- #1 Ravenous Devils
97% matchVery Positive93% of 9,609 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 27%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Crime 18.3%, Time Management 13.5%, Resource Management 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the dark, criminal cooking theme where you turn customers into ingredients for your shop.
- #2 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,463 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
Why similar: Crime 28.9%, Resource Management 17.5%, Isometric 10.9%, Management 10.7%, Comedy 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim focuses on running a legitimate business as a front for a criminal enterprise, much like the illicit activities in Godlike Burger.
- #3 PlateUp!
96% matchVery Positive95% of 25,910 reviews2022
Dev: It's happeningPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.5 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 52.3%, Roguelike 15.1%, Management 15.1%, Funny 9.2%, Strategy 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines intense restaurant management with roguelike progression and chaotic kitchen gameplay.
- #4 Happy's Humble Burger Farm
95% matchVery Positive93% of 1,953 reviews2021
Dev: Scythe Dev TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.
Why similar: Time Management 65.4%, Management 25.9%, Action 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, unsettling take on the burger shop genre that leans heavily into horror and bizarre management tasks.
- #5 Basement
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,215 reviews2019
Dev: Halfbus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.
Why similar: Crime 29.8%, Dark Comedy 27.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty management strategy game where you must build an illegal empire while defending your turf.
- #6 Kitchen Crisis
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 319 reviews2024
Dev: Team Samoyed
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kitchen Crisis is a culinary defense game. You are abducted by aliens and must satisfy their appetite. If you want to live to see another day, efficiently arrange your cooking appliances, upgrade your ingredients and tools! In order to survive, make wise decisions according to everchaning recipes.
Why similar: Cooking 39.6%, Roguelike 19.1%, Isometric 13.5%, Space 12.6%, Funny 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelike tower-defense hybrid where you must manage kitchen resources to survive waves of hungry customers.
- #7 Epic Chef
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 748 reviews2021
Dev: Infinigon GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 13.3 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 53.1%, Comedy 15.6%, Funny 13.7%, Cartoony 7.6%, Colorful 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a humorous, story-driven approach to cooking with quirky characters and eccentric culinary challenges.
- #8 Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
92% matchVery Positive91% of 2,256 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 38.7%, Management 14.4%, Comedy 14.1%, Funny 13.2%, Strategy 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the high-octane, precision-based cooking action that fans of time-management games crave.
- #9 Bakso Simulator
91% matchVery Positive91% of 1,670 reviews2022
Dev: Akhir Pekan Studio
Windows
Create the most successful bakso business in this world!
Why similar: Cooking 36.7%, Resource Management 17.6%, Aliens 15.9%, Management 9.3%, Comedy 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A quirky cooking and management sim that requires balancing customer satisfaction with business growth.
- #10 Automachef
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 908 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: Cooking 31.7%, Resource Management 28.3%, Simulation 15.3%, Funny 14.3%, Management 6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the puzzle-like automation of cooking, perfect for those who enjoy the strategic side of restaurant management.
- #11 Cult of the Lamb
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 121,567 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 24.9 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: Funny 37.5%, Strategy 21.3%, Colorful 16.4%, Action 12.8%, Singleplayer 12%
Why You'll Like It: Blends dark, occult themes with base-building and management, capturing the same 'sinister management' vibe.
- #12 Dungeon Tycoon
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,751 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: Management 39%, Strategy 24.2%, Colorful 15.9%, Simulation 14%, Singleplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a dungeon business, providing a similar strategic management feel with a fantasy twist.
- #13 Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?!
90% matchMixed55% of 198 reviews2017
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! is a whacky hell-themed cooking management sim where you take on the role of a chef in an Afterlife populated by potatoes!
Why similar: Strategy 47.2%, Simulation 29.2%, Management 23.6%
Why You'll Like It: A management game filled with dark humor and absurd scenarios that match the tone of Godlike Burger.
- #14 Graveyard Keeper
88% matchVery Positive86% of 46,799 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 31.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Management 62.6%, Simulation 26.1%, Singleplayer 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a dark, comedic take on resource management where you must handle corpses to keep your business running.
