- #1 Stacklands
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,660 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: Card Game 26.8%, Solitaire 21.8% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 14.5%, Tabletop 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive card-stacking experience that shares the core mechanic of managing resources by physically stacking cards.
- #2 Cardboard Town
96% matchVery Positive80% of 2,256 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: Solitaire 21.2% ★, Card Game 20.6%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 13.4%, Tabletop 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder utilizes a card-based system for construction and resource management that feels very similar to the tactile nature of Cookard.
- #3 PlateUp!
96% matchVery Positive95% of 26,497 reviews2022
Dev: It's happeningPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 59.8%, Management 25.4%, Cute 7.5%, Strategy 3.5%, Casual 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines restaurant management with automation and roguelite progression, mirroring the satisfying growth found in Cookard.
- #4 Chef RPG
94% matchVery Positive88% of 2,635 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 44.6%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Simulation 4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of cooking, restaurant management, and exploration that captures the cozy yet busy feel of running a food business.
- #5 DAVE THE DIVER
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 153,621 reviews2023
Dev: MINTROCKET
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 28.1%, Crafting 20.1%, Agriculture 17.4% ★, Relaxing 9%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly balances exploration with a deep, engaging restaurant management loop that involves cooking and serving customers.
- #6 Automachef
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 914 reviews2019
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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!
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Cooking 22.4%, Resource Management 20.1%, Simulation 13.6%, Management 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the automation of cooking processes, which is a key satisfying element for fans of Cookard's kitchen management.
- #7 Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 31,878 reviews2021
Dev: 二色幽紫蝶
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 51.1%, Time Management 30.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Casual 5.6%, 2D 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A charming cooking and management game where you run an izakaya, focusing on recipe discovery and customer satisfaction.
- #8 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
92% matchVery Positive93% of 43,863 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Crafting 36%, Resource Management 20.2%, Management 19.2%, Relaxing 8.3%, Simulation 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: The physical, card-like interaction with ingredients and crafting processes provides a similar sense of tactile satisfaction.
- #9 Sizzle & Stack
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 307 reviews2025
Dev: Arvis Games
Windows · Mac
Sizzle & Stack is a fast-paced restaurant management card game where you stack ingredients, cook dishes, explore recipes, and serve hungry customers. Upgrade your kitchen and master strategic cooking in a unique blend of card play and time management!
Why similar: Cooking 26.5%, Card Game 18.1%, Time Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title directly mirrors the card-based cooking and management mechanics found in the seed game.
- #10 Recipe for Disaster
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 719 reviews2022
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
Why similar: Cooking 38.2%, Automation 17%, Management 14.2%, Time Management 13.8%, Resource Management 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This simulation game offers deep control over restaurant management, staffing, and menu creation.
- #11 Travellers Rest
90% matchVery Positive88% of 17,549 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 37.2%, Crafting 30.1%, Resource Management 25.4%, Simulation 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim tasks you with running a tavern, requiring you to craft, cook, and manage resources in a cozy setting.
- #12 Grime&Gold
89% matchNo user reviews95% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: Pemdora
Windows
Fancy some cards, alchemist? Grime & Gold is a small game about stacking and mixing cards to craft strange recipes. Open boosters, delve into dungeons to find rare resources, hire goblins to help you to craft the Holy Grail and save the city, and don't forget to serve your shady clients!
Why similar: Solitaire 21.7% ★, Cooking 21.1%, Automation 15.9%, Card Game 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends card-battler mechanics with cooking and crafting, offering a unique twist on the card-management genre.
- #13 Lemon Cake
89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,041 reviews2021
Dev: Cozy Bee Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Restore an abandoned bakery and prepare pastries from farm to table! Grow fresh ingredients in the greenhouse, cook pastries & sweets in the kitchen and serve your baked goods to hungry customers in your own shop!
Why similar: Cooking 30.5%, Time Management 18.4%, Management 13.7%, Agriculture 11.8% ★, Cute 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cute, casual management game where you bake pastries and serve customers, matching the lighthearted vibe of the seed game.
