Games like Venba

Looking for that same emotional and story-driven spark as Venba? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Delicious - Emily's Message in a Bottle
Enjoy an amazing story while you cook divine dishes in Italian kitchens!
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 143 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
The Palace on the Hill
A heartfelt story of ambition, struggle, and friendship told from the perspective of a young boy in fictional 90s rural India. Explore ancient palace ruins, set up your garden, cook Indian food, run errands for quirky characters, and learn about your history by making art.
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
94% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Cook Serve Forever
Bathe in the sights, sounds, and smells of Cook Serve Forever, a narrative-focused cooking adventure where you serve food to the hungry masses on your quest for greatness.
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
69% of 336 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Mary Le Chef - Cooking Passion
Enjoy a compelling story, while playing an amazing cooking game!
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Relaxing
90% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
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 · Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
95% of 297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
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, Relaxing
98% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$3.99
Dosa Divas
In this game, cooking is as forbidden as trying to break your family’s generational cycles. Embark on a journey that’s a melting pot of turn-based combat, rhythm action, and spicy mini-games. Save the world, and maybe even your heart, from your corporate sister’s empire.
Emotional, Story-driven
96% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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. Chop, fry and skewer with tactile controls, serve delightfully odd locals, decorate the shop, befriend the town and win Meatball Brawls against a rockstar chef. Cozy, funny and forgiving, with a timer you can simply switch off.
Story-driven, Relaxing
95% of 2,566 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$11.99
Varenje
A shrinking-hero point & click adventure with hand-drawn art, hidden objects and light puzzles. Search a tiny world of beetles and strange machines at your own pace, no timers, no fail states.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Relaxing
86% of 1,538 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Little Chef: Cozy Cooking
A cozy kitchen sandbox where you drag, toss, and smash ingredients together to unlock over 300 recipes, from comfort food to gloriously gross experiments. Short, sweet, and full of secrets for curious cooks.
Hand-drawn, Relaxing
95% of 370 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$7.99
Thirsty Suitors
Thirsty Suitors is a surreal story-driven game which throws turn-based RPG battles, skating and over-the-top cooking mechanics together in a spicy fusion! This isn't a dating sim - it's a breakup simulator. Battle your exes. Disappoint your parents. Find yourself.
Emotional, Story-driven, Cinematic
97% of 235 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Cooking Companions
A cute cooking game in a cabin deep in the Tatras Mountains, until the flood rises and the food runs out. Cooking Companions is a psychological horror visual novel dressed as a dating sim: keep your four companions fed and happy, and try not to end up on the chopping block. Eleven endings, and more going on under the surface than you think.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 1,095 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99

Cheaper than Venba

Midnight Ramen

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

$11.99

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

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

Little Chef: Cozy Cooking

A cozy kitchen sandbox where you drag, toss, and smash ingredients together to unlock over 300 recipes, from comfort food to gloriously gross…

$7.99

Tea for Sana

Tea for Sana is a story-driven exploration game set in a Slavic-inspired fantasy world. You play as Vesna, a spirit healer who is losing her memory.

$8.99

The Chef's Shift

Run the whole kitchen from your keyboard, typing orders, small talk and damage control as the dinner rush closes in.

$12.99

inbento

Arrange sushi and rice by hand to match each picture, one gentle puzzle at a time, with a quiet cat family story tucked between the boxes.

$4.99

Bear's Restaurant

The award-winning indie adventure game finally arrives on Steam—now with more content than ever before!

$12.99

Pixel Cafe

Pixel Cafe mixes fast arcade time management with a visual novel about Pixel, a small-town cook finding her way in the big city of Karstok.

$12.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

Sushi Ben

An interactive anime story! Save a beloved local sushi bar from dastardly landsharks, get distracted in countless mini games and make unforgettable…

$11.99

Obsessed : Night Shift

A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Venba

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

Little Chef: Cozy Cooking

A cozy kitchen sandbox where you drag, toss, and smash ingredients together to unlock over 300 recipes, from comfort food to gloriously gross…

$7.99

Beastro

Run a cozy village restaurant, cook for the heroes who fight beyond the wall, and turn every dish into cards for their battles.

$19.99

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

Kitchen Sync: Aloha!

Kitchen Sync: Aloha! is a cozy, story-driven cooking RPG. As head chef of your family's restaurant in Hawaii, build a trusty team of chefs and dish…

$19.99

The Chef's Shift

Run the whole kitchen from your keyboard, typing orders, small talk and damage control as the dinner rush closes in.

$12.99

Obsessed : Night Shift

A PSX Inspired horror game where you must work and cook at a shop late at night and the horrors that comes with it.

$2.99

Midnight Ramen

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

$11.99

Thirsty Suitors

Thirsty Suitors is a surreal story-driven game which throws turn-based RPG battles, skating and over-the-top cooking mechanics together in a spicy…

$29.99

Fruitbus

Run a food truck across a colorful archipelago, foraging fruit and serving dishes to islanders at your own unhurried pace.

$24.99

The Palace on the Hill

A heartfelt story of ambition, struggle, and friendship told from the perspective of a young boy in fictional 90s rural India.

$19.99

Double Cheeseburger, Medium Fries

Work as Penelope on her day off! Complete mini-games to prepare the food for a wide variety of customers!

Free

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