Simulator games like Penniless Chef

Still thinking about Penniless Chef and its relaxing and cute tone? These simulator 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.
Colorful
72% of 1,395 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
Run your own restaurant from prep to Michelin star. You plan the menu, buy ingredients, set up the kitchen, hire staff and cook every dish yourself through chopping, grilling, baking and plating. Good fit for sim fans who want hands-on service work plus steady upgrading.
Cute, Colorful
83% of 2,347 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$5.99
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.
Relaxing, Colorful
62% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
TasteMaker
Build a small restaurant from an empty plot, decorate the dining room, set the menu and prices, hire cooks and waiters, then keep tables clean and customers fed. A calm, simple tycoon sim for sim fans who like watching a little food business hum.
Relaxing, Colorful
83% of 1,247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$11.99
Farm to Table
Grow vegetables out back, then run them straight into a restaurant you built yourself on a coastal hill. You plant, fish, gather, raise animals, turn harvests into better ingredients with machines, find recipes, cook, and hire staff to chase that 5-star rating. Calm farming, busy kitchen, one satisfying loop.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
91% of 900 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 238$14.99
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!
Relaxing
55% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
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 · Relaxing
79% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Tasty Chef
Run a small animal-staffed restaurant with your own hands: stock shelves, mix bubble tea cup by cup, lay out the kitchen, then hire staff to take over the busywork. A calm, cozy sim for sim fans who like slow automation and tidy workflows.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
92% of 529 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 176$9.87
Vacation Cafe Simulator
Run a small Italian vacation cafe at your own pace, with no timers and no stress. You cook pizza, pasta and bruschetta through mini-games, serve regulars, then spend earnings on equipment, menu and decor while you wander to farms and wineries for fresh ideas.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
90% of 920 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104$19.99
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.
Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
64% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
PAO PAO
Run a small seaside restaurant with friends, then keep living in the town around it. You cook orders, grow crops, fish from the shore, and decorate your house and dining room. A calm, colorful routine for simulator games fans who like serving customers and pottering about afterward.
Also in Cozy · Relaxing, Cute, Colorful
89% of 729 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$14.99
Cooking Live - Italian Kitchen Simulator
You are Jane, a food blogger traveling the world to save cozy local restaurants from soulless corporations. Cook pizzas, pasta and desserts against the clock, earn coins to upgrade the kitchen, and move from a sunny Amsterdam cafe to a retro Atlanta drive-in and a Tokyo seafood spot.
Cute, Colorful
74% of 2,061 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40Free

Hidden gems like Penniless Chef

Parisian Bistro Simulator

Run a Parisian bistro in first person, solo or with up to 8 players in online co-op.

$19.99

Tasty Chef

Run a small animal-staffed restaurant with your own hands: stock shelves, mix bubble tea cup by cup, lay out the kitchen, then hire staff to take…

$9.87

Vacation Cafe Simulator

Run a small Italian vacation cafe at your own pace, with no timers and no stress.

$19.99

Farm to Table

Grow vegetables out back, then run them straight into a restaurant you built yourself on a coastal hill.

$14.99

KuloNiku: Bowl Up!

You inherit your grandma's meatball restaurant and cook it back to the top.

$11.99

Not Monday Cafe

A tiny pixel cafe that lives at the bottom of your screen while you work.

$8.99

Pizza House Simulator🍕

Run a pizzeria on the Amalfi Coast, solo or in online co-op for up to 6.

$12.99

PAO PAO

Run a small seaside restaurant with friends, then keep living in the town around it.

$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 small wrap shop where you slice meat, grill skewers, mix sauces and wrap lavash to order.

$14.99

Corner Kitchen Fast Food Simulator

Run a small fast-food joint from the fryer up: cook burgers, fries, hot dogs and drinks, serve the lunch rush, then spend the takings on better…

$13.99

Rolling Hills: Cozy Sushi Restaurant

Manage your own sushi restaurant! Collect and upgrade dishes, personalize your dining room, and use special abilities to serve customers in a dash.

$14.99

Newest simulator games like Penniless Chef

FirstPlate

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

$9.99

PAO PAO

Run a small seaside restaurant with friends, then keep living in the town around it.

$14.99

ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet

Run the Baratie's second floating restaurant with the Straw Hat Crew.

$19.99

Cook with Card

Cook with Card is a casual cooking and restaurant management game where you prepare recipes using cards, fulfill customer orders, and upgrade your…

$7.99

Dinerz

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

$7.99

Tasty Chef

Run a small animal-staffed restaurant with your own hands: stock shelves, mix bubble tea cup by cup, lay out the kitchen, then hire staff to take…

$9.87

Parisian Bistro Simulator

Run a Parisian bistro in first person, solo or with up to 8 players in online co-op.

$19.99

Vacation Cafe Simulator

Run a small Italian vacation cafe at your own pace, with no timers and no stress.

$19.99

Pizza House Simulator🍕

Run a pizzeria on the Amalfi Coast, solo or in online co-op for up to 6.

$12.99

Red the Cook

Help Red the Cook chase his dream - quit his dull job and open the best restaurant in town!

$4.99

Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator

Kebab Chefs! is a first-person co-op cooking simulator for up to 4 players where you cook kebabs and dishes from other cuisines, build your menu…

$17.99

Farm to Table

Grow vegetables out back, then run them straight into a restaurant you built yourself on a coastal hill.

$14.99