Games like ODEN

Want something that feels story-driven and hand-drawn the way ODEN does? These games are worth a look next.

Midnight Ramen
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
95% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
GURAGURA ODEN
Do you know the traditional Japanese dish "Oden"? This is a puzzle game in which you pile up ingredients in an earthenware pot that shakes unsteadily and unsteadily! Try to pile up ingredients until the pot loses its balance and collapses to get a high score!
Hand-drawn, Cute, Colorful
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
おでんポンッ！
A puzzle game featuring Oden ingredients whose shapes change meaning depending on the viewing angle. Predict how the shapes will transform, and enjoy the satisfying moment of getting it right.
Cute, Colorful, Relaxing
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Chinese Street Food Legend
Run a night market stall selling kaolengmian, grilled cold noodles: crack the egg, brush the sauce, flip the sheet, serve it hot. Chat with the customers who drift by, hear their stories, upgrade your gear, and later open a tanghulu stall beside it. A warm, funny little game about ordinary people and good food.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Cute
98% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$3.99
Living on Plain Pasta
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
76% of 88 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne
A short visual novel about Samantha, a college student with social anxiety, and her mission to make oatmeal in the shared dorm kitchen. Waiting for everyone to fall asleep, picking the right words, dodging small talk: one simple task becomes a whole adventure. Warm, funny and quietly moving, with ten endings to find.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
81% of 1,249 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Enjoy the Diner
One night, you walk into a diner called Moon Palace and it never lets you leave. Chat with the other stranded customers, try the drink fountain, and unravel why the moon never wanes. A short, warm, gently strange adventure with two endings, best played late at night.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
96% of 1,147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$10.99
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories
A summer behind the counter of a small-town Japanese convenience store in the early 1990s. Stock shelves, scan barcodes, brew coffee, and get to know the regulars whose small lives cross yours. A cozy, story-driven game where quiet everyday moments carry real weight.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Cute
86% of 1,061 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$15.79
Shokudo Underworld
Run your own sushi shokudo in a mysterious underworld. Satisfy the appetite of your customers, collect suspicious ingredients from bizarre fantastical creatures, and realize your dream of creating ... the legendary Chawanmushi!
Hand-drawn, Cute, Colorful
82% of 274 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The Way of the Tray: Japanese Restaurant Simulator 🍙
The Way of the Tray is a waiter simulator with action puzzle elements in a Japanese spirit world setting. Your task is to master the skill of serving dishes and earn the trust of yokai patrons. Will you be able to prove yourself and find your way home?
Cute, Colorful, Relaxing
75% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
You are Mystia Lorelei, a night-sparrow youkai starting over with a mobile izakaya and a pile of debt. Gather ingredients by day across Gensokyo, then cook to order by night for regulars and familiar faces with very specific tastes. It is a warm, funny restaurant sim with pixel art, great music, and a lot of recipes to learn.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
97% of 30,710 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Otome Legends
Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$7.99

Cheaper than ODEN

Kitsune Kitchen

Play through the story of a young man’s quest to create the ultimate BLT sandwich.

$0.99

DINNERDINNNER

"DINNERDINNNER" is a horror adventure game set in the modern era.

$0.99

Visual Novel: Requiem for Noodles

After being hit on the head with a stool, Dimon goes straight to Hell to find out where their now deceased buddy Seryoga hid the last pack of…

$0.99

Attack of J

Based on its creator’s real experiences, Attack of J is a choice-driven story of love, family, friendship, and growth.

$0.99

Flashback

Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month.

$0.49

Sakuya Izayoi Gives You Advice And Dabs

A short, gentle visual novel where a time-stopping maid appears in your dream and thoughtfully talks you through whatever is weighing on you.

$0.99

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Be the voice guiding a girl through one small errand that feels impossibly hard.

$1.49

おかあさん

This is a Japanese horror, puzzle-solving, walking simulator.Your mother suddenly collapses right in front of you.

$0.99

Dust to Dusk

An occult mystery ADV set in a modern Japanese office. No chased elements, no surprise images, no game over, and an easy to play horror atmosphere.

$0.99

The Cleaner

A chill cleaning game set at the end of the world.

$0.99

Your Friend Hana

You don't know what do to? Just ask Hana! You can chat with Hana, ask her any question and as an oracle she will answer you.

$0.99

Emily is Away Too

Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.

$0.99

Hidden gems like ODEN

Chinese Street Food Legend

Cook grilled cold noodles at your own night market stall, chat with the people who stop by, and grow your little food business at a relaxed pace.

$3.99

Doomed Otaku

"Real friends exist in the online world!" The Doomed Otaku is a multi-ending adventure that follows a wandering 20-something otaku as they navigate…

$17.99

Kemono Teatime

Blend the perfect cup for the animal-eared regulars of a gentle little town, and let their stories stay with you long after the cups are empty.

$12.99

Coffee Talk Tokyo

A late-night café in Tokyo where humans and yōkai talk through love, loss and second chances.

$14.99

Ugoku Sushi Bar

Run a small conveyor belt sushi bar in a cozy Japanese town.

$12.99

GIRLS MADE PUDDING

"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.

$9.99

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

Run the till, restock the shelves and let a summer of regulars and their stories slowly unfold around you.

$15.79

High Times

Fry up treats that change how your customers feel, hear out over 30 regulars, and win back the exes you ghosted, one glaze at a time.

$19.99

Taste of the Wind

A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant.

$10.99

Midnight Ramen

In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice.

$11.99

Enjoy the Diner

Trapped in the Moon Palace overnight, you talk with the other stranded customers and piece together the mystery of a moon that never wanes, at your…

$10.99

While We Wait Here

Serve food and comfort at a mountain diner while the end of the world approaches.

$4.99

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