- #15 Galaxy Burger
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,642 reviews2024
Dev: Galactic Workshop
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
🌴👩🍳🍔 A stress-free cooking game that lets you relax! Cook up burgers for mecha cats and aliens. Play solo or with up to 7 friends!
Why similar: Cooking 40.3%, Time Management 14.9%, Management 8.4%, Funny 8.3%, Cartoony 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, space-themed cooking game that focuses on the fun of serving alien customers.
- #16 Recipe for Disaster
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 714 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 44.6%, Time Management 19.5%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Isometric 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A restaurant management sim that focuses on the chaotic nature of staff dynamics and customer demands.
- #17 Human Fast Food
86% matchVery Positive93% 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 39.5%, Time Management 25.1%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 8.8%, Cartoony 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the economy and time-management aspects of running a food business.
- #18 Shawarma Legend
84% matchVery Positive92% of 7,229 reviews2024
Dev: Eyad AlshafeiPub: Patates Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
🌯 Shawarma Legend !! A real simulation of a shawarma restaurant !!
Why similar: Cooking 39.6%, Time Management 22.4%, Resource Management 7.7%, Comedy 6.2%, Funny 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A focused simulation game that captures the daily grind of managing a specific food stall.
- #19 Space Chef
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 129 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 27.1%, Resource Management 17.5%, Aliens 12.7%, Space 10.6%, Cartoony 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An adventure-filled cooking game that requires gathering ingredients across the galaxy to create unique dishes.
- #20 Overcooked! All You Can Eat
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 7,490 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 62.1%, Funny 14.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Colorful 6.6%, Simulation 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for chaotic, high-pressure kitchen management that tests your ability to multitask under stress.
- #21 The Chef's Shift
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,491 reviews2025
Dev: Panitia GameDevPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Cooking 33.6%, Crime 23.4%, Time Management 21%, Management 7.4%, Funny 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines cooking and typing mechanics with a criminal undercurrent that feels familiar to the seed game.
- #22 Burger Bistro Story
83% matchVery Positive83% of 306 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Open your own diner and create custom burgers in this management sim game.
Why similar: Cooking 61.5%, Strategy 11%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 7%, Resource Management 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming pixel-art management game that focuses on building the ultimate burger empire.
- #23 Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 3,366 reviews2024
Dev: Flipline Studios
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Top, bake, and serve delicious pizzas in Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe! Craft pizzas for Papa Louie's loyal customers while earning tips, points, and Special Recipes. Unlock holiday ingredients for seasonal pies, and take a trip in the Food Truck to serve your own unique creations!
Why similar: Cooking 49.3%, Time Management 25.1%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic time-management game that tests your ability to handle complex orders and keep customers happy.
- #24 Drug Dealer Simulator
81% matchVery Positive86% of 20,822 reviews2020
Dev: ByterunnersPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
Why similar: Crime 42.4%, Resource Management 15.2%, Dark Comedy 11.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Management 7%
Why You'll Like It: A crime-focused management game that emphasizes the risks and rewards of running an illicit operation.
- #25 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
79% matchVery Positive93% of 42,947 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 10.9 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: Resource Management 46.9%, Management 30%, Simulation 14%, Singleplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the resource-gathering and crafting aspects of management with a distinct, stylized aesthetic.
- #26 Fast Food Manager
82% 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 39.2%, Time Management 19.3%, Resource Management 18.1%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward management sim that challenges you to optimize your fast-food business for maximum profit.
- #27 Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,478 reviews2020
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.
Why similar: Cooking 53.5%, Management 26.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Isometric 8.6%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, realistic simulation of restaurant management for those who want to focus on the business side.
- #28 Two Point Hospital
79% matchVery Positive92% of 34,380 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Management 33.1%, Funny 16.2%, Simulation 15.7%, Comedy 12.7%, Strategy 9%
Why You'll Like It: While less violent, it captures the humorous, high-pressure management style of keeping a facility running smoothly.
