Games Like Touhou Mystia's Izakaya

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

Why similar: Cooking 46.7%, Pixel Graphics 15%, RPG 12.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Female Protagonist 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This Kairosoft restaurant sim centers on creating menus, satisfying diners, training staff, and growing a food business through approachable management systems.

A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!

Why similar: Cooking 37.2%, JRPG 18.5%, Anime 12.8%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of dungeon-diving for ingredients and then running a restaurant is especially close to Mystia's gather-by-day, serve-by-night structure.

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 34.4%, Time Management 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Comedy 9.8%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its Japanese restaurant setting and direct focus on preparing food and managing customer orders make it a natural fit for izakaya fans.

Patty's brother has been possessed by the God of Poverty and the whole family has become poor. Run an adventure tavern in a fantasy land with Patty to pay their dept! A turn-based RPG where you cook, eat, collect, fight and explore!

Why similar: JRPG 34.2%, RPG 33.1%, Casual 16.8%, Anime 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy RPG combines ingredient hunting, recipe crafting, cooking, and steadily improving a tavern for a very similar cozy progression loop.

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 52.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, RPG 15.2%, Simulation 9.7%, 2D 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines pixel-art exploration and foraging with building up a restaurant, preparing dishes, and getting to know a local fantasy-town community.

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

Why similar: Cooking 37.9%, Time Management 25.6%, Simulation 14.6%, Cartoon 8.9%, Comedy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers quick, tactile order fulfillment and food assembly in a compact restaurant-management format similar to Mystia's nightly service rushes.

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: Pixel Graphics 55.4%, RPG 29.4%, Simulation 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: Run a customizable fantasy tavern by farming or sourcing ingredients, brewing and cooking meals, and keeping a steady stream of guests happy.

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

Why similar: Cooking 43.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, Simulation 16.7%, Economy 9.1%, Casual 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Build a ramen shop from the menu outward by experimenting with recipes, serving customers, and expanding into a successful restaurant business.

Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

Why similar: Cooking 47.9%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Simulation 15.6%, Economy 9.1%, Casual 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Design a sushi restaurant, develop dishes, and improve its reputation through Kairosoft's accessible but satisfying management progression.

Step into Pixel's shoes in this one-of-a-kind journey that bridges time, memories, and the aroma of fresh coffee. Dive deep into a city balancing its past and future. Engage in intense arcade challenges, immerse yourself in heartfelt stories, and navigate a world crafted in pixel art.

Why similar: Cooking 24.3%, Time Management 23.5%, Capitalism 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Female Protagonist 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art, story-driven time-management game about preparing drinks and food at increasingly demanding cafés, diners, and eateries.

Relax in the world of Kemono Teatime, where animal ears are a normal part of everyday life. Here in Melodius, you can whip up whatever blends of tea you desire in your favorite cafe as you play through an adorable story. Come now and live out your bestest and cutest life—down to the last drop.

Why similar: Cooking 23.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.8%, Simulation 13.5%, Comedy 12.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its pixel-art tea-shop setting, animal clientele, beverage preparation, and gentle emotional atmosphere closely match the seed game's cozy appeal.

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 69.8%, Simulation 19.5%, Casual 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes menu planning, ingredient management, precise cooking, and daily restaurant service for a more detailed culinary-management alternative.

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: Simulation 50.1%, Time Management 46.4%, Casual 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Develop a humble medieval tavern into a thriving venue by laying it out well, expanding its offerings, and accommodating guests efficiently.

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 91.4%, Casual 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its escalating restaurant shifts demand quick cooking, smart kitchen organization, and adaptation as menus and customer pressure grow.

Hit the road in this massive sequel to the million-selling Cook, Serve, Delicious series. Manage your food truck, cook delicious dishes and serve customers as you take the road trip of a lifetime across war-torn America.

Why similar: Cooking 46.5%, Comedy 22.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Casual 9.8%, 2D 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a fast-paced order-management game with a huge menu and intense cooking-service rhythm for players who enjoy Mystia's busiest nights.

