- #1 Cuisineer
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,050 reviews2023
Dev: BattleBrew ProductionsPub: Marvelous Europe
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 49.9%, Dungeon Crawler 28.2%, Action Roguelike 22%
Why You'll Like It: A direct match for the action-roguelite and cooking management loop, featuring a charming fantasy setting.
- #2 Dungeon Munchies
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,125 reviews2022
Dev: maJAJa
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Hunt down monsters to cook and eat them! You’ve been revived in a massive underground complex and you must leave this bizarre facility. Aided by the undead Necro-Chef Simmer, you must stay safe, get fed, find a way to get out
Why similar: Cooking 74.2%, Action 11.3%, 2D 10.2%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core premise of gathering ingredients from dangerous dungeon monsters to craft and serve unique dishes.
- #3 Godlike Burger
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,046 reviews2022
Dev: Liquid PugPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In Godlike Burger you run the craziest restaurant of the galaxy! Stun, poison and kill customers in many devious ways… and turn them into burger meat! And don’t worry: Alien customers will keep coming if you are smart about it, because cannibalism is just too damn tasty.
Why similar: Cooking 37.2%, Time Management 22.1%, Resource Management 16.6%, Roguelike 13.2%, Strategy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the dark, frantic humor of running a restaurant where the ingredients are sourced in unconventional and violent ways.
- #4 PlateUp!
95% 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 57.3%, Roguelike 19.5%, Action Roguelike 13.2%, Strategy 6.1%, Action 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite cooking game emphasizes restaurant management and procedural upgrades that feel very similar to the seed's progression.
- #5 Ravenous Devils
94% matchVery Positive93% of 9,704 reviews2022
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.
Why similar: Cooking 41.3%, Time Management 20.8%, Resource Management 19.2%, Dark Humor 17.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim features a dark, villainous protagonist running a kitchen that relies on questionable resource acquisition.
- #6 Hungry Horrors
94% matchVery Positive98% of 243 reviews2026
Dev: Clumsy Bear Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Feed legendary Horrors before they feed on the princess. Hungry Horrors is a roguelite card-based adventure through British and Irish mythology where you cook traditional dishes, build flavour synergies and serve the perfect meal. No prince. No servants. Just a recipe book and a talking cat.
Why similar: Cooking 30.2%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 26.3% ★, Deckbuilding 21.8%, Dungeon Crawler 14.6%, Strategy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the dark humor and card-based cooking mechanics found in the seed.
- #7 Omelet You Cook
93% 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: Roguelike Deckbuilder 31.9% ★, Cooking 27.2%, Deckbuilding 14.1%, Action Roguelike 11.2%, Roguelike 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes roguelike-deckbuilder mechanics to simulate the chaos and strategy of a professional kitchen.
- #8 Dishventory
92% 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: Roguelike Deckbuilder 39.3% ★, Deckbuilding 23.2%, Roguelike 14.7%, Cooking 11.3%, Strategy 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A strong match for the deckbuilding and roguelike mechanics applied to a culinary theme.
- #9 DAVE THE DIVER
91% 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: Crafting 62.5%, 2D 15.9%, Action 11.7%, Singleplayer 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It masterfully balances deep-sea exploration and combat with the management of a high-end sushi restaurant.
- #10 A la Card
91% 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: Roguelike Deckbuilder 38.6% ★, Cooking 20.2%, Deckbuilding 19%, Roguelike 13%, Strategy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the deckbuilding aspect of restaurant management, mirroring the seed's strategic depth.
- #11 Shokudo Underworld
90% matchVery Positive83% of 268 reviews2024
Dev: Miluku Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 55.3%, Time Management 29.7%, Crafting 14.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a cozy yet fantasy-driven cooking experience that fits the 'underworld' theme of the seed.
- #12 Chef RPG
89% 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 59%, Resource Management 19.5%, Crafting 18.5%, 2D 3%
Why You'll Like It: This life-sim focuses on cooking and exploration, providing a more relaxed but still deep management experience.
