
Buddington is a 2D life sim blending restaurant management, light action combat, and story adventure. Battle pests for ingredients by day, then plan the menu and run the canteen with friends come sundown.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Shop Keeper, Cooking, Management, Singleplayer.

Buddington is a 2D life sim blending restaurant management, light action combat, and story adventure. Battle pests for ingredients by day, then plan the menu and run the canteen with friends come sundown.

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Can you keep a burger shop alive? Manage a small burger shop, balance speed and strategy, and shape the fate of your business with every decision.

Penniless Chef
"Penniless Chef" is a game where you run and grow your own restaurant. Run and grow your restaurant, and get to know the villagers!
Can you keep a burger shop alive? Manage a small burger shop, balance speed and strategy, and shape the fate of your business with every decision.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.3% ★, Cooking 25.4%, Time Management 14.8%, Life Sim 11.4%, Management 6.8%
"Penniless Chef" is a game where you run and grow your own restaurant. Run and grow your restaurant, and get to know the villagers!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.9% ★, Cooking 22.8%, Life Sim 17.5%, Multiple Endings 5.3%, Cute 4.7%
Serve Coffee to cultists, instruments and the regular passerby from your coffee shop in a city filled with all sorts of weird, kind and potentially dangerous people.
Why similar: Cooking 32.1%, Shop Keeper 31% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Time Management 7.5%, Story Rich 4.4%
Izakaya Diaries is a cozy sushi restaurant game. Alongside serving incoming orders, managing your restaurant, and progressing to experience new content with the money and fame you earn, you will also witness the historical events of the Edo period
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.2% ★, Cooking 19.4%, Time Management 15.2%, Life Sim 13.3%, Management 7.3%
Turn a humble ramen cart into the shop of your dreams in this cozy cooking and management game. Prepare delicious ramen, delight customers, unlock new recipes, upgrade and decorate your space, and grow your small business into a thriving restaurant.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29% ★, Cooking 27.9%, Time Management 11.8%, Life Sim 10.5%, Management 7.3%
Run your own Korean restaurant in Kimbap Heaven Simulator. Dive into a realistic cooking experience—wash, blanch, and roll your way to success. Satisfy customers with delicious recipes, manage your finances, and expand your business to build a culinary empire.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.8% ★, Cooking 25.3%, Life Sim 18.3%, Time Management 9.1%, Management 6.3%
Run your own coffee shop — craft drinks, serve customers, and grow your business while managing your daily life beyond the café.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.2% ★, Cooking 18%, Life Sim 15.9%, Time Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.3%
Run your own Tiny Ramen Shop! It's tiny, yes, but customers are already lining up to try your delicious ramen. Prepare food, stock your warehouse with fresh ingredients, upgrade and decorate your establishment. Hungry customers are waiting for their favorite ramen chef!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.9% ★, Cooking 27.8%, Life Sim 13.4%, Time Management 7.3%, Management 6.1%
Make coffee, tea and a reach of different bakegoods like Mud Cake, Lamingtons, Caramel Slice, biscuits, cookies, croissants and other Bakegoods. In your own little Cafe/Bakery.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.8% ★, Cooking 26.5%, Life Sim 10.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Time Management 7.7%
Kitchen Delights is an exciting cooking game that will put your culinary skills to the test, where you can be a chef in a restaurant or a burger joint, creating delicious dishes. With a touch of chaos and lots of fun.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.9% ★, Cooking 32.6%, Time Management 11.6%, Management 7.2%, Resource Management 5.3%
Run your own sandwich shop! Stock your ingredients, prepare delicious sandwiches, take payments, customize and expand your store, and become the best sandwich shop in town!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.6% ★, Cooking 19.7%, Life Sim 17.3%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 4.8%
Orders pouring in, broth bubbling over, and the daily pressure of balancing the books! Manage your ingredients, cook tteokbokki to perfection, and run your very own shop in this culinary tycoon simulation game.
Why similar: Cooking 32.9%, Shop Keeper 30.7% ★, Time Management 14.4%, Management 7%, Simulation 3.5%
Manage and build your Food Truck! Cook global dishes, upgrade your kitchen, and serve hungry customers in this fast-paced cooking game. Travel the world, play fun cooking challenges, and become the ultimate culinary master!
