Games Like The Chef's Shift

The massive sequel to the original cult classic! Plan your menu, decorate your restaurant, cook hundreds of foods, and for the first time ever - earn medals by mastering dozens of themed restaurants!

Why similar: Typing 33.3% ★, Cooking 18.2%, Difficult 12.3%, Management 10.2%, Arcade 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for high-speed, typing-focused restaurant management that mirrors the frantic intensity of the seed game.

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: Typing 34.4% ★, Cooking 19%, Difficult 12.8%, Management 10.8%, Arcade 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the series' signature typing-based cooking gameplay with even more intense, fast-paced challenges.

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: Typing 26.5% ★, Cooking 20.6%, Time Management 14.3%, Difficult 10.3%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original title that defined the typing-based restaurant simulation genre with its challenging, high-speed gameplay.

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 32.8%, Crime 23%, Time Management 20.2%, Management 7%, Funny 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly matches the dark humor and crime themes of the seed game, tasking you with cooking customers into burgers.

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 28.5%, Crime 23.6%, Time Management 14.9%, Management 12.6%, Dark Humor 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the dark, criminal underbelly of the restaurant business where you must manage a shop while hiding gruesome secrets.

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 53.8%, Management 24.4%, Funny 7.9%, Cute 7.1%, Strategy 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly high-pressure management experience where precision and speed are required to keep a restaurant running smoothly.

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 40.3%, Job Simulator 18.8% ★, Management 15.6%, Simulation 8.1%, Relaxing 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A more grounded simulation that still requires intense focus and time management to maintain a high-quality kitchen.

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!

Why similar: Cooking 59.2%, Funny 12.3%, Difficult 8.8%, Cute 5.2%, Casual 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: While not typing-based, it captures the chaotic, high-stakes coordination required in a professional kitchen environment.

Return to Calypso Island to serve seasonal sundae treats in Papa's Freezeria Deluxe! Craft sundaes in the Freezeria for all your quirky customers while earning tips, points and Special Recipes. Switch gears and take a trip in the Food Truck to concoct your own chilly creations and see who shows up!

Why similar: Cooking 31.9%, Job Simulator 26.1% ★, Time Management 18.1%, Management 8%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic time-management game that focuses on the precise assembly of orders under increasing time pressure.

Top, bake, and serve delicious pizzas in Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe! Craft pizzas for Papa Louie's loyal customers while earning tips, points, and Special Recipes. Unlock holiday ingredients for seasonal pies, and take a trip in the Food Truck to serve your own unique creations!

Why similar: Cooking 44.7%, Time Management 22.8%, Management 12%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar loop of order management and cooking that rewards players for speed and accuracy.

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: Job Simulator 24.5% ★, Cooking 24%, Time Management 16.9%, Management 11.2%, Funny 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management side of the kitchen, requiring careful attention to customer orders and timing.

Diner Bros is a cooking and restaurant management game. Cook and serve meals as fast as you can, but don’t get the orders wrong or else your customers will get angry – and hungry! Upgrade your restaurant and hire staff to help you… or play with your friends in 2-4 local co-op!

Why similar: Cooking 35%, Time Management 23.2%, Management 12.3%, Arcade 7.5%, Cute 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A frantic, action-oriented cooking game that emphasizes the stress of managing a busy restaurant with multiple tasks.

DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.

Why similar: Management 39.4%, Simulation 14.3%, Relaxing 14.1%, Funny 12.5%, Casual 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It balances intense action with deep restaurant management, capturing the rewarding loop of gathering ingredients and serving customers.

A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!

Why similar: Cooking 45.6%, Time Management 34.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Casual 4.5%, 2D 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced restaurant management game that requires quick reactions and precise order fulfillment to succeed.

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: Job Simulator 27% ★, Cooking 24.8%, Time Management 17.5%, Management 9.8%, Cute 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more relaxed, it provides a satisfying management loop that focuses on upgrading your restaurant and serving customers efficiently.

Typing of the dead: Overkill fuses the horror and comedy of the legendary House of the Dead series with unique typing mechanics in order to deliver a truly original gaming experience! This gruesome shooter puts you in the middle of a mutant outbreak in Bayou county.

Why similar: Typing 89% ★, Arcade 5.7%, Funny 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the same satisfying, high-pressure typing mechanics found in the seed game, set against a dark and humorous narrative.

🌴👩‍🍳🍔 A stress-free cooking game that lets you relax! Cook up burgers for mecha cats and aliens. Play solo or with up to 7 friends!

Why similar: Job Simulator 27.4% ★, Cooking 26.8%, Time Management 10.1%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fun, simulation-heavy take on cooking that requires quick thinking to satisfy alien customers.

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 35.5%, Difficult 23.2%, Indie 15%, Singleplayer 9.5%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: While not about cooking, it is the ultimate high-pressure job simulator that forces you to balance speed and accuracy under a dark, bureaucratic narrative.

Feed the Cups is a Roguelite multiplayer online cooperative game. Run a Drink Shop, stocking up, preparing ingredients, taking orders, crafting drinks, cleaning up, and checking equipment. Join your friends together!