- #13 The Chef's Shift
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,719 reviews2025
Dev: Panitia GameDevPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
The Chef’s Shift is a fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING.
Why similar: Job Simulator 30.9% ★, Cooking 29.1%, Time Management 18.3%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Strategy 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the time-management and high-pressure aspects of working in a kitchen.
- #14 Dungeon Clawler
86% matchVery Positive89% of 3,740 reviews2026
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 35.1% ★, Deckbuilding 18.1%, Dungeon Crawler 15.9%, Roguelike 11.2%, Retro 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar roguelite experience with a retro aesthetic and strategic deckbuilding elements.
- #15 Rolling Hills: Cozy Sushi Restaurant
88% matchVery Positive89% of 179 reviews2024
Dev: Catch & Release, LLCPub: Balor Games
Windows
Manage your own sushi restaurant! Collect and upgrade dishes, personalize your dining room, and use special abilities to serve customers in a dash.
Why similar: Job Simulator 43.6% ★, Cooking 32.7%, Time Management 22.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: It specifically focuses on sushi restaurant management with a charming, wholesome aesthetic.
- #16 Space Chef
87% matchVery Positive80% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: Blue Goo GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
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 45.8%, Resource Management 31%, Crafting 19.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game features action-oriented combat and resource management in a colorful, sci-fi cooking setting.
- #17 Travellers Rest
86% 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: Crafting 51.2%, Resource Management 44%, Singleplayer 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This fantasy tavern management game includes deep cooking and resource-gathering mechanics in a similar setting.
- #18 Moonlighter
85% 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: Dungeon Crawler 38.4%, Action Roguelike 25%, Roguelike 24.1%, Action 5.1%, 2D 5%
Why You'll Like It: While the shop is an item store, the loop of dungeon crawling by night and management by day is a perfect thematic parallel.
- #19 Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
84% matchVery Positive91% of 2,271 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 63.1%, Strategy 15.4%, 2D 9.6%, Action 8.9%, Singleplayer 3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the ultimate test of time-management skills in a high-pressure, fast-paced culinary environment.
- #20 The Sushi Spinnery
84% 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 71.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Resource Management 8.1%, 2D 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated sushi restaurant management simulation that focuses on menu expansion and customer satisfaction.
- #21 Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
82% 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 46.1%, Time Management 34.2%, Cartoon 15%, 2D 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features extensive cooking and restaurant management mechanics within a vibrant fantasy world.
- #22 Cult of the Lamb
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 123,767 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 25.3 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: Dungeon Crawler 30.2%, Dark Humor 27.8%, Action Roguelike 25.2%, Strategy 5.6%, 2D 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends management and base-building with roguelite dungeon crawling, capturing the 'goblin-like' management chaos.
- #23 Epic Chef
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 751 reviews2021
Dev: Infinigon GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Get ready to embark on a comedic culinary quest unlike any other as you take on the role of Zest in this story-driven adventure game; from humble beginnings you will build a farm, grow delectable ingredients, craft machinery and cook your way to becoming the most Epic Chef in Ambrosia!
Why similar: Cooking 61.8%, Crafting 21.1%, Cartoon 15.2%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines a quirky story with cooking battles and resource management in a humorous fantasy world.
- #24 Goblin Cleanup
80% matchVery Positive89% of 2,043 reviews2025
Dev: Crisalu GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A co-op cleaning game where you have to clean and rearrange a dungeon before the next adventurers come to complete it again.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 86.5%, Singleplayer 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the goblin theme and simulation elements, focusing on the messy aftermath of dungeon adventures.
- #25 Dungeon Inn
81% matchVery Positive94% of 658 reviews2024
Dev: Cat SocietyPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows · Mac
This is a cozy strategy management game where you manage an inn placed cleverly at the mouth of a dungeon. Juggle visits and business from 2 rivaling guilds, maximize profits, but keep your double-dealing a secret! Keep everyone happy and watch your inn thrive!
