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Games Like Life, the Universe, and Restaurants

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Run a restaurant in a bizarre universe and cook for customers who call themselves "gods"! Expand your restaurant, deploy robots, and automate your kitchen. Keep business booming—and be ready to deal with any unruly customers.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2026-10-12
Developer: GARRY
Publisher: Gamersky Games
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Remi Song
    Windows · Mac

    Automate the ultimate Korean kitchen. Route belts, watch ingredients transform, and physically assemble each kimbap roll step by step. Discover new recipes, fulfill requests, and expand your kitchen at your own pace. No pressure, no timers, just a satisfying and unique casual factory experience.

    Why similar: Cooking 25%, Automation 22.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Building 10.7%, Management 7.1%

  2. #2 10000 Pizzas Please
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Team K6Pub: Hatch Up
    Windows

    Build and program a pizza factory to feed an endless swarm of hungry aliens! Automate machines, write production logic, fine-tune your conveyor belts, and engineer the perfect production line in a chaotic cooking-and-automation sim.

    Why similar: Cooking 28.6%, Automation 21.6%, Management 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 6.2%

  3. #3 What's On The Menu?
    95% matchMixed65% of 22 reviews2025
    Dev: Deltacraft Games
    Windows

    In What's on the Menu?, step into the shoes of a restaurant manager. From selecting ingredients and crafting menus to hiring staff and customizing your restaurant, every decision counts. Face random events, unlock new recipes, and rise through the ranks to become the ultimate restaurateur!

    Why similar: Cooking 31.5%, Management 17.2%, Automation 17.1%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 5.3%

  4. #4 Global Plates
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: FBS Games
    Windows

    Build delicious food factories! Place machines, lay conveyor belts, and cook the world's favorite dishes — pizza, sushi, paella, and masala. But keep it fresh: the longer ingredients travel, the sadder the food. A cozy cooking-automation game about tasty efficiency.

    Why similar: Cooking 24.3%, Automation 18%, Building 14.5%, Management 13.9%, Base Building 11.8%

  5. #5 Captain of Industry
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
    Dev: MaFi Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

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  6. #6 Burger Factory Simulator
    93% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Yume Unlimited
    Windows

    Start with a spatula. End with a factory. Cook, serve, and grow your burger shop from hand-flipped patties to an automated kitchen packed with conveyor belts, item grabbers, dishwashers, automatic grills, and more.

    Why similar: Cooking 30.2%, Automation 22%, Management 14.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 8.3%

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    93% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

    Let pumpkins and cats run the restaurant for you, serving hearty food to adventurers. This is a casual business simulation game at the bottom of the screen that doesn't interfere with you doing other things.

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  8. #8 11 pm
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    Lay out your machines, route your resources, and chase the perfect flow. Then a single new module reshapes everything and hands you a fresh puzzle. An automation game where you never solve the same factory twice.

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  9. #9 Planetary Factory - An Idle Automation Game
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MadJones
    Windows

    Grow your planetary empire from a small base to a massive production powerhouse in Planetary Factory. Balance inputs and outputs to maximize profits and minimize waste, research advanced technologies, and build a formidable military to conquer hostile planets.

    Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Base Building 15%, Management 14.1%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10%

  10. #10 Bone's Cafe
    91% matchVery Positive96% of 368 reviews2022
    Dev: Acute Owl Studio
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

    Why similar: Cooking 26.1%, Automation 16.8%, Management 12.6%, Dark Humor 9.3%, Building 9%

  11. #11 Chocolatio
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: RawEgg
    Windows

    Create and build your own automated chocolate factory. Freely design and expand your factories to deliver a huge variety of chocolate themed resources.

    Why similar: Automation 30.1%, Cooking 17.9%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 12.5%

  12. #12 Fill the Sky
    89% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
    Windows

    A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

    Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Colony Sim 11.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 10.7%

  13. #13 Potion Pipeline
    88% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

    Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!

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  14. #14 Cater Co. 🍓
    87% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

    Cater Co. is a kitchen management game where you make food and fulfill your customers' orders. Sit back, earn $$$, buy upgrades and optimize your kitchen.

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  15. #15 Sweets Inc.
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Road Turtle Games
    Windows

    Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!

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    85% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: 岡部 正孝Pub: Dayveil Games
    Windows

    Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.

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  17. #17 We Need More Steam!
    86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
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    Windows · Linux

    We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!

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    84% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Proper Puppy
    Windows

    Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.

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    83% matchMostly Positive76% of 565 reviews2025
    Dev: ATRIC Games
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    82% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Windows

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    81% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    79% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Windows

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    Dev: Team Asterisk
    Windows

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    80% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    75% matchVery Positive93% of 457 reviews2022
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    74% matchMixed68% of 128 reviews2023
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    73% matchVery Positive81% of 80 reviews2024
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    72% matchNo user reviews2027
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    71% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Windows

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    69% matchNo user reviews2026
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  54. #54 Fabricatio
    67% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
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    67% matchNo user reviews2026
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    64% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
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