60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Casual, Indie, Simulation.
You are alone on a cold, Christmas night, stuck at home, in a foreign country. You get through it by cooking a hot dish intended for six people. A short experience about the bittersweet feeling of making hot pot alone.
Venba
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
Dinner Date
Julian Luxemburg has prepared a dinner for two at his place – but things go awry when the date does not show up and he is left waiting at his dinner table, the clock’s ticking growing unbearably loud. „Dinner Date” is the character portrait of Julian: by becoming his subconsciousness you gain a clear vantage point on the worries which...
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
Why similar: Cooking 50.1%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Emotional 15.3%, Story Rich 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.3%
Julian Luxemburg has prepared a dinner for two at his place – but things go awry when the date does not show up and he is left waiting at his dinner table, the clock’s ticking growing unbearably loud. „Dinner Date” is the character portrait of Julian: by becoming his subconsciousness you gain a clear vantage point on the worries which...
Why similar: Experimental 47% ★, Narration 24.8%, First-Person 11.5%, Indie 7%, Simulation 5.1%
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 61.9%, Simulation 14.2%, Realistic 10.5%, First-Person 5.8%, Family Friendly 3.3%
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Why similar: Cooking 50.3%, Emotional 18.1%, Story Rich 10.8%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Simulation 6.4%
Your own onigiri (rice ball) shop in Japan awaits! Serve perfect rice balls and crispy sides to hungry customers. As a solo operator, you'll manage inventory, perfect your cooking flow, and handle the rush. Can you turn your tiny stand into a beloved town eatery?
Why similar: Cooking 43.5%, Life Sim 27.9%, Simulation 11.1%, First-Person 7.5%, Realistic 7.2%
A heartfelt game where you run a night market stall, cooking kaolengmian (grilled cold noodles). Customers come and go, stopping by to chat and share bits of their lives, joys, frustrations, and everyday struggles. At this little stall, you cook, listen, and keep living an ordinary person’s life.
Why similar: Cooking 51.3%, Life Sim 28.5%, Story Rich 10.2%, Simulation 7%, Singleplayer 2%
Renovate, equip and restore the shine of the food truck that belonged to your father. Create recipes, cook the food and serve customers across an entire city. Customize and upgrade your food truck to reach more customers and expand your menu.
Why similar: Cooking 46.3%, Life Sim 11.3%, First-Person 10.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Realistic 9.7%
Under a snowy overpass, people gather around warm lights. In this cozy management simulation game, run your own POJANGMACHA and serve Korean street foods like tteokbokki and ramyun. Handle quirky events and grow your tiny stall into a street food success!
Why similar: Snow 39.1% ★, Life Sim 33.8%, First-Person 9.4%, Atmospheric 6.8%, Simulation 6.6%
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%, Life Sim 26.9%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Story Rich 7.7%, Simulation 7.1%
Prepare ice cream, serve customers, set your prices, and manage your shop in this limited-access prologue of ice cream simulator—get a taste of the full game.
Why similar: Cooking 41.2%, Life Sim 28%, Simulation 11.4%, First-Person 7.4%, Family Friendly 4.7%
Experience the past and get to know the story of the old diner and its struggling history in this prologue to Road Diner Simulator.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.6%, Cooking 31.1%, Simulation 17.2%, First-Person 8.7%, Family Friendly 4.1%
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: Cooking 47.6%, Life Sim 28.3%, First-Person 10.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 2.2%
Bottle is a very short game in which you play as an alcoholic man of solitude.
Why similar: Snow 54.1% ★, Emotional 14.9%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Realistic 8.4%, First-Person 7.8%
Step into a quiet, abandoned Ukrainian village, left empty after the Calamity. In this short, meditative, and melancholic journey, you’ll rekindle the hearths of deserted homes, restoring warmth and hope to the families who once lived here.
Why similar: Atmospheric 35.1%, First-Person 30.2%, Female Protagonist 23.4%, Story Rich 6.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Find ingredients, make menus, and run your own restaurant in this sizzling sim!
Why similar: Cooking 47.8%, Life Sim 28.3%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Indie 1.7%
Work as Penelope on her day off! Complete mini-games to prepare the food for a wide variety of customers!
Why similar: Cooking 40%, Life Sim 28.5%, Female Protagonist 15.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Story Rich 4.9%
We need to cook! You are a drug-designing genius, living a bland existence in a middle-class neighborhood in Utah. You decide you want more out of life, so you buy a beat-up RV, drive it into the desert, and cook drugs. Make immense profits! (Made by one dude, hope you enjoy)
Why similar: Life Sim 34.6%, Cooking 31.3%, Simulation 20.9%, First-Person 10.2%, Indie 1.9%
A journey of flavors and friendships awaits you in your cozy, customisable food truck! Forage for fresh ingredients to create your own menu, then feed tummies and souls with home-cooked meals. Change the world, one apple at a time.
