Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.

Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator is a simulation, cooking and immersive sim game developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Nacon.
Released on February 23rd 2023 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 1,893 reviews of which 1,602 were positive and 291 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.99€ on Steam and has a 70% discount.

The Steam community has classified Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator into these genres:

Simulation Cooking Immersive Sim Casual Singleplayer Management Relaxing Family Friendly Life Sim Colorful Cartoony Stylized Resource Management Inventory Management Replay Value Quick-Time Events Controller Character Customization Choices Matter Crafting

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD FX-4100
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 5750, 1 GB or Intel HD Graphics 630
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 7 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

This is a great game but it has one bug that absolutely makes this game annoying. If you are seasoning a dish and click anywhere but the quit button for seasoning the camera will zoom on the dish and you can't do anything. You have to completely exit to the main menu and restart the whole shift.

Oct. 2024

I generally like the game, but I don't think there is enough focus on the business side. It is not normal that serving 7 people is enough to support a business. The scale seems off. Still, it can be very engaging. Also, you should be allowed more than two chefs helping. A real kitchen has a dozen. Why are there so few chefs? Also, they "like" to cook some things - this is nonsense. You cook what you are told, you don't get grumpy because you don't get to cook your special ingredient. Finally, my biggest complaints is that there is no dessert. In a game about food, WHERE IS DESSERT?!

Feb. 2024

This game would be so good in coop! I'd love to play it with my friends, so much fun and very relaxing. Less stressful than overcooked and doesn't destroy friendships :') PS. Maybe finally I will learn how to cook.

Feb. 2024

I like this game, but i wish there was a dish washer or an option to upgrade the sink and the fridge also instead of having to buy 2 or 3 fridges.

Dec. 2023

TL;DR: Incredibly good game, relaxed or hussle is your choice, top review for that game being negative and stating things that I just can't approve at all doesn't seem to be fair. Love. <3 Okay, so... at the time, it's 83% positive. What the heck? That's missing 17%! I only played like 5 hours now (it kept running while I was afk, oups) but I am having a blast. I don't see any reason to vote this game down, maybe I'll see reasons later on, but.. the top review is a negative one, complaining because (that's just my point of view, no hate here) they expect 100% realism in a video game. Since I can't comment on that review, but I think it's totally unfair to that game, because I almost didn't buy reading it: The kitchen ain't too big at all. The person is 2,5 hours into the game at the time of the review, so we've seen the same stuff. I never worked in a kitchen, but for a GAME, it's not too big at all. You can access everything pretty quickly, sometimes you're in a hurry, but the game gives you options so you don't need to hurry at all. You can decide if you want a tough challenge with time pressure, or a relaxed cooking game. In both cases, you can upgrade your kitchen and so on. And you even get achievements when you have all the help options enabled. (I mean what the hell, they compared the kitchen to a warehouse? It's 2 "normally sized" rooms (⊙_⊙;)) The part about the fridge being too small? Again, 5 hours actual playtime and I didn't have a problem with that, yet I can see that point! Yes, the fridge could be a bit bigger. But(!) this is a game. The size of the fridge is so you still have to hussle, it limits you in the beginning, but you can even buy more fridges later on, so... again, I just don't see the point. Especially after that playtime. And about the deliveries being every day instead of twice a weak? I see that. Could be changed, you'd need to plan ahead a bit better, it would be more realistic and IF realism is HYPER important to you... yes, that could matter. I think the way it works right now is a bit weird too, because as far as I could figure out, you buy the needed amount of supplies in the beginning of the day, depending on your menu. And that's it, you're settled with endless supplies for the day, because it doesn't matter how many times you need to cook something again or how much you prepare before the guests are coming. So, that's a bit weird, yet I personally don't mind, because I hoped for the relaxed experience I got. I am having freaking good time, leaning back, cooking, and if I get bored I change some options and bam, the hussle starts and I need to focus. I love the graphics, the animations, the way the cooking is designed, there's only ONE thing so far, that would be a clear negative to me: You can't unlock the recipes you'd like from the beginning, every recipe is bound to your level. So you need to level up before you can unlock new ones, which doesn't give you a lot of freedom in the beginning to design your menu and restaurant you it to be. I mean, I would have loved to focus on specific kinds of dishes. That's it. In the end, everyone has their opionion and that's totally legit, I just wanted to state my point of few against the TOP review for the game, that just doesn't represent the game at all for me.

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-70% 29.99€ 8.99€

8.1

1,602

291

Online players

178

Developer

Cyanide Studio

Publisher

Nacon

Release 23 Feb 2023

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