Games Like KuloNiku: Bowl Up!

Ready to settle in with a soothing shift behind the counter? Feel the dough, hear the quiet crackle of the oven, and serve warm slices to grateful guests. Good Pizza, Great Pizza is the cozy, asmr-friendly escape you didn’t know you kneaded.

Why similar: Job Simulator 20.5% ★, Cooking 16%, Cozy 11.7%, Time Management 10.9%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential cozy cooking game that focuses on fulfilling specific customer orders while maintaining a relaxed and charming shop environment.

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 34.2%, Life Sim 20%, Management 13.8%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines deep cooking mechanics with an expansive life-sim world, allowing you to explore, gather ingredients, and build your culinary reputation.

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 40.5%, Time Management 30.1%, Anime 12.8%, Simulation 11%, Casual 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the experience of managing a small restaurant, catering to unique local characters, and upgrading your shop in a charming, narrative-rich setting.

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 22.1% ★, Cooking 16%, Wholesome 15.7% ★, Time Management 11%, Life Sim 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a robot chef in a wholesome town, focusing on serving delicious sushi and building friendships with the local residents.

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 30.8%, Wholesome 29.7% ★, Management 13.4%, Anime 9%, Cute 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends fast-paced action-roguelike dungeon crawling with the management of a cozy restaurant, offering a unique twist on the cooking genre.

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 31.9%, Crafting 18.8%, Relaxing 16.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Funny 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title masterfully balances deep-sea exploration with the high-stakes management of a bustling sushi restaurant at night.

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

Why similar: Job Simulator 25.6% ★, Wholesome 16.9% ★, Cozy 15.2%, Time Management 10.3%, Life Sim 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and customization of a cozy shop while building relationships with both the local community and the cats you adopt.

🌴👩‍🍳🍔 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: Job Simulator 28.8% ★, Cooking 22.4%, Cozy 16.2%, Management 8.4%, Time Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fun, simulation-focused cooking game that emphasizes the job-simulator aspect of running a food business in a quirky environment.

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 27.3%, Job Simulator 16.1% ★, Life Sim 14.6%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Management 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a more realistic take on the cooking and restaurant management genre for those who enjoy the technical side of kitchen operations.

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: Life Sim 35%, Management 24.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This tavern management sim emphasizes crafting, cooking, and brewing while you renovate your establishment and interact with fantasy patrons.

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 24.1%, Wholesome 20.5% ★, Cozy 17.9%, Management 7.9%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, exploration-based cooking game where you travel in a food truck to serve unique meals to the local inhabitants.

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 41.2%, Management 27.4%, Funny 13.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Casual 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more intense, it offers the same satisfying progression of upgrading your kitchen and mastering complex recipes in a unique setting.

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 52.4%, Management 27%, Funny 8.6%, Cute 7.4%, Casual 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cooking and restaurant management with roguelite elements, allowing you to design your kitchen layout and expand your menu over time.

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Why similar: Crafting 25.4%, Life Sim 24.2%, Management 17%, Relaxing 10.8%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game where you run a bed and breakfast, focusing on cozy aesthetics and satisfying the needs of quirky guests.

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 24.3%, Time Management 18.2%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Life Sim 13.9%, Management 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated simulation game that focuses on the specific mechanics of running a specialized food shop with time-management elements.

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 21.6%, Time Management 16.1%, Cozy 11.9%, Management 11.7%, Life Sim 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cute and casual management game where you run a bakery, focusing on serving customers and upgrading your kitchen stations.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Wholesome 26.7% ★, Cozy 21.1%, Life Sim 17%, Crafting 12.9%, Relaxing 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on alchemy, the core loop of gathering ingredients, helping townspeople, and managing your shop feels very similar to KuloNiku.

Fuel your coffee passion in Coffee Caravan! As a cafe manager, brew, experiment with delicious recipes, and build your dream coffee business on wheels. Serve customers, unlock new flavors, purchase appliances, and enjoy your procedurally generated road trip in this roguelite experience.

Why similar: Job Simulator 25.2% ★, Cooking 21.3%, Cozy 14.8%, Time Management 13.6%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused management game that tasks you with running a mobile coffee business while balancing resources and time.

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 23.6%, Job Simulator 19.1% ★, Time Management 15.5%, Cozy 14.9%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural-themed cooking game that blends casual gameplay with time-management mechanics in a whimsical world.

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: Job Simulator 23.8% ★, Cooking 17.8%, Time Management 9.3%, Life Sim 9.3%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on managing a restaurant, focusing on the day-to-day operations and customer service.

