Games Like Recipe for Disaster

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 31.2%, Management 27.3%, Capitalism 9.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Character Customization 6.3%

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 26.7%, Management 12.9%, Building 10.2%, Economy 10.1%, Capitalism 8.6%

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 39.8%, Life Sim 17.4%, Management 17.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 6.6%

Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.

Why similar: Cooking 26.5%, Economy 14.3%, Life Sim 13.5%, Management 12.9%, Building 11.1%

Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!

Why similar: Cooking 25.8%, Management 14.8%, Building 12.4%, Isometric 10.3%, Life Sim 9.9%

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 64.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 8.4%, Sandbox 5.6%, Economy 4.4%

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 35.3%, Capitalism 11.1%, Management 11%, Life Sim 10.1%, Economy 9.6%

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 27.6%, Time Management 15.6%, Life Sim 14.1%, Economy 13.9%, Management 10.9%

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 25.9%, Management 14.9%, Economy 13.8%, Life Sim 13%, Building 11.8%

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 42.1%, Management 13.1%, Time Management 10.4%, Life Sim 9.4%, Building 8%

Renovate, equip and restore the shine of the food truck that belonged to your father. Create recipes, cook the food and serve customers across an entire city. Customize and upgrade your food truck to reach more customers and expand your menu.

Why similar: Cooking 40.7%, Management 16.2%, Economy 14.1%, Simulation 8.7%, Life Sim 7.2%

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 37.1%, Time Management 15.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 10.2%, Economy 6.8%

Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!

Why similar: Cooking 19.5%, Management 14.9%, Capitalism 12.4%, Building 11.2%, Economy 10.6%

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 34.6%, Management 17%, Life Sim 15.3%, Time Management 13.2%, Simulation 7.6%

Launch your own business from scratch! Starting with a small coffee booth, build the most popular food service chain in town. Experiment, develop, make a profit.

Why similar: Cooking 29.3%, Management 13.9%, Economy 12.8%, Time Management 10.6%, Life Sim 9.2%

Build, design and manage your own café in this detailed cafe management simulator. Hire staff, craft your menu, serve customers and grow your coffee shop business in a lively island city.

Why similar: Cooking 25.3%, Management 13%, Economy 12%, Life Sim 11.6%, Capitalism 11.3%

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 32.7%, Management 14.9%, Life Sim 13.3%, Time Management 12.7%, Simulation 6.5%

Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.

Why similar: Cooking 28.2%, Management 13.4%, Economy 13.1%, Life Sim 12.4%, Capitalism 10.3%

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: Management 21.4%, Building 12.8%, Life Sim 11.4%, Economy 11.2%, Isometric 8.1%

Manage your own coffee shop and control every detail to make it the most popular one in town! Roast your own beans and create your recipes. Hire and train your staff, manage your economy and marketing, and destroy your competition to become the ultimate legal coffee monopoly in Coffee Shop Tycoon.

Why similar: Cooking 32.2%, Management 21.2%, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Building 8.4%

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Management 23.6%, Economy 19.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Life Sim 11.6%, Capitalism 11.4%

Run a roadside Pizza restaurant with your friends. Play solo or in Co-op with other players. Make pizzas fast and fill orders. Keep your customers happy and get more orders. Improve your restaurant as your income increases.

Why similar: Cooking 34%, Capitalism 13.7%, Life Sim 13.7%, Economy 11.6%, Management 11.5%

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 36.7%, Building 24.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Time Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.1%

Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.

Why similar: Cooking 27%, Capitalism 12.7%, Life Sim 12.6%, Management 12%, Economy 10.1%

Run your dream pizzeria solo or with up to 6 players in chaotic online co-op multiplayer. Cook authentic pizzas, automate your kitchen, customize your restaurant, survive disasters, invest in stocks, gamble and build the ultimate Italian restaurant empire.

Why similar: Cooking 41.5%, Life Sim 16%, Management 14.4%, Character Customization 8.4%, Simulation 6.8%

Open your own diner and create custom burgers in this management sim game.

Why similar: Cooking 43.7%, Life Sim 13.9%, Management 10.4%, Economy 8.9%, Simulation 8.5%

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: Management 17.4%, Capitalism 15.4%, Economy 14.7%, Building 14.2%, Isometric 7.8%

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: Cooking 34.7%, Management 16.3%, Life Sim 13.1%, Economy 12%, Simulation 6.4%

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 29.4%, Management 12.5%, Life Sim 11%, Time Management 10.8%, Economy 10.8%

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 29.6%, Management 13.9%, Life Sim 12.6%, Economy 11.5%, Time Management 11.2%

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 33.9%, Management 28.5%, Building 15.6%, Isometric 9.8%, Resource Management 6.7%

Bake, build, and grow your dream bakery cafe! Create delicious pastries, design your space, and serve customers. Play solo or with friends in online co-op to expand your business and experience the excitement of running a bustling cafe!

