- #1 The Kindeman Remedy
97% matchMixed70% of 302 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 30.8% ★, Crime 15.4%, Time Management 10%, Incremental 9.5%, Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A dark medical simulation where you manage a hospital while making morally questionable decisions to eliminate patients.
- #2 Godlike Burger
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,046 reviews2022
Dev: Liquid PugPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 27.2%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Crime 18.4%, Time Management 13.4%, Resource Management 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar loop of managing a restaurant while murdering customers to serve as the secret ingredient in your burgers.
- #3 Blood Bar Tycoon
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 795 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 30.1%, Management 18.8%, Economy 18.6%, Dark Humor 18.3%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A management game where you run a bar for vampires, requiring you to harvest blood to keep your clientele satisfied.
- #4 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,506 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 24.2%, Farming Sim 16%, Management 15.7%, Economy 13.6%, Resource Management 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines business management with criminal enterprise, tasking you with running front businesses to hide illicit activities.
- #5 Wasteland Bites
93% matchVery Positive95% of 382 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 28%, Dark Comedy 15.2%, Time Management 14.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Horror 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic cooking simulator that captures the same grim, horror-infused culinary management style.
- #6 Graveyard Keeper
94% matchVery Positive86% of 52,820 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 44.8%, Dark Humor 24.3%, Simulation 13.9%, Gore 13.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, macabre management game where you run a medieval cemetery and must find creative ways to dispose of bodies.
- #7 MachiaVillain
94% matchMixed66% of 804 reviews2018
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 61.3% ★, Management 15.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Resource Management 7.5%, Economy 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A base-building management game where you play as a villain managing a haunted mansion and its monstrous inhabitants.
- #8 Crime Scene Cleaner
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 32,534 reviews2024
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 24.9 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 47.5%, Gore 24.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Violent 7.9%, Relaxing 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the aftermath of criminal acts, requiring you to manage the cleanup of gruesome scenes to hide evidence.
- #9 Cult of the Lamb
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 123,767 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 25.3 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 90.8%, Singleplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Blends base-building management with dark, occult themes where you must maintain a cult through questionable moral choices.
- #10 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
91% matchMixed69% of 13,106 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 20.1 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% ★, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 6.8%, Simulation 5.6%, Violent 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to step into the role of a villainous mastermind managing an island lair and plotting global schemes.
- #11 Death and Taxes
90% matchVery Positive86% of 8,276 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 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 73.5%, Simulation 18.4%, Casual 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, narrative-driven simulation where you decide who lives and dies as a reaper in an office setting.
- #12 Strange Horticulture
89% matchVery Positive95% of 15,409 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 45.1%, Simulation 44.4%, Singleplayer 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a dark, occult atmosphere where you manage a plant shop and uncover mysterious secrets.
- #13 Beholder
89% matchVery Positive92% of 30,475 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Dark Humor 58.4%, Simulation 21%, Violent 14.5%, Singleplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game where you spy on tenants and make difficult moral choices to survive under a totalitarian regime.
- #14 Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
88% matchVery Positive84% of 2,599 reviews2023
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 43.2%, Management 21.7%, Resource Management 17.7%, Simulation 6.9%, Relaxing 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic and detailed look at restaurant management for those who enjoy the cooking aspect of the seed game.
- #15 Tavern Master
87% matchVery Positive92% of 12,957 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 11.7 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 45.1%, Resource Management 24.2%, Time Management 13%, Simulation 11.4%, Relaxing 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A management game focused on building and running a successful tavern, offering a more relaxed take on the genre.
- #16 Drug Dealer Simulator
86% matchVery Positive86% of 20,895 reviews2020
Dev: ByterunnersPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.8 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 45.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 13.4%, Dark Comedy 11%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty management game focused on building an illicit criminal empire from the ground up.
- #17 Travellers Rest
85% matchVery Positive88% of 17,329 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.9 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 41.8%, Management 34.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Simulation 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: A management sim where you run a tavern, brew beer, and farm, blending cozy aesthetics with deep systems.
- #18 Recipe for Disaster
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 718 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 38.6%, Management 19.6%, Time Management 14.2%, Economy 12.8%, Resource Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A restaurant management sim that focuses on the chaotic nature of running a kitchen and handling difficult staff.
- #19 Prison Architect
84% matchVery Positive89% of 73,349 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.2 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 38.4%, Economy 23.3%, Resource Management 22.5%, Simulation 13.1%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: A management simulator that explores the dark side of running a prison, often requiring ruthless efficiency to maintain order.
