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Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game

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 pa

Release date
August 20, 2020
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Inner Void
Publisher
Digital Tribe Games
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About Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game

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 LISTCreate 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.…

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★ 6.6/10GOG · 25 ratings
GOGLast checked November 2, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 4 / 5
First the gameplay is smooth and overall it has the basics down solidly. The tutorial is pretty comprehensive, and the various aspects of the game…
★ 3 / 5
This game should still be early access as there are quite a few issues. Even things as simple as a button that sometimes doesn't work…
★ 5 / 5
I purchased the game at 1.0 release. SO far can't complain at all. The gameplay is straight. The tutorial guides you very well. The devs…
★ 3 / 5
I just started playing and I admit that I haven't gotten too far into yet. So far, I do enjoy Chef. Tons of options to…
★ 3 / 5
The whole user interface is kind of loose. It really impedes being able to enjoy the underlying game. The relationships of the mechanics of the…
★ 3 / 5
Was looking for a casual, cartoony restaurant sim game, and saw a number of online articles mention Chef so I thought i'd give it a…
★ 4 / 5
Fun management sim, a bit heavier than casual or mobile. The daily grind is not the most fun, but designing your menu and expanding the…
★ 3 / 5
The game looked a lot of fun when I bought and I guess it delivered everything in the trailer. However the game is very under…

Most recent8

★ 3 / 5
Was looking for a casual, cartoony restaurant sim game, and saw a number of online articles mention Chef so I thought i'd give it a…
★ 3 / 5
The whole user interface is kind of loose. It really impedes being able to enjoy the underlying game. The relationships of the mechanics of the…
★ 3 / 5
The game looked a lot of fun when I bought and I guess it delivered everything in the trailer. However the game is very under…
★ 4 / 5
Fun management sim, a bit heavier than casual or mobile. The daily grind is not the most fun, but designing your menu and expanding the…
★ 3 / 5
I just started playing and I admit that I haven't gotten too far into yet. So far, I do enjoy Chef. Tons of options to…
★ 4 / 5
First the gameplay is smooth and overall it has the basics down solidly. The tutorial is pretty comprehensive, and the various aspects of the game…
★ 5 / 5
I purchased the game at 1.0 release. SO far can't complain at all. The gameplay is straight. The tutorial guides you very well. The devs…
★ 3 / 5
This game should still be early access as there are quite a few issues. Even things as simple as a button that sometimes doesn't work…

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