Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 50h
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in February 2026. 27 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games closest to it, Cafe Owner Simulator ($18.99, scores 11) and Good Pizza, Great Pizza - Cooking Simulator Game ($9.99, scores 56) both come in lower.
This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 243 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
50 hours to finish it, 101 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
57% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
220 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 09:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great title, best food/cooking simulator on the market, easy hands down. Had like 500 hours playtime on a different account of mine, GOATED title, love this sim 4EVER ! ! !
I thought it would be a relaxing game, and now I'm stressing over serving 4 different dishes at the same time while my sous chefs keep saying "I have nothing to do"
I cannot with the instructions, it was too much. The gameplay is confusing if I'm being honest, some might enjoy the challenge, but I got a headache. It was promising at first, but it didn't work for me.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1122340/chef-life-a-restaurant-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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