Games Like Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe

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: Cooking 43.8%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Anime 13%, RPG 8.5%, Hand-drawn 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features an action-roguelike loop where you hunt monsters in dungeons to gather ingredients for your restaurant.

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 42.2%, Anime 15.5%, RPG 13.4%, Action 8.2%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling action game where you hunt monsters and cook them into meals that grant you unique abilities.

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 37.1%, Action 17.5%, Beat 'em up 12.2%, Anime 11.5%, Side Scroller 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the seed's blend of side-scrolling combat and deep, rewarding resource management through farming and cooking.

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 62.3%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, RPG 4.7%, Fantasy 4.4%, Cute 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines platforming exploration with a cozy, magic-infused cooking and delivery system.

Indivisible is a hand drawn action RPG platformer from Lab Zero, creators of the critically acclaimed Skullgirls! Set in a huge fantasy world, Indivisible tells the story of Ajna, a fearless girl with a rebellious streak who sets out on a quest to save everything she knows from being destroyed.

Why similar: RPG 26%, Female Protagonist 18.9%, Action 13.8%, Anime 13.3%, Hand-drawn 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features stunning hand-drawn art and a unique action-RPG combat system that feels very similar to the seed's aesthetic.

From the creators of Rogue Legacy comes a "true-cooperative" action RPG. FULL METAL FURIES puts an emphasis on team play with a unique combat system where everyone is important. Play on the couch, alone or with friends, or make it an online party for up to four players!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.2%, RPG 20%, Action 14.9%, Beat 'em up 11.9%, Adventure 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action-RPG that emphasizes team-based combat and vibrant, stylized visuals.

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 76.4%, RPG 21.4%, 2D 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy game where you hunt, gather, and cook to restore a restaurant to its former glory.

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 37.5%, RPG 25.2%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Indie 6.4%, Cute 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic blend of dungeon crawling to find loot and managing a shop to sell your wares.

A bread revolution across the world now begins! Aeruta is a side-scrolling action game with a shop management twist, fight monsters for materials and use them to make breads, then finally make the deserted town popular again!

Why similar: Cooking 40.4%, Female Protagonist 15%, Anime 12.9%, RPG 12%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a satisfying loop of action-adventure combat followed by managing a bakery with the ingredients you collected.

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: RPG 40.9%, Action 18.2%, Adventure 17.4%, Fantasy 13%, 2D 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: You spend your days managing a shop and your nights exploring dungeons to gather the inventory you sell.

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 48.2%, RPG 16%, Anime 15.5%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Story Rich 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and cooking aspects of running an eatery while interacting with a cast of anime-style characters.

Code of Princess offers players an exciting yet unconventional experience, deftly blending the combo-heavy fighting gameplay of beat ‘em ups with the stat-boosting character customization of RPGs.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.8%, Anime 17.8%, RPG 16%, Action 9.6%, Beat 'em up 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling beat-'em-up with RPG progression and a large roster of anime-inspired characters.

Hunt, cook, and deliver cosmic cuisine using ingredients from across the galaxy to become the greatest chef in the Horseshoe Nebula. Explore alien worlds teeming with (edible) life, win the hearts of your customers, and thwart the rise of an evil interstellar burger chain.

Why similar: Cooking 58.1%, RPG 17%, Hand-drawn 16.9%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world action game where you hunt alien creatures to cook gourmet meals in a sci-fi setting.

Uncover the mysteries at Luna Nova Academy and experience the magical world of Studio Trigger style Japanese animation in Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time.

Why similar: Anime 29.4%, Female Protagonist 24.8%, RPG 19.2%, Action 9.8%, Adventure 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the anime aesthetic and magical adventure feel of the seed game with action-RPG elements.

Monster Meals is a fast-paced cooking game where you and a friend control monster chefs in a food truck, preparing meals with exotic creatures for monstrous customers. Play solo, local co-op, or online co-op—but serve quickly, or you’ll be on the menu!

Why similar: Cooking 67.4%, Local Multiplayer 13%, Action 8.9%, Family Friendly 4.8%, Cute 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the concept of hunting dangerous creatures to prepare them as food in a simulation-action format.

