- #1 The Kindeman Remedy
97% matchMixed69% of 306 reviews2023
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
The most blasphemous, diabolical and insane management game ever created. Aided by a lascivious nun in a grim prison, rig executions, conduct horrid experiments and do the unspeakable to cook up your cure-all: The Kindeman Remedy. Do not be afraid. This time, you're the monster.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 31.8% ★, Crime 15.4%, Time Management 9.9%, Management 9.2%, Incremental 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A dark medical management sim that forces you to make unethical choices to maintain your clinic.
- #2 Godlike Burger
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,074 reviews2022
Dev: Liquid PugPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 27.3%, Dark Comedy 18.7%, Crime 18.5%, Time Management 13.5%, Resource Management 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the closest thematic match, tasking you with killing customers to cook them into burgers for your restaurant.
- #3 Graveyard Keeper
96% matchVery Positive85% of 55,062 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 41.5%, Dark Humor 23%, Gore 13.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Violent 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features the same morbid humor and management mechanics as you run a medieval cemetery with questionable practices.
- #4 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,559 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 24.6%, Farming Sim 16.1%, Management 15.6%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A management sim where you run a legitimate business as a front for a criminal drug empire.
- #5 Cult of the Lamb
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 128,545 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 25.5 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: Dark Humor 90.6%, Singleplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base management with dark, villainous themes as you build a cult and sacrifice followers.
- #6 MachiaVillain
94% matchMixed66% of 809 reviews2018
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 62.6% ★, Management 15.2%, Simulation 8.3%, Resource Management 7.2%, Economy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to play as a villain managing a monster-filled mansion, focusing on base-building and dark strategy.
- #7 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
93% matchMixed69% of 13,234 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 67.9% ★, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 6.4%, Simulation 5.4%, Violent 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic villain-protagonist management game where you build a secret lair and plot world domination.
- #8 CARRION
92% matchVery Positive94% of 35,455 reviews2020
Dev: Phobia Game StudioPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 62.3% ★, Gore 20.7%, Violent 9%, Horror 7.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: A reverse-horror game where you play as an amorphous creature consuming humans, capturing the violent essence of the seed game.
- #9 While We Wait Here
91% matchVery Positive89% of 2,424 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Horror 66.1%, Simulation 22.6%, Casual 7.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game set in a diner that explores dark themes and customer interactions.
- #10 Tavern Manager Simulator 🍻
90% matchVery Positive92% of 4,445 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.5 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: Cooking 30.4%, Management 19.7%, Economy 18.6%, Resource Management 17%, Simulation 6%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward management game that captures the restaurant-building aspect of the seed game.
- #11 Happy's Humble Burger Farm
91% matchVery Positive88% of 2,905 reviews2021
Dev: Scythe Dev TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 28%, Management 26.7%, Dark Humor 26.4%, Horror 18.9%
Why You'll Like It: A horror-themed cooking simulator that forces you to manage a restaurant while dealing with supernatural threats.
- #12 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
89% matchVery Positive93% of 44,514 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 11.3 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: Management 27.6%, Farming Sim 26.1%, Resource Management 20.9%, Relaxing 10.6%, Simulation 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique crafting and management loop with a dark, gothic aesthetic.
- #13 Wasteland Bites
89% matchVery Positive94% of 454 reviews2026
Dev: CosmicDevPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wasteland Bites is a horror-based food truck sim. Cooking up questionable cuisine in your post-apocalyptic food truck is tough. Fending off mutants, UFOs, rabid dogs, and things lurking in the dark? That's the real challenge. A chaotic mix of cooking and survival in a long gone world.
Why similar: Cooking 27.8%, Dark Comedy 15.4%, Time Management 14.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Horror 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic cooking simulator that shares the horror and resource-management focus of the seed game.
- #14 Blood Bar Tycoon
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 817 reviews2025
Dev: Clever Trickster StudioPub: Clever Trickster Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.2 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 30.6%, Dark Humor 18.8%, Management 18.3%, Economy 17.9%, Simulation 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A management sim where you run a bar for vampires, fitting the dark, macabre theme perfectly.