- #14 Abra-Cooking-Dabra
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Abra-Cooking-Dabra is a cooking card game. Manage ingredients and make British dishes to keep toves, borogoves, and mome raths fed. Meet timers and fulfill puzzling orders despite the angry wacky Cat being your boss. You are Wonderland's new chef.
Why similar: Cooking 24.3%, Card Game 18.4%, Time Management 13.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based cooking game that incorporates time-management and puzzle elements in a cute, magical setting.
- #15 Overcooked! All You Can Eat
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 7,845 reviews2021
Dev: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 69.1%, Cute 10.5%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 5.6%, Casual 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: While more chaotic, it is the gold standard for high-pressure cooking management that tests your organizational skills.
- #16 Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
86% matchVery Positive91% of 2,280 reviews2020
Dev: Vertigo Gaming Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 47.9%, Management 26.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 6.4%, Casual 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced cooking game that focuses on the rhythm and precision of preparing dishes under time constraints.
- #17 Bear and Breakfast
86% matchVery Positive90% of 5,288 reviews2022
Dev: Gummy CatPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.
Why similar: Crafting 32%, Resource Management 21.9%, Management 17.9%, Cute 8.6%, Relaxing 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This management game features a cozy aesthetic and a focus on building and maintaining a hospitality business.
- #18 Moonlighter
85% matchVery Positive82% of 21,806 reviews2018
Dev: Digital SunPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 57.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Exploration 13.8%, 2D 9%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a satisfying loop of gathering resources and managing a shop, which parallels the resource-management aspect of Cookard.
- #19 Paper Kingdom
84% matchMixed60% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: Solitaire 23.1% ★, Card Game 20.7%, City Builder 14.5%, Management 10.9%, Tabletop 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game utilizes a card-based interface for city-building and management, sharing a similar visual and mechanical DNA.
- #20 Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
83% matchVery Positive95% of 52,489 reviews2020
Dev: Thunder Lotus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 39.2%, Crafting 30.7%, Relaxing 13.5%, Exploration 9.7%, Simulation 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: While a management game at heart, its cooking and crafting systems are central to the gameplay loop and very rewarding.
- #21 Dishventory
84% matchVery Positive91% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Final Offer
Windows
Wash piling dirty dishes in this strategic card game! Figure out cool dish combinations and discover new dishes with their own abilities.
Why similar: Card Game 47.9%, Cooking 21.5%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Casual 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that uses cooking themes to create a unique strategic card-based experience.
- #22 Burger Bistro Story
82% matchVery Positive83% of 318 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Open your own diner and create custom burgers in this management sim game.
Why similar: Cooking 46%, City Builder 16.6%, Management 9.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Resource Management 5%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art management sim that tasks you with building a successful burger restaurant from the ground up.
- #23 Dinkum
79% matchVery Positive92% of 28,839 reviews2025
Dev: James BendonPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Why similar: Agriculture 44.5% ★, Crafting 27.3%, Relaxing 8.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Exploration 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This farming and life-sim includes cooking and resource management elements that fit well with the cozy management genre.
- #24 Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
81% matchVery Positive84% of 2,644 reviews2023
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.
Why similar: Cooking 46.7%, Resource Management 18.8%, Management 17.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Relaxing 6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a more realistic take on the cooking and restaurant management experience for those who enjoy the theme.
- #25 Snacktorio
79% matchVery Positive93% of 180 reviews2026
Dev: ellraiserPub: TNgineers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Cooking 32.9%, Automation 27.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Management 13.7%, Simulation 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the automation of food production, appealing to players who enjoy the logistical side of Cookard.
- #26 Coffee Talk
81% matchVery Positive95% of 12,375 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Crafting 48.1%, Relaxing 21.9%, Simulation 15.4%, Casual 10.1%, Singleplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, narrative-driven game that focuses on the relaxing act of brewing drinks for customers.
