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Same whimsical mood as Automachef.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 3)
- Deck Playable
- 2019
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- Released: 2019
- Developer: Rhombico Games
- Price: $14.99checked Oct 31
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 71% of 269 reviews
- Genres: Indie, Simulation
- Metacritic 71
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Business mode for endless play
- Improves real life management and multitasking skills
- Multiple valid solutions per level
- Challenging
- Contemplative
- Relaxing
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About Automachef
The closest matches to Automachef: Little Big Workshop, Autonauts, Opus Magnum, Human Resource Machine, and Kaizen: A Factory Story. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Automachef is your kind of game, the closest matches are Little Big Workshop, Autonauts and Opus Magnum — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and relaxing, and single out its code line restriction and efficiency rating system. 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.
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!
Is Automachef worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 71% of 269 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- On sale: 85% off, now $2.24 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 10 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 4 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Business mode for endless play
- Improves real life management and multitasking skills
- Multiple valid solutions per level
- Satisfying optimization and tinkering
People who play it also play: Little Big Workshop, Autonauts, Opus Magnum
Frequently asked about Automachef
Can I run it?
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, Opus Magnum.
Who developed Automachef?
Automachef was developed by Rhombico Games and published by Team17 Digital Ltd.