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Games Like Restaurant Empire II

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Management, Simulation, Economy, Singleplayer.

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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.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 76% — of 366 reviews
Released: 2009-05-27
Developer: Enlight Software Limited
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 42 min
Mean playtime: 7.3 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 40%

Overview

Restaurant Empire II is a quintessential restaurant tycoon game that balances creative menu design with complex business management and economic strategy. These recommendations prioritize deep management, financial simulation, and tycoon-style gameplay over simple first-person cooking tasks to capture the same strategic depth.

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    97% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,478 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: Cooking 31.4%, Management 29.7%, Capitalism 14.9%, Simulation 11.1%, Family Friendly 5.8%

    Why You'll Like It: This game closely mirrors the tycoon experience by focusing on restaurant management, menu creation, and character progression.

  2. #2 Recipe for Disaster
    96% matchMostly Positive71% of 714 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 26.5%, Management 12.8%, Economy 12.5%, Capitalism 12.4%, Life Sim 12.2%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of restaurant management, staff oversight, and crisis handling in a top-down perspective.

  3. #3 Pizza Connection 2
    96% matchMostly Positive77% of 305 reviews2017
    Dev: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 24 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    It's your empire... Take control! The game has it all! the depth of gameplay will have you on the edge of your seat for hours on-end. Build, manage, strategize and conquer the competition with the richest gameplay tycoon product ever offered!

    Why similar: Management 30.4%, Economy 29.6%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 17.2%, Indie 2%

    Why You'll Like It: A classic tycoon game that shares the same focus on building a restaurant empire through economic strategy and competition.

  4. #4 TasteMaker
    95% matchVery Positive83% of 1,294 reviews2023
    Dev: Jelle Booij
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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 26.9%, Economy 17.3%, Management 14.1%, Capitalism 13.4%, Building 11.9%

    Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the building and management aspects of running a restaurant, allowing for detailed customization of your establishment.

  5. #5 The Sushi Spinnery
    94% matchVery Positive93% of 406 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

    Why similar: Cooking 34.5%, Life Sim 15.5%, Economy 10.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Management 8.2%

    Why You'll Like It: This title captures the charm of managing a specialized restaurant with a focus on menu variety and customer satisfaction.

  6. #6 Big Ambitions
    94% matchVery Positive93% of 12,519 reviews2023
    Dev: Hovgaard Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

    Why similar: Economy 25.2%, Capitalism 22.7%, Management 22.1%, Life Sim 15%, Resource Management 8%

    Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep business simulation experience where you manage multiple types of businesses, including restaurants, within a living city.

  7. #7 Burger Bistro Story
    93% matchVery Positive83% of 306 reviews2023
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%

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

    Why similar: Cooking 36.4%, Life Sim 14.7%, Economy 12.5%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 8.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation that focuses on growing a small diner into a successful chain through strategic planning.

  8. #8 Bakery Simulator
    92% matchMixed67% of 2,258 reviews2022
    Dev: Live Motion GamesPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 9.0 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 22.3%, Economy 19%, Life Sim 14.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 9.5%

    Why You'll Like It: It combines the technical side of baking with the economic management required to run a successful business.

  9. #9 Railway Empire
    91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,620 reviews2018
    Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.

    Why similar: Economy 26.5%, Management 22.1%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 10.7%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers complex logistics and economic management, requiring players to balance expansion with operational efficiency.

  10. #10 Game Dev Tycoon
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,663 reviews2013
    Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    Why similar: Management 44.5%, Economy 20.7%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Casual 3.8%

    Why You'll Like It: While the industry is different, it shares the exact same addictive loop of business expansion, research, and resource management found in Restaurant Empire II.

  11. #11 Capitalism 2
    91% matchVery Positive82% of 559 reviews2017
    Dev: Enlight Software LimitedPub: Enlight Software Limited
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.