- #27 Automatic Kingdom
80% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: Card Game 24.1%, Automation 23%, Resource Management 16.9%, Time Management 15.6%, City Builder 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: It uses card-based mechanics to manage a kingdom, focusing on automation and resource allocation.
- #28 Cult of the Lamb
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 124,928 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Cute 56.6%, Strategy 17%, 2D 16.5%, Singleplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: The base-management and cooking mechanics provide a surprisingly deep layer of resource organization alongside its action elements.
- #29 My Universe - Cooking Star Restaurant
82% matchMixed59% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: Old Skull GamesPub: Microids
Windows · Mac
Enter the world of elite gastronomy and manage your own restaurant from A to Z: hospitality, cooking, waitering, you do it all! Learn from the best chefs in the world, prepare the most delicious meals to make your customers happy and become a true cooking star.
Why similar: Cooking 48.7%, Time Management 13.7%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A casual simulation game that focuses on the core loop of cooking and restaurant management for a younger or more relaxed audience.
- #30 Factory Planner
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 378 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Solitaire 24.4% ★, Automation 17.8%, Card Game 14.6%, Crafting 10.8%, Tabletop 9.2%
- #31 Factory Planner: First Sparks
77% matchVery Positive85% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner: First Sparks is a card-based simulation and strategy game. In this Prologue version, build your own factory using strategic card combinations and enjoy a unique sandbox experience.
Why similar: Card Game 20.5%, Solitaire 19.7% ★, Tabletop 13.1%, Automation 11%, Simulation 6.1%
- #32 Service Please
76% matchVery Positive84% of 92 reviews2026
Dev: Dynamic Dice
Windows
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: Cooking 29.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Time Management 12%, Crafting 11.3%
- #33 Coastal Kitchen Simulator
76% matchVery Positive85% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Bewolba Studios
Windows
Cook and serve dishes as you run your own seafood restaurant! Unlock new recipes, grow your kitchen with the help of employees, and satisfy every customer’s craving. Expand your reputation, manage resources wisely, and build a seafood restaurant that becomes the talk of the town.
Why similar: Cooking 38.5%, Time Management 18%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 8.9%
- #34 Farm to Table
74% matchVery Positive92% of 475 reviews2026
Dev: indieGiant
Windows
A farming & restaurant management sim with base building elements. Grow in backyard to cook & serve! Discover new recipes by exploring ingredients on the island; gather, fish, raise animals & produce with machines. Manage resources, hire staff & grow your organic business into a 5-star restaurant!
Why similar: Cooking 26.9%, Automation 17.4%, Agriculture 12.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #35 Tales of Terrarum
75% matchVery Positive85% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Electronic SoulPub: CYSTUDIO
Windows
《Tales of Terrarum》is a management adventure sim game. On the new land of Terrarum, you will inherit a territory as a descendant of the Francz family, and become the town mayor to settle the craftsmen and adventurers who come to the town. You'll live in and expand the town together.
Why similar: Cooking 22.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Agriculture 13.4% ★, Card Game 12.7%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #36 Corner Kitchen Fast Food Simulator
74% matchVery Positive85% of 421 reviews2025
Dev: Purple Heads Games
Windows
Buy cooking equipment, prepare delicious meals, and serve hungry customers. Upgrade your setup, read customer reviews, and expand your business to become the top fast-food joint in the city.
Why similar: Cooking 38.6%, Resource Management 17%, Time Management 16.9%, Management 14.7%, Simulation 5.6%
- #37 The Cooking Game
78% matchMixed59% of 218 reviews2016
Dev: Play Spirit Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Start The Cooking Game, learn to cook, serve and manage your own restaurants. Show your skills and feed the hungry customers!
Why similar: Cooking 50.9%, Simulation 18.5%, Time Management 15.5%, Casual 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic casual cooking sim that focuses on the time-management aspects of serving customers.