- #15 Viscera Cleanup Detail
87% matchVery Positive92% of 23,724 reviews2015
Dev: RuneStorm
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
Why similar: Gore 62.9%, Simulation 18.9%, Horror 11.8%, Relaxing 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gruesome aftermath of violence, tasking you with cleaning up gore in a way that feels like the janitorial side of a crime.
- #16 Drug Dealer Simulator
86% matchVery Positive86% of 21,027 reviews2020
Dev: ByterunnersPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 17.7 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 46%, Resource Management 14.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Management 13.3%, Dark Comedy 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A crime-based management sim that focuses on the logistics of running an illegal operation.
- #17 Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,491 reviews2020
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 42.1%, Management 41.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Relaxing 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the deep customization and management aspects of running a restaurant.
- #18 Recipe for Disaster
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 725 reviews2022
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 39%, Management 19.6%, Time Management 14.3%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A restaurant management sim that focuses on the chaos and stress of running a kitchen.
- #19 Prison Architect
84% matchVery Positive89% of 73,696 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Management 38.7%, Economy 23%, Resource Management 22.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A management sim that forces you to deal with the dark, often unethical realities of running a high-security prison.
- #20 Travellers Rest
84% matchVery Positive88% of 18,025 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 20.6 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: Farming Sim 42.5%, Management 34.4%, Resource Management 17.1%, Simulation 4.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy management sim that involves running a tavern, offering a lighter take on the management genre.
- #21 Papers, Please
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 80,270 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 74.9%, Singleplayer 18.4%, Casual 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game where moral choices and the weight of your actions create a heavy, dark atmosphere.
- #22 Chef Knight
80% matchNo user reviews95% of 2,281 reviews2026
Dev: Clover Bite
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Cook what you kill in this cozy fantasy incremental game! Dive into dangerous dungeons, harvest fresh monster ingredients, and serve delicious dishes to hungry adventurers. Slay, cook, sell and upgrade your way to a sprawling dungeon-food empire!
Why similar: Cooking 26.3%, Incremental 20.7%, Management 19.5%, Resource Management 18.6%, Simulation 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: An incremental management game that blends cooking themes with strategy elements.
- #23 Frostpunk
82% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Resource Management 53.2%, Management 22.3%, Economy 15.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that forces you to make brutal, dark decisions to keep your society alive.
- #24 Death and Taxes
82% matchVery Positive86% of 8,511 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 73.6%, Simulation 18.3%, Casual 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, bureaucratic sim where your choices have life-or-death consequences.
- #25 Corner Kitchen Fast Food Simulator
81% matchVery Positive85% of 424 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 33.9%, Management 17.4%, Time Management 15.1%, Resource Management 14.7%, Economy 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the fast-paced cooking and customer service aspects of restaurant management.
- #26 The Chef's Shift
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,998 reviews2025
Dev: Panitia GameDevPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 28.5%, Crime 23.4%, Time Management 15%, Management 12.8%, Dark Humor 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cooking and typing game that incorporates elements of crime and time-management.
- #27 Don't Starve
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,372 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Horror 46.2%, Simulation 30.7%, Singleplayer 23.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a distinct gothic, macabre art style and crafting mechanics.
- #28 TasteMaker
79% matchVery Positive83% of 1,298 reviews2023
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 38.3%, Management 20.8%, Economy 16.6%, Time Management 13%, Simulation 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox management game that allows for deep control over restaurant design and menu creation.
- #29 Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator
77% matchVery Positive82% of 153 reviews2026
Dev: Panic PandaPub: Ultimate Publishing
Windows
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 25.2%, Crime 17%, Gore 11.7%, Dark Humor 11.2%, Violent 10.5%
- #30 Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?!
81% matchMixed54% of 205 reviews2017
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Management 48.4%, Simulation 41.7%, Casual 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A management game set in the afterlife with a dark, comedic tone.