- #20 Potion Tycoon
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 719 reviews2024
Dev: Snowhound GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!
Why similar: Management 37.3%, Economy 26.9%, Resource Management 23.8%, Simulation 10%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: A management game focused on running an alchemy shop with a darker, more strategic edge than typical cooking sims.
- #21 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
82% matchVery Positive93% of 43,576 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 11.0 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 25.8%, Resource Management 21.6%, Relaxing 10.4%, Simulation 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the crafting and shop management side of business, offering a satisfying loop of resource gathering.
- #22 Papers, Please
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,992 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 75%, Singleplayer 18.3%, Casual 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A high-pressure management game that forces you to make grim moral choices while working a bureaucratic job.
- #23 Cooking Simulator
82% matchVery Positive85% of 19,474 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 63%, Simulation 11.9%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 5.9%, Economy 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a physics-based approach to cooking that provides a more realistic challenge for restaurant management fans.
- #24 Dungeon Keeper™ 2
80% matchVery Positive93% of 1,240 reviews2024
Dev: Bullfrog ProductionsPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
Why similar: Villain Protagonist 95% ★, Singleplayer 5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic strategy game that puts you in the role of a villainous dungeon master managing minions and defenses.
- #25 The Tenants
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,702 reviews2022
Dev: Ancient Forge
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 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 32.6%, Economy 26.8%, Time Management 24.7%, Relaxing 6.7%, Simulation 6%
Why You'll Like It: A landlord management simulator that requires balancing property maintenance with the needs of eccentric tenants.
- #26 Punch Club
81% matchVery Positive80% of 15,574 reviews2016
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
Why similar: Management 45.7%, Time Management 43.3%, Simulation 11%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty management simulator that captures a dark, humorous tone while you manage a fighter's life and career.
- #27 TasteMaker
79% matchVery Positive83% of 1,298 reviews2023
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 2.9 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 37.9%, Management 21%, Economy 17.1%, Time Management 12.9%, Simulation 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox management game that allows for deep customization of restaurant layouts and menus.
- #28 Tavern Manager Simulator 🍻
77% matchVery Positive92% of 4,372 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 13.0 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 29.9%, Management 19.7%, Economy 18.9%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 5.9%
- #29 Human Fast Food
78% matchVery Positive91% 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 32.8%, Time Management 17.5%, Management 16.5%, Economy 15.6%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #30 The Chef's Shift
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,719 reviews2025
Dev: Panitia GameDevPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 23.3%, Time Management 15%, Management 13%, Dark Humor 11.6%
- #31 Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game
77% matchVery Positive88% of 6,578 reviews2023
Dev: TapBlaze
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 33.6%, Management 20.4%, Time Management 19.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Relaxing 5.3%
- #32 Bakery Simulator
78% matchMixed67% of 2,320 reviews2022
Dev: Live Motion GamesPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 27.3%, Time Management 17.9%, Economy 16.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A specialized management game that focuses on the intricacies of baking and delivery logistics.
- #33 Corner Kitchen Fast Food Simulator
76% matchVery Positive86% of 418 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 33.5%, Management 17.5%, Time Management 15%, Resource Management 15%, Economy 7.5%
- #34 The Westport Independent
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 334 reviews2016
Dev: Double Zero One Zero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Why similar: Simulation 100%
Why You'll Like It: A censorship simulator that forces you to manage a newspaper and make difficult choices about what information to suppress.
- #35 Shawarma Legend
74% matchVery Positive92% of 7,360 reviews2024
Dev: Eyad AlshafeiPub: Patates Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
🌯 Shawarma Legend !! A real simulation of a shawarma restaurant !!
Why similar: Cooking 45.1%, Time Management 21.2%, Management 13.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 9%
- #36 Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 66 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 38.2%, Management 18.4%, Economy 18%, Resource Management 16.8%, Simulation 6.8%
- #37 Coastal Kitchen Simulator
73% matchVery Positive84% of 139 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 37.5%, Time Management 17.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 9.2%
- #38 Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,481 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: Management 42%, Cooking 41.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Relaxing 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #39 While We Wait Here
73% matchVery Positive89% of 2,307 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 65.8%, Simulation 22.8%, Casual 7.9%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #40 Goblin Sushi
72% matchVery Positive90% of 372 reviews2026
Dev: Old Cake FactoryPub: Metaroot
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 41.3%, Time Management 20.8%, Resource Management 19.2%, Dark Humor 17.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #41 Tostchu
72% matchVery Positive84% of 610 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 55.1%, Time Management 20.8%, Resource Management 18.2%, Simulation 4.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #42 I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator
71% matchVery Positive88% of 282 reviews2026
Dev: Bunch'o'Nerds
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.7%, Economy 14.8%, Management 11.6%, Time Management 8.1%
- #43 Cooking Live - Italian Kitchen Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,980 reviews2023
Dev: Matryoshka
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Hello everyone! My name is Jane, and I need your help! I travel around the world and create a blog about local restaurants and cuisine. I’ve seen how big corporations squeeze out talented local cooks and their restaurants! Let’s take matters into our own hands and give them back their zest for life!
