Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game

Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game

99Games Online Pvt. Ltd. · April 3, 2019 · Simulation, Free to Play, Casual, Indie, Cooking

Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game price

Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game

✦ AI summary

Run your own restaurant empire while cooking dishes from cuisines around the world, managing staff and satisfying hungry customers. Build your dream establishment from the ground up with customizable décor, a backyard vegetable garden for fresh ingredients, and special features like catering services and a chef's store to trade recipes and compete with friends.

Over 20 Million Downloads Worldwide! Play Star Chef, a cooking simulation game that celebrates delicious flavours, letting you run your own café and 5 star restaurant. Experience the joy of managing a bustling business dicing fresh ingredients while exploring your passion for cuisines across the world!

Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game — game info

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

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game offers engaging variety with its combination of cooking, farming, restaurant decoration, and business management that keeps progression feeling active. However, players consistently report severe monetization issues, with progression grinding to a halt at higher levels unless spending real money, making the game feel increasingly pay-to-win despite being initially fun. Most players recommend enjoying it casually for the first few months but advise against expecting to progress far without payments.

Not recommended Oct 9, 2026
Another cheap mobile game that does nothing but ask for money for every single action/upgrade/progress. It's just so much.. Skip it, do anything else.
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Not recommended Aug 24, 2026
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Recommended Aug 17, 2026
Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game is a casual restaurant-management game that combines cooking, farming, decorating and business management. I get to build up my own restaurant, grow ingredients, prepare dishes and serve customers while gradually expanding the business. The combination gives the game more variety than a basic cooking game because I am also responsible for the restaurant itself. The biggest strength for me is the combination of different activities. Cooking is only one part of the experience, while farming ingredients, managing orders and improving the restaurant give me several things to work toward. I like having multiple small goals because it makes the progression feel more active than simply repeating the same recipe. The restaurant-building aspect is also enjoyable. Expanding the layout, adding new equipment and improving the appearance gives me a sense that the business is gradually becoming more successful. Customising the restaurant makes the progression feel more personal because I can shape the space around how I want it to look. Cooking itself is straightforward and accessible. I can prepare different dishes and work through customer orders without…
Recommended May 9, 2026
The game itself is awesome. If you're into free games this one isn't for you. I put several hundred hours into this waste of time. When you get to higher levels the payment per order drops to nearly nothing. I've been working my a22 off for around 4 months to buy the fryer and i'm a little over halfway there. It's an irritation for sure. It's really fun for a few months but then you plateau and can't get anywhere without sending money. Seriously? Like real groceries aren't too damned expensive now you want to bleed people for digital ones that don't even exist? Uninstalling.
Recommended Nov 9, 2025
Игра Star Chef – это увлекательный симулятор ресторанного бизнеса! Поначалу всё кажется простым, но постепенно открывается широчайший простор для развития. Можно выращивать собственные ингредиенты, экспериментировать с рецептами, нанимать звездных поваров и обустраивать свой ресторан на любой вкус. Мне особенно нравится детализация блюд – выглядит аппетитно, аж слюнки текут! Однако, есть и минусы. Временами игра становится довольно "гриндной", то есть требует много времени на выполнение повторяющихся действий для получения ресурсов. Также, внутриигровые покупки могут серьёзно ускорить прогресс, что создаёт некоторое ощущение "pay-to-win". В целом, Star Chef предлагает интересный и затягивающий геймплей, особенно для любителей кулинарных игр и менеджмента. Несмотря на некоторые недостатки, игра стоит того, чтобы в нее поиграть и попробовать себя в роли шеф-повара и ресторатора. Главное – запастись терпением и, возможно, аппетитом!
Recommended Sep 5, 2025
Like the game but, game items are to high as well as the land if you want to exspan

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