- #31 Human Fast Food
77% matchVery Positive90% of 84 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 33.1%, Time Management 17.7%, Management 16.4%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #32 Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
78% matchVery Positive90% of 2,304 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 49.9%, Management 35.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Casual 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the high-intensity cooking management gameplay, though with a more frantic, arcade-style approach.
- #33 Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
76% matchVery Positive84% of 2,786 reviews2023
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 43.7%, Management 21.5%, Resource Management 17.2%, Simulation 6.9%, Relaxing 6.8%
- #34 Happy's Humble Burger Cult
74% matchVery Positive87% of 511 reviews2026
Dev: Scythe Dev TeamPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The original cooking horror returns in an unhinged co-op experience for 1-4 players. Grill burgers, serve customers, and hit your quota before the kitchen turns into a nightmare. When Asset Joy begins her hunt, try to escape alive and extract your hard-earned cash to survive another shift.
Why similar: Cooking 43.9%, Dark Humor 17.7%, Management 17.5%, Horror 13.7%, Simulation 7.3%
- #35 Tavern Master
76% matchVery Positive92% of 13,253 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.9 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: Management 45%, Resource Management 23.7%, Time Management 13.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Relaxing 4.8%
- #36 Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game
75% matchVery Positive88% of 6,737 reviews2023
Dev: TapBlaze
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Cooking 34%, Management 20.1%, Time Management 19.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Relaxing 5.3%
- #37 ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 132 reviews2026
Dev: ODIUSPub: Loopr Partners
Windows
Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!
Why similar: Crime 25.4%, Management 18.1%, Resource Management 15.1%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Gore 12.2%
- #38 The Ramen Shop
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 77 reviews2026
Dev: samuel
Windows
A horror game where you manage a ramen shop. Take orders from your customers, serve hot delicious ramens and sweet cold drinks to hungry customers.
Why similar: Cooking 64%, Horror 22.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Casual 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #39 Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 69 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 38.7%, Management 18.3%, Economy 17.6%, Resource Management 16.5%, Simulation 6.9%
- #40 Strange Horticulture
73% matchVery Positive94% of 16,007 reviews2022
Dev: Bad VikingPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Why similar: Relaxing 45%, Simulation 44.3%, Singleplayer 10.8%
- #41 Coastal Kitchen Simulator
72% matchVery Positive84% of 152 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 37.8%, Time Management 18.1%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 9.2%
- #42 Crime Scene Cleaner
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 34,040 reviews2024
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Once you get tangled with the mob, you will forever be a part of the mob. At least they pay a decent salary and all you have to do is clean up after their dirty work, but you know what you’re doing. So clean crime scenes, earn as much money as you can, and get ready for the next mission.
Why similar: Crime 47.1%, Gore 24.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Violent 7.9%, Relaxing 7.4%
- #43 Goblin Sushi
71% matchVery Positive90% of 461 reviews2026
Dev: Old Cake FactoryPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 41.5%, Time Management 20.8%, Resource Management 18.6%, Dark Humor 17.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #44 Cook, Serve, Delicious!
74% matchVery Positive94% of 5,713 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 44.2%, Time Management 24.7%, Management 23%, Simulation 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #45 Tostchu
71% matchVery Positive84% of 620 reviews2024
Dev: Ravenscape CollectivePub: Mars Bacon LLC
Windows
A slow-burn atmospheric horror game about managing a toast shop in a desolate location in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Make toasts for customers, cash in, buy more ingredients, and witness strange events unfolding.
Why similar: Cooking 55.4%, Time Management 20.9%, Resource Management 17.8%, Simulation 4.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #46 Chopped Up
70% matchVery Positive96% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: Dekaizen Studios LLC
Windows
A cozy horror cooking game with a deadly twist. Serve bizarre fantasy creatures and secretly eliminate targets as an assassin hiding in plain sight. Just keep an eye out for those out to get you.