Why similar: Cooking 32.9%, Job Simulator 29% ★, Management 12.9%, Cute 6.9%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-energy simulation game that tasks you with managing a drink shop under significant time pressure.

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 27.4%, Job Simulator 25.7% ★, Time Management 18%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines time management and strategy, requiring you to balance your resources while serving customers on the go.

Chicken Fries is a first-person restaurant simulator where you run a fast-food kitchen: prepare meals by hand, manage fryers and inventory, serve customers, and survive the daily chaos of a busy restaurant, one chicken at a time.

Why similar: Cooking 36.4%, Shop Keeper 21.3% ★, Management 14.4%, Time Management 13.3%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person simulation game that captures the daily grind of working in a fast-food environment.

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: Cooking 34.1%, Simulation 31.3%, Funny 13.1%, Management 10.2%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game adds a layer of puzzle-solving to the restaurant management genre, requiring efficient design to keep up with demand.

🌯 Shawarma Legend !! A real simulation of a shawarma restaurant !!

Why similar: Cooking 42.5%, Time Management 25%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 9.6%, Funny 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A focused cooking simulator that emphasizes the repetitive, high-speed nature of preparing specific food orders.

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 37.9%, Time Management 21.1%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 8.3%, Arcade 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the realistic, high-pressure aspects of running a fast-food kitchen under time constraints.

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 41.1%, Dark Humor 18.3%, Management 15.9%, Cute 6.1%, Relaxing 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique management game that incorporates dark themes and strategy into the standard cooking simulation formula.

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 37.1%, Simulation 20.7%, Relaxing 17.7%, 2D 7.7%, Singleplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of a job simulator where you must carefully manage resources and craft specific items for customers.

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 43.9%, Management 34.1%, Simulation 15%, Relaxing 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers deep management mechanics for those who enjoy the business side of running a restaurant.

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: Job Simulator 26.9% ★, Cooking 25.6%, Time Management 16%, Management 10%, Simulation 4.9%

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 40.3%, Time Management 21.4%, Management 14.7%, Simulation 6.2%, Colorful 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A creative take on cooking that uses card-based mechanics to manage the chaos of a busy kitchen.

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: Job Simulator 32.2% ★, Cooking 31.5%, Management 13.1%, Funny 7%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a comprehensive look at the management side of the industry, perfect for those who enjoy the simulation aspect of the seed game.

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: Typing 21.8% ★, Cooking 17.6%, Crime 14.5%, Time Management 11.2%, Dark Humor 7.6%

Become a sushi chef in a cozy Japanese conveyor belt sushi bar! 🍣 Prepare sushi on your crafting table, serve quirky customers, learn new recipes, unlock fresh ingredients, upgrade your kitchen, and build relationships with your regular customers.

Why similar: Job Simulator 35.3% ★, Cooking 35.1%, Management 9.3%, Cute 4.8%, Simulation 4.6%

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

Why similar: Job Simulator 30.1% ★, Shop Keeper 18.3% ★, Time Management 15.7%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulator that requires you to juggle customer satisfaction, staff, and food preparation in a busy environment.

Run a tiny bakery for sweet-toothed slime customers! Adapt to changing weather, seasons, and festivals as cravings shift. Unlock new recipes, welcome new guests, and prepare each night for the day ahead.

Why similar: Cooking 27.1%, Job Simulator 18.8% ★, Time Management 13.1%, Shop Keeper 11.8% ★, Management 8.4%

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: Job Simulator 29.8% ★, Cooking 29.7%, Time Management 18.4%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Strategy 2.6%

A tiny active desktop companion you can play at your own pace. Serve cute, picky customers between your daily tasks and enjoy little breaks that brighten your day. ✨ With a built-in Pomodoro mode to help you stay focused while you work, plus stream integration where your chat can place orders!

Why similar: Cooking 37.7%, Time Management 20.4%, Management 11%, Simulation 6.6%, Relaxing 5.6%

The Way of the Tray is a waiter simulator with action puzzle elements in a Japanese spirit world setting. Your task is to master the skill of serving dishes and earn the trust of yokai patrons. Will you be able to prove yourself and find your way home?

Why similar: Cooking 30.1%, Job Simulator 27.7% ★, Time Management 14.6%, Management 7.9%, Simulation 5.8%

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: Job Simulator 29.7% ★, Cooking 25.7%, Shop Keeper 16.6% ★, Management 13.2%, Simulation 6.5%

Bathe in the sights, sounds, and smells of Cook Serve Forever, a narrative-focused cooking adventure where you serve food to the hungry masses on your quest for greatness.

Why similar: Cooking 38.4%, Time Management 27.6%, Funny 8.7%, Simulation 7%, Colorful 5.7%

Coffie Simulator is a coffee simulator game. Run your own café, serve 500+ unique customers, and master the art of coffee-making! Customize, upgrade, and manage your shop while handling orders with precision. Every choice matters—your reputation shapes the experience. Can you succeed?