Why similar: Cooking 63%, Simulation 13.7%, First-Person 10.7%, Family Friendly 6.7%, Indie 3%
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
Why similar: Narration 30.4%, Female Protagonist 23.1%, First-Person 17.5%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Story Rich 7.9%
A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.
Why similar: Cooking 62.5%, First-Person 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Simulation 6.3%, Family Friendly 5.5%
Chionophile is a very short experience about the mood of winter in the woods.
Why similar: Experimental 39.7% ★, Snow 22.8% ★, Realistic 11.8%, First-Person 9.7%, Atmospheric 7.9%
It’s a story about an 8-year-old boy Kevin who was left alone at home at Christmas. Protect your house from a crazy robber and wait for your parents. Can you handle with it? We’ll find out.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.6%, Emotional 17.8%, Realistic 15.4%, First-Person 14.5%, Story Rich 10.2%
Experience life as a woman - cleaning, cooking, laundry, and no time to rest. Full immersion into the world of everyday chaos!
Why similar: Life Sim 30.2%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Emotional 13.5%, Realistic 10.2%, First-Person 9.9%
Run your own conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Make sushi, serve customers, process payments, clean tables, hire staff, and design your restaurant’s conveyor belt. Set your own prices, manage troublesome customers, and expand your sushi restaurant.
Why similar: Cooking 33.6%, Life Sim 31.7%, Realistic 12.8%, First-Person 10.6%, Simulation 10.6%
A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant. Play as the owner, and manage the restaurant, form bonds with characters, and explore the lively town. Uncover the secrets behind the restaurant’s mysterious downfall.
Why similar: Cooking 41.6%, Life Sim 28.1%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Story Rich 8.5%, Simulation 5.8%
Run a cozy late-night store. Prep fresh sushi and rolls, stock the shelves, and serve customers until dawn. A chill store management game where every night shift is yours to own.
Why similar: Cooking 54.7%, Life Sim 28.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%, Indie 1.9%
Kitchen simulator, The game that turns you into the chef. As the owner and chef of your very own restaurant, you now have the responsibilities to keep your place clean, serving quality meals to your hungry customers, Impressing the high class to get to that fancy five star restaurant,more…
Why similar: Cooking 40.9%, Life Sim 25.3%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Simulation 8.8%, First-Person 7.6%
Rags to Dishes is a single player, virtual reality (VR) cooking game where you’ll have the chance to travel back in time to the medieval ages and serve some delicious dishes to hungry villagers!
Why similar: Simulation 50.2%, First-Person 32.7%, Singleplayer 6.9%, Casual 5.4%, Indie 4.8%
Start with nothing but a ticket booth in the mountains. Clear snow, chop wood, crack ice off rooftops, all by hand, all in first person. Serve drinks, cook meals, repair ski gear, and turn a rundown mountain stop into a full-blown resort with a hotel, restaurant, bar, and shop.
Why similar: Simulation 25.4%, First-Person 24.5%, Life Sim 19.4%, Realistic 17.5%, Family Friendly 6%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Cooking 58.1%, Emotional 14.7%, Story Rich 14.2%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Indie 1.9%
Forgotten Hope is a short, single-player narrative-driven video game presented through the eyes of a teenage girl who is trying to reconnect with her past to find answers.
Why similar: Narration 41.2%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, First-Person 13.1%, Story Rich 12.2%, Atmospheric 12.1%
Mix amazing cocktails while you climb the ranks as a bartender and unlock diverse bartending venues in this narrative-driven bartender simulator.
Why similar: Cooking 47.1%, First-Person 11.2%, Simulation 11%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Realistic 10.1%
Life on the Hook - is a short story about the life of a lonely fisherman named Hrafn, who lives his life in a small house on a lake with a dock and an old boat.
Why similar: Emotional 25.3%, First-Person 20.3%, Atmospheric 20.1%, Story Rich 18.4%, Family Friendly 9.9%
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Why similar: Life Sim 30.7%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Narration 16.3%, Emotional 15.4%, Story Rich 9.8%
An interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who must find a way to make some oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. One simple task, can you help her complete it?
Why similar: Female Protagonist 65.7%, Indie 14%, Simulation 11.4%, Casual 4.5%, Singleplayer 4.4%
Lonely House is a cozy little game about home decorating. It's just you, pleasant music, and a solitary building at a crossroads. Decorate it to your liking and forget about your troubles.
Why similar: Atmospheric 32.8%, Simulation 22.6%, Realistic 17.6%, Family Friendly 13.9%, Indie 6.2%
Potato Survival is a short story game about a character who lives alone on the open sea. Collect potatoes and try to survive for 21 days with the knowledge you gain daily. Unlock new skills to create a more meaningful day to day life!
Why similar: Life Sim 59.6%, Simulation 26.4%, Indie 5.4%, Singleplayer 5.2%, Casual 3.3%
What do you do when you lose someone you love? A Taste of the Past is an emotional sidescroller about reconnecting with your Chinese culture while navigating a train to the afterlife. Featuring a wholesome story, cooking minigames, and hope.