    Why similar: Economy 34.1%, Capitalism 30.3%, Management 18%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.2%

    Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for economic simulation, focusing purely on the supply chain and market dynamics that underpin the restaurant industry.

  12. #12 Two Point Hospital
    89% matchVery Positive92% of 34,380 reviews2018
    Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

    Why similar: Management 39.1%, Building 27.2%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 6.3%, Family Friendly 2.7%

    Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the management and layout-planning aspects that are central to running a successful restaurant empire.

  13. #13 Software Inc.
    89% matchVery Positive94% of 7,637 reviews2015
    Dev: Coredumping
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

    Why similar: Capitalism 27%, Economy 25.3%, Management 18.5%, Building 14.8%, Simulation 7.1%

    Why You'll Like It: An incredibly deep business simulation that focuses on building an office empire, perfect for players who love the economic strategy of Restaurant Empire II.

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    88% matchVery Positive84% of 2,520 reviews2023
    Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Nacon
    Windows
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    Why similar: Cooking 29.8%, Life Sim 16.6%, Management 14.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Family Friendly 8.9%

    Why You'll Like It: While it has more hands-on cooking, it still requires significant attention to restaurant management and menu planning.

  15. #15 Cafe Owner Simulator
    87% matchMixed64% of 1,076 reviews2022
    Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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.

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    Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

    Why similar: Management 33.1%, Building 24.4%, Economy 14.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 10.6%

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  17. #17 Megaquarium
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    Dev: Twice Circled
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%

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    Why similar: Management 17.6%, Building 16.3%, Economy 14.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Capitalism 10%

    Why You'll Like It: This management game requires balancing visitor satisfaction, staff management, and financial growth in a way very similar to restaurant sims.

  18. #18 Restaurant Owner: A Restaurant Simulator
    85% matchMixed63% of 94 reviews2025
    Dev: Workaround GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
    Windows

    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 25.9%, Economy 15.1%, Management 13.2%, Life Sim 12.4%, Resource Management 9.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A modern simulation that emphasizes the day-to-day management of a restaurant business.

  19. #19 Mad Games Tycoon 2
    84% matchVery Positive94% of 7,570 reviews2023
    Dev: Eggcode
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    Why similar: Economy 28.5%, Management 22.9%, Capitalism 20.8%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 7.5%

    Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive tycoon game that allows you to manage every aspect of a business, from production to marketing.

  20. #20 Fast Food Manager
    84% matchMixed70% of 266 reviews2021
    Dev: Cyber EyePub: UMKA Games
    Windows

    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 27.3%, Economy 20.2%, Management 14%, Resource Management 12.9%, Life Sim 11%

    Why You'll Like It: A straightforward management game that focuses on the economics of running a fast-food chain.

  21. #21 Inn Tycoon
    82% matchMostly Positive78% of 779 reviews2025
    Dev: Evil Goose GamesPub: GameDev.ist
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    Why similar: Cooking 16.3%, Capitalism 15.9%, Economy 14.9%, Management 13.5%, Resource Management 10.8%

    Why You'll Like It: Shares the management and building focus of restaurant sims, applied to the hospitality industry.

  22. #22 Prison Architect
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 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 18.2%, Building 17.5%, Capitalism 17.2%, Economy 16.6%, Resource Management 11.3%

    Why You'll Like It: Offers deep management mechanics, including staff hiring and facility design, which are essential components of the restaurant tycoon genre.

  23. #23 Rise of Industry
    83% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 reviews2019
    Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    Why similar: Economy 26.8%, Management 20.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Capitalism 12.2%, Building 7.7%

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    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    Why similar: Management 24.2%, Economy 19.7%, Building 17.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.5%

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    80% matchVery Positive91% of 71,331 reviews2016
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    Why similar: Building 21.9%, Management 20.9%, Economy 18.9%, Family Friendly 12.1%, Simulation 11%

    Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the creation and management of a business empire, emphasizing both aesthetic design and financial viability.