Play as a barista in a cat-inspired coffee shop, where your customers are cats! Brew coffee and various drinks. Wholesome and cozy hand-drawn art, various mini-games and a lot of cats & coffee! Learn to craft complex orders, keep your catstomers happy. 🐱☕

Why similar: Job Simulator 32.6% ★, Wholesome 19.3% ★, Cozy 16.4%, Life Sim 9.2%, Immersive Sim 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, cat-themed job simulator that emphasizes relaxing gameplay and shop management.

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 27%, Relaxing 23.3%, Anime 19.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Casual 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply narrative-driven experience centered on serving drinks to a diverse cast of characters in a cozy, atmospheric setting.

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 27.6% ★, Cooking 25.1%, Time Management 16%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique cooking game that incorporates typing mechanics and a crime-themed narrative for a different kind of kitchen challenge.

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 68.8%, Simulation 23.3%, Singleplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a compelling mix of dungeon crawling and shop management, where you must balance your time between gathering goods and selling them to locals.

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 28.2%, Cozy 18.4%, Time Management 15.3%, Life Sim 10.1%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn, fantasy-themed cooking game that focuses on serving unique meals in a charming, atmospheric setting.

Return to Calypso Island to serve seasonal sundae treats in Papa's Freezeria Deluxe! Craft sundaes in the Freezeria for all your quirky customers while earning tips, points and Special Recipes. Switch gears and take a trip in the Food Truck to concoct your own chilly creations and see who shows up!

Why similar: Job Simulator 31.2% ★, Cooking 30.7%, Time Management 16.7%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic time-management cooking game that remains a gold standard for the job-simulator genre.

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 21.2%, Time Management 16.7%, Life Sim 13.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic and detailed approach to running a bakery, perfect for players who enjoy the technical side of baking and management.

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 38.6%, Cozy 25.6%, Relaxing 7.8%, First-Person 7.1%, Cute 6.4%

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 24.6% ★, Cooking 16.8%, Cozy 12.5%, Life Sim 10.3%, Management 9.8%

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Life Sim 39.6%, Crafting 20%, Relaxing 15.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Cute 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: While a broader life-sim, its cooking, shop-keeping, and community-building elements are foundational to the cozy management genre.

A tiny active desktop companion you can play at your own pace. Serve cute, picky customers between your daily tasks and enjoy little breaks that brighten your day. ✨ With a built-in Pomodoro mode to help you stay focused while you work, plus stream integration where your chat can place orders!

Why similar: Cooking 23.2%, Wholesome 19.2% ★, Cozy 13.8%, Time Management 12.6%, Management 8%

Craft delicious lunch boxes in this cozy-yet-challenging ingredient-cutting puzzle game.

Why similar: Job Simulator 25.6% ★, Cooking 23.4%, Wholesome 23.1% ★, Cozy 16.7%, Relaxing 5.4%

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 34.4%, Crafting 22.5%, Relaxing 18.9%, Funny 9.9%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong emphasis on cooking and management within a deeply emotional and narrative-driven framework.

Coffie Simulator is a coffee simulator game. Run your own café, serve 500+ unique customers, and master the art of coffee-making! Customize, upgrade, and manage your shop while handling orders with precision. Every choice matters—your reputation shapes the experience. Can you succeed?

Why similar: Job Simulator 19.3% ★, Cooking 16.3%, Time Management 12.6%, Life Sim 10%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

Cozy café store management simulator: renovate and decorate, stock shelves, and run the checkout. Roll in deliveries with a cart, set up promotions and hire staff as you expand from a tiny shop into a bustling café.

Why similar: Job Simulator 23.4% ★, Cooking 19.8%, Wholesome 12.7% ★, Immersive Sim 9.3%, Time Management 8.9%

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 43.9%, Time Management 15.3%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Anime 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A family-friendly cooking and management sim that focuses on building your restaurant from the ground up.

Build a vending machine empire in this cozy idle sim! Manage staff, decorate locations, and watch your business thrive. Play actively or let it run passively in the background with relaxing music to enjoy while you work or unwind.

Why similar: Job Simulator 22.9% ★, Cozy 17.5%, Life Sim 11.8%, Management 9.8%, Immersive Sim 8.2%

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 34%, Time Management 19.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Management 9.5%

Run your own restaurant. Create your menu, hire staff, decorate the place, take orders, serve guests, and grow your business. Food critics, online orders, events, and kitchen chaos are on the menu!

Why similar: Job Simulator 26.3% ★, Cooking 20.3%, Management 9.7%, Life Sim 9.4%, Immersive Sim 8.8%

Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!

