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 1,938 reviews of which 1,638 were positive and 300 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

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

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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

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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?!

March 2024

To address a negative review I read about the chefs: Your chefs CAN wash dishes, you have to first assign them to dishes pre-service, then call out during service for them to clean up dishes (anyone who has managed a kitchen knows that's a real thing, your dishwasher is usually secluded and can't see through walls, you need to tell them to collect dishes). They can also make entire dishes. The only real gripe is their max level isn't 100% perfection. My max lvl fish chef should be pushing out A+ fish dishes all the time. I don't think that's unreasonable. I can understand A on a beef dish, it's not their fav ingredient, but their fav ingredient? A+ all the time otherwish I can just do it myself. I also don't like how where I source my ingredients/how much food is wasted bothers my chefs to the point they show up to work late. That's ridiculous. I understand it affecting dishes and tips, but my chefs? Shut up and fire the chicken, why do you care it isn't local? I really like how you can set how realistic you want it to be. Turn everything off for an authentic, in the weeds, episode of The Bear where she left on the preorder option experience. Overall, I recommend this game. Some of it could be better, but those are minor tweaks. It's still very good, very accurate.

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.

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29.99€

8.1

1,638

300

Online players

101

Developer

Cyanide Studio

Publisher

Nacon

Release 23 Feb 2023

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