Why similar: Cooking 41.1%, Capitalism 13.4%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Building 8.7%

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 41.2%, Life Sim 19.6%, Management 16.5%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 5.4%

Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.

Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Life Sim 17.4%, Time Management 15.4%, Management 13.9%, Economy 9.1%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Management 20%, Automation 15.4%, Building 14%, Simulation 13.8%, Economy 12.8%

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 41.5%, Economy 15.5%, Management 13%, Simulation 11.6%, Casual 6%

Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

Why similar: Cooking 40%, Life Sim 14.1%, Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Economy 7.3%

Sizzle & Stack is a fast-paced restaurant management card game where you stack ingredients, cook dishes, explore recipes, and serve hungry customers. Upgrade your kitchen and master strategic cooking in a unique blend of card play and time management!

Why similar: Cooking 39.9%, Management 16.4%, Time Management 14.9%, Moddable 7.5% ★, Simulation 5.5%

A cooking and restaurant management game designed for drive thru lovers. Build your own restaurant from scratch. Prepare mouthwatering dishes, expand your menu with unique recipes, serve customers with care, and grow into the most legendary drive thru spot in the city!

Why similar: Cooking 47.9%, Life Sim 17.8%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Sandbox 4.8%

Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Cooking 26.5%, Simulation 21.9%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9%

Drive Thru Simulator is a simulation game that immerses you in the exciting world of fast food restaurant management. Take customer orders, prepare their meals, process payments, and expand your restaurant!

Why similar: Cooking 67.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Casual 7.4%, Automation 4.1%, Life Sim 4.1%

Build and manage your own Food Park! Customize food stalls, hire staff, and cater to hungry customers as you find the perfect recipes. Decorate your park to attract and satisfy more customers.

Why similar: Life Sim 17.6%, Management 15.8%, Economy 15.6%, Time Management 14.8%, Isometric 9.2%

Ready for the transformation of neglected rooms? Ensure customer satisfaction, renovate interiors, design entertainment spaces! Manage your motel in your own style and provide travelers with unforgettable experiences!

Why similar: Cooking 22.6%, Economy 17.5%, Building 13.7%, Life Sim 12.5%, Management 12.4%

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: Cooking 33.9%, Time Management 16.8%, Management 15.1%, Life Sim 13.7%, Economy 5.7%

Find ingredients, make menus, and run your own restaurant in this sizzling sim!

Why similar: Cooking 39.7%, Life Sim 17.2%, Management 13.9%, Building 11.7%, Isometric 10.1%

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 33.8%, Economy 18.7%, Management 18.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Simulation 7.4%

Ultimate Theater Simulator is a first-person cinema management game where you screen movies, serve snacks, hire staff, handle chaos, and grow your dream theater from the ground up.

Why similar: Life Sim 16.7%, Time Management 15.7%, Automation 14.2%, Management 11.7%, Economy 11.2%

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: Cooking 33.5%, Management 16%, Time Management 15.4%, Building 11%, Economy 7%

Welcome to Inn Tycoon: Prologue! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!

Why similar: Cooking 28.1%, Capitalism 13.3%, Management 12.4%, Economy 11.2%, Building 11.2%

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 45.6%, Management 23.3%, Building 15%, Procedural Generation 10%, Strategy 2.9%

A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.

Why similar: Cooking 39%, Management 19.6%, Time Management 14.3%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 7.2%

Build the ultimate bowl to leap past your ramen rivals and achieve greatness!

Why similar: Cooking 34.7%, Life Sim 19.2%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Management 8.2%

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 30.4%, Time Management 16.5%, Management 16.3%, Life Sim 12.8%, Simulation 7.7%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Management 17.8%, Capitalism 17.7%, Economy 15.4%, Life Sim 14.8%, Building 10.9%

Transform an abandoned island into a thriving business. Install fun activities, open your restaurant, maintain your equipment, manage your staff. It's time to open the beach, you're ready to welcome your first customers!

Why similar: Cooking 23.5%, Life Sim 11.8%, Capitalism 11.7%, Management 10.9%, Economy 10.2%

"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: Cooking 31.2%, Time Management 14.1%, Management 11.9%, Economy 10.7%, Capitalism 7.7%

Run your Parisian bistro in the heart of Paris, solo or in co-op with up to 8 players! Curate your menu, manage supplies, serve customers, and expand with new floors, a terrace, and a rooftop to become a true Parisian institution.

Why similar: Cooking 29.3%, Management 18.5%, Life Sim 17.4%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 7.6%

Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.

Why similar: Cooking 17.7%, Capitalism 13.5%, Management 12.6%, Life Sim 11.2%, Economy 10.8%

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 34.3%, Time Management 18.5%, Management 17.6%, Life Sim 16.1%, Simulation 8.3%