Games like Penniless Chef

Still thinking about Penniless Chef and its relaxing and cute tone? These games line up well for what comes next.

Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
Build a restaurant from pocket change to fame: design the dining room, hire the staff, set the menu, and invent your own dishes in a detailed recipe editor. Go steakhouse, vegan paradise or pasta palace, level up your chef, and cook your way to a food empire in a bright, cheerful tycoon sim.
Also in Simulators · Colorful
72% of 1,395 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game
Over 20 Million Downloads Worldwide! Play Star Chef, a cooking simulation game that celebrates delicious flavours, letting you run your own café and 5 star restaurant. Experience the joy of managing a bustling business dicing fresh ingredients while exploring your passion for cuisines across the world!
Colorful
57% of 395 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19Free
Chef RPG
Revive a famous restaurant in a seaside town: forage, hunt and shop for ingredients, cook through fun little minigames, hire staff, befriend the locals and grow Le Sequoia into a culinary empire. A colorful pixel art life sim where you choose what kind of chef to be.
Relaxing, Cute, Retro
87% of 2,668 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 90$19.99
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
Build your dream restaurant from the kitchen out: design the menu, order the good ingredients, hire the team, then cook every dish yourself through the dinner rush. Grow from a neighbourhood café to a Michelin-starred dining room, one well-plated plate at a time.
Also in Simulators · Cute, Colorful
83% of 2,350 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$5.99
Professional Chef
Transform simple ingredients into delicious dishes in Professional Chef. Buy, cook, sell, upgrade, and unlock new recipes. Optimize your processes, master every detail, and rise to culinary excellence in this engaging idle cooking experience!
Relaxing
76% of 29 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Pocket Chef
A tiny chef moves onto your desktop! Cook delicious meals, serve cute animal customers, collect ingredients, and start your own desktop kitchen adventure.
Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
$1.99
Star Chef Simulator
Have you ever dreamed of running your own restaurant? Then your dream is about to come true! Set up and manage your restaurant with staff, equipment and more in Star Chef Simulator.
Also in Simulators · Relaxing, Colorful
62% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
TasteMaker
A restaurant tycoon game where you start with a small plot of land and build the place up yourself: lay out the kitchen, decorate the dining room, write the menu, hire staff and keep the rats out. It is relaxed and low-pressure, and the hours go by fast. Grow too fast, though, and your dream restaurant turns into a nightmare.
Also in Simulators · Relaxing, Colorful
83% of 1,247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$11.99
Restaurant Owner: A Restaurant Simulator
Run your own restaurant. Create your menu, hire staff, decorate the place, take orders, serve guests, and grow your business. Food critics, online orders, events, and kitchen chaos are on the menu!
Also in Simulators · Relaxing
55% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Farm to Table
Grow carrots out back, then run across the yard to serve them as soup. Farm to Table joins farming, fishing, foraging and cooking into one cheerful business: build a restaurant on a coastal hill, fill the menu, hire help, and work your cozy spot up to five stars.
Also in Cozy and Simulators · Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
91% of 902 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 238$14.99
Coastal Kitchen Simulator
Cook and serve dishes as you run your own seafood restaurant! Unlock new recipes, grow your kitchen with the help of employees, and satisfy every customer’s craving. Expand your reputation, manage resources wisely, and build a seafood restaurant that becomes the talk of the town.
Also in Cozy and Simulators · Relaxing
79% of 127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
My Universe - Cooking Star Restaurant
Enter the world of elite gastronomy and manage your own restaurant from A to Z: hospitality, cooking, waitering, you do it all! Learn from the best chefs in the world, prepare the most delicious meals to make your customers happy and become a true cooking star.
Also in Simulators · Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
64% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Hidden gems like Penniless Chef

Parisian Bistro Simulator

Cook, serve and grow your own little restaurant, solo or in co-op, at a relaxed pace.

$19.99

Tasty Chef

Cook every dish by hand, rearrange the kitchen until it works, and grow a bubble tea stand into a sushi spot with friends or staff.

$9.87

Vacation Cafe Simulator

Cook, decorate and wander a sunny Italian coast town at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Farm to Table

Grow, catch and cook your own ingredients, then serve them at a hillside restaurant you build up at your own pace.

$14.99

KuloNiku: Bowl Up!

You inherit your grandma's meatball restaurant in the little town of KuloNiku, and it is up to you to make it the top eatery again.

$11.99

Not Monday Cafe

Cultivate a small plot of land, prepare diverse recipes, and oversee the daily operations of your cozy establishment.

$8.99

Restaurats

Cook absurd recipes with your rat crew, fend off picky monsters and dodge the taxman in runs that never repeat themselves.

$19.90

PAO PAO

Cook, fish and farm by the sea while you build a cozy seaside spot for your animal guests, alone or with friends.

$14.99

World End Diner

Run a diner on the last island in the world after the destruction of humankind!

$16.99

Wrap House Simulator🌯

Run a wrap counter your way: prep, roll and serve at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$14.99

Cafe Dash: Cooking, Diner Game

🍽️🍕Your dream restaurants and cafes awaits! ❤️ Addictive levels and unique locations ✈️ Hours of entertainment in the time-management genre ⏰

Free

Chef RPG

Revive a famous restaurant in a seaside town: forage, hunt and shop for ingredients, cook through fun little minigames, hire staff, befriend the…

$19.99

Newest games like Penniless Chef

Farm & Feast

Run a farm and a cozy restaurant where every day starts with seeds and ends with happy guests.

$11.99

FirstPlate

Design your own restaurant, run the kitchen in first person, and survive the dinner rush alone or with friends.

$9.99

PAO PAO

Cook, fish and farm by the sea while you build a cozy seaside spot for your animal guests, alone or with friends.

$14.99

ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet

Cook, decorate and grow your own sea-faring eatery at a calm, chibi-pixel pace, with Sanji at the stove and familiar faces at every table.

$19.99

Dinerz

Run your own first-person diner, from first sizzle to final bill.

$7.99

Life, the Universe, and Restaurants

Cook by hand for self-proclaimed gods in deep space, then teach robots to do it for you.

$14.99

Tasty Chef

Cook every dish by hand, rearrange the kitchen until it works, and grow a bubble tea stand into a sushi spot with friends or staff.

$9.87

Parisian Bistro Simulator

Cook, serve and grow your own little restaurant, solo or in co-op, at a relaxed pace.

$19.99

Vacation Cafe Simulator

Cook, decorate and wander a sunny Italian coast town at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Pizza House Simulator🍕

Run a pizzeria on the Amalfi Coast with friends, from hand-stretched dough to a full restaurant empire.

$12.99

Professional Chef

Transform simple ingredients into delicious dishes in Professional Chef. Buy, cook, sell, upgrade, and unlock new recipes.

Free

Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator

Cook, serve and keep the shop standing while orders pile up faster than you can chop.

$17.99