Why similar: Life Sim 58.7%, Emotional 25.3%, Atmospheric 16%
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
Why similar: Emotional 40.3%, Atmospheric 24.9%, First-Person 21.6%, Indie 7%, Singleplayer 4.5%
Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.
Why similar: Cooking 49.5%, Life Sim 29.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Family Friendly 8.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.
Why similar: Cooking 38.6%, Life Sim 24.6%, Realistic 11%, First-Person 8.9%, Simulation 7.3%
Run your own hot dog shop in the foggy town of Grimshore. Cook and serve by day, solve your meat shortage by night, and try not to ask too many questions. How far will you go to keep the grill running?
Why similar: Cooking 45%, Simulation 13.7%, First-Person 13%, Life Sim 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.7%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Story Rich 28.8%, First-Person 25.8%, Simulation 21.5%, Atmospheric 18.4%, Casual 2.8%
In this short but profound story, you will discover that the New Year is not only fun, but also a time for self-reflection. Immerse yourself in an emotional journey that will leave you thoughtful and perhaps with a new perspective on the meaning of this holiday.
Why similar: Atmospheric 46.1%, Emotional 24.8%, Family Friendly 18.7%, Singleplayer 10.4%
Service Please: First Dinner is a free introductory experience to Service Please, focused on the core flow of running a restaurant. Serve your first customers, learn the basics, and get a taste of the deeper management systems waiting in the full game.
Why similar: Cooking 46.2%, Life Sim 28.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%
Prepare a meal for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year dinner. But hurry, your guests are arriving soon! A short hand-drawn experience full of delicious surprises.
Why similar: Cooking 74.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Family Friendly 10%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories is a cozy slice-of-life game about running a small-town convenience store, inspired by early 1990s Japan. Meet regulars, stock shelves, and watch quiet, everyday moments turn into meaningful stories.
Why similar: Life Sim 41.3%, Female Protagonist 26.2%, Story Rich 14.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%
It's 42°C and you live in Europe, so of course there is no AC. Survive a 14-day heatwave in a Paris studio: melt on camera for your remote job, riot for the last discounted AC unit, lose every fan auction to scalpers, pay rent every Sunday. The heat ends. The landlady does not. PSX survival comedy.
Why similar: Life Sim 51.6%, Simulation 17.3%, First-Person 16%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Singleplayer 2.7%
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 35.2%, Life Sim 24.7%, Realistic 12.6%, Simulation 8.7%, First-Person 8.7%
Run a roadside Pizza restaurant with your friends. Play solo or in Co-op with other players. Make pizzas fast and fill orders. Keep your customers happy and get more orders. Improve your restaurant as your income increases.
Why similar: Cooking 41.9%, Life Sim 26.2%, Realistic 12.4%, First-Person 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Why similar: Female Protagonist 31.5%, Emotional 21.8%, Story Rich 14.1%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Simulation 11.3%
"Let’s make dumplings" carries that same unsettling vibe as Spring Festival Gala skits with intentionally happy endings?— it's about how family norms discipline the individual. It uses dumplings to explore love and pressure in families. In this scripted, collective narrative... what will you choose?
Why similar: Cooking 39.7%, Emotional 27.6%, First-Person 15.5%, Simulation 9%, Atmospheric 8.1%
A story-driven psychological horror game where you must balance cooking authentic Vietnamese Pho with surviving chilling, unexpected events in a quiet, mysterious village.
Why similar: Story Rich 29.6%, Simulation 25.8%, First-Person 19.9%, Singleplayer 12.8%, Indie 5.9%
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 42%, Life Sim 24.6%, Realistic 11.1%, First-Person 9.8%, Simulation 8%
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: Cooking 43.7%, Life Sim 30.1%, First-Person 12.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Run a roadside Pizza restaurant with your friends. Play solo or in Co-op with other players. Make pizzas fast and fill orders. Keep your customers happy and get more orders. Improve your restaurant as your income increases.
Why similar: Cooking 48.5%, Life Sim 26.7%, Realistic 13%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Yamasen-Chan is a hikikomori who lives in isolation and never leaves her home. Will you help her make a comfy home in this hikikomori themed visual novel designing game?
Why similar: Female Protagonist 44.7%, Simulation 35.7%, Story Rich 9.8%, Casual 6.6%, Singleplayer 3.2%
A short, unique survival-farming-base-building-tycoon-horror game where you must survive through washing dishes. Explore mysterious depths, manage resources, and unravel a cryptic narrative. In DWS, a chore becomes a journey to freedom.
Why similar: Simulation 34.8%, Realistic 24%, First-Person 23.8%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Blend tea and friendship in the flavourful world of Pekoe, a cozy cat-filled tea-making simulator about taking the time for self-care and connecting with what makes you happy. Build relationships, upgrade your teahouse, and discover new recipes as you work towards creating a place you can call home.
Why similar: Cooking 46.5%, Life Sim 34.4%, Story Rich 8.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