Why similar: Simulation 50.9%, Horror 46.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #47 Cooking Simulator
72% matchVery Positive85% of 19,686 reviews2019
Dev: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.0 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 63.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 5.8%, Economy 4.9%
- #48 I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator
69% matchVery Positive91% of 430 reviews2026
Dev: Bunch'o'Nerds
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Run your pizza shop up front and handle shady business out back. Help hand-crafted NPCs with favors that never go as planned. Play solo or online co-op with up to four players and expand your operation across Hobarey Town. In this darkly comedic management sim - become that guy everyone knows.
Why similar: Cooking 31.7%, Crime 27.2%, Economy 14.3%, Management 11.4%, Time Management 8.1%
- #49 The Chef's Shift: First Course
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 513 reviews2025
Dev: Panitia GameDevPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 29%
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 30.8%, Crime 24.5%, Time Management 15.8%, Management 11.7%, Dark Humor 10.7%
- #50 The Tenants
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,769 reviews2022
Dev: EndGameLoop Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Why similar: Management 32.5%, Economy 26.3%, Time Management 25%, Relaxing 6.8%, Simulation 6.1%
- #51 Bone's Cafe
69% matchVery Positive96% of 365 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 40.8%, Management 20.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Relaxing 4.7%
- #52 Restaurats
67% matchVery Positive88% of 2,145 reviews2025
Dev: toR StudioPub: Polden Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 11.0 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 51%, Management 24.6%, Resource Management 13.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Casual 2.2%
- #53 Shokudo Underworld
68% matchVery Positive83% of 277 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 46.8%, Time Management 20.9%, 2.5D 17.3%, Relaxing 5.7%, Management 5.5%
- #54 Creature Kitchen
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 9,464 reviews2026
Dev: The Rat Zone
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 68.9%, Horror 12.5%, Relaxing 8.8%, Simulation 5.7%, Casual 2.2%
- #55 Bakso Simulator 2
66% matchVery Positive98% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Akhir Pekan Studio
Windows
Build, manage, and scale your very own Bakso restaurant in this first-person simulator. Design your layout, hire and train various staffs, upgrade your gear, expand your place and satisfy every customer to become the best Bakso empire in the world!
Why similar: Cooking 40.8%, Economy 17.5%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 14.1%, Simulation 10%
- #56 Don't Let It Starve
65% matchVery Positive95% of 198 reviews2026
Dev: Eduardo ScarpatoPub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows · Linux
A horror roguelike bento-builder. You're trapped in an underground kitchen, forced to feed a half-chef monster. Gamble with your life, assemble meals, and master your multipliers. Whatever you do, Don't Let it Starve.
Why similar: Cooking 57.2%, Horror 21.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Simulation 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #57 Lust from Beyond
68% matchVery Positive81% of 4,443 reviews2021
Dev: Movie Games LunariumPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A Victorian mansion. A cult worshipping an otherworldly erotic deity. Among all that - you. Explore a world inspired by the works of Lovecraft, Giger, and Beksiński. See for yourself that there are no limits to dark ecstasy.
Why similar: Gore 44%, Horror 36.3%, Violent 18.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #58 Dead Hungry Diner
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 147 reviews2012
Dev: Black Market Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Dead Hungry Diner is all about big combos, spells, monsters fighting monsters and finding your flow within the monstrous mayhem!Help Gabe and Gabby, patrons of “The Dead Hungry Diner”, as they feed the creatures of the night buckets and buckets of juicy Brain Berry goop!(Well... that’s the easy part!
Why similar: Management 75.7%, Casual 24.3%
- #59 KuloNiku: Bowl Up!
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,469 reviews2026
Dev: Gambir StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 42.1%, Time Management 21.2%, Management 21.1%, Simulation 6.4%, Relaxing 5.7%
- #60 Restaurant Owner: Prologue
67% matchMixed59% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Workaround GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 21%
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 31.2%, Management 16.5%, Economy 13.9%, Time Management 13.5%, Resource Management 12.6%