Games like The Cooking Game
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$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Cooking · Time Management
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!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
-30%$2.79Cats and Sushi
4 days ago · GameGameGames
Both: Cooking · Time Management
Run a cozy sushi restaurant for adorable cats. Stock up the ingredients, prepare dishes requested by customers, earn tips and unlock new recipes.
CookingSimulationTime ManagementCatsCasualCraftingJob SimulatorInventory ManagementCutePoint & Click
-20%$5.59Cooking Crusade
4 days ago · toogaryn, zeydean
Both: Cooking · Time Management
A cosy cooking time-management game set in a medieval tavern. Brew pottage, pour ale and slice snacks for a queue of impatient guests. Reinvest your coin to upgrade the kitchen, and collect a dozen legendary regulars who each break the rules their own way.
SimulationCookingCasualCozyMedievalCuteHand-drawnAtmosphericTime ManagementArcade
-35%$6.49Happy's Humble Burger Cult
Jul 16 · Scythe Dev Team
Both: Cooking
The original cooking horror returns in an unhinged co-op experience for 1-4 players. Grill burgers, serve customers, and hit your quota before the kitchen turns into a nightmare. When Asset Joy begins her hunt, try to escape alive and extract your hard-earned cash to survive another shift.
SimulationOnline Co-OpCookingHorrorComedyAtmosphericDark HumorCo-opPhysicsManagement👍 481
$2.99DAKENSHI
9 days ago · rspepe
Both: Time Management · Cooking
Can you hear the bad can? Tap, listen, and reject defective cans in a sound-based inspection game. The line keeps accelerating. Three mistakes end your shift. Headphones strongly recommended.
ActionCasualArcadeIndie2DMinimalistTime ManagementCookingInvestigationAtmospheric
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$11.99Service Please
Mar 6 · Dynamic Dice
Both: Cooking
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.
CookingShop KeeperRelaxing3DTop-DownManagementCity BuilderCasualBuildingSingleplayer
-35%$9.09E-Shop Tycoon
Jul 28 · Aeolian Games
Both: Time Management
Embark on an e-commerce startup journey in E-Shop Tycoon! Optimize warehouse logistics, hire and train staff, and design unique office spaces as your business grows. Handle industry events and marketing crises. Come grow your startup into an e-commerce giant!
CasualSimulationSandboxShop KeeperTime ManagementStrategy2.5DTop-DownStylizedComedy👍 605
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Time Management
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.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
-15%$15.29Shiba Sweet
4 days ago · Maowoo
Both: Cooking
Woof! You step into the paws of a novice Shiba chef who inherits a dessert shop from your retired grandma. You'll buy ingredients, bake desserts, and sell them in bento boxes. Use your earnings to upgrade the kitchen, decorate the shop, and unlock new recipes to create the best bakery ever!
CasualSimulationRPGImmersive Sim3DCookingCartoonCartoonyCuteHand-drawn
$12.99I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator
Apr 1 · Bunch'o'Nerds
Both: Cooking
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.
SimulationCo-opCookingCrimeCharacter CustomizationFirst-PersonEconomySingleplayerImmersive SimStealth👍 399
-20%$9.59Memory of Memorie : A Chill Story
Jul 22 · BeXide Inc.
Both: Time Management
A story-driven productivity adventure where you work alongside Memorie, an apprentice witch from another world. As you focus using the Pomodoro timer, the story progresses and her world gradually transforms. Turn solitary work into time shared with someone.
CozyRelaxingCasualTime ManagementImmersive SimUtilitiesIdlerVisual NovelInteractive FictionPoint & Click👍 248
-40%$11.99Parisian Bistro Simulator
3 days ago · Quark Studios
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.