- #29 Restaurats
77% matchVery Positive91% of 1,641 reviews2025
Dev: toR StudioPub: Polden Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.6 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 40.3%, Comedy 11.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Funny 10.6%, Management 9.6%
- #30 Tavern Master
78% matchVery Positive92% of 12,821 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Why similar: Resource Management 30.4%, Management 28.1%, Time Management 20%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet engaging management game where you build and run a medieval tavern from the ground up.
- #31 Goblin Sushi
76% matchVery Positive92% of 324 reviews2026
Dev: Old Cake FactoryPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac · Linux
A goblin as a sushi chef? Why not! But hurry up rent is due in minutes! Upgrade the restaurant, the menu and your ingredients to feed your fellow goblins the best and most expensive sushi any goblin can find in the cave!
Why similar: Cooking 36.9%, Time Management 22.1%, Resource Management 16.9%, Roguelike 13.2%, Strategy 5.8%
- #32 Papers, Please
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,508 reviews2013
Dev: Lucas PopePub: 3909
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Why similar: Simulation 49.7%, Strategy 27%, Singleplayer 23.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game that forces you to make difficult moral choices while under constant time pressure.
- #33 Cook Serve Forever
77% matchMixed67% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Vertigo Gaming Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Bathe in the sights, sounds, and smells of Cook Serve Forever, a narrative-focused cooking adventure where you serve food to the hungry masses on your quest for greatness.
Why similar: Cooking 40.3%, Time Management 27.6%, Funny 10.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Colorful 5%
- #34 SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off
76% matchMixed63% of 115 reviews2025
Dev: Entalto StudiosPub: Tilting Point
Windows · Mac
Let’s Get Cookin’! Team up with SpongeBob SquarePants for a laugh-out-loud, fast-paced cooking adventure in Bikini Bottom. Test your time-management skills, serve iconic customers, and fire up the grill in nonstop kitchen chaos!
Why similar: Cooking 34.7%, Time Management 17.8%, Comedy 9.5%, Cartoony 9%, Funny 8.3%
- #35 The Chef's Shift: First Course
74% matchVery Positive98% of 440 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 35%, Crime 23.8%, Time Management 21.4%, Management 6.6%, Funny 5.8%
- #36 The Way of the Tray: Japanese Restaurant Simulator 🍙
74% matchVery Positive82% of 78 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: Cooking 39.2%, Time Management 18.1%, Cartoony 9.2%, Funny 8.4%, Comedy 8.2%
- #37 Coastal Kitchen Simulator
73% matchVery Positive85% of 130 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 44.8%, Time Management 25.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Management 6.9%
- #38 Burger Bots Inc.
73% matchVery Positive95% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Normogames
Windows
An online co-op burger flipping game with scary and strange customers that you shouldn't anger.
Why similar: Cooking 44.4%, Time Management 20.4%, Comedy 13%, Funny 9.6%, Space 9.4%
- #39 Cook, Serve, Delicious!
75% matchVery Positive94% of 5,698 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 35.9%, Time Management 23.9%, Comedy 9.9%, Funny 9.5%, Management 9.3%
- #40 Hotdog: The Videogame
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Tenth Horizon Games
Windows
Solo or with friends, manage multiple hot dog stands in a dynamic and realistic business simulator. Sell fast food, customize it with unique toppings, upgrade your equipment and buy your dreamed restaurant. Serve demanding customers against the clock to achieve efficient greatness.
Why similar: Cooking 52.4%, Time Management 18.8%, Resource Management 7.7%, Simulation 6.4%, Management 6.1%
- #41 Burger Shop 3
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 549 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 53.4%, Time Management 32.3%, Colorful 4.8%, Simulation 4.1%, Action 4%
- #42 My Universe - Cooking Star Restaurant
75% matchMixed60% of 50 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 51.5%, Time Management 17.6%, Resource Management 9%, Management 7.6%, Cartoony 5.3%
- #43 Corner Kitchen Fast Food Simulator
71% matchVery Positive86% of 410 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 41.8%, Time Management 22.3%, Resource Management 18.3%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 4.8%
- #44 SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 556 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 40%, Resource Management 17%, Time Management 13.5%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #45 Sizzle & Stack
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 296 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 41.3%, Time Management 20.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 9.5%, Strategy 5.9%
- #46 Burger Shop
72% matchVery Positive99% of 359 reviews2017
Dev: GoBit Games
Windows · Mac
Make burgers, shakes and more in this exciting food-making game that has been enjoyed by millions of fans everywhere.