Why similar: Time Management 41.5%, Resource Management 35.1%, Strategy 13.1%, 2D 7%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management side of a fantasy dungeon business, sharing the seed's setting and strategic focus.
- #26 KuloNiku: Bowl Up!
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,668 reviews2026
Dev: Gambir StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Prep your stations for a cozy cooking game with attitude! Prepare unique meals for quirky small-town locals, upgrade and customize your shop, compete in thrilling cooking battles to become top chef, and protect your family’s long-running restaurant alongside a cast of curious companions!
Why similar: Job Simulator 38.3% ★, Cooking 29.5%, Time Management 18.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #27 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
79% 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 55.3%, Resource Management 31.5%, 2D 7.8%, Singleplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on potions, the resource management and crafting loop feels very similar to the seed's menu-building.
- #28 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,457 reviews2010
Dev: EasyGameStationPub: Carpe Fulgur LLC
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Dungeon Crawler 84.4%, Strategy 5.7%, Singleplayer 5.1%, Action 2.8%, 2D 2%
Why You'll Like It: A classic title that defined the loop of dungeon exploration to gather goods for a management-focused shop.
- #29 Restaurats
76% matchVery Positive88% of 1,939 reviews2025
Dev: toR StudioPub: Polden Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Lead a medieval restaurant with a team of rats like you! Cook the food, throw it at the guests, wipe the drinks under the skeletons! Become a legendary rat chef, proving to orcs and vampires that the most delicious bloody meat is served in your restaurant!
Why similar: Cooking 60.4%, Resource Management 17.2%, Roguelike 14%, Strategy 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #30 Feed the Cups
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 6,209 reviews2024
Dev: Vambear GamesPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 39.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Feed the Cups is a Roguelite multiplayer online cooperative game. Run a Drink Shop, stocking up, preparing ingredients, taking orders, crafting drinks, cleaning up, and checking equipment. Join your friends together!
Why similar: Job Simulator 30.3% ★, Cooking 28.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Action Roguelike 10.4%, Cartoon 10.3%
- #31 The Way of the Tray: Japanese Restaurant Simulator 🍙
77% matchVery Positive82% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Who is Terry?Pub: Targem Games
Windows
The Way of the Tray is a waiter simulator with action puzzle elements in a Japanese spirit world setting. Your task is to master the skill of serving dishes and earn the trust of yokai patrons. Will you be able to prove yourself and find your way home?
Why similar: Job Simulator 37.4% ★, Cooking 33.4%, Time Management 15.6%, Cartoon 7.7%, 2D 3%
- #32 Overcooked! All You Can Eat
79% 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 84%, Strategy 12.5%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for chaotic, time-management-focused kitchen gameplay.
- #33 Shawarma Legend
75% matchVery Positive92% of 7,360 reviews2024
Dev: Eyad AlshafeiPub: Patates Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
🌯 Shawarma Legend !! A real simulation of a shawarma restaurant !!
Why similar: Cooking 42.7%, Time Management 24.2%, Cartoon 11.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Crafting 7.3%
- #34 Human Fast Food
76% matchVery Positive91% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Bricchi Games
Windows
A cooking simulator where you run an underground fast food for monsters and serve them with human meat. Improve your kitchen appliances, unlock new recipes, manage your stock and keep the monsters well fed.
Why similar: Cooking 45.6%, Time Management 29.3%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #35 Delicious Dungeon
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Cauldron
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Action Roguelike 21.8%, Roguelike 19.9%, Cooking 19.9%, Cartoon 16.5%, Crafting 10.7%
- #36 More Sushi!
73% matchVery Positive90% of 155 reviews2025
Dev: pixelqube
Windows
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: Cooking 70.8%, Resource Management 17.3%, 2D 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #37 Grime&Gold
73% 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: Cooking 35.6%, Crafting 16.7%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%
- #38 Sizzle & Stack
74% 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 39.3%, Time Management 20.1%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Strategy 6.2%
- #39 Body Sushi
72% matchVery Positive96% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: AOTINA Technology Innovations Ltd.
