Chef RPG
Open-world cooking RPG about restoring a seaside restaurant
World 2 Studio · Released Sep 12, 2024 · Early Access
AdventureRPGSimulationEarly Access
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 88% of 2,813
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 88% of 93 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 171
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 2 weeks ago
- Sep 9, 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
88% of 2,813 reviews are positive · 88% of 93 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.
Screenshots and trailer
Chef RPG system requirements
As published by the developer.
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
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 30
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- 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
Tags
- Early Access
- RPG
- Cooking
- Pixel Graphics
- 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.
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