Games like Automachef
If Automachef is your kind of game, the closest matches are Little Big Workshop, Autonauts and Dead Sector — 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.
Get personalized picks →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!
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Little Big Workshop
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Automachef.
Top pick 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!
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automachef.
Second-strongest match 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.
Dead Sector
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Run your own data center. Design server boards component by component and use your boards space wisely. Wire power and network throughout your floor to form specialized clusters, and dispatch contracts to your custom hardware. Scale from a single rack to a massive redundant, multi-cluster operation.
What's On The Menu?
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
In What's on the Menu?, step into the shoes of a restaurant manager. From selecting ingredients and crafting menus to hiring staff and customizing your restaurant, every decision counts. Face random events, unlock new recipes, and rise through the ranks to become the ultimate restaurateur!
Bone's Cafe
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automachef.
Ranked #5 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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.
Axon Hero
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
Axon Hero is more than just a puzzle game - it's a creative playground where logic meets imagination. Build, code, and conquer your way through many hand-crafted challenges, each one more mind-bending than the last.
Omnibullet
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Automachef.
Ranked #7 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
A factory is like a clockwork, can you make it tick? Combine simple towers into complex mechanisms, generate enough energy bullets, charge batteries. An open-ended logic game about efficiency, energy management, and tight budgets. Batteries included, but you will have to charge them yourself.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Automachef fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Automachef.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical 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!
Satisfactory
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Human Resource Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical 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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automachef at current Steam store prices.
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.
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!
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?
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!
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...
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.
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!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Automachef on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Automachef.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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 Little Big Workshop, Autonauts, Dead Sector.
- Who developed Automachef?
- Automachef was developed by Rhombico Games and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.
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