Why similar: Cooking 41.9%, Time Management 21.1%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Incremental 8%
- #44 Chopped Up
70% matchVery Positive94% of 78 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 56.5%, Horror 40.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #45 The Chef's Shift: First Course
70% matchVery Positive98% of 464 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 30.9%, Crime 24.4%, Time Management 15.9%, Management 11.9%, Dark Humor 10.6%
- #46 Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?!
75% matchMixed54% of 202 reviews2017
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 25.6 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 48.8%, Simulation 41.5%, Casual 9.7%
- #47 Bone's Cafe
70% matchVery Positive96% of 359 reviews2022
Dev: Acute Owl Studio
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 40.5%, Management 20.3%, Resource Management 16%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Relaxing 4.7%
- #48 Cook, Serve, Delicious!
71% matchVery Positive94% of 5,705 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%, Time Management 24.6%, Management 23.3%, Simulation 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #49 Restaurats
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,939 reviews2025
Dev: toR StudioPub: Polden Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.9 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 50.4%, Management 24.8%, Resource Management 14%, Simulation 7.4%, Casual 2.1%
- #50 Shokudo Underworld
69% matchVery Positive83% of 268 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 21%, 2.5D 17.2%, Relaxing 5.7%, Management 5.6%
- #51 Yes, Your Grace
69% matchVery Positive87% of 13,821 reviews2020
Dev: Brave At NightPub: No More Robots
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.
Why similar: Management 42.9%, Resource Management 38.6%, Simulation 11.2%, Casual 3.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #52 Restaurant Owner: Prologue
69% matchMixed60% of 108 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 30.9%, Management 16.6%, Economy 14.3%, Time Management 13.4%, Resource Management 12.9%
- #53 Pirate Cove Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Kool2Play
Windows
Pirate Cove Simulator will have you run a shop and tavern on the Island of the Damned, to get rich and buy your way out of the pirate afterlife. Trade with restless undead pirates, run your own distillery and turn local plants into potent drinks, search for hidden treasures, or just go fishing.
Why similar: Economy 20.9%, Management 20.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Cooking 11.4%, Dark Humor 10.9%
- #54 Creature Kitchen
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 7,092 reviews2026
Dev: The Rat Zone
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 69.8%, Horror 10.7%, Relaxing 9.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Casual 2.3%
- #55 Lemon Cake
68% matchVery Positive85% of 2,027 reviews2021
Dev: Cozy Bee Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 29.2%, Farming Sim 23.3%, Time Management 17.8%, Management 17.8%, Simulation 6.4%
- #56 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 76.2%, Casual 23.8%
- #57 Service Please
65% matchVery Positive84% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Dynamic Dice
Windows
Service Please is a top-down restaurant management and tycoon game focused on relaxed gameplay and steady progression. Manage customers, organize staff, upgrade your menu, and build your restaurant step by step.
Why similar: Cooking 31.8%, Management 15.5%, Economy 13.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Time Management 13.4%
- #58 Alchemist Shop Simulator
66% matchVery Positive82% of 157 reviews2025
Dev: Kool2Play
Windows
Run your own magic business! In Alchemist Shop Simulator you can trade magical wares, brew potions and take on special orders, meet many quirky clients, grow your ingredients in your garden, restock your shelves and manage prices. Keep expanding your business as you gain experience and wealth!
Why similar: Management 22%, Economy 21.6%, Resource Management 16%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Simulation 6.8%
- #59 Happy's Humble Burger Farm
66% matchVery Positive93% of 1,995 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 28.4%, Management 27.3%, Dark Humor 26.1%, Horror 18.1%
- #60 Street Food Simulator
65% matchVery Positive82% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: civciv
Windows
Welcome to the bustling world of street food! Grill hot dogs, sizzle hamburgers, and serve delicious snacks to hungry customers. Find best spot in the city, perfect your recipes, manage your stand and watch your reputation grow!
Why similar: Cooking 32.8%, Economy 21.6%, Management 20.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Simulation 6.3%