- #1 Stacklands
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,480 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 is the definitive card-stacking game that shares the exact core mechanic of combining cards to craft items and manage resources.
- #2 Cardboard Town
96% matchVery Positive80% of 2,205 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 21.1% ★, Card Game 20.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Tabletop 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder utilizes a card-based system for construction and management, capturing the same 'stacking' aesthetic and strategic depth.
- #3 PlateUp!
96% matchVery Positive95% of 26,299 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 59.6%, Management 25.6%, Cute 7.5%, Strategy 3.5%, Casual 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines intense restaurant management with roguelite progression and automation, mirroring the high-pressure cooking loop of Cookard.
- #4 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
94% matchVery Positive93% of 43,576 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 11.0 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 35.8%, Resource Management 20.3%, Management 19.3%, Relaxing 8.2%, Simulation 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on tactile recipe creation and resource management through a unique, stylized interface that feels similar to card-based crafting.
- #5 Automachef
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 913 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 35.9%, Cooking 22.3%, Resource Management 20.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automation and efficiency aspects of cooking, perfect for players who enjoy the logistical side of restaurant management.
- #6 Chef RPG
94% matchVery Positive88% of 2,586 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 44.5%, Management 15%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Simulation 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends deep cooking and restaurant management with an RPG world, offering a more expansive take on the culinary career path.
- #7 Recipe for Disaster
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 718 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 17.1%, Management 14.2%, Time Management 13.8%, Resource Management 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated restaurant management simulator that captures the stress and reward of running a kitchen under pressure.
- #8 Travellers Rest
92% matchVery Positive88% of 17,329 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.9 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 37.4%, Crafting 29.8%, Resource Management 25.4%, Simulation 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: You manage a tavern by crafting recipes, farming ingredients, and serving customers, providing a cozy and immersive management experience.
- #9 Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 31,721 reviews2021
Dev: 二色幽紫蝶
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 34.6 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 8.8%, Casual 5.6%, 2D 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A charming restaurant management game where you gather ingredients and cook dishes to satisfy specific customer requests.
- #10 Lemon Cake
91% matchVery Positive85% of 2,027 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 30.6%, Time Management 18.3%, Management 13.7%, Agriculture 11.7% ★, Cute 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, cute management game where you bake pastries and serve customers, matching the lighthearted tone of Cookard.
- #11 DAVE THE DIVER
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 150,346 reviews2023
Dev: MINTROCKET
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: The restaurant management loop is a core pillar of this game, requiring you to source ingredients and manage a menu in a satisfying, cozy environment.
- #12 Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,782 reviews2017
Dev: Trinket Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 90.8%, Cute 4.5%, 2D 3.6%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines match-three puzzle mechanics with cooking and monster hunting, offering a unique, fast-paced take on culinary gameplay.
- #13 Service Please
89% matchVery Positive84% of 85 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 14.8%, Resource Management 12.2%, Time Management 12%, Crafting 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A time-management game that emphasizes the speed and efficiency required to keep a restaurant running smoothly.
- #14 Burger Bistro Story
88% matchVery Positive83% of 313 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Open your own diner and create custom burgers in this management sim game.
Why similar: Cooking 46%, City Builder 16.5%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Resource Management 5%
Why You'll Like It: Another Kairosoft title that provides a deep, pixel-art management experience centered on building a successful burger chain.
- #15 Abra-Cooking-Dabra
86% matchVery Positive80% of 265 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 12.4%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based cooking game that uses similar mechanics to manage resources and complete culinary tasks.
- #16 Coastal Kitchen Simulator
85% matchVery Positive84% of 139 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%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person cooking simulator that focuses on the hands-on preparation of dishes in a coastal setting.
- #17 The Sushi Spinnery
86% matchVery Positive93% of 410 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!
Why similar: Cooking 48.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Resource Management 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic Kairosoft management game that focuses on the specific logistics of running a sushi restaurant.
- #18 My Universe - Cooking Star Restaurant
87% 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 10.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Simulation 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward cooking and management game that focuses on the core loop of preparing dishes for customers.