A magical pixel art platformer. Explore an unfamiliar town and deliver tasty treats to the townsfolk. Cook magical delicacies from your bought and gathered ingredients. Learn new ways to traverse, discover secrets, and figure out the intricacies of your orders.

Why similar: Cooking 46.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Economy 14.7%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Story Rich 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Explore a magical town for ingredients and cook specialized dishes for its residents in a warm pixel-art fantasy setting.

The unofficial Touhou farm sim! Play as harvest god Minoriko Aki and grow your popularity with your home-grown produce and specialty sweet potatoes. Mingle with other gods and youkai in newly-constructed Yasaka Resort Town, explore Youkai Mountain, and maybe get into a fight or two!

Why similar: Anime 22.6%, Comedy 22.4%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Simulation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: For more Gensokyo comfort-game energy, it brings Touhou characters into a farming-focused loop of gathering, growing, and relaxing progression.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: Capitalism 36.1%, JRPG 18.2%, Anime 17%, RPG 10.3%, Comedy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its dungeon-looting, crafting-adjacent economy, colorful anime cast, and day-to-day shopkeeping offer a classic fantasy-business counterpart.

Hey human, we've got problems! This town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you're the only one who can see them. You'd better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that'll help them chill out!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 33.4%, RPG 28.6%, Simulation 27.1%, Story Rich 7.7%, 2D 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though centered on a bathhouse rather than food, it shares the supernatural Japanese setting, hands-on guest service, and relationship-driven town life.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.5%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Anime 18%, Simulation 13.5%, Story Rich 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Mixing customized drinks for memorable nighttime customers captures the intimate service-and-conversation side of running Mystia's izakaya.

Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 33.1%, Simulation 22.1%, RPG 19.7%, Casual 12.9%, Story Rich 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This gentle pixel-art witch-life game focuses on collecting materials, brewing recipes, helping townsfolk, and enjoying a whimsical magical world.

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: Capitalism 36.3%, Simulation 26.7%, RPG 18.4%, Casual 10.5%, 2D 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Gather and combine ingredients into made-to-order concoctions while serving distinctive customers in a cozy fantasy merchant loop.

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 37%, Time Management 33.1%, Simulation 14.3%, RPG 8.3%, Casual 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Grow ingredients, bake treats, and serve a steady flow of café customers in a cheerful, low-stress bakery-management game.

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: Time Management 49.2%, Cartoon 21.9%, Simulation 21.6%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Restore and manage a cat café by decorating it, serving different visitor types, and building a welcoming local hangout.

You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.

Why similar: Capitalism 34.3%, Time Management 22.2%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Simulation 13.4%, RPG 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Brew products, manage ingredients, and build relationships with a lively fantasy cast while operating a shop under increasing business 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 43.2%, Time Management 32.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 9.4%, Casual 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Manage a mobile coffee business through compact, replayable runs of drink preparation, upgrades, and increasingly complex customer demand.

A bread revolution across the world now begins! Aeruta is a side-scrolling action game with a shop management twist, fight monsters for materials and use them to make breads, then finally make the deserted town popular again!

Why similar: Cooking 34.2%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Anime 12.8%, RPG 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.8%, Anime 18.4%, Simulation 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Story Rich 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades restaurant management for drink-making and conversation, but its late-night café atmosphere and supernatural regulars strongly echo Mystia's social charm.

(English Version Available) A classical Monopoly-like game with 20+ Touhou characters and 10+ official maps. Custom level editor, double resource system (money & crystal), electric dispatching, SP required dice throwing and weather system bring you a whole different game experience. Original characters are waiting for your challenge!

Why similar: Faith 68.5% ★, Anime 13.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Casual 7.4%

Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

Why similar: Time Management 20.3%, JRPG 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Anime 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.4%

Experience a hilarious and adorable e-commerce game in a magical world where humans and monsters are at war. Help a humble rabbit fairy expand her online store selling homegrown carrots. Uncover hidden secrets while growing the business and becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Why similar: Capitalism 27.2%, Time Management 20.3%, Anime 12.5%, Simulation 9.3%, RPG 8.7%

Explore Gensokyo from an outsider's perspective in this old-school Touhou DRPG!

