Automachef
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 25h
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 85% ($2.24)
- Last discount ended
- 7 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti or Radeon HD 7770, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
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 $2.24, set in November 2024. 68 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 7 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, shapez ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Gunsmith ($19.99, scores 19).
Of the 295 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 117 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 2% 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
What players say
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TL;DR: Factorio meets Overcooked sounded like an instant yes to me. Unfortunately, the promising automation-puzzle concept is buried under clunky UI, tedious setup and overly restrictive puzzles. 4/10. The automation quickly became more tedious than satisfying. Every level has you placing similar machines and production chains with a slight twist, while basic actions are buried under far too many menus and clicks...
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Cite this score
Automachef scores 32/100 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/984800/automachefReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 2.
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