- #38 Feastopia
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 263 reviews2026
Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
Windows
Feastopia is a Rogue-lite culinary city-builder, inspired by Against the Storm. Forge a pact with an adorable deity and build a thriving foodie metropolis in a bountiful land. With randomized maps and events, unlock hundreds of wondrous abilities, experience a unique adventure every time you play.
Why similar: Cooking 26.9%, City Builder 21.7%, Agriculture 11.9% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 8.1%
- #39 Drive Thru Simulator : Prologue
75% matchMixed40% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: Red Axe Games
Windows
Drive Thru Simulator is a simulation game that immerses you in the exciting world of fast food restaurant management. Take customer orders, prepare their meals, process payments, and expand your restaurant!
Why similar: Cooking 69.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Casual 5.9%, Automation 5.8%, Crafting 4%
- #40 SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 563 reviews2025
Dev: ATRIC Games
Windows
Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.
Why similar: Cooking 32.1%, Card Game 21.5%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 11.1%, Time Management 8.9%
- #41 Node Farm
73% matchVery Positive83% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: ByerN
Windows
Node Farm is a game about building a fully automated farm using nodes. Connect nodes, harvest and sell veggies, buy new islands, discover new nodes, and automate the process - all in a cozy farm simulation formula!
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Cooking 20.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, City Builder 12.9%, Crafting 11.9%
- #42 Chicken Fries
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 94 reviews2026
Dev: Turquoise Games
Windows
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 46.7%, Management 17.4%, Time Management 13.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 6.5%
- #43 A la Card
71% matchVery Positive97% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Shook Loose
Windows
Buckle up for a food truck deckbuilder boiling over with card mutation mischief, questionable recipes, and limitless synergies.
Why similar: Card Game 41.6%, Cooking 36.6%, Cute 6.8%, Strategy 5.8%, Relaxing 3.7%
- #44 Scrap Collector
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Wibert
Windows
Collect, combine, and automate card production. Discover new areas, resources, and enemies all while growing your mechanized army. Plan ahead before taking on the challenges of the ruptured earth.
Why similar: Card Game 32.5%, Tabletop 20.6%, Management 19.9%, Crafting 17.8%, Strategy 5.2%
- #45 Beastro
69% matchVery Positive92% of 381 reviews2026
Dev: Timberline Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Beastro is a cozy culinary adventure where the fate of the world rests on what's for dinner! Farm and gather fresh ingredients, tackle cooking minigames, and create tasty recipes to fuel the Caretakers for deckbuilding battles as they seek to save the world.
Why similar: Cooking 58.7%, Card Game 31.2%, Cute 6.1%, Casual 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #46 Magic Inn
70% matchVery Positive81% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Purpledoor Studios
Windows
Reclaim glory in Magic Inn, a charming tavern life simulator. Take on the role of an exiled wizard-turned-innkeeper, overseeing everything from menus, rooms, guests, and staff in a fully magical customizable inn. Engage in card battles to spark conversations and foster relationships with guests.
Why similar: Cooking 36.4%, Card Game 19.9%, Crafting 16.6%, Management 14.9%, Simulation 4.3%
- #47 Fast Food Manager
73% matchMixed70% of 266 reviews2021
Dev: Cyber EyePub: UMKA Games
Windows
Launch your own business from scratch! Starting with a small coffee booth, build the most popular food service chain in town. Experiment, develop, make a profit.
Why similar: Cooking 32.9%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 14.6%, Time Management 13.3%, Management 13%
- #48 Farming Fever - Pizza and Burger Cooking game
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 324 reviews2023
Dev: Matryoshka
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Farming Fever is an engaging time management game where you can become both a farmer and a chef at the same time. You'll have to manage your farm, harvest crops, cook, and complete customers' orders.
Why similar: Cooking 39.6%, Time Management 25.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 9.8%, Casual 5.7%
- #49 Omelet You Cook
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,498 reviews2026
Dev: Dan SchumacherPub: SchuBox Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 79.5%, Relaxing 9.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Casual 4%
- #50 Happy Furry Restaurant
69% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Kyeongrok ParkPub: Kinnymoms
Windows
Run your restaurant in the forest full of adorable denizens, and bountiful resources. Cook, serve, and pacify customers. Hire, command, encourage employees. Wipe out trash from your restaurant to keep it clean. Until the day you become chef king.
