Games Like Aeruta

A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!

Why similar: Character Action Game 28.4% ★, Cooking 25.4%, Management 11.9%, Anime 8.8%, Female Protagonist 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Aeruta's core loop of exploring dangerous biomes to gather ingredients for a restaurant management simulation.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: Anime 27%, RPG 14.6%, Management 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Shop Keeper 9.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive classic for combining dungeon-crawling action with the addictive loop of managing your own shop.

Discover the true power of rice in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin! Take on hordes of demons in side-scrolling combat to reclaim the land as Sakuna, a spoiled harvest goddess banished to a dangerous island. Then, return to your mountain village and tend a field full of glorious rice.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 48.3%, Simulation 18.2%, Anime 16.8%, Action 13.2%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar blend of side-scrolling action combat and deep, rewarding resource management mechanics.

Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters. Follow Mina and Thrash in the single-player campaign or challenge your friends in Local Multiplayer and Daily Cook-Offs.

Why similar: Cooking 39.9%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Anime 13.1%, RPG 11.9%, Action 5%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the cooking-as-combat theme by requiring you to hunt monsters to create high-quality dishes.

A magical pixel art platformer. Explore an unfamiliar town and deliver tasty treats to the townsfolk. Cook magical delicacies from your bought and gathered ingredients. Learn new ways to traverse, discover secrets, and figure out the intricacies of your orders.

Why similar: Cooking 35.6%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Relaxing 10.3%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the cooking and exploration aspects of the genre within a beautiful pixel-art platforming world.

A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!

Why similar: Cooking 34.3%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Anime 12.7%, RPG 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management game where you gather ingredients during the day to serve customers at your food stall at night.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Character Action Game 47.2% ★, Management 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, RPG 8.6%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: You spend your nights fighting monsters in dungeons and your days managing a shop to sell the loot you collected.

Hunt down monsters to cook and eat them! You’ve been revived in a massive underground complex and you must leave this bizarre facility. Aided by the undead Necro-Chef Simmer, you must stay safe, get fed, find a way to get out

Why similar: Cooking 30.2%, Anime 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Funny 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique cooking system where you defeat monsters to cook them into meals that grant you permanent stat upgrades.

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Cooking 42.5%, Management 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, RPG 11%, Relaxing 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the life of a chef who must explore, gather, and manage a restaurant to restore a town's former glory.

DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.

Why similar: Management 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 17%, Relaxing 13.8%, RPG 9.9%, Funny 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished experience where you explore the ocean for ingredients to run a successful sushi restaurant at night.

Find ingredients, make menus, and run your own restaurant in this sizzling sim!

Why similar: Cooking 31.5%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Management 12%, Female Protagonist 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep restaurant management simulation that focuses on menu creation and expanding your culinary business.

Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Relaxing 12.8%, RPG 12.8%, Cute 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the vibrant pixel-art aesthetic and focuses on a journey through a world filled with action and cooking.

This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...

Why similar: 2D Platformer 19.5%, Anime 17.3%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Cute 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, anime-styled metroidvania that offers fluid 2D platforming and challenging combat encounters.

Lost Ruins is a 2D side-scrolling survival action game, where you play as a young girl that has awoken in a strange and foreign place without her memories. Explore a dark and dangerous world, battle hideous monsters, and topple incredible bosses.

Why similar: Anime 29.7%, Pixel Graphics 22.2%, Cute 14.2%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Action 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D side-scrolling action game with a strong anime aesthetic and a focus on using environmental items to survive.

Virtua Unlimited Project is a 2D pixel-art style ACT game featuring VTuber characters. With classical platformer gameplay, challenging combat, and retro game feelings, VUP presents you a surreal, virtual world in which you will play as Aizawa Kana to venture and seek the truth beneath.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 23.8%, Anime 16.2%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This action-platformer features a distinct anime art style and precise character-action mechanics.

A shop game with RPG? Or is it RPG with a shop? Collect materials, Craft weapons, Train your staff and defeat your enemy! This is Weapon Shop Fantasy!

