Chef RPG
Open-world cooking RPG about restoring a seaside restaurant
World 2 Studio · Released Sep 12, 2024 · Early Access
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 86% of 2,752
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 89% of 46 in 30 days
- Players
- 68
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 1 month ago
- Sep 14, 2026
What is Chef RPG?
A single-player, open-world cooking RPG and life sim set in the seaside town of White Ash. You hunt, harvest, and shop for ingredients, cook dishes, manage Le Sequoia, meet locals, and help restore the town.
For you if...
- +you want a cooking-focused life sim with restaurant management
- +you enjoy gathering ingredients and discovering new recipes
- +you like exploration, relationships, and community restoration
Not for you if...
- −you want restaurant management without gathering or fetch quests
- −you dislike timing-based cooking minigames
- −you want a finished game rather than Early Access
What players say
86% of 2,752 reviews are positive · 89% of 46 in the last 30 days
Players often praise the pixel art, recipe presentation, exploration, and range of cooking and restaurant systems. Common complaints include clunky controls, limited guidance, repetitive gathering and cooking, underdeveloped NPC relationships, bugs, and missing quality-of-life polish.
Players over time
▼ -48% vs a month agoPlayers online on Steam, one sample a day.
Highest since Sep 2026: 208 players on Oct 18, 2026.
Show the data
| Day | Players |
|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2026 | 68 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | 60 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | 64 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | 70 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | 59 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 66 |
| Nov 1, 2026 | 91 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 88 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | 75 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | 71 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 75 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 131 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 157 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 161 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 139 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 127 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 162 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 165 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 208 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 160 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 179 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 146 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 168 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 163 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 156 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 136 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 155 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 147 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 133 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 137 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 155 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 135 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 120 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 121 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 125 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 147 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 157 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 132 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 142 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 136 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 81 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 171 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 144 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 156 |
How many players finish Chef RPG?
7.7% of Steam players have unlocked «Return to the Glory Days», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
Chef RPG system requirements
Minimum: Direct X 9.0c compliant w…, 2 GB RAM, 5 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Chef RPG?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 8 or greater
- Processor
- 2.0GHz
- Graphics
- Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
Recommended
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
Does Chef RPG have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Chef RPG run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Native resolution not supported
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 30
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does Chef RPG use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Nov 6, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Early Access
- RPG
- Pixel Graphics
- Cooking
- Life Sim
- Management
- Open World
- Building
- Exploration
- Immersive Sim
- Action RPG
- Simulation
- Resource Management
- Crafting
- Relaxing
- Combat
Recent updates
- Sep 9, 2026 · Patch #24 - Storage Increase and Improvements
- Aug 29, 2026 · Patch # 23 – Fixes and Improvements
- Aug 21, 2026 · Tidehaven Major Update
- Aug 7, 2026 · Tidehaven Update Coming August 21!
- Mar 7, 2026 · Patch # 22 – Optimizations and Fixes
1 DLC available.