The Chef's Shift
BANGER · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.09, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2025.
- Length
- 10.3h
- Value
- $0.88/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($9.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($9.09)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GPU with at least 256MB of VRAM, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The Chef’s Shift is a fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.09, set in April 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 14 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $9.09 at 30 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 87. With it, 94.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Cook, Serve, Delicious! ($12.99, scores 92) and Ravenous Devils ($4.99, scores 90).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $14.06. It costs $9.09.
This site sampled 346 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 165 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
95% start to 11% 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
49 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
You have to have evil in your heart to design the VIPs, they singlehandedly kill the game's balancing. If you can't be bothered with taking screenshots, chapter 6 becomes nothing more than infuriatingly blind RNG. There's very little skill will do for you when you have half a second to see what an old person wants, only to immediately be blocked by VIPs, and then by the time those are done the old person's orders...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Chef's Shift scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2390230/the-chef-s-shiftReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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