Why similar: Cooking 32.8%, Shop Keeper 32.3% ★, Time Management 15.3%, Management 6.3%, Female Protagonist 6%
Manage your very own bakery. Discover recipes, bake tasty treats and sell them to your customers. Unlock upgrades such as ovens and display shelves to expand your bakery. Customize the interior and exterior style to create your dream bakery.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.2% ★, Cooking 30%, Life Sim 13%, Management 5.7%, Simulation 5.5%
Cooking is routine. Chaos is constant. Keep the shop alive through stress, disasters, and debts.
Why similar: Cooking 33.6%, Shop Keeper 30.3% ★, Time Management 10.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Resource Management 6.2%
Run your own Leberkäse restaurant in Vienna! Prepare Leberkäse sandwiches, deal with grumpy customers, and grow your place into a thriving restaurant in the heart of the city.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.6% ★, Cooking 31.6%, Time Management 14.4%, Management 7.9%, Simulation 5.1%
Chicken Fries is a first-person restaurant simulator where you run a fast-food kitchen: prepare meals by hand, manage fryers and inventory, serve customers, and survive the daily chaos of a busy restaurant, one chicken at a time.
Why similar: Cooking 33.4%, Shop Keeper 33.3% ★, Management 9.4%, Time Management 8.8%, Resource Management 6.2%
Run a Korean tavern in the mountains in this tavern management simulator. Prepare and serve food for dokkaebi, make kimchi, brew makjuice, forage for ingredients, and satisfy each guest.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.6% ★, Cooking 17.4%, Time Management 17.1%, Life Sim 12.1%, Management 7.9%
A pizzeria simulator where you can take customers orders, make pizzas, and manage your shop.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.8% ★, Life Sim 19.6%, Cooking 18.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Management 4.6%
Kooeh: A Timeless Delight is a heartwarming cosy narrative-driven restaurant management game about rediscovering lost family recipes and reviving the family restaurant.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 23.3% ★, Cooking 16.3%, Life Sim 15.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 7.1%
Help Granny run a successful bakeshop in this exciting puzzle matching adventure!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.1% ★, Cooking 22.3%, Time Management 15.2%, Management 8.2%, Female Protagonist 5.7%
Craving something sweet? Play Dubai Chewy Cookie Simulator now! Experience the ultimate chewy, sugary delight. The catch? The developer has never actually baked one in real life. Dive in and enjoy!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.6% ★, Cooking 28.4%, Life Sim 21.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Indie 1%
Manage your own sushi restaurant. Take orders, prepare fresh sushi, purchase ingredients, manage stock, and keep your customers happy. No distractions, just a focused single-player sushi simulation.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.4% ★, Cooking 30%, Life Sim 12.4%, Time Management 9.2%, Management 7.9%
A 3D simulation game where you run an Okinawa soba shop by yourself, handling orders, cooking, serving, and payments efficiently.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.9% ★, Cooking 32.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Time Management 8.4%, Simulation 8.2%
Run a cozy hot dog cart, serve charming customers, restock your stand, and end each shift a little better than the last in a relaxing food-making game with a strange little secret simmering under the surface.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.1% ★, Life Sim 18.9%, Cooking 16.9%, Time Management 11.9%, Simulation 8%
Slice, grill, and serve Doner in a foreign land where you don't speak a word of the local language. Use rhythmic keyboard controls to keep up with the lunch rush, puzzle out cryptic orders from impatient customers, and survive the chaos of running your uncle's doner shop.
Why similar: Cooking 29.9%, Shop Keeper 22.8% ★, Time Management 12.4%, Life Sim 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
A cozy life sim where you forage, cook and serve your way through Gendo's journey navigating an abundant, ever changing landscape. After long days of gathering goodies, return to your cozy home to prepare, cook and serve your dishes to the local townsfolk. Join Gendo in his life in the countryside.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.5% ★, Cooking 27.5%, Life Sim 13.3%, Management 8.4%, Resource Management 7.6%
Barbecue Train: Wild Flavors on the Go Embark on a thrilling, fate-changing adventure—and enjoy a skewer of barbecue along the way! Take customers’ orders, handle ingredients in different ways, and finally master the heat to serve sizzling, aromatic grilled delicacies.