"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 52%, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Anime 15.6%, Action 6.4%, Cute 3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that tasks you with fighting through waves of enemies to serve food on the go.

A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.9%, RPG 20.5%, Puzzle 13%, Anime 11.3%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep action-RPG combat and complex environmental puzzles that will appeal to fans of the seed's puzzle-solving.

Hit the road in this massive sequel to the million-selling Cook, Serve, Delicious series. Manage your food truck, cook delicious dishes and serve customers as you take the road trip of a lifetime across war-torn America.

Why similar: Cooking 60.1%, Local Multiplayer 13.9%, Action 10.8%, Family Friendly 8.7%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on management, it provides the same high-intensity, rhythm-based cooking satisfaction.

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 49.2%, Female Protagonist 21.1%, Action 8.1%, Side Scroller 6.7%, Story Rich 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, 2D platformer that focuses on arcade-style action and character-based progression.

In a world of magic, your mind is your greatest weapon. Learn the ways of magic and design your own spells to fight enemies, navigate treacherous terrain, and right past wrongs in the kingdom of Mystralia.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 31.4%, RPG 15.7%, Action 15.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game with a heavy focus on creative, puzzle-like spell crafting.

A cooking puzzle game about arranging beautiful bento lunches! Solve 120+ recipes, play with food, think inside the box and enjoy a heartwarming story in this culinary brain-teaser!

Why similar: Cooking 43.1%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Anime 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Puzzle 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy puzzle game about arranging food into bento boxes that shares the seed's focus on culinary organization.

Take on wild beasts, ruthless soldiers, and ancient gods in this 2D Action-Platformer inspired by Tower-Defense combat.

Why similar: RPG 27.3%, Action 18.4%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 11.4%, Local Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends platforming and tower defense with a strong emphasis on character-swapping action.

Using Critter Crunch's 'Food Chain' mechanic, players will eat their way through a smorgasbord of levels and gorge on a feast of modes, including Co-op and Versus multiplayer.

Why similar: Match 3 34%, Puzzle 11.9%, Local Multiplayer 10.8%, Action 10.1%, Anime 9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-action hybrid that features a similar cute, hand-drawn art style and satisfying chain-reaction mechanics.

Shantae is back in an all-new tropical adventure! In her fifth outing, the Half-Genie hero gains new Fusion Magic abilities to explore a vast sunken city, makes new Half-Genie friends, and battles the Seven Sirens in her biggest, most thrilling quest yet!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 50.2%, Anime 17.4%, Adventure 11.3%, Cute 4.6%, Action 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A polished action-platformer with a strong female protagonist and a beautiful, vibrant anime aesthetic.

Bake ‘n Switch is a cute, yet tough couch co-op and PvP party game for 1-4 players. Embark on a 'Bun Solo' single-player adventure or team up with other Bakers to catch, throw, and bake a'dough'rable living bread creatures!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 23%, Beat 'em up 17.9%, Action 16.6%, Adventure 12.8%, Family Friendly 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A frantic, action-oriented cooking game that requires coordination and fast reflexes.

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: RPG 38.6%, Wholesome 18.7% ★, Adventure 18.6%, Cute 9.7%, 2D 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on gathering ingredients from the wild to craft potions, mirroring the gathering-to-crafting loop.

Vanguard Princess is a classic 2D fighting game that features an all-female cast each with its own unique fighting style. Choose from ten girls and pair them with a powerful partner to form an unstoppable team. Navigate their journeys in Story Mode or engage in head-to-head battles in Versus Mode.

Why similar: Anime 33.4%, Female Protagonist 25.6%, Local Multiplayer 13.3%, Action 10.5%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D fighting game that leans heavily into the anime aesthetic and character-driven action found in the seed.

Say hello to a fantasy themed action arcade brick breaker! Featuring cute characters, silly humor, powerful magic, crazy bosses, and even local 2 player co-op mode!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.1%, Anime 24.9%, Action 12.5%, Fantasy 8%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-energy arcade game with a female protagonist that blends action-adventure with puzzle-like mechanics.

Experience all the Onion Kingdom has to offer, Overcooked! 1 & 2 infused with 4k goodness running at a smooth 60 FPS. Fully remastered and cooked up from scratch. Enjoy 200+ levels (22 new) and 80+ chefs (3 new), this is the ultimate Overcooked! experience.