Windows
Make sushi. With waifus.Create eye-catching, sexy sushi platters in this playful and sensual simulator.Run a sushi restaurant where the serving plate… is a person.Serve VIP guests, carefully arrange your dishes, and unlock new waifus in this unique body-plating experience.
Why similar: Cooking 61.9%, Time Management 38.1%
- #40 Sushi Clicker
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: NushiPub: Nushi Studio
Windows
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: Cooking 48.9%, Cartoon 26.3%, Strategy 13.8%, 2D 7.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #41 Monster Meals
72% matchVery Positive99% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Giant Warrior StudioPub: GoGo Games Interactive
Windows
Monster Meals is a fast-paced cooking game where you and a friend control monster chefs in a food truck, preparing meals with exotic creatures for monstrous customers. Play solo, local co-op, or online co-op—but serve quickly, or you’ll be on the menu!
Why similar: Cooking 57.3%, Time Management 33.4%, Action 5.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #42 Coastal Kitchen Simulator
71% 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 44.5%, Time Management 25.5%, Resource Management 15.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #43 The Ramen Sensei
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 185 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build the ultimate bowl to leap past your ramen rivals and achieve greatness!
Why similar: Cooking 61.7%, Strategy 14.8%, Resource Management 8.2%, 2D 7.3%, Retro 6.5%
- #44 Goblin Vyke: The Thief Tycoon
70% matchMixed69% of 1,298 reviews2026
Dev: Art Thieves
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
At night, you're a thief, sneaking into dungeons to steal goods. By day, you're a cunning merchant, haggle to sell at high prices. Master the art of stealth, steal the Demon Lord's hidden treasures. Recruit employees, expand your business. Grow from a penniless goblin to a black market tycoon!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 49.3%, Dark Humor 31.7%, Roguelike 10.8%, 2D 5.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #45 Tavern Manager Simulator 🍻
70% matchVery Positive92% of 4,372 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!
Why similar: Job Simulator 46% ★, Cooking 32.6%, Resource Management 19.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #46 Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Octo Games studio
Windows
Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead. Cook grotesque meals, serve hungry zombie patrons, and blast those who lose patience. Survival, management, and dark humor all on the menu!
Why similar: Job Simulator 44.7% ★, Cooking 33.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Action 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #47 The Chef's Shift: First Course
69% 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 45.8%, Time Management 28.2%, Dark Humor 20.1%, 2D 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #48 Burger Shop 3
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 577 reviews2023
Dev: GoBit Games
Windows · Mac
Make tasty food items to serve hungry customers in this fast-paced sequel to the amazing food making games Burger Shop 1 & 2!
Why similar: Cooking 55.3%, Time Management 33.6%, Action 5.6%, 2D 4.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #49 Go! Go! Hamster Chef!
68% matchVery Positive98% of 335 reviews2024
Dev: Loafsoft
Windows
Help Hamster Chef cook yummy dishes and deliver them to his animal pals in this short, colorful, and definitely-not-spooky adventure.
Why similar: Cooking 50.7%, Dark Humor 21.7%, Crafting 20.3%, Retro 7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #50 Food Wagon
69% matchVery Positive84% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Luminous Tales
Windows
"Awaken the Forbidden Flavors of the Gods!" Join Lanya, the adorable and charming chef-hero, on a forbidden culinary adventure in another world! Hunt, gather, and cook to grow stronger and challenge the authority of the gods. Cooking is freedom! A roguelike action RPG to satisfy everyone's tastes!