Online Co-OpMultiplayerCo-opSimulationManagementResource ManagementCasualLife SimFirst-Person3D👍 447
$24.99News Tower
Nov 18 · Sparrow Night
Both: Time Management
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
ManagementSimulationStrategySandboxIndieResource Management2DEconomyBuildingTime Management👍 4,316
$18.99Winter Survival
Nov 19 · DRAGO entertainment
Both: Cooking
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCookingOpen WorldAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayerAdventureFirst-PersonBase Building👍 595
$9.99Ice Cream Simulator
Jun 5 · AM Playhouse
Both: Cooking
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.
CookingSimulationSingleplayerLife SimFirst-PersonManagementImmersive SimDesign & IllustrationRealisticBase Building👍 180
$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!
SimulationOnline Co-OpManagementCasualMultiplayerLife SimStrategyEconomyBuildingSingleplayer👍 171
-10%$8.09No Emergency: Pestilence
3 days ago · 20 July
Both: Time Management
No Emergency: Pestilence plunges players into the epicenter of a mysterious epidemic, where every arriving patient could be carrying a mutating pathogen, and a single mistake in a prescription turns the cure into poison.
SimulationRoguelikeMedical SimOutbreak SimTime Management3DFirst-PersonAtmosphericManagementCrafting
$0.99Farewell
Aug 28 · wvkmind
Both: Cooking
A hand-painted deckbuilding roguelike. At sea, play cards against waves and reefs, read the fog or burn your lantern to clear it, and cook below deck. Two crew, five endings. Plus an online mining town: drill ore with cards, beam crates onto your truck, sell at the dock, team up with others.
2D PlatformerCasualCard GameCookingDeckbuildingChoices MatterRPGMassively MultiplayerAbstractPsychological
-25%$14.99K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut
Jul 16 · Wisageni Studio
The ultimate crossover between K-pop and Life Simulation! Step into the role of manager and build your dream idol group by scouting talent, managing schedules, choosing outfits, planning social media, and organizing the perfect album. Can you make it to debut?
Life SimRPGChoices MatterSimulationChoose Your Own AdventureAnimeVisual NovelManagementParty-Based RPGRelaxing👍 176
-20%$7.19Cycling Champion
Jul 16 · RaulM
Both: Time Management
A fast-paced tactical cycling game where every kilometer is a decision. Play your cards, manage your energy, time your attacks and fight for victory across Grand Tours, stage races and legendary Classics.
SportsArcadeCard GameRacingCard BattlerReal Time TacticsTime Management3DColorfulStylized
-15%$12.74Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon
4 days ago · Goodpunk Studios
Both: Time Management
A deep Hollywood studio simulation, 1930 to the streaming age. A back lot, a million dollars and no pictures. Commission scripts, sign stars to seven-year contracts, book dates against rival studios, and survive television, home video and everything else that came for the movies.
Choose Your Own AdventureTime ManagementStrategyReal Time TacticsSandboxSimulationEconomyCapitalismManagementCrafting
-15%$5.09Master Of Pottery
11 days ago · AZGames
Master of Pottery is a pottery-themed creation + simulation game. Make pottery, open exhibitions, complete orders, train apprentices, run your own showroom and start a relaxing pottery journey.
SimulationCasualIndieCraftingRelaxingSingleplayerRealisticEarly AccessAtmospheric👍 2,744
-10%$3.59The Midnight 21
3 days ago · FKG
Both: Time Management
Dive into a night filled with blackjack, but also put your detective instincts to the test—because this night will be about much more than just blackjack. Only those with truly sharp eyes will be able to make it through the night.
CasualStrategyCard GameTime Management3DFirst-PersonAtmosphericMysteryInvestigationIndie
$9.99Scale the Depths
May 28 · Glass Gecko Games
Fish, scale, sell, repeat. Scale the Depths is a casual fishing game built around this simple but satisfying loop. Feed hungry customers, upgrade your gear, and uncover the many secrets hidden beneath the surface.
FishingCasualPixel GraphicsFunnyUnderwaterEconomyRelaxingArcadeSimulationExploration👍 1,891
-15%$12.74Anime Shop Simulator ✨
10 days ago · One More Time
Manage your own anime shop 🎌. Play solo or team up with friends 🤝 in 4-player co-op mode to grow your business 📈 Stock shelves with manga, figures, and collectible cards in this immersive first-person game 🕹️.