Why similar: Cooking 69.6%, Local Multiplayer 13%, Family Friendly 7.5%, Indie 4.7%, Cute 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive chaotic cooking experience that shares the seed game's focus on high-pressure kitchen management.

Battle an evil fast food empire in this spicy narrative turn-based RPG. Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones.

Why similar: Cooking 56.3%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, RPG 15.2%, Action 6.2%, Story Rich 4.4%

Hungry? Take your restaurant from a one star abomination to a five star wonder in Cook, Serve, Delicious! Plan your menu, upgrade your equipment, and master challenges with easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay!

Why similar: Cooking 65.4%, Local Multiplayer 12.5%, Indie 9%, Family Friendly 7.4%, 2D 4.4%

Bathe in the sights, sounds, and smells of Cook Serve Forever, a narrative-focused cooking adventure where you serve food to the hungry masses on your quest for greatness.

Why similar: Cooking 48.1%, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Action 6.7%, Wholesome 6.1% ★

The massive sequel to the original cult classic! Plan your menu, decorate your restaurant, cook hundreds of foods, and for the first time ever - earn medals by mastering dozens of themed restaurants!

Why similar: Cooking 61.4%, Local Multiplayer 12.2%, Action 11.5%, Family Friendly 8.3%, 2D 5.5%

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 46.1%, Female Protagonist 14%, Anime 13.2%, RPG 12.6%, Adventure 5.4%

The cozy chaotic cooking roguelike. Assemble omelets for quirky students using ingredients from a conveyor belt. Discover wacky combinations to satisfy the ever-demanding Principal Clucker.

Why similar: Cooking 84.1%, Action 9.2%, Family Friendly 6.7%

Eat everything. Grow stronger. Save the Gourmet Kingdom. A charming action-adventure where you devour foes, solve clever dungeon puzzles, and battle monstrous bosses in a whimsical, food-filled world. Find the five Divine Spices and save the Gourmet Kingdom from the Demon Chef!

Why similar: RPG 27.7%, Action 16.7%, Puzzle 15.5%, Adventure 14.2%, Fantasy 11.8%

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.

Why similar: Cooking 68.5%, Local Multiplayer 13.2%, Indie 6.8%, Family Friendly 5.2%, Action 4%

Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Why similar: Cooking 89.6%, Action 5%, Cute 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Prep your stations for a cozy cooking game with attitude! Prepare unique meals for quirky small-town locals, upgrade and customize your shop, compete in thrilling cooking battles to become top chef, and protect your family’s long-running restaurant alongside a cast of curious companions!

Why similar: Cooking 63.8%, Anime 17.7%, Wholesome 7.6% ★, Indie 5.9%, Cute 3.6%

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 39.9%, Action 26.6%, Hand-drawn 17.5%, Fantasy 5.8%, Indie 4.9%

A coop coking game with light RPG features. Discover new recipes, level up your restaurant, and make sure your customers leave happy in this kitchen game. Best cooking simulator with multiplayer features

Why similar: Cooking 71.3%, RPG 9.8%, Family Friendly 6.1%, Indie 5.1%, Cute 3.9%

Rescue breakfast in this arcade-style bullet hell shoot 'em up!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.7%, Action 19.2%, Hand-drawn 19.1%, Fantasy 7.5%, Cute 7.2%

Skewer Squad is a cute yet chaotic tower defense roguelite. Step into the apron of a Grillmaster, draft random ingredients, mix wild seasonings, and build a squad of skewers that are both delicious and powerful to defend your grill.

Why similar: Cooking 61.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Action 10.5%, Cute 4.6%, 2D 4.6%

Radical Rabbit Stew is a hare-raising action-arcade game, featuring fast-paced whack-a-rabbit gameplay, scintillating puzzles, super-sized boss fights, juicy pixel graphics and a sizzling soundtrack, perfect for new players and 16-bit retro fans alike!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 18.9%, Action 17.9%, Puzzle 17.2%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 11.7%

WitchSpring R is a story-driven RPG combining elements of collecting, simulation, and battling. Experience the joy of training a young witch and accompany her on a grand adventure!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.8%, RPG 25.9%, Anime 17.7%, Cute 9.2%, Story Rich 5.9%

Craft delicious lunch boxes in this cozy-yet-challenging ingredient-cutting puzzle game.