Why similar: Faith 31.8% ★, JRPG 21.3%, Female Protagonist 11%, RPG 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%

A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant. Play as the owner, and manage the restaurant, form bonds with characters, and explore the lively town. Uncover the secrets behind the restaurant’s mysterious downfall.

Why similar: Cooking 30%, Time Management 21.8%, RPG 8%, Female Protagonist 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

A 2D top-down idle AFK & battle stage-clearing game set in Gensokyo. In the peaceful and tranquil Gensoukyo, a little girl with yellow hair who likes to borrow books everywhere has aroused Alice's anger. Therefore, she calls on everyone in Gensoukyo to gather in front of Marisa's house for a battle

Why similar: Faith 29% ★, Incremental 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Anime 12.8%, Casual 11.5%

Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy is an indie game developed by GAMEPULSE.Step into the shoes of Cirno, the Hero of Ice, as she embarks on a journey against evil, liberating Gensokyo and saving her dear princess.

Why similar: JRPG 32.3%, Anime 23.2%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, RPG 12%, Story Rich 9.1%

The denizens of Touhou Project in a Dungeon Crawling RPG! Gensokyo is connected to 'a certain world' and a huge dungeon by the name of 'Mazes of the Week' appears. Create your own Touhou Characters, step up to the dungeon's challenges! An 'Authentic Style' RPG inspired by Touhou Project.

Why similar: Faith 53.4% ★, JRPG 19.7%, RPG 12.1%, Anime 8%, Female Protagonist 6.9%

Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden.

Why similar: Cooking 38.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Simulation 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, RPG 10.8%

A bullet hell roguelike game. Players can utilize characters with different abilities, collect and assemble powerful items. Dance through an unending barrage of bullets to save both yourself and Touhou Gensokyo from the darkness that is engulfing everything.

Why similar: Faith 37.9% ★, Cartoon 11.8%, Comedy 11.6%, Anime 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%

Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Spirit Hunter, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. All employees can be romanced depending on your choices.

Why similar: JRPG 34.2%, Anime 18.3%, Simulation 14.6%, RPG 14.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%

Touhou Blooming Chaos 2 is an brand new rogue shooter where you control a character of a varied cast to explore an all randomized labyrinth. Enjoy the excessive fun of reaping enemies and character training. With balanced difficulty, you can always find your place as either beginner or veteran!

Why similar: Faith 53.6% ★, RPG 26.3%, Anime 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!

Why similar: Time Management 20.1%, Anime 15.7%, RPG 12.3%, JRPG 12.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%

Journey through a pixelated, isometric version of Gensoukyou in this quasi-3D action RPG! Dash and jump to avoid enemies, or shoot them down from far! Hit the right buttons at the right time to accumulate power and battle efficiently! Play as Reimu and friends and get to the bottom of the incident!

Why similar: Faith 40.4% ★, RPG 16.4%, JRPG 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Anime 8.1%

More Sushi! is a short incremental game about running a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Serve customers, buy upgrades, hire helpers, and unlock new sushi! Pay off the owner's debt, then turn used plates into stars to buy permanent upgrades.

Why similar: Cooking 33.5%, Incremental 21.8%, Economy 18.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 8%

NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).

Why similar: Anime 37.1%, Pixel Graphics 29.9%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Story Rich 8.4%, 2D 5.9%

Beans is a sardonic 'tycoon' simulation game about hipsters running a coffee shop replete with dismal puns, coffee, chiptunes, and mystery!

Why similar: Cooking 11.8%, Time Management 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Incremental 9.8%, Simulation 9.8%

Take over a bakery! Establish production lines for farming, fishing, and baking to create delicious treats! Fulfill missions to earn rewards. Recruit helpers, expand production, and decorate the bakery and homes. Restore Starlight Island to its former glory—one delicious dessert at a time!