- #19 Moonlighter
84% matchVery Positive82% of 21,741 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 58%, Simulation 15%, Exploration 13.7%, 2D 8.9%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: While it features dungeon crawling, the shop management aspect involves organizing and pricing items in a way that feels like a satisfying inventory puzzle.
- #20 Coffee Talk
82% matchVery Positive95% of 12,298 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 48.2%, Relaxing 21.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Casual 10.1%, Singleplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the cozy, relaxing side of drink-making and customer interaction, perfect for players who enjoy the culinary theme.
- #21 Cultist Simulator
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,856 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Card Game 26.9%, Resource Management 17.3%, Tabletop 17.2%, Crafting 16%, Management 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game is built entirely around a card-based verb-and-noun system, offering a more complex and dark take on the mechanics found in Cookard.
- #22 Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
81% matchVery Positive95% of 52,284 reviews2020
Dev: Thunder Lotus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.4 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 39.3%, Crafting 30.7%, Relaxing 13.4%, Exploration 9.6%, Simulation 7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a beautiful management loop that includes cooking and crafting for your passengers in a relaxing, story-driven setting.
- #23 Fast Food Manager
84% 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 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic management experience for those who want to focus on the economy and logistics of running a fast-food kitchen.
- #24 Roots of Pacha
80% matchVery Positive94% of 4,441 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: Crafting 31.9%, Agriculture 29.8% ★, Relaxing 9.7%, Cute 9.5%, Exploration 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: While a farming sim, it features deep crafting and community management systems that reward players for optimizing their resource chains.
- #25 Big Ambitions
79% matchVery Positive93% of 12,848 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Management 44.6%, Time Management 22.6%, Resource Management 21.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive business management simulator that allows you to build and run various types of retail and food establishments.
- #26 Farming Fever - Pizza and Burger Cooking game
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 323 reviews2023
Dev: Matryoshka
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 40%, Time Management 25.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Management 10%, Casual 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines farming and cooking in a time-management format, offering a variety of tasks similar to Cookard.
- #27 Node Farm
79% 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 20.5%, Cooking 20.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, City Builder 12.8%, Crafting 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and resource management in a grid-based system, appealing to the logistical side of Cookard players.
- #28 The Cooking Game
82% matchMixed59% of 216 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 15.6%, Casual 15%
Why You'll Like It: A casual time-management game that focuses on the rapid-fire nature of cooking and serving multiple customers.
- #29 Sizzle & Stack
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 300 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 18.2%, Time Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 9.1%
- #30 Grime&Gold
77% 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 21.6% ★, Cooking 21.1%, Automation 16%, Card Game 12.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #31 Stacks:Jungle!
78% matchVery Positive88% 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 34.9% ★, Card Game 26.4%, Crafting 14.9%, Resource Management 5.3%, Cute 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that uses the same card-stacking mechanics as Cookard, but shifts the focus to exploration and resource gathering.
- #32 Overcooked! All You Can Eat
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 7,727 reviews2021
Dev: Team17 Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 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 7.9%, Strategy 5.7%, Casual 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential chaotic cooking game that tests your ability to manage a kitchen under extreme time pressure.
