Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game

Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game

Innervoid Interactive · August 20, 2020 · Management, Simulation, Cooking, Character Customization, Singleplayer

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Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game price by region

Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game costs €0.60 in Europe (EUR), $1.26 in the United States, $1.26 in Georgia (USD), £1.81 in the United Kingdom, zł3.35 in Poland, CA$3.39 in Canada, NZ$3.69 in New Zealand, A$4.35 in Australia and R$5.69 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Europe (EUR) €0.60 −85% €2.99 €0.60 5
United Statesyour region $1.26 −85% $2.99 $1.26 6
Georgia (USD) $1.26 −85% $2.99 $1.26 6
United Kingdom £1.81 −85% £2.29 £1.81 6
Poland zł3.35 −85% zł10.79 zł3.35 5
Canada CA$3.39 −85% CA$3.39 — 3
New Zealand NZ$3.69 −85% NZ$3.69 — 3
Australia A$4.35 −85% A$4.35 — 3
Brazil R$5.69 −85% R$5.69 R$20.11 4

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game

✦ AI summary

Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game puts you in complete control of building your culinary empire, from hiring staff and designing menus to creating unique recipes and customizing every detail of your establishment. Rise from a struggling cook to a world-famous chef in either a sandbox mode where your choices shape your destiny or a story-driven campaign with challenging objectives.

Chef allows you to personally don a kitchen apron and embark on an exciting career in the wild world of professional cooking. Starting with nothing but pocket change, a small restaurant, and an ambitious dream, you’ll ascend from the life of a humble cook to that of a world-famous chef.

Nothing will prevent you from deciding how to climb to the top of the food chain. Prepare yourself for a sandbox experience in which all your choices matter as you build your gastronomic empire, or follow a story mode with delirious challenges to face. What will it be? A steakhouse? A vegan paradise? A pasta palace? An experimental cooking lab? Only you can figure out which path is best for your establishment.

FEATURES LIST

  • Create your own avatar and level them up across 6 different skill trees with more than 100 abilities to choose from.
  • Full restaurant management: choose the restaurant’s location and layout, hire the staff, design the menu, and determine the restaurant’s policies.
  • Customize every aspect of your restaurants: Choose from over 150 different variations for floors and walls, and over 200 appliances and decorations that can be individually placed and colored.
  • Experiment with a realistic recipe editor: Use the skills and ingredients at your disposal to create one-of-a-kind dishes that are accurately rated by taste and aroma.
  • Choose your own cooking style: Specialize in meat or seafood, go vegetarian or vegan, or offer a vast selection of spicy or exotic dishes. The choice is yours and the world will react to it accordingly.

Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game receives praise for its cozy atmosphere and creative recipe-building mechanics, but players consistently criticize the inadequate tutorial that fails to explain core systems like ingredient improvement and recipe quality mechanics. The early game feels slow and grindy even with time acceleration, and several players express frustration with counterintuitive design choices such as ingredients lowering dish quality, limited recipe customization, and poor UI organization.

Not recommended Sep 8, 2026
I had a few issues with this game. 1. The Tutorial - the tutorial didn't actually explain much, just a tour through the interfacing. Do design types affect the type of customer or money earned? Do you need to improve all of your ingredients to improve a dish? It was a player guide I was reading that even mentioned using the Ingredient Points to improve the already unlocked ingredients since all the parts of a dish need to be improved before the dish will be improved. Even then, the guide was older so not even sure if the aspects were still relevant! 2. It felt like an idle phone game. I went through the tutorial and was able to just put it on 4x speed and just leave it alone. Even then, idle phone games usually have you quite involved int he beginning and it's deeper in that you're able to automate everything. I was able to put this on 4x right after the tutorial and step away. There were not QTE to handle, no decisions that did anything other than unlock new furniture, or anything that actually needed my attention. The worst part is I have no clue how much of this experience was me not understanding things or how much was the game. I had no clue how to entice new customer…
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Recommended Sep 17, 2026
Fun relaxing little game. The food creation part is very extensive, but don't expect the management aspect of the game to be very deep. You hire cooks and waiters, who can level their skills and then you have to find the balance to either pay them more money to restore their stamina after a work day, or hire more staff so they don't need to spend so much stamina in the first place. You add the recipes you made (or some premade ones if you like) to the menu, can decorate your restaurant and have several ways to increase the amount of customers to get in. The real fun of the game is in creating recipes and finding flavours that go well together, and deciding what kind of restaurant you like to make. The game doesn't force you to make a specific type (although you do get a few bonuses by picking one of the preset specializations), so you get to do what you find fun. The artstyle is cute. Even though the game has a few little bugs that will likely not get fixed anymore, I have not encountered anything game breaking and I have an ongoing playthrough that I keep coming back to in between other games, where I slowly build out my restaurant empire. If they ever make a sequel where …
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 26, 2026
good relaxed game. for old folks like me missing the good old Pizza Tycoon
Recommended Sep 7, 2026
Great game wish it got more updates! Dlcs could use some fixing! Pacing can be hot and cold start you have to make alot of custom recipes fully enjoy making recipes simple fun!
Recommended Sep 4, 2026
I love this game it makes me feel really cozy
Recommended Sep 1, 2026
I would love to see an update on this where when you go to the stats it only shows what’s on your menu, a base for recipes such as pizza so have the pizza base and just being able to add toppings. When making recipes some times the required ingredients and amounts lower the quality, why? And when making a pizza cheese lowers my quality, most people have cheese on their pizza why is it lowering the quality? This happened across many recipes. I would love more freedom in creating recipes, I don’t like having to select the dish I want to make from the menu. A search bar on ingredients panel would also be nice. Also being able to edit the recipes that you start off with, just being able to add more to them to get that quality up. I could never get the flavour above 50 although small it would be nice if it went higher. When making recipes, the required fields sometimes made it to fatty or something else and it doesn’t matter what I added I couldn’t balance it out without lowering the quality ADD MORE GENERAL ITEMS TO DECORATIONS, this was so hard because there simply isn’t much under the general so to get the stats up for the customer base that like general I didn’t know what…

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