Why similar: Time Management 21.6%, JRPG 17.3%, Incremental 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Anime 10.8%

Gensokyo Night Festival is a 2D action-exploration game set in the world of Gensokyo.Join Suika Ibuki as she wreaks havoc throughout Gensokyo against the backdrop of the festival held at Hakurei Shrine.

Why similar: Faith 53.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Anime 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Casual 5.9%

Marisa has lost all her fortune in 'Kappachinko', now she must fight other residents in Gensokyo to repay the debt she owes Reimu! Collect various items and skills, build your construct strategically, then head towards powerful opponents! She may even encounter a mysterious being in the end…

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 46.6%, Cartoon 37.9%, 2D 15.5%

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: Cooking 59.3%, Anime 18.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Casual 8.7%, 2D 2.8%

Based on the "Touhou Project" world, Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded- is an addictive roguelike RPG that's easy for beginners to pickup and play, but with tons of advanced options for pros! Explore dungeons with your Touhou favorites characters, collect loot, and battle over the Golden Spheres!

Why similar: Faith 58.2% ★, RPG 17.4%, Anime 10.8%, Female Protagonist 7.7%, JRPG 5.3%

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 53.8%, Time Management 34.5%, Casual 9.6%, Simulation 2%

A clicker game revolving around Sushi! Create sushi, Sell sushi and buy upgrades in an endless cycle to continue creating infinite sushi to become the ultimate sushi chef!

Why similar: Cooking 28.9%, Incremental 14.5%, Cartoon 13%, Anime 12.7%, Simulation 11.7%

Touhou Project's Brand New Action Roguelite Fan Game! Strange incidents erupt in the Animal Realm and Primate Spirit Garden. Embark on an unknown journey, uncover the truth behind the anomalies, and break through this 'Touhou Dystopian'!

Why similar: Faith 52% ★, Female Protagonist 23.8%, Anime 15.2%, RPG 8.9%

Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy Prologue is a fanmade indie game developed by GAMEPULSE.To save the Princess of Misty Lake "Daiyousei", from the evil who took her captive. You must play as the brave Hero of Ice Fairy "Cirno" and face "Remilia Scarlet" of the Kouma Castle

Why similar: JRPG 36.3%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Anime 14.9%, Faith 11.8% ★, Comedy 9%

Maid Cafe on Electric Street is a leisurely maid cafe adventure set in the otaku haven of Nipponbashi, Osaka.

Why similar: Cooking 28.8%, Economy 13.5%, RPG 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Anime 9.6%

Kitchen Sync: Aloha! is a cozy, story-driven cooking RPG. As head chef of your family's restaurant in Hawaii, build a trusty team of chefs and dish up tasty Hawaiian food. Manage kitchens, build friendships, find romance, explore tropical venues, and discover the power of cooking together.

Why similar: Cooking 27.5%, Time Management 24%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Female Protagonist 8.4%, Anime 8.2%

Transform an old farmhouse in a seaside village into a luxurious inn! Meet interesting guests, unlock delicious dishes, discover new areas and hidden treasures, configure rooms and amenities, uncover secrets, and rejuvenate the struggling village in this inn-management game!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.3%, Simulation 21.4%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9.9%

Thirteen girls awaken, only to find themselves in a prison. What awaits them: a Witch Trial. Help them prepare for the trial by exploring the prison in order to find the witch hidden amongst them. Find the witch, learn what kind of magic she holds, dispel the lies, and prepare for the execution.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 44.3%, Anime 25.7%, Story Rich 16%, Multiple Endings 14%

Follow Hata no Kokoro as she explores and defeats enemies on the stage of Gensokyo. The game contains many randomized elements such as items, skills and maps. Players can utilize a variety of different playstyles, making each run uniquely different from the last.

Why similar: Faith 29.1% ★, JRPG 23.6%, RPG 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Anime 10.7%

Enter the world of elite gastronomy and manage your own restaurant from A to Z: hospitality, cooking, waitering, you do it all! Learn from the best chefs in the world, prepare the most delicious meals to make your customers happy and become a true cooking star.

Why similar: Cooking 50.1%, Time Management 20.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Anime 8.4%, Casual 7.5%