Why similar: Management 28.9%, RPG 18.5%, Simulation 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Casual 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into the management side, tasking you with running a shop while sending heroes out to gather materials.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Relaxing 15.4%, Action-Adventure 15.3%, RPG 12.1%, Cute 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: You explore the world to gather materials and craft potions to help the townspeople, blending RPG elements with simulation.

Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden.

Why similar: Cooking 33.7%, Relaxing 13.1%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, RPG 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, pixel-art farming and management game that emphasizes town interaction and platforming.

A retro platform, side-scrolling game with gorgeous pixel art. Help Mia rescue Fernando, her husband, who has been kidnapped by a Dark Elf named Morganna and her pack of Monster Girls.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 16.9%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Anime 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Relaxing 10%

Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted 2D platformer with a strong focus on character-driven action and cute pixel art.

Super Alloy Ranger is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Marksman Kelly or Combat Robot No.2 to challenge different levels within the dangerous Machine Empire and unlock new weapons. Use Kelly’s shooting and No.2’s deathblows to defeat abnormal Machine Bosses!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 28.8%, Action-Adventure 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 19%, Action 9.1%, Anime 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 2D action platformer that captures the high-energy combat feel found in Aeruta.

Having just opened an inn, you set out to create a comfortable environment to bring in tired adventurers looking for respite after their questing. Earn money, upgrade your inn, and befriend a diverse cast of characters!

Why similar: Management 22.3%, Anime 15.2%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused RPG where you run an inn for adventurers, balancing service with the needs of your patrons.

A cozy pixel art adventure about saving a struggling Boba Tea shop. Brew up tasty drinks, battle enemies for inspiration, make friends with customers, and much much more, on your quest to serve up the best tea in town!

Why similar: Cooking 27.2%, Management 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Cute 8.6%, Relaxing 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy simulation game that lets you manage a boba shop while interacting with the local community.

Team up with a friend or go it alone in a sugar-high adventure! Bake your dessert masterpiece and collect new bakers as you rise through a high-stakes bake-off full of cheaters. Fend off their decadent lackeys and against all odds, come out on top in a worldwide baking frenzy!

Why similar: Cooking 36.2%, 2D Platformer 19.7%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Cute 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling platformer that features a cute protagonist and arcade-style action gameplay.

Ocean’s Heart is an epic top-down action RPG in which you explore a beautiful archipelago as a young woman named Tilia. Take on contracts to fight monsters, descend deep into ancient dungeons, defeat menacing foes, and unravel the mystery of Ocean’s Heart. All done in beautiful, bright pixel art.

Why similar: Character Action Game 38.3% ★, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%, RPG 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game that emphasizes exploration and discovery in a beautifully crafted pixel-art world.

"Awaken the Forbidden Flavors of the Gods!" Join Lanya, the adorable and charming chef-hero, on a forbidden culinary adventure in another world! Hunt, gather, and cook to grow stronger and challenge the authority of the gods. Cooking is freedom! A roguelike action RPG to satisfy everyone's tastes!

Why similar: Cooking 42.4%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Anime 14.8%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Cute 8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that centers on cooking and serving food while navigating dangerous environments.

Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy is an indie game developed by GAMEPULSE.Step into the shoes of Cirno, the Hero of Ice, as she embarks on a journey against evil, liberating Gensokyo and saving her dear princess.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 23.3%, Anime 22.7%, Cute 12%, RPG 10.5%, Action-Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling action game that features intense combat and a charming anime art style.

Kitchen Sync: Aloha! is a cozy, story-driven cooking RPG. As head chef of your family's restaurant in Hawaii, build a trusty team of chefs and dish up tasty Hawaiian food. Manage kitchens, build friendships, find romance, explore tropical venues, and discover the power of cooking together.

Why similar: Cooking 27.6%, Management 14.7%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Anime 8.3%, Relaxing 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy title that focuses on crafting and running a business in a cozy, story-rich environment.

Blow enemies away with magic bullets and smash them into walls to defeat them! A fixed-perspective top-down 2D action game!

