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Chef

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.

Management Simulation Cooking Character Customization Singleplayer
Last tracked players
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Chef allows you to personally don a kitchen apron and embark on an exciting career in the wild world of professional cooking. Starting with nothing but pocket change, a small restaurant, and an ambitious dream, you’ll ascend from the life of a humble cook to that of a world-famous chef.

Nothing will prevent you from deciding how to climb to the top of the food chain. Prepare yourself for a sandbox experience in which all your choices matter as you build your gastronomic empire, or follow a story mode with delirious challenges to face. What will it be? A steakhouse? A vegan paradise? A pasta palace? An experimental cooking lab? Only you can figure out which path is best for your establishment.

FEATURES LIST

  • Create your own avatar and level them up across 6 different skill trees with more than 100 abilities to choose from.
  • Full restaurant management: choose the restaurant’s location and layout, hire the staff, design the menu, and determine the restaurant’s policies.
  • Customize every aspect of your restaurants: Choose from over 150 different variations for floors and walls, and over 200 appliances and decorations that can be individually placed and colored.
  • Experiment with a realistic recipe editor: Use the skills and ingredients at your disposal to create one-of-a-kind dishes that are accurately rated by taste and aroma.
  • Choose your own cooking style: Specialize in meat or seafood, go vegetarian or vegan, or offer a vast selection of spicy or exotic dishes. The choice is yours and the world will react to it accordingly.

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System requirements Windows

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows Vista SP1+ (64 bit)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ @ 3.2GHz
  • Memory: 3000 MB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GT 630, AMD Radeon HD6570, or equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 6500 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7/8/10 (64 bit)
  • Processor: Intel i7 920 @ 2.7 GHz, AMD Phenom II 945 @ 3.0 GHz
  • Memory: 6000 MB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 960, AMD Radeon R9 295, or equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 6500 MB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Digital Tribe
Brazilian rating
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Steam Germany rating
12
Achievements
14
Features
Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Languages
English, Italian, Russian, French, Portuguese - Portugal, Polish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Hungarian, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

Can I Play This?

Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.

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Windows: unknown
macOS: unknown
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unsupported
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Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (15)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesNoYes
ItalianYesNoYes
RussianYesNoYes
FrenchYesNoYes
Portuguese - PortugalYesNoYes
PolishYesNoYes
JapaneseYesNoYes
Simplified ChineseYesNoYes
KoreanYesNoYes
TurkishYesNoYes
GermanYesNoYes
Portuguese - BrazilYesNoYes
HungarianYesNoYes
Spanish - SpainYesNoYes
Spanish - Latin AmericaYesNoYes
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Value Score

Fair Value — 58th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 58th percentile. Priced as Market at $19.99.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 24%
Value Ratio Top 42%

Early Access Active

Time in EA
267 days
Current Players
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Chef worth buying right now?
Wait — $19.99. Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
When does Chef go on sale?
Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
Is Chef free to play?
Chef costs $19.99 on Steam.
What genre is Chef?
Chef is a Simulation game.
Who developed Chef?
Chef was developed by Innervoid Interactive and published by Digital Tribe.
What platforms does Chef support?
Available on Steam for Windows.

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