Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game

Restaurant management sim where you design menus and create recipes

Innervoid Interactive · Published by Digital Tribe · Released Aug 20, 2020

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 73% of 1,497
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Playing now: 1; peak 24h 5
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 2 years ago; May 29, 2024

What is Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game?

A single-player restaurant management sim where you start with a small restaurant and work toward becoming a well-known chef. In sandbox or story mode, you choose a location, lay out and decorate the restaurant, hire staff, set policies, and build menus from recipes you create.

For you if...

+you enjoy experimenting with ingredients to create dishes
+you like choosing menus, decor, and staff for your restaurant
+you prefer relaxed management over constant pressure

Not for you if...

−you need thorough tutorials and a gentle start
−you want management systems that stay demanding later on

What players say

73% of 1,497 reviews are positive

Players praise the recipe creator and the freedom to shape their restaurants. They criticize the limited tutorials and slow start; some also find the management shallow or the later game too easy.

Screenshots and trailer

Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows Vista SP1+ (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ @ 3.2GHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GT 630, AMD Radeon HD6570, or equivalent
Memory: 3000 MB RAM
Storage: 6500 MB available space
DirectX: Version 9.0c

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 14
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Not supported on SteamOS

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Text only: English, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese - Portugal, Polish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Hungarian, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America.