Why similar: Cooking 40.1%, Shop Keeper 29.9% ★, Life Sim 16.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Casual 4.2%
A bakery management game where I grow wheat, bake bread, and sell it to animal customers. I run a bakery by making bread and selling it to animals in the forest.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.4% ★, Cooking 28.5%, Life Sim 12.6%, Time Management 8.7%, Resource Management 7.5%
Fabled Forest is a fantasy simulation game where you play as a young wizard running a restaurant, collecting ingredients, experimenting with plating, and befriending magical creatures as you expand your culinary world.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.6% ★, Cooking 23.5%, Life Sim 12.6%, Time Management 8.9%, Resource Management 7.4%
Bakeaway is a Tycoon RPG where you run your own bakery. Create your own unique recipes, explore effects and synergies, and expand your bakery by yourself or with friends!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.4% ★, Cooking 33.1%, Life Sim 16.9%, Management 8.3%, Simulation 3.4%
HIPS N' NOSES is a café management simulation! In a sleepless world, Mela is the only one who dreams. She runs a café that restores lost memories. Serve guests by day, battle in nightmares by night to collect the memory flower, customize your café, and become the most renowned owner!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.4% ★, Cooking 25.4%, Time Management 10.6%, Resource Management 8.1%, Life Sim 8%
DONT OPEN is a PSX-style horror game about routine that falls apart before your eyes. A normal shift at a taco bar, an empty stairwell, and a persistent knock on the door that's impossible to ignore. Based on real events.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.1% ★, Cooking 22.9%, Life Sim 17.9%, Multiple Endings 4.4%, Simulation 4.3%
Manage a cozy subway bakery in an underground animal city - run by a "retired" gangster you're secretly investigating. Serve cute locals, expand the bakery, prepare for festivals, meet strange visitors and explore the subway after hours for fun stories and special rewards!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.5% ★, Cooking 22.9%, Life Sim 12.1%, Time Management 7.6%, Resource Management 7.3%
Run your own simple and friendly Indian street food stall. Serve customers from your roadside stand, cook authentic dishes and absurd food combos, manage limited ingredients, and keep up with orders. A chaotic yet warm single-player experience focused on your stall.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.9% ★, Cooking 33.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 8%, Time Management 6.8%
Start with a humble pancake stand, purchase ingredients, cook pancakes, serve customers, and upgrade your equipment as you grow your business day by day.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.5% ★, Cooking 28.6%, Life Sim 18.1%, Management 6.1%, Simulation 5.4%
Run the motel by day. Solve the paranormal cases by night
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.4% ★, Cooking 17.6%, Time Management 16.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Comedy 5.3%
A chaotic 1st-person burger cooking sim! Assemble burgers, box up orders, and manage kitchen hygiene under constant customer pressure. Challenge friends to beat your exact setup in "Cover My Shift." Start with a camp stove in a back alley and build your burger empire.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.4% ★, Life Sim 19.4%, Cooking 16.7%, Time Management 13.7%, Simulation 8.3%
Build your own strawberry cafe and farm in this cozy, casual management sim. Grow strawberries for customers to pick, or harvest your homegrown strawberries to cook delicious strawberry-themed food and drinks. Complete missions and keep customers happy to unlock new furniture and recipes.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.8% ★, Cooking 18.4%, Life Sim 12.5%, Time Management 7.9%, Management 7.8%
Manage your café, meet new friends, and serve unique drinks as new stories unfold every day in Coffee & Fox! Can you handle everything this place has to offer?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.4% ★, Cooking 20.1%, Life Sim 16.5%, Female Protagonist 6%, Management 4.5%
How about running your own pastel stand across Brazil? Fry your customers’ pastéis and be careful not to burn yourself! Travel through different regions of the country, discover new ingredients, and upgrade your stand to attract more and more customers along the way.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.6% ★, Cooking 20.8%, Time Management 17.9%, Management 9%, Cute 3.7%
The Full Moon Guildhouse is open for business! Pull a shot of espresso while pouring milk for a latte (or 3). Half matcha, half ube latte with boba and egg pudding? You got it! Serve our busy guildmembers with precision and speed, and who knows? Maybe you'll run into some familiar faces!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.8% ★, Cooking 31.6%, Time Management 10.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 6.9%
Enjoy a unique cooking tycoon set in a cute, spooky Halloween town! Gather ingredients in the morning by foraging, fishing, and farming, then use your own recipes to satisfy ghostly customers by day. Alongside quirky monster residents, the strange and charming secrets of Spookitchen begin to unfold!