Why similar: Cooking 72.3%, Cute 11.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Casual 6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #51 The Sushi Spinnery
70% matchVery Positive92% of 411 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!
Why similar: Cooking 48.1%, City Builder 14.6%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #52 The Chef's Shift: First Course
67% matchVery Positive98% of 475 reviews2025
Dev: Panitia GameDevPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
A fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING. Play through the Italian restaurant and get a taste of The Chef's Shift!
Why similar: Cooking 47%, Time Management 23.6%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Cute 5%
- #53 Stacks:Jungle!
70% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: Stacks:Engine
Windows · Linux
Stacks:Jungle is an engaging adventure card game set in the lush heart of the jungle. Unlock new cards with booster packs, combine them to uncover craft recipes, build amazing structures, venture into uncharted territories, make new friends, discover hidden treasures, and so much more!
Why similar: Solitaire 35.1% ★, Card Game 26.3%, Crafting 14.9%, Resource Management 5.2%, Cute 4.5%
- #54 Kokoro Kitchen
67% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: Mango Leaf Games
Windows · Mac
In this delightful farm-to-table cooking game, you’ll restore a cozy Japanese restaurant, cultivate a bountiful garden of fresh ingredients, and prepare mouth-watering Japanese dishes for hungry locals. Use your culinary skills to help bring a little life back to the spirit world!
Why similar: Cooking 38.6%, Time Management 20.6%, Agriculture 10.3% ★, Management 9.1%, Simulation 5.3%
- #55 Coffee Shop Tycoon
68% matchVery Positive85% of 598 reviews2022
Dev: Riff Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Manage your own coffee shop and control every detail to make it the most popular one in town! Roast your own beans and create your recipes. Hire and train your staff, manage your economy and marketing, and destroy your competition to become the ultimate legal coffee monopoly in Coffee Shop Tycoon.
Why similar: Cooking 39.3%, Management 21.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Cute 5.2%
- #56 Cooking Craze
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 377 reviews2024
Dev: MatryoshkaPub: Big Fish Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Cooking Craze is a fast and fun cooking game that lets you explore the cultures of the world through their delicious food! Upgrade your restaurants to serve only the best dishes and use a variety of special boosts to cook your way to victory!
Why similar: Cooking 81.2%, Management 11.2%, Casual 5.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #57 Chef Knight
63% matchNo user reviews95% of 1,275 reviews2026
Dev: Clover Bite
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Cook what you kill in this cozy fantasy incremental game! Dive into dangerous dungeons, harvest fresh monster ingredients, and serve delicious dishes to hungry adventurers. Slay, cook, sell and upgrade your way to a sprawling dungeon-food empire!
Why similar: Cooking 32.6%, Resource Management 23.4%, Management 17.9%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 5.7%
- #58 Cafeteria Nipponica
68% matchVery Positive88% of 157 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Find ingredients, make menus, and run your own restaurant in this sizzling sim!
Why similar: Cooking 46.6%, City Builder 23%, Management 13.7%, Cute 6.8%, Simulation 5.8%
- #59 Rana Card
65% matchVery Positive90% of 1,384 reviews2025
Dev: VisionRanaPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rana Card is a roguelike deck-builder where you play as a farm manager chasing TimeTech's KPI targets. Draw cards in high-stakes moments, survive Time Explosions, and unlock powerful cards. Build your deck, chart your own path, and face branching events and cataclysmic years on the road to success.
Why similar: Card Game 40.7%, Agriculture 22.6% ★, Solitaire 16.5% ★, Strategy 5%, Casual 4.9%
- #60 TasteMaker
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,298 reviews2023
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.
Why similar: Cooking 39.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Management 15.9%, Time Management 13.1%, Simulation 4.6%