Why similar: Cooking 63.7%, Action Roguelike 29.7%, Action 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #51 A Kobold Story : Trenchcoat Adventurer
68% matchVery Positive100% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Crystal Spider Games
Windows
Join three hungry Kobolds (and several Trenchcoats) in a hand-drawn, classical dungeon-crawling adventure to be Great Heroes - but mostly to find Shiny Things and Eat Good Food!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 61%, Retro 35%, Singleplayer 4%
- #52 Goblin and Coins
73% matchVery Positive89% of 107 reviews2016
Dev: Nikola Bulj
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Run and jump, collect coins, confront enemies and avoid traps, open gates and find secret stashes. It's a simple 2D platformer with a twist: You're not a hero from the castle about to slay an evil dragon, you're a goblin cook working for the dragon! It starts slowly but things get complicated.
Why similar: Cooking 78.4%, 2D 10.1%, Action 8.8%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #53 Foodslingers
67% matchVery Positive97% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Ardent GamesPub: Kenny Doan
Windows · Mac
Cook, run, jump, and throw— all in the name of FoodCorp. This chaotic, physics-based spin on the classic cooking formula demands speed, strategy, and just the right amount of panic! Play with up to 4 friends and try to run the restaurant smoothly... or let it all go up in flames.
Why similar: Cooking 84.8%, Action 8.9%, Strategy 4.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #54 Another Farm Roguelike
70% matchVery Positive82% of 465 reviews2022
Dev: Zabbo Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.
Why similar: Cooking 24.9%, Crafting 22.4%, Roguelike 21.3%, Resource Management 18.1%, Strategy 10.5%
- #55 Cook, Serve, Delicious!
71% matchVery Positive94% of 5,705 reviews2013
Dev: Vertigo Gaming Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hungry? Take your restaurant from a one star abomination to a five star wonder in Cook, Serve, Delicious! Plan your menu, upgrade your equipment, and master challenges with easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay!
Why similar: Cooking 49.3%, Time Management 33.2%, Strategy 9.4%, 2D 5.9%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #56 Dog And Goblin
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: ZonyPub: OKJOY
Windows
Dog and Goblin is an auto-battler Roguelike deck-building strategy game where you assemble a mixed army to stand against humans. With nearly 150 units across 19 different types, build your ultimate army and conquer their castles!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 43.3% ★, Deckbuilding 24.7%, Roguelike 13.8%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 6.6%
- #57 GHUNTER
67% matchVery Positive91% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Tavern
Windows
Become Ghunter, a cook gnome that will create dishes by cooking creatures... ALIVE!! Use your various cooking based weapons to cook your prey alive and brutally finish them off with your multi-purpose melee weapon! Save the Kingdom by submitting your delicious dishes!
Why similar: Cooking 84.9%, Action 11.1%, Singleplayer 4%
- #58 Goblin Nest
64% matchVery Positive95% of 842 reviews2026
Dev: BadColorPub: Shady Corner Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Manage population's mood, gold and rations. Figure out ways to optimize cell placements for efficiency. Grow and decorate your nest into a multi layer, self sustaining factory.
Why similar: Resource Management 47.4%, Strategy 21.5%, Retro 17.9%, 2D 9.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #59 PIT OF GOBLIN
66% matchVery Positive85% of 1,064 reviews2024
Dev: Friendly Foe
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
In this online horror co-op, you play as a scrappy goblin, scavenging dungeons, dodging traps, and fleeing monsters to feed the Goblin King-Queen. Team up with goblin pals, or go rogue, as you dive deep and cause chaos! Fail to feed them, and you might be the next meal!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 77.9%, Action 22.1%
- #60 Skewer Squad
65% matchVery Positive91% of 464 reviews2026
Dev: Fake OwlsPub: HARRISONWORLD CO.,LTD
Windows
Skewer Squad is a cute yet chaotic tower defense roguelite. Step into the apron of a Grillmaster, draft random ingredients, mix wild seasonings, and build a squad of skewers that are both delicious and powerful to defend your grill.
Why similar: Cooking 39.1%, Action Roguelike 20.3%, Roguelike 20.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Action 5.2%