Why similar: Cooking 29%, Shop Keeper 26.5% ★, Life Sim 15%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 7.9%
Purrfect Bliss is a cat cafe built on a dark history. Will you survive the night shift? Serve customers, take care of the cats, and uncover the terrifying truth in this psychological horror game.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.2% ★, Cooking 21.7%, Life Sim 19.2%, Simulation 4.9%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
Become Patty, the accidental owner of a failing food business. Craft tasty (or nasty) burgers, discover new ingredients, and work hard(ish) to redeem your reputation on the way to the best parking spot of all time. Play with your food in this cozy food truck simulator!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.6% ★, Cooking 22.9%, Life Sim 15.4%, Time Management 13%, Management 8%
A gas station and convenience store tycoon. Stock shelves, pump fuel, and ring up sales. Grow from a humble roadside stall by pricing stock and unlocking licenses to upgrade your shop. Set out every product by hand, tidy up what customers leave behind, and grow a thriving business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.5% ★, Time Management 19.7%, Life Sim 17.4%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 5.2%
SoulBite is a 2D pixel-art restaurant sim. You're the chef of a small diner where guests share stories and secrets. Listen to their words, figure out what they truly crave, and serve the perfect dish. A cozy, heartwarming experience where every meal tells a story. Welcome, Chef.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.5% ★, Life Sim 21.2%, Cooking 19%, Simulation 9.2%, Resource Management 5.4%
Run your very own Fungerellian Foodery in Caps & Spoons - a restaurant management sim where you decorate your foodery, take orders, cook and serve hungry customers! Upgrade the kitchen, schedule marketing campaigns and learn what your customers like to become the number one foodery in Fungerellia.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.2% ★, Cooking 35.4%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Casual 4.6%
Run a tiny bakery for sweet-toothed slime customers! Adapt to changing weather, seasons, and festivals as cravings shift. Unlock new recipes, welcome new guests, and prepare each night for the day ahead.
Why similar: Cooking 30.3%, Shop Keeper 22.5% ★, Life Sim 11.8%, Time Management 10.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
You started with an iron, a spare room, and one friend's order. Now build the print empire you always imagined — design every product yourself, earn every client, grow every era.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38% ★, Life Sim 20.9%, Time Management 15.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 6%
A fast food simulator game focused on physics-based mechanics and satisfying cooking experience. Flip, stack, grill and assemble burgers however you like, manage your restaurant’s stock, take orders, and enjoy the running of your own virtual kitchen.
Why similar: Cooking 31.3%, Shop Keeper 30.1% ★, Life Sim 14.8%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.5%
Run a cozy neighborhood bento shop! Get creative as you plate, decorate, and sell delicious lunchboxes tailored to daily town events and your neighbors' unique cravings.
Why similar: Cooking 46.9%, Shop Keeper 21.7% ★, Management 11%, Simulation 7.3%, Cute 5.4%
Service Please is a top-down restaurant management and tycoon game focused on relaxed gameplay and steady progression. Manage customers, organize staff, upgrade your menu, and build your restaurant step by step.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.2% ★, Cooking 26.7%, Life Sim 11.9%, Time Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
DishDash is a single-player time management restaurant game where you prepare meals, serve customers, and manage limited resources under constant time pressure, turning kitchen chaos into smooth rhythm through speed, focus, and smart decision-making.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.2% ★, Cooking 21.9%, Life Sim 16.4%, Time Management 12.4%, Management 4.9%
You know you're a top class Chef, but are you ready to prove it? Show off your Cooking Skills, manage your Resources and Cook in huge Restaurants.
Why similar: Cooking 37%, Life Sim 15.9%, Resource Management 12.8%, Time Management 12.3%, Management 10.1%
A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant. Play as the owner, and manage the restaurant, form bonds with characters, and explore the lively town. Uncover the secrets behind the restaurant’s mysterious downfall.
Why similar: Cooking 30.6%, Life Sim 18%, Time Management 14%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Management 7.1%
Repair, upgrade, and build PCs for your first customers to pave your way to self-employment. Open your own internet café, build custom gaming PCs, and expand your shop step by step. Your success starts with a screwdriver.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.3% ★, Life Sim 21.6%, Time Management 15.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Resource Management 6.6%
Maid Cafe Together is a chaotic co-op maid cafe game for you and your friends! Run your cafe, serve customers, manage your maids, and grow your business together. Work as a team, make a mess, and become the most popular maid cafe in town!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.6% ★, Cooking 25.1%, Life Sim 12.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 8.1%
A cozy café simulation game where you plan menus, serve hand-animated characters, and decorate your teahouse in charming KAWAII styles. Earn your way to the top by impressing elite critics, unlocking new café looks, and upgrading your skills across a heartfelt story full of adorable characters.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.1% ★, Cooking 21.4%, Life Sim 17.5%, Female Protagonist 6.4%, Cute 3.9%
A co-op store simulation game where you and your friends stock shelves, manage inventory, and try to keep the store running as everything starts to fall apart.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.7% ★, Time Management 19%, Life Sim 17.4%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 5.2%