swarm of hungry aliens! Automate machines, write production logic, fine-tune your conveyor belts, and engineer the perfect production line in a chaotic cooking-and-automation sim.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Little Big Workshop

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Automachef.

    Third-strongest match for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Automachef.

    Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

    2019StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ChromaFlow

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Build a factory powered by color. Extract red, green, and blue, route them through conveyor networks, and mix them into an expanding spectrum. Fulfil requests for the Chroma Core, unlock new technology, and optimize every production line.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Byte Bistro

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Program a little robot crew and bring a neighborhood café to life. Cook, serve, restock, and refine your routines across 24 services. Mix visual programming with hands-on minigames, then keep your kitchen humming in Desktop Companion mode.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Autonauts

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Automachef.

    Ranked #6 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    2019IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Big Pharma

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automachef.

    Ranked #7 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Train Valley

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automachef.

    Ranked #8 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Automachef

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Opus Magnum

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automachef.

    Reviewers of Automachef cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

    2017IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automachef.

    Reviewers of Automachef cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Factorio

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Automachef.

    Reviewers of Automachef cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Infinifactory

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automachef.

    Reviewers of Automachef cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

    2015IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Moving Out

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automachef.

    Reviewers of Automachef cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to "couch co-op"! Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician, you’ll take on moving jobs all across the busy town of Packmore.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Overcooked

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Automachef cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Human Resource Machine

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Automachef.

    Reviewers of Automachef cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

    2015IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automachef at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automachef.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Automachef

Does Automachef run on Steam Deck?
Automachef is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Automachef cost?
Automachef is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Automachef?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automachef are Bake It Tight, 10000 Pizzas Please, Little Big Workshop.
Who developed Automachef?
Automachef was developed by Rhombico Games and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.

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 Automachef.

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