Games Like Chef Knight

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 34.3%, Management 21.6%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Fantasy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This action-roguelike features a core loop of dungeon exploration to gather ingredients for your restaurant, mirroring the gameplay of Chef Knight.

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 40.9%, Management 23.9%, Resource Management 19.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Relaxing 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep life-simulation experience centered on cooking and restaurant management within a vibrant fantasy world.

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 54.1%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Action 9.8%, Fantasy 7.1%, 2D 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly combines monster-hunting combat with competitive cooking challenges in a charming fantasy setting.

A cozy idle incremental game about the satisfying rhythm of chopping ingredients. Unlock new produce, upgrade your knives, and grow your earnings — all at your own pace, with no pressure and no timers.

Why similar: Incremental 19.3%, Cooking 19.1%, Idler 16.5%, Management 13%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy incremental game that emphasizes the management and cooking aspects found in Chef Knight.

Gather food to grow your colony. Evolve and upgrade specialized worker types. Discover and combine interesting synergies. Optimize your production, customize your strategy and feed the Queen ever-increasing amounts of food!

Why similar: Incremental 30.9%, Idler 22%, Strategy 12.6%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim incremental that shares the management and resource-gathering themes of Chef Knight.

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 55%, Fantasy 9.9%, Casual 9.4%, Action 8.1%, Relaxing 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This action-roguelike focuses on the culinary side of dungeon crawling, requiring you to cook your way through dangerous encounters.

Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!

Why similar: Incremental 31.8%, Resource Management 14.2%, Idler 14%, Management 12.2%, Arcade 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a satisfying incremental experience centered on resource management and idle progression.

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: Management 46.7%, Simulation 16.6%, Fantasy 16.6%, 2D 8.4%, Action 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a shopkeeper who explores dungeons by night to collect loot to sell in your store by day.

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Incremental 28.1%, Resource Management 21%, Idler 16.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans into the gathering and crafting mechanics, providing a relaxing incremental experience for fantasy fans.

Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.

Why similar: Incremental 28.6%, Idler 17.9%, Management 15.3%, Resource Management 14.5%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on base-building and management, offering a similar sense of growth and empire-building.

Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.

Why similar: Incremental 23.8%, Idler 19.2%, Resource Management 15.5%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This incremental game combines mining and management, appealing to those who enjoy the resource-loop of the seed game.

Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

Why similar: Incremental 38.5%, Idler 16.9%, Resource Management 14.8%, Strategy 7%, Fantasy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the fantasy incremental feel with resource management and strategic progression in a magical setting.

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 46%, Simulation 16.4%, Casual 12.1%, Relaxing 9.7%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully balances deep-sea exploration and hunting with the high-paced management of a sushi restaurant.

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: Management 27.5%, Capitalism 26.1%, Simulation 15.3%, Cute 8.4%, Fantasy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that defines the genre of dungeon-crawling to stock your own fantasy shop.

🥕🥔🌽👑 Feed the King! Agrivore is an incremental farming idle game where you equip magical farming gear, harvest crops, unlock new equipment, and create hyper combos in your skill tree. Harvest the most crops to feed them to your gluttonous King.

Why similar: Incremental 29.8%, Idler 22.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Arcade 7.5%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a roguelite twist on the incremental genre, focusing on farming and resource management.

Build a party of heroes and send them into dungeons in this short incremental RPG. Fight monsters, collect loot, and unlock upgrades. Fast runs, deep skill tree, zero stress.

Why similar: Incremental 26.1%, Idler 20.3%, Management 16.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pure incremental experience that focuses on the satisfying cycle of gathering loot and upgrading your systems.

Deliver more and more kiwis to satiate the kings' hunger - sacrifice their pulp and transcend beyond your fruital form!

Why similar: Incremental 26%, Idler 20.4%, Management 15.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, colorful incremental game that captures the addictive nature of idle resource gathering.

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Management 23.6%, Resource Management 21.5%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Simulation 13%, Relaxing 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on alchemy, it shares the satisfying process of gathering ingredients and managing a shop to serve customers.

A cozy incremental game where you play as a Kraken wielding abyssal powers to clean the ocean.

Why similar: Incremental 23.8%, Idler 18.2%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: This cute, 2D incremental game focuses on the management and cleaning aspects of a fantasy environment.

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Management 46.5%, Resource Management 27.8%, Fantasy 12.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a fantasy tavern, requiring you to farm, forage, and brew to keep your customers happy.

Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!

Why similar: Incremental 36%, Idler 22.9%, Fantasy 9.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique incremental game that uses minigames and strategy to simulate the crafting of magical items.