Why similar: Character Action Game 50% ★, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Cute 9.6%, Anime 7.3%

Rosenkreuzstilette is a mega-action-platformer game in which you step into the shoes of Spiritia Rosenberg, a virtuous young woman caught on the wrong side of a revolution instigated by her closest friends.

Why similar: Character Action Game 36.1% ★, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Anime 13.5%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style action platformer that provides the same level of challenge and anime-inspired aesthetic.

Fight with flavor! As Ito, a young shaman chef adventurer, you'll hunt critters, gather ingredients, and rebuild bonds by cooking for the townspeople. A shaman chef always aims to lend a helping hand, but the more Ito gets involved, the more he'll learn about the town and its ancient secrets.

Why similar: Cooking 30.9%, Action-Adventure 17.3%, Anime 12%, RPG 10.6%, Adventure 5.1%

Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Why similar: Character Action Game 30.7% ★, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Anime 10.8%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired action platformer that focuses on fast combat and exploration.

Cute, 2D arcade action game starring crustacean waitresses serving food to other aquatic folk.

Why similar: Casual 25%, Indie 22.3%, Action 19.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Cute 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, action-oriented cooking game that focuses on quick service and satisfying gameplay loops.

Play as Shiranui Flare in this retro action platformer, wielding her dual pistols, as you explore the world on a quest to save your friends!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Anime 12.4%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Cute 9.6%

"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.

Why similar: Anime 18.7%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Action-Adventure 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, 2D Platformer 9.5%

Take over a bakery! Establish production lines for farming, fishing, and baking to create delicious treats! Fulfill missions to earn rewards. Recruit helpers, expand production, and decorate the bakery and homes. Restore Starlight Island to its former glory—one delicious dessert at a time!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 22.3%, Anime 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Relaxing 12.1%, Simulation 10.5%

Lunavania isn't just about high-octane combat. Enjoy base building, decorating with a variety of furniture, befriending NPCs, farming, and fishing. These features add greater depth and variety, offering a chance to savor life on the Moon beyond the battlefield.

Why similar: RPG 34.3%, 2D 12.7%, Adventure 12%, Action 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%

Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.6%, Anime 19.5%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Cute 10.8%

Play as the ancient automaton Cecilia Immergreen as you explore the world for secrets, solve puzzles, delve into dungeons, fight other Hololive members as powerful bosses, help other members with side quests, and find powerful items to explore previously unavailable locations.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 25.9%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Funny 10.1%, Cute 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

The young witch Hyke's adventure begins! A thrilling 2D top-down action pixel RPG. Relax and camp with your companions!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 15.9%, RPG 15.9%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Cooking 12%, Cute 9.8%

Stack towering sandwiches with the help of cute cat friends while building up your dream cat cafe. With plenty of hungry quirky customers around, you’ll need to upgrade your cafe, find new cats to help you and up your sandwich game to keep them happy!

Why similar: Cooking 38.1%, Shop Keeper 18.7% ★, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Cute 9.1%, Management 9%

Gensokyo Night Festival is a 2D action-exploration game set in the world of Gensokyo.Join Suika Ibuki as she wreaks havoc throughout Gensokyo against the backdrop of the festival held at Hakurei Shrine.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Anime 13.3%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Action-Adventure 11.1%

Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

Why similar: Cooking 44.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Cute 5%

A simulation game where you create a wonderful sweets shop with Doraemon

Why similar: Cooking 20.7%, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Simulation 17%, Anime 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%

Touhou Project's Brand New Action Roguelite Fan Game! Strange incidents erupt in the Animal Realm and Primate Spirit Garden. Embark on an unknown journey, uncover the truth behind the anomalies, and break through this 'Touhou Dystopian'!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 37.1%, Anime 18.4%, Cute 15%, RPG 9.6%, Action 8.7%

Abyss Kitchen is a survival action game in which you play the role of Lop a cook who accompanies a party of adventurers, and guides them with the power of food. Feed yourself in the dungeon and eat whatever you can to keep from starving and falling down. Eat up anything that stands in your way!