Why similar: Cooking 31.6%, Time Management 12.1%, Management 11.1%, Life Sim 9.7%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

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: Wholesome 22% ★, Cooking 21.5%, Cozy 15.9%, Time Management 15%, Life Sim 12.8%

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 22.8%, Cozy 17.7%, Time Management 13.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 11.1%

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 30.2%, Time Management 16.4%, Life Sim 15.1%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 6.9%

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 55.4%, Simulation 13.7%, Management 7.3%, Funny 6.2%, Crafting 6%

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 26.7% ★, Cooking 23.9%, Crafting 11.2%, Management 10.7%, Immersive Sim 10.5%

Welcome to Cooking Clash, the VR restaurant game that lets you unleash your creativity! Run your fast-food spot, delighting both human and animal guests with your culinary flair. Utilize endless ingredient combinations to keep guests pleased and beware of cunning customers who might rob your tips!

Why similar: Cooking 30.8%, Life Sim 14.4%, Time Management 13%, Crafting 10.1%, First-Person 7.2%

Revive a closed-down gaming café and build it into the ultimate gaming hub! Manage rentals, sell gaming merch, and expand with PCs, consoles, and an in-house café to prepare and sell fresh food. Attract customers with unique gaming sections. Can you turn your dream café into a bustling success?

Why similar: Cooking 26.2%, Life Sim 14.1%, Time Management 13.9%, Management 13%, Immersive Sim 11.3%

Blend fragrances in your cozy perfume atelier! 🌸 Craft unique scents by mixing essences, design beautiful bottles, and try to sell your creations to curious customers. Decorate your workshop, unlock new recipes, and grow your reputation in the art of fragrance.

Why similar: Job Simulator 30.4% ★, Wholesome 16.3% ★, Cozy 15.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Management 6.9%

Welcome to Wrap House Simulator! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!

Why similar: Cooking 41.3%, Life Sim 14.4%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Management 13%, Simulation 8.5%

"Milk Tea Time" is simulation business game that includes all the elements of production, deployment and construction. You need to make each cup of milk tea. Research new flavors to win customer praise. Build and decorate your milk tea shop by hand. Create your own beautiful milk tea shop!

Why similar: Job Simulator 28% ★, Cooking 21.6%, Time Management 13.5%, Crafting 8.9%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

Manage your very own Witchcraft Shop! Witchy Business is a job simulator game where you brew potions for your customers, collect oddities, grow flowers in your garden, upgrade your alchemy station, and thrive. Make sure you are quick to take care of customers and hex thieves!

Why similar: Job Simulator 35% ★, Wholesome 22.3% ★, Cozy 18.4%, Crafting 9.1%, Simulation 4.9%

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 25.5%, Life Sim 15.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Management 10.6%

Welcome to your Critter Café! Rescue and bond with adorable, fantasy critters in need of your help and build a new home together. Design and run your own café, care for your critters, uncover the secrets of mysterious portals, and create a wholesome café for all to enjoy!

Why similar: Job Simulator 27.1% ★, Wholesome 17% ★, Cozy 14.7%, Life Sim 11.9%, Management 8.7%

A cooking puzzle game about arranging beautiful bento lunches! Solve 120+ recipes, play with food, think inside the box and enjoy a heartwarming story in this culinary brain-teaser!

Why similar: Cooking 39.6%, Funny 12%, Relaxing 11.6%, Cute 9.9%, Anime 9.8%

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 34% ★, Cooking 29.3%, Time Management 13.8%, Management 8.8%, Funny 5.9%

Little Chef: Cozy Cooking is a physics-based cooking game full of discovery and playful chaos. Experiment with everything in the kitchen and unlock over 150 recipes on your way to becoming a master chef!

Why similar: Cooking 30.7%, Wholesome 26.1% ★, Cozy 24.6%, Relaxing 7.3%, Cute 4.5%

Ready to create your own world of flavor? Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players, prepare sandwiches with your friends, deliver online orders to the courier and run your sandwich restaurant. Clean, expand, and keep your customers happy!

Why similar: Cooking 27%, Time Management 14.8%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Life Sim 9.9%, Management 7.3%

Run your kawaii vending machine company! A relaxing sim where you manage, restock, and repair your vending machines across a charming Japanese city. Pick neighborhoods, stock up on snacks, set the perfect price, upgrade your machines. Enjoy lots of fun minigames along the way.

Why similar: Job Simulator 30.9% ★, Wholesome 22.7% ★, Cozy 15.3%, Management 9.5%, Anime 6.5%

In Keep Me Gifted you will make your career debut as a Gift Shop owner. Be ready to encounter unhinged characters and their requests, try to match those requests with your wrapping skills, manage your item stock, upgrade your shop, and increase your store's popularity. And stay gifted!

Why similar: Job Simulator 28% ★, Cooking 16.9%, Cozy 13.7%, Time Management 8.2%, Management 7.7%