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Fantasy 30%, Cute 24.5%, 2D 17.8%, Action 13.6%, Singleplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends dungeon-crawling combat with the management of a growing community, offering a similar thematic depth.

Assemble your most expensive burger from whatever you can find in the kitchen.

Why similar: Incremental 32.4%, Idler 23.7%, Cooking 20.9%, Arcade 10.3%, Casual 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends arcade-style action with incremental management, perfect for those who enjoy the cooking theme.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.

Why similar: Management 60.7%, Simulation 24.8%, Casual 8.9%, Singleplayer 3%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game where you craft items to sell to adventurers, mirroring the shop-management loop.

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 23.5%, Fantasy 13%, Management 12.5%, Casual 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim allows you to build a town for adventurers, focusing on the growth and support of fantasy heroes.

Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!

Why similar: Incremental 29.3%, Idler 21.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the combat and progression side of incremental games, similar to the dungeon-crawling in Chef Knight.

It's Heaven vs. Hell in the annual Soul-Catching Contest...and there's an office-wide pizza party at stake! Angel Clicker is a short, relaxed incremental with (optional) rhythm elements. Build quirky buildings, collect divine resources, get attacked by aliens, and... Go on a date?!

Why similar: Incremental 20.3%, Strategy 15.8%, Idler 15.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a straightforward incremental experience with fantasy themes and resource management.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Management 51.1%, Simulation 25.4%, Fantasy 10.3%, 2D 6.2%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy management game that requires extensive resource gathering and crafting to progress.

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

Why similar: Management 43.6%, Hand-drawn 33.2%, Simulation 10.9%, Relaxing 10%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-focused, it features deep management and crafting mechanics in a cozy, hand-drawn world.

An Incremental game about Slaying a Dragon.

Why similar: Incremental 39.2%, Idler 17.4%, Strategy 15.1%, Action 6.6%, 2D 6.3%

Shop Titans is the ultimate RPG shopkeeper simulation. Craft powerful equipment, stock your shop and sell to aspiring heroes… at a markup! Hire heroes and explore dungeons to gather valuable materials to craft with. There’s never a dull moment in the world of Shop Titans!

Why similar: Idler 28.9%, Management 22.5%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Fantasy 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the crafting and shop-management side of the fantasy adventuring economy.

More Sushi! is a short incremental game about running a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Serve customers, buy upgrades, hire helpers, and unlock new sushi! Pay off the owner's debt, then turn used plates into stars to buy permanent upgrades.

Why similar: Incremental 23.3%, Idler 18.1%, Cooking 17.2%, Management 14.2%, Resource Management 6.2%

Slice, earn, upgrade, repeat. Slice mutant fruits in an addicting incremental game! Annihilate armies of unique mutant crops, dive into a deep talent tree, unlock new levels, and research powerful fruit mutations to maximize your harvest and dominate the farm.

Why similar: Incremental 27.6%, Idler 20.4%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Casual 7.8%

Summon the mighty power of gods in this fun incremental game about chopping down trees on a secluded island by using the forces of nature: earthquakes, sunbeams, tornadoes, hail, lightning strikes and tidal waves! It's Chopping Time!

Why similar: Incremental 28.6%, Idler 22.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Simulation 7%

Goblin Buster is an incremental tower defense game with deep upgrade mechanics. Obliterate annoying goblins, collect materials, discover powerful relics, invest in unique buildings and spend your resources to upgrade towers and magical spells with a massive skill tree!

Why similar: Incremental 26.4%, Idler 18.3%, Resource Management 15.5%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 8.8%

Duncrush is a clicker RPG where you defeat monsters by clicking and conquer a variety of dungeons. Collect gold, weapons, shields, and accessories to power up your hero and create your own strategy with the skill tree. Battle stronger enemies and clear challenging dungeons!

Why similar: Incremental 30.8%, Idler 23.1%, Management 12.2%, Arcade 7.7%, Simulation 5.5%

ULTRATAP is an incremental game about defeating monsters and bosses, getting stronger and enjoying the process. Buy upgrades, complete quests and equip powerful items.

Why similar: Incremental 31.4%, Idler 22.3%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 12%, Casual 8.8%

A short incremental game about feeding Glonk! Make Glonk bigger, get more money, and explore the skill tree to upgrade your abilities, and get more Glonks!

Why similar: Incremental 29.6%, Idler 22.2%, Arcade 8.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 7.3%

An incremental game where you kill hordes of slimes and use their loot to become stronger and farm them. Collect powerful loot, master skills, and uncover tons of content.