  26. #26 Startup Company
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 6,175 reviews2020
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    79% matchVery Positive88% of 28,783 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    79% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,012 reviews2020
    Dev: LVGameDev LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    78% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,978 reviews2022
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    77% matchVery Positive85% of 19,369 reviews2019
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    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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  32. #32 Coastal Kitchen Simulator
    75% matchVery Positive85% of 130 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 36.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 11.3%, Management 10.8%

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    77% matchMixed69% of 1,318 reviews2022
    Dev: DRAGO entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%

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    Why similar: Cooking 28.7%, Economy 16.9%, Management 12.4%, Memes 10.8%, Family Friendly 7.1%

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    75% matchVery Positive86% of 410 reviews2025
    Dev: Purple Heads Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Cooking 27.8%, Life Sim 14.5%, Management 13.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 8.9%

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    76% matchMixed62% of 103 reviews2024
    Dev: Workaround GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 22%

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    73% matchVery Positive88% of 2,843 reviews2025
    Dev: Broken Lyre EntertainmentPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    74% matchMixed64% of 64 reviews2025
    Dev: 2MEDYA
    Windows

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    74% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2024
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    71% matchVery Positive86% of 390 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    70% matchVery Positive95% of 367 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    73% matchMixed66% of 1,447 reviews2022
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    72% matchMostly Positive70% of 553 reviews2021
    Dev: 99Games Online Private Limited
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 50%

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    Windows
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    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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 26.9%, Management 16.8%, Building 15.4%, Life Sim 13.3%, Simulation 7.3%

  51. #51 Bakso Simulator
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,670 reviews2022
    Dev: Akhir Pekan Studio
    Windows

    Create the most successful bakso business in this world!

    Why similar: Cooking 39.1%, Resource Management 19.3%, Management 19.2%, Family Friendly 11.2%, Simulation 9.1%

  52. #52 Sandwich Simulator
    66% matchMostly Positive77% of 464 reviews2026
    Dev: FiftyEight Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%

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

    Why similar: Cooking 29.1%, Economy 16.6%, Life Sim 11.4%, Resource Management 10%, Family Friendly 8.8%

  53. #53 The Ramen Sensei
    68% matchMostly Positive76% of 181 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%

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

    Why similar: Cooking 28.4%, Life Sim 20%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.8%, Simulation 8.1%

  54. #54 Cooking Simulator VR
    68% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,647 reviews2021
    Dev: Big Cheese Studio
    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%

    Step into VR kitchen and become supreme Chef. Master realistic cooking with lifelike physics, 100+ recipes, 140+ ingredients and natural VR controls — or embrace chaos with fires, explosions, and sandbox freedom.

    Why similar: Cooking 44.5%, Simulation 15.8%, Management 9.5%, Economy 9.1%, Family Friendly 7.4%

  55. #55 Road Food Simulator: Prologue
    67% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2025
    Dev: 2MEDYA
    Windows

    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 31.9%, Capitalism 22.8%, Life Sim 18.5%, Management 14.9%, Simulation 6.4%

  56. #56 Bank Simulator
    66% matchMostly Positive74% of 340 reviews2025
    Dev: Strong Bow Games
    Windows

    Build and manage your financial empire from a small bank to a global powerhouse. Approve loans, trade bonds, hire staff, and master the market in Bank Simulator a business management sim and banking tycoon where every economic decision impacts your bottom line

    Why similar: Economy 16.9%, Capitalism 16.8%, Life Sim 14.4%, Management 10.4%, Building 9.9%

  57. #57 Shopping Empire Tycoon
    67% matchVery Positive96% of 72 reviews2021
    Dev: Musa GUNGOR
    Windows

    This Game is Basically a Market Management Simulator. Make Your Store Get The Best Profit With Various Upgrades and Unlocks. Including Basic Clicking stuff, Managing Your Own Market , Upgrading and A game with the theme of reaching to going to next level.

    Why similar: Economy 35.5%, Management 25.5%, Resource Management 18.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Casual 5.2%

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