Why similar: Cooking 23.6%, Job Simulator 22.1% ★, Time Management 18.7%, Management 8.4%, Funny 7.6%

A heartfelt game where you run a night market stall, cooking kaolengmian (grilled cold noodles). Customers come and go, stopping by to chat and share bits of their lives, joys, frustrations, and everyday struggles. At this little stall, you cook, listen, and keep living an ordinary person’s life.

Why similar: Job Simulator 29.9% ★, Cooking 29.8%, Shop Keeper 17.9% ★, Funny 6.9%, Simulation 4.2%

You lost your coal mine job, now you're a cashier at Poland's landmark convenience store. Scan groceries, verify IDs, grill hot dogs, and try to feed your family on what's left. A dark comedy about surviving late stage capitalism, one receipt at a time.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.9% ★, Cooking 23%, Dark Humor 15.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Casual 5.2%

In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...

Why similar: Cooking 63.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Relaxing 8.2%, Cute 6.4%, 2D 5%

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 50.2%, Time Management 17.7%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Funny 6.3%

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 44.2%, Time Management 26.2%, Simulation 13.6%, Management 10.8%, Relaxing 2.5%

Run the world's most chaotic fast food joint! Play solo or with up to 8 friends as you take orders, make burgers, and hustle to keep customers happy. Grow your business with every shift.

Why similar: Cooking 44.6%, Job Simulator 19.2% ★, Management 16.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Time Management 4.7%

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: Job Simulator 27.1% ★, Cooking 25.6%, Time Management 13.8%, Management 10.7%, Funny 5.9%

"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: Job Simulator 25.3% ★, Cooking 24.7%, Time Management 15.9%, Shop Keeper 14.6% ★, Management 8.4%

Create delicious coffee drinks and cannoli in Papa's Mocharia Deluxe! Create stylish layered lattes in the coffeehouse for Papa Louie's loyal customers while earning tips, points, and Special Recipes. Take a trip in the Food Truck to design and serve your own eye-catching creations!

Why similar: Cooking 41%, Time Management 24.6%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 4%

Let’s Get Cookin’! Team up with SpongeBob SquarePants for a laugh-out-loud, fast-paced cooking adventure in Bikini Bottom. Test your time-management skills, serve iconic customers, and fire up the grill in nonstop kitchen chaos!

Why similar: Cooking 34.3%, Time Management 18.4%, Difficult 8.7%, Management 8.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Tasty Chef is a cozy restaurant management and cooking game where you build and expand unique restaurants, design menus, order ingredients, prepare dishes step by step, hire helpful staff, and serve customers alone or with friends.

Why similar: Cooking 50.9%, Management 16.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Funny 6.7%, Cute 6.4%

Cozy café store management simulator: renovate and decorate, stock shelves, and run the checkout. Roll in deliveries with a cart, set up promotions and hire staff as you expand from a tiny shop into a bustling café.

Why similar: Cooking 32.6%, Job Simulator 30.4% ★, Time Management 15%, Management 12.5%, Relaxing 5.5%

Manage your own speakeasy hidden from prying eyes during Prohibition. Experiment with recipes, perfect the quality of your spirits, and transform your bar into an elegant, unique venue. Combine craftsmanship, optimization, and decoration to offer your guests an unforgettable experience.

Why similar: Job Simulator 23.9% ★, Crime 20.1%, Cooking 18.8%, Shop Keeper 14.5% ★, Management 8.6%

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 65.1%, Simulation 15.5%, Management 7.5%, Funny 6.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

The cozy chaotic cooking roguelike. Assemble omelets for quirky students using ingredients from a conveyor belt. Discover wacky combinations to satisfy the ever-demanding Principal Clucker.

Why similar: Cooking 68.5%, Arcade 13%, Relaxing 10.1%, Strategy 5.3%, Casual 3.1%

In this delightful farm-to-table cooking game, you’ll restore a cozy Japanese restaurant, cultivate a bountiful garden of fresh ingredients, and prepare mouth-watering Japanese dishes for hungry locals. Use your culinary skills to help bring a little life back to the spirit world!

Why similar: Cooking 29.7%, Time Management 19.9%, Job Simulator 18.9% ★, Management 7.4%, Simulation 6%

In Keep Me Gifted you will make your career debut as a Gift Shop owner. Be ready to encounter unhinged characters and their requests, try to match those requests with your wrapping skills, manage your item stock, upgrade your shop, and increase your store's popularity. And stay gifted!

Why similar: Job Simulator 33% ★, Cooking 25.2%, Time Management 12.6%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 6.3%

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 61.5%, Management 21.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Relaxing 5.9%, 2D 2.6%

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 23.5%, Job Simulator 22.7% ★, Management 16%, Time Management 15.6%, Simulation 7.3%

Make tasty food items to serve hungry customers in this fast-paced sequel to the amazing food making games Burger Shop 1 & 2!

Why similar: Cooking 48.9%, Time Management 30.6%, Simulation 6.9%, Colorful 5.1%, Casual 4.1%