Why similar: Incremental 42.9%, Idler 26.5%, Strategy 10.1%, Fantasy 7.6%, Casual 4.7%

Heroes defeat the kaiju. You turn the remains into profit! Carve through colossal carcasses, harvest meat, bones, organs, and heart-cores, upgrade your gear, deploy collector bots, automate the grind, and clean up battle zones worldwide in this fast-paced pixel-art action-idle game.

Why similar: Incremental 30.1%, Idler 22.1%, Resource Management 19.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Casual 5.4%

A small incremental game about smashing piñatas, collecting toys, and climbing the corporate ladder as you unlock a vast upgrade tree.

Why similar: Incremental 28.6%, Idler 16.1%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8%

castle idler is a short, relaxing incremental tower defense game with no waves. upgrade towers, collect coins, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades to defend your castle.

Why similar: Incremental 23.8%, Idler 20.9%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 7.8%

Fish, scale, sell, repeat. Scale the Depths is a casual fishing game built around this simple but satisfying loop. Feed hungry customers, upgrade your gear, and uncover the many secrets hidden beneath the surface.

Why similar: Cooking 20.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, Incremental 14.9%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 7.5%

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 38.7%, Management 23.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Casual 4.9%

A goblin as a sushi chef? Why not! But hurry up rent is due in minutes! Upgrade the restaurant, the menu and your ingredients to feed your fellow goblins the best and most expensive sushi any goblin can find in the cave!

Why similar: Cooking 42.5%, Resource Management 29.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Action 6.1%, 2D 6%

Build a wild fantasy lumber empire that bombards a forest across the valley with axes, ballistas, cannons, and magic. Harvest flying logs, stack absurd upgrades, and automate your way to unstoppable woodcutting power.

Why similar: Incremental 24.4%, Idler 19.3%, Resource Management 16.4%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 6.9%

Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

Why similar: Incremental 30.7%, Idler 21%, Resource Management 16.6%, Fantasy 7%, Management 6%

Mine. Smelt. Upgrade. Repeat. Rock Bottom is an incremental mining game where every swing makes you stronger. Descend through 8 unique layers, unlock devastating abilities, and discover what lies at Rock Bottom

Why similar: Incremental 18.8%, Idler 17.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 12.7%

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 36.5%, Hand-drawn 20.6%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 10.8%, 2D 6%

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: Fantasy 35.1%, Action 15.6%, 2D 15%, Cute 13.3%, Relaxing 12.9%

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 28.1%, Resource Management 28.1%, Hand-drawn 19.4%, Management 15.8%, Relaxing 5.7%

A clicker game revolving around Sushi! Create sushi, Sell sushi and buy upgrades in an endless cycle to continue creating infinite sushi to become the ultimate sushi chef!

Why similar: Incremental 26%, Cooking 24.9%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 11.8%, Fantasy 7.5%

Snake, but with a skill tree

Why similar: Incremental 28.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Idler 13.2%, Management 12.1%, Arcade 6.9%

Defend. Upgrade. Dominate. A relaxing incremental base-defense game, packed with powerful skills and a deep skill tree.

Why similar: Incremental 34%, Idler 27.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Fantasy 7.2%, Relaxing 5.5%

Alchemist's Garden is a cozy and relaxing incremental crafting game. Forage to uncover hidden ingredients across mystical lands. Experiment with them at your crucible to discover potions and items, stock your shop's shelves, and watch your potion shop grow!

Why similar: Incremental 26.2%, Idler 21.2%, Management 15.1%, Resource Management 10%, Simulation 5.2%

A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.

Why similar: Incremental 29.4%, Idler 22.3%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 9%, Fantasy 5.3%

Run your own sushi shokudo in a mysterious underworld. Satisfy the appetite of your customers, collect suspicious ingredients from bizarre fantastical creatures, and realize your dream of creating ... the legendary Chawanmushi!

Why similar: Cooking 38.3%, Hand-drawn 22.5%, Fantasy 11.9%, Casual 7.7%, Cute 6.1%

5 minutes to get started, play anytime! This is a relaxing fishing-themed incremental game. You will join the Cat Captains to explore global fishing grounds, catch fish, and collect resources. Every rewarding voyage will have you shouting, "One more round!"

Why similar: Incremental 29.5%, Resource Management 18.3%, Management 11.3%, Simulation 8.6%, Casual 7.3%

An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.

Why similar: Incremental 35.7%, Idler 18.3%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 6.6%

An incremental battle game where destroying treasure chests instantly brings item effects into battle to fight enemies. Break all the seals on the Abyss Chest and liberate the great being who will save the world!

Why similar: Incremental 32%, Idler 24.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Arcade 7.1%