- #33 Factory Planner
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 342 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 24.3% ★, Automation 17.8%, Card Game 14.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Tabletop 9.1%
- #34 Factory Planner: First Sparks
76% matchVery Positive84% of 116 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 19.6% ★, Tabletop 13.1%, Automation 11.1%, Simulation 6.1%
- #35 Tales of Terrarum
75% matchVery Positive88% of 112 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 13.3% ★, Card Game 12.7%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #36 Farm to Table
74% matchVery Positive93% of 347 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 26.8%, Automation 17.5%, Agriculture 12.1% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #37 Paper Kingdom
75% 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% ★, Card Game 20.7%, City Builder 14.6%, Management 10.9%, Tabletop 10.4%
- #38 Corner Kitchen Fast Food Simulator
73% matchVery Positive86% of 418 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 17.1%, Time Management 16.9%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 5.6%
- #39 Feastopia
73% matchVery Positive80% of 259 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 9.6%, Management 8.1%
- #40 SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 560 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 13.8%, Management 11.2%, Time Management 8.9%
- #41 Drive Thru Simulator : Prologue
74% matchMixed41% of 131 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%, Automation 5.9%, Casual 5.8%, Crafting 4%
- #42 Dishventory
72% 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%
- #43 Automatic Kingdom
71% matchVery Positive89% of 55 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 23.1%, Resource Management 17%, Time Management 15.6%, City Builder 15%
- #44 Chicken Fries
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 87 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 46.6%, Management 17.5%, Time Management 13.4%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 6.5%
- #45 A la Card
71% matchVery Positive97% of 68 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 6.7%, Strategy 5.8%, Relaxing 3.7%
- #46 Scrap Collector
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 124 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 32.6%, Tabletop 20.5%, Management 19.9%, Crafting 17.8%, Strategy 5.2%
- #47 Magic Inn
70% matchVery Positive81% of 76 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 36.2%, Card Game 20%, Crafting 16.6%, Management 15%, Simulation 4.3%
- #48 Omelet You Cook
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,447 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 79.6%, Relaxing 9.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Casual 4%
- #49 The Chef's Shift: First Course
68% matchVery Positive98% of 464 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%
- #50 Kokoro Kitchen
69% matchVery Positive91% of 92 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 20.7%, Agriculture 10.2% ★, Management 9.1%, Simulation 5.3%
- #51 Coffee Shop Tycoon
70% 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 12.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Cute 5.1%
- #52 Cooking Craze
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 362 reviews2024
Dev: MatryoshkaPub: Big Fish Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 80.9%, Management 11.4%, Casual 5.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #53 Cafeteria Nipponica
69% matchVery Positive88% of 154 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Find ingredients, make menus, and run your own restaurant in this sizzling sim!
Why similar: Cooking 46.7%, City Builder 22.9%, Management 13.7%, Cute 6.7%, Simulation 5.8%
- #54 Rana Card
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,373 reviews2025
Dev: VisionRanaPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 8.8 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 41.2%, Agriculture 22.6% ★, Solitaire 15.8% ★, Strategy 5.2%, Casual 5.1%
- #55 Star Chef 2: Cooking Game
70% matchMixed70% of 563 reviews2021
Dev: 99Games Online Private Limited
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Kitchen Simulation | Learn Cuisines | Cook Delicious Food | Become A Chef
Why similar: Cooking 36.8%, City Builder 19.6%, Time Management 18.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Simulation 6%
- #56 TasteMaker
68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,298 reviews2023
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 2.9 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 16%, Time Management 13.1%, Simulation 4.6%
- #57 Parisian Brasserie Simulator
65% matchVery Positive94% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: Quark Studios
Windows
Manage your own brasserie in Paris and turn it into the place to be! Create menus, serve customers, and master every detail to grow your restaurant. Manage supplies, ensure top-notch service, and make your mark on the city of lights. Will you become the next Parisian brasserie institution?
Why similar: Cooking 44.4%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Cute 9.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #58 Kitchen Sync: Aloha!
66% matchVery Positive99% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Lemonpepper Games
Windows · Mac
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 33.5%, Crafting 17%, Time Management 16%, Management 13.5%, Cute 5.2%
- #59 Cafe Dash: Cooking, Diner Game
67% matchVery Positive92% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: Friedegggames OUPub: Brightika, Inc.
Windows
🍽️🍕Your dream restaurants and cafes awaits! ❤️ Addictive levels and unique locations ✈️ Hours of entertainment in the time-management genre ⏰
Why similar: Simulation 53%, Casual 32.2%, Cooking 6.7%, Time Management 4.8%, Management 2.3%
- #60 Bakery Simulator
68% matchMixed67% of 2,320 reviews2022
Dev: Live Motion GamesPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.
Why similar: Cooking 29.5%, Time Management 18.9%, Crafting 14.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 9.8%