Why similar: Cooking 45.1%, Management 20.5%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Anime 8.8%, Cute 7%

Take on the role of Mako on her quest to seek out and subsequently deliver her, uh, deliverables in this top-down view 2D action game. Jump on top of your enemies and slime them with goo to stop them in their tracks! Get those deliverables delivered!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 23.6%, Action-Adventure 20.5%, Anime 17.3%, Cute 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%

Delicious Dungeon is a combination of action-adventure and simulation game. The player is the owner of a local restaurant in a fantasy world. But to run the restaurant they have to explore dungeons full of dangers and enemies to get the ingredients needed to cook delicious meals for their guests.

Why similar: Cooking 57.4%, Relaxing 14.5%, Cute 8.8%, Casual 6.2%, Action 5.8%

Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Adventure 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Cute 9.6%

Run your own cozy café in Tailside! Brew coffee, decorate your café, and follow small stories in the daily newspaper. Progress through days and levels to unlock new items, skills, villagers, and creature visitors.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.2% ★, Cooking 27.6%, Management 13.9%, Relaxing 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%

In order to retrieve the lost memories, Sekibanki has a big adventure in the world of dreams! Use your "head" to fight your way through a stage full of various mechanisms. It's a 2D visual action puzzle game with a new sensation!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, Cute 15.2%, Anime 14.5%, 2D Platformer 14.2%

The story of two protagonists as they rebuild their hometown and seek the hidden truth. Engage in timeline-based command battles and enjoy the easy-to-learn yet deeply engaging synthesis. Plus, take on shop management, explore random dungeons, and more!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.5%, Anime 25.8%, RPG 23.7%, Cute 13.2%, Casual 5.3%

Emma's Weapons Shop is a management simulation game in which players collect items while conquering dungeons, smelt them, and sell them at higher prices to increase sales.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 31.6%, Female Protagonist 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Simulation 13.7%, Cute 9.7%

A kingdom-rebuilding adventure filled with action and strategy! Kingdom's Return is an action RPG where you'll adventure to restore your fallen kingdom. Collect materials in 2D side-scrolling adventure stages, then use them in the strategy part to rebuild your kingdom and power up your characters!

Why similar: Action-Adventure 23.6%, Anime 17.8%, RPG 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Action 10.9%

In the Academy Citadel, strength reigns supreme: only the most powerful survive and thrive. Fight your way through the high-tech Academy in your quest to get the highest of honors for a student, and uncover secrets that can save it in its direst crisis in this 2.5D side-scrolling Metroidvania.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.3%, Anime 18.7%, Action-Adventure 17.3%, RPG 12.6%, Cute 8%

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth! Traverse the land where deities have perished, explore abandoned divine realms, battle mutated monsters, gather divine power to awaken your strength, and unveil the truth behind the deities’ fall.

Why similar: RPG 16.1%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, 2D Platformer 15%, Adventure 11.9%, 2D 11.7%

Embark on a wholesome adventure to save The Grove! Forage resources, combat the invasive Rot, and restore the community. Relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor in this charming action-RPG starring a grape.

Why similar: Character Action Game 44.7% ★, Action-Adventure 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Funny 7.7%, RPG 7.6%

Gastova is a lighthearted 2D platform adventure game. As the Guardian Witch of Arkana, Gastova must keep the balance of magic, solve a mystery involving the elemental fount guardians, discover hidden truths, and protect the future of her world from ominous forces before it's too late...

Why similar: 2D Platformer 16.9%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Anime 12.7%, RPG 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%

Explore the stylish world of Wonderland with Usada and Kotora as they search for a mysterious girl named Alice! A Metroidvania action game with a rich, exhilarating battle system all wrapped up in cuteness!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 23%, Anime 20.1%, Action-Adventure 19.8%, Cute 14.3%, 2D 7.4%

Take control of Piko, our hammer wielding heroine, as you bash things up with a big hammer in this cute Anime-styled 2D metroidvania-inspired adventure! Uncover mysteries! Beat the bad guys who do naughty things! Explore the Piko Piko world with her floof fox friend!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 20%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Anime 12.3%, Funny 10.1%