Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
Skip · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 24.5h
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2.9 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 630, AMD Radeon HD6570, or equivalent, 6.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 55 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre. Espresso Tycoon ($19.99, scores 47) outscores it, and so does King of Retail ($25.99, scores 60). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 587 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 801 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 24.5 hours. Doing everything runs 99, 4.0 times as long.
The drop-off
59% 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
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 14:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game is a deeply systems-driven management simulator that attempts to capture not just the fantasy of running a restaurant, but the complexity and nuance behind it. Developed by Innervoid Interactive and published by Digital Tribe, it stands apart from more streamlined tycoon games by giving players an unusual degree of freedom. Instead of guiding you through a tightly structured...
This is a very linear game, almost everything has to be done a certain way or you fail. Even making money is difficult especially at the start. The idea to make your own recipes is neat but again, it is very linear, you can't get crazy or overly creative with it. The game has almost no customization to speak of, all buildings are premade and the space you get is what you get. Sure you can decide where to place...
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Cite this score
Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/886900/chef-a-restaurant-tycoon-gameReviews 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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