Why similar: Cooking 41.6%, Time Management 29.7%, Simulation 15.6%, Action 13.2%
- #47 Cooking Simulator
71% matchVery Positive85% of 19,369 reviews2019
Dev: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.
Why similar: Cooking 65.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Funny 7.9%, Resource Management 6%, Management 4.8%
- #48 Nonentity Galaxy
67% matchVery Positive95% of 493 reviews2026
Dev: Brick-Up StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your company's relentless profit margins. Warning: Contains lethal doses of dark humor and corporate exploitation.
Why similar: Resource Management 27.4%, Space 22.5%, Roguelike 20.4%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 10.3%
- #49 TasteMaker
70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,294 reviews2023
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 46.8%, Time Management 18.9%, Management 12.6%, Isometric 10.5%, Strategy 6.9%
- #50 Blood Bar Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 781 reviews2025
Dev: Clever Trickster StudioPub: Clever Trickster Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 41.9%, Comedy 15.8%, Funny 14.4%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 9.6%
- #51 Chicken Fries
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 78 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 50.8%, Time Management 17.6%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 5.7%
- #52 Make the Burger
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Creative Hand
Windows
Make burgers with assorted ingredients, memorize orders and be quick before time runs out. Make your customers happy by eating delicious hamburgers, but remember, nobody likes to get wrong orders.
Why similar: Cooking 73.7%, Funny 15.9%, Colorful 7.4%, Singleplayer 3%
- #53 Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 64 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: Cooking 51.4%, Resource Management 22.1%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Action 5.3%
- #54 Alien Market Simulator
67% matchVery Positive91% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: Silly Sloth StudiosPub: Shadow Owl Studios
Windows
Run a market on your space station. Restore and upgrade the station, expand your services, and sell to a variety of alien customers. Experience the challenge of managing a business in space and growing your market
Why similar: Time Management 28.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Aliens 13.5%, Space 13.2%, Management 13%
- #55 Honey, I Joined a Cult
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,875 reviews2022
Dev: Sole Survivor GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!
Why similar: Resource Management 25.5%, Dark Comedy 21.8%, Management 13.4%, Comedy 12.3%, Funny 11.4%
- #56 Spacelines from the Far Out
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 516 reviews2022
Dev: CoffeenautsPub: Skystone Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Run your own 60s-inspired space-age alien airlines in this randomly-generated chaotic 1-to-4-player local and online co-op game!
Why similar: Cooking 37.7%, Aliens 20.1%, Comedy 10.8%, Funny 10.4%, Management 9.5%
- #57 Abra-Cooking-Dabra
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 232 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 32.1%, Time Management 21%, Resource Management 15.7%, Funny 8.6%, Management 8.2%
- #58 Restaurant Owner: Prologue
68% matchMixed62% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Workaround GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 22%
Step into the world of a Restaurateur in Restaurant Owner: Prologue, where you create unique recipes, manage your restaurant, and satisfy customers. Unlock ingredients, design your menu, and start your journey toward becoming a top Restaurant Manager. Your culinary adventure begins here!
Why similar: Cooking 36.7%, Time Management 18.8%, Resource Management 15%, Funny 9.9%, Management 9.6%
- #59 Monster Meals
65% matchVery Positive99% of 101 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 46.8%, Time Management 27%, Funny 11.2%, Simulation 4.7%, Colorful 3.8%
- #60 Burgie's cozy kitchen
65% matchVery Positive98% of 352 reviews2025
Dev: HeyNau
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Manage a small burger joint in this adorable and chaotic idle cooking game. Play actively or use it a desktop companion while you work on your stuff. ✨Brighten your day with little breaks! Includes Pomodoro focus tool and stream integration to play with your chat.
Why similar: Cooking 47.9%, Time Management 26.4%, Management 9.4%, Comedy 5.2%, Simulation 4.6%