SimulationAnimeOnline Co-OpCard GameCasualManagementFirst-PersonShop KeeperLife SimSingleplayer👍 645
$5.99Forest Time
Dec 19 · Wandering Peak
Both: Time Management
Forest Time is a tactical game with a cozy experience. Enjoy various puzzles in a charming world with peaceful yet challenging tasks. There are 50+ levels with 8 playable characters to explore.
Time ManagementTurn-Based TacticsPuzzle2DCuteIsometricCasualTop-DownRelaxingColorful
$19.99Noun Town Language Learning
May 20 · SUPER HYPER MEGA
Learn 1,000+ words and phrases in 12 languages - including Japanese & Spanish - with no subscription and no ads. Explore a colorful open world, beat vocab mini-games, and speak to NPCs using real speech recognition. Language learning that actually sticks, and actually feels like a game.
Language LearningEducationOpen WorldPuzzleLogicWord GameComedyPoint & ClickFunnySimulation👍 708
$19.99Hotel Magnate
Sep 23 · Arcade Oven
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
ManagementSimulationBuildingSandboxResource ManagementRelaxingCity BuilderEconomyBase BuildingCasual👍 419
-10%$5.39Needle In A Haystack - A Time For Goats
3 days ago · Red Key Games
Both: Time Management
Find the Needle. Honor the Goat. Dig through the haystack with an array of tools and machines to find the mythical needle and unlock the ultimate reward.
CasualSimulationPhysicsSingleplayerPuzzleCraftingTime ManagementComedy3DAutomation
-30%$8.39Creator Chronicles
7 days ago · Origin Studio
A game within a game. In this entirely new kind of simulation RPG, become a guild master, develop your town, recruit guild members, and conquer dungeons. Every decision you make becomes your own chronicle.
City BuilderManagementCRPGPixel GraphicsTop-DownMultiple EndingsBuildingEconomyCraftingRPG👍 501
-15%$16.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
7 days ago · OPNeon Games
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
SimulationManagementEconomySingleplayerCollectathonTrading Card GameCapitalismCard GameShop KeeperTrading👍 47,485
$9.99DRYER DRAMA
May 28 · Curly Flipper
Both: Time Management
Throw as many balls in the dryer as possible for the highest score as it spins unpredictably but be careful to manage them because if one of those balls touches the edge of the drum, the dryer will jam and explode!
IndieActionPuzzleArcadeStrategyCozyCasual3DTime ManagementFamily Friendly
FreeFood Drive: Race against Hunger
Mar 24 · Gamers for Good
Food Drive: Race against Hunger is a fun driving adventure into food bank awareness. By collecting food and making timely deliveries you can work your way through 3 levels of driving, delivery, and fun.
Free to PlayIndieCasualActionDrivingTop-DownStylized
$19.99Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Jul 4 · RUST LTD.
Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.
SandboxVRShooterPhysicsFPSSimulationGun CustomizationFirst-PersonFunnyModdable👍 22,782
$11.99Deep Corp
May 26 · KishMish Games
Both: Time Management
Dig mines, extract resources, and produce goods to restore order to the state. Become a successful businessman and an effective state governor in the late Wild West era!
StrategyMiningRTSManagementUndergroundResource ManagementSandboxExplorationWesternTime Management👍 367
-20%$9.59Mall Together
Jul 24 · Business Tycoon
Run your mall. Open new stores, sign contracts with leading brands, hire teammates, and meet customer needs. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your mall.
Life SimCasualOnline Co-OpShop KeeperSimulationManagementDesign & IllustrationMultiplayerOrganizingImmersive Sim👍 419
$69.99Forza Horizon 6
May 18 · Playground Games
Discover the breathtaking landscapes of Japan in over 550 real-world cars and become a racing Legend in Forza Horizon's biggest open world driving adventure yet.