Why similar: Cooking 60.2%, Puzzle 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Wholesome 7.4% ★, Indie 3%

Experience a chaotic co-op cooking adventure in SEDAP!. Hunt wild ingredients that bite back, master frantic minigames to coordinate culinary chaos, and cook up iconic Southeast Asian dishes while exploring Khaya Island. Play alone or team up with a friend to survive the ultimate kitchen rush!

Why similar: Cooking 52.9%, RPG 11.8%, Local Multiplayer 10%, Action 7.1%, Adventure 6.4%

Blast off in a 2D metroidvania adventure bursting with platforming thrills, deep exploration, and explosive action. Assemble a crack team of heroes to save the world in Blast Brigade!

Why similar: Action 25.4%, Adventure 20.2%, Side Scroller 14.5%, Story Rich 14.1%, Cute 11.5%

Discover the magic and lore of the Alps in this acclaimed Action Adventure. Forge relationships with locals to help you solve puzzles, battle monsters and uncover secrets of the legendary Dungeons of Hinterberg!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.7%, RPG 17%, Puzzle 13.6%, Action 11.4%, Adventure 9.3%

The Diner Bros are back! With the same hectic cooking and serving, and now customization of your bustling restaurant! Serve quirky customers, earn cash to buy equipment, and discover new recipes in Diner Bros 2. Team up for 4 player local co-operative fun. No friends? Hire servers!

Why similar: Cooking 76.3%, Action 9.9%, Family Friendly 5.7%, Cute 4.1%, Local Multiplayer 2.8%

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

Why similar: Cooking 55.9%, RPG 14.3%, Female Protagonist 14%, Adventure 4.8%, Indie 3.9%

Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an RPG inspired by the classic console greats, featuring deep dungeon diving, turn-based combat presented in a classic JRPG format, and a rich story driven by exploration of the world.

Why similar: RPG 71.3%, Fantasy 11.6%, Indie 7.8%, Story Rich 4.3%, Singleplayer 3.2%

There's trouble once again in River City, and this time only the girls can save the day! Using a variety of attacks, weapons, and items, these hot-blooded heroines are ready to teach the city’s lowlifes a lesson - either solo or in 2-player co-op! It’s an old-school rumble for a new generation!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.5%, Anime 21.1%, Beat 'em up 16.6%, Action 13.7%, Local Multiplayer 7.7%

Embark on a journey to save the prince’s eyesight in this 2D puzzle-adventure game featuring beautiful hand-drawn art and a bittersweet tale of wishes and what we’re willing to do to make them come true. Utilize your wolf and princess forms to lead the way!

Why similar: Hand-drawn 25.8%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Action 12.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Adventure 10.1%

Let's Cook Together is a cooperative, family-friendly game for 2 - play with your spouse, kid, (grand)parent or friend.

Why similar: Cooking 66.6%, Local Multiplayer 11.6%, Family Friendly 8.3%, Action 6.1%, Indie 4.7%

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: RPG 24.8%, Action 14.6%, Adventure 12.2%, Fantasy 12.1%, Family Friendly 10.7%

When a group of unsanitary chefs threaten all that is good and just in Cakeland, it's up to Cakeboy to serve up punishment. Fight your foes with pastry-themed items in this bite-sized 2D platforming adventure!

Why similar: Cooking 56.5%, Action 16%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Family Friendly 7%, 2D 5.8%

Diner Bros is a cooking and restaurant management game. Cook and serve meals as fast as you can, but don’t get the orders wrong or else your customers will get angry – and hungry! Upgrade your restaurant and hire staff to help you… or play with your friends in 2-4 local co-op!

Why similar: Cooking 75.8%, Action 10.9%, Family Friendly 8.7%, Cute 4.6%

Pushy and Pully in Blockland is an endearing co-op arcade game that will take you and a friend through ever-challenging levels. Kill monsters, match blocks, defeats bosses. Recover your spaceship and escape Blockland.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 31.7%, Anime 22.7%, Wholesome 11.5% ★, Action 10.9%, Family Friendly 9.6%