Chef Knight

Chef Knight

BANGER · Action · 2026

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $5.99.

Length
3.5h
Value
$1.71/hr
Reviews
95% positive
Cite this score
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
3.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.71
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$5.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
2,654 reviews, as of Sep 26
Released
2026

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 1050 or similar, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

Cook what you kill in this cozy fantasy incremental game! Dive into dangerous dungeons, harvest fresh monster ingredients, and serve delicious dishes to hungry adventurers. Slay, cook, sell and upgrade your way to a sprawling dungeon-food empire!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$1.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length3.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 418 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $4.79, set in August 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 4 months tracked here, most recently in August 2026.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bills Must Be Paid ($6.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Astro Prospector ($4.99, scores 84).

5 of the 418 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to August 2026.

At 3.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

96% start to 67% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

38 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 10:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Chef Knight scores 86/100 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/4304930/chef-knight
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Reviews 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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Details

DeveloperClover Bite
PublisherClover Bite
GenreAction
Released2026
Achievements9