RacingOpen WorldDrivingMultiplayerAutomobile SimSimulationExplorationRealisticArcadeSports👍 86,954
$9.99Fell & Sell
Aug 26 · Art Games Studio S.A.
Slay. Loot. Sell. Survive! Dive into a first-person blend of hack'n'slash roguelike and shop management. Plunder deadly dungeons for loot, escape with your life, craft, and stock your shelves. Then risk it all once more for profit!
SimulationShop KeeperManagementEconomyFantasySingleplayerRPGDungeon CrawlerAction RoguelikeAction RPG👍 1,453
$29.99The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
Jun 16 · ConchShip Games
"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.
RPGMartial ArtsSandboxWuxiaOpen WorldStrategyIndieSingleplayerAdventureSimulation👍 56,539
$11.99Party Quiz
Jul 31 · White Ink
Play a local Quiz game with your friends and family. Create your own Quiz using the Party Quiz Constructor or use the Steam Workshop to download one of the Quizzes made by the community. Test your knowledge!
CasualSimulationTriviaPuzzleSpellingTyping3DCartoonyColorfulCute👍 147
$19.99Sovereign Tower
Aug 6 · WILD WITS GAMES
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Choices MatterMedievalChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelIndieManagementDialogue HeavyHand-drawnRPGStory Rich👍 3,150
-20%$7.99Leafy Corner
Jul 30 · Fireline Games
Run a cute little plant shop in this cozy and relaxing game. Grow, sell, and care for a variety of real-life plants, help customers find their dream plants, complete orders, and customize your cozy shop just the way you like!
CozyCasualSimulationManagementRelaxingNatureDecoratingColorfulCuteStylized👍 2,352
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
SimulationCity BuilderDecoratingLife SimBuildingManagementSandboxFunnyFishingIndie👍 2,476
$19.99Rhythm Doctor
Dec 6 · 7th Beat Games
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
RhythmMusicPixel GraphicsStory RichLevel EditorIndieSingleplayerLocal Co-OpAction2D👍 25,025
$15.99Mon Bazou
Dec 18 · Santa Goat
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Automobile SimDrivingSandboxLife SimRacingChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationBuildingOpen WorldFirst-Person👍 19,936
$19.99The Coin Game
Mar 19 · devotid
A collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a carnival, goofy robots, open world design, a global ranking system and silly prizes. Featuring 50+ modern inspired arcade machines and a pawn shop to keep money in your pocket. The Coin Game is made by a solo developer.
ArcadeLife SimOpen WorldCasualPhysicsSimulationSurvivalFirst-PersonFunnyCharacter Customization👍 5,647
$5.99Sort Them Ducks
Aug 13 · Mr.Duck
Sort Them Ducks is a cozy organizing simulator where you sort over 4,000 unique rubber ducks onto the correct shelves. Enjoy the satisfying process of turning a messy duck store into a perfectly organized collection at your own pace.
SimulationCasualOrganizingIncrementalJob SimulatorHidden ObjectCollectathonCleaning3DSandbox👍 1,491
$17.99JIANGHU CHRONICLES
Nov 5 · 一品阁
JIANGHU CHRONICLES is a Wuxia-themed clan simulator, which focuses on simulating Jianghu clans and experiencing realistic battle. Set up a clan of your own, recruit disciples, complete missions... And eventually make your clan second to none by improving its power and reputation.
ActionBase BuildingMartial ArtsDungeon CrawlerAction-AdventureAdventureHistoricalReal Time Tactics2.5DTop-Down👍 2,047
$13.49Gamestonk Simulator
May 21 · simsum
Relive the golden age of old-school video game stores! Sell hit games, deliver orders, trade and collect retros, hire staff, decorate and grow your store to be the best in town! Disclaimer: some game title parodies might crack you up!
SimulationManagementRogueliteCollectathonLife SimEconomyImmersive SimCapitalismRoguelikeIndie👍 106
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
SimulationCity BuilderBuildingRelaxingEconomyManagementResource ManagementInventory ManagementStory RichLogic👍 543



