Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

Fun.

stinky booty

You're really thrown into the game with a lot all at once and it's stressful, but after the first day you can change settings to turn off everything that makes it excessively tedious. The first time I played I barely got through the tutorial and got annoyed, but I'm glad I decided to give it a second chance. Once you get through the frustrating first few parts and have help around the restaurant the game is very fun.

It's fun! it's hard to be a chef :(

Love this game, can understand the work behind michelin chefs

I like this game and where it is going.

Love the concept of this game. Perfect balance between cooking and managing a restaurant. Nice to be able to perform all the tasks yourself. Visually pleasing. Looking forward for a bakery version.

BUT the game is in need of fixing. Interface [control guide] glitches and disappears regularly. Ambient/sound effect/voice go missing out of nowhere. Really frustrating to play.

P.S. What is up with no black pepper in Carbonara?? UNACCEPTABLE

I haven't had many issues playing it. It's fun to play while you have something on in the background, trying to get achievements.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☑ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☑ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

Very fun gamr

j'aime ce jeu!!

The game is great but require some tweakings or at least some slide bars to be able to adjust the game as you like... for example
A) sous-chefs are too good once levelled, they are too fast making dishes making yourself almost useles...
B) clients are too impatient, that force you to rely on sous-chefs
C) should exist the possibility to refuse or delay the hiring of a sous-chef ... maybe i prefer to run a little bistro with the help of just 1 or 2 guys.
D) Love the fact that they added a lot of italian plates... but there are some errors in the recipes. Was enough to ask to a random italian to fix that ...
I repeat that the game is great, just miss some adjusting slide bars.

I somewhat enjoyed the game but there are too many simple bugs to actually recommend the game (some dishes you can't cook to A+ no matter what you do).

Additionally there are severe balancing issues (e.g. plating takes a ridiculously long time, sous chefs do all the work - which means that the game essentially becomes bus boy simulator, etc...).

fun

Too buggy. Three separate games unable to be continued because of three different bugs. First, you can't level your chefs up if you've upgraded the wrong recipes too early. Second, I couldn't put beef for grinding into the meat grinder. Finally, I wasn't able to grab the stock crate to stock my supplies after they'd been delivered. A decent game, but way too buggy.

This game is a very fun restaurant sim. I like the customization aspects of it and the concept as a whole. It's cool there's a "chill" mode that makes the game cozier, less intense. I don't use it though because I like to pretend I'm in The Bear or some shit and fight for my life by doing minimal prep too haha.

A worthwhile purchase when on sale, but needs many improvements to justify the full price. I kind of struggle to give it a thumbs down though b/c I don't really know any games like it. It's like if Diner Dash & Cooking Mama had a child. Which are two of my favorite games from when I was younger. So like...there is a bias here. But this child is a talentless child that isn't really good at anything it tries to do, it's just very...average. Maybe even below average in some aspects.

My main critiques focus on the LACK OF: (1) lack of cuisine variety (in at least lower levels), (2) lack of depth to the business side of the restaurant, and (3) variety as the days progress.

I wrote about my issues with the game in greater detail below, but the game is a solid 6.5/10 for a TL;DR. Needs lots of improvement...I see the potential with this game, the devs just need to take it another mile IMO.

(1) Lack of Cuisine Variety (at least below level 10)
Forgive me for "woke" but I find it funny how ethnic food is paywalled behind a DLC (Japanese food). A little diabolical considering the fact that Japan has the 2nd most Michelin Stars of any country outside of Michelin's place of origin (France)...feels somewhat like a tax for wanting to cook ethnic food.
At least from levels 1-9, I have not gotten anything besides Italian and French food. Ethnic food is no more difficult to make than French food, and the creators could have incorporated recipes that use the same produce, meats, and/or carbs. Curry, kabobs, and even steamed fishes are just a few ideas. Maybe budgetary restrictions limited the diversity in gameplay, but food is one of the easiest ways to bridge the gap between different cultures.

(2) Lack of depth to the business side of the game
One of the main reasons I picked this game was because it looked like you managed the restaurant as well; however, I quickly realized you don't pay rent (a very idealistic, wonderful world lol), you don't pay your workers, and your expenses are very easy to cover on a day-to-day basis. In the very least, I'd expect there be more realistic expenses to track (because you can easily make a menu that makes less than your ingredients cost and still survive several days). Maybe even random events like a kitchen leak or something so you have to struggle with the economics a bit. The chance to fail isn't really there, at least financially. The only difficulty in the game lies with a time management struggle when you're cooking your food. However, the more you cook, the more you learn how to optimize your menu and you're basically just playing a cooking sim.

(3) Lack of variety as you continue to play
Ties very much into #2, but as you go on, you're completing the story, sure but the cooking stays relatively the same. You'll buy new tools but you're still cooking only Italian/French, there's no economic struggle, and you just begin to notice the shortcuts the game devs had taken. Washing the dishes, plating, and other tasks aren't animated. For some reason your character can't close their mouth? lol...

Regardless, this game is still fun to play and excels where other cooking sims don't. I just wish that it went above and beyond.

Honestly too hard for my taste, just wanted a chill backseat game. Super interesting mechanics but just too in depth for me. If that's what you are looking for I recommend it tho.

Game's fine, but the devs already said they will never support ultra-wide screens, which is a NO for me, dog.

This game is incredible, i cannot stop playing it

i am chef

I love this game once you learn how it works and what you can prepare in advance or not it's easy to understand. Giving your sous-chefs orders,customizing your restaurant and chef i love that really a fun game

Game was terrible, I couldn't even get past the tutorial. The UI is absolutely awful and it doesn't make much sense, the game forces you into a plating tutorial that I'll never use and you can't get out of it. I went ahead an refunded it.

The game was fun at first, but I ran into a problem. When I cook food and put it in the light warmer, it disappears when I open the restaurant. Also, if I cook two of the same meals, I only get one. It was fun and engaging in the beginning, but as I reached higher levels, these problems became frustrating. The game definitely needs improvement.

The game is enjoyable and very detailed - however if you are not paying attention and spend all of your money on equipment, your game is basically over - you cannot progress the story if you do not have enough money to buy ingredients for service the next day - you have to start a new save.

It keeps crashing every time I try I add stock from my storeroom to my shelves. Do not get this game. I've tried rectifying this problem for too long. It's not worth it! :(

Almost 2 years after release and the game still doesn't have ultrawide support? Pretty sad and lazy on the developers part. There isn't even an option to have borders. Instead it just stretches the screen and looks like garbage. Refunded.

GREAT GAME

Damn, this game felt so overwhelming at the start, those sous chefs are useless at their best

Any game that requires me to inquire with google during the TUTORIAL is an automatic thumbs down.

This game has so much potential, but it seems like they made it difficult to understand for a reason (idk the reason)

Don't try to play with a keyboard, the mappings make no sense. Play with a controller.

Let's FUCKING Fix this!!! because I can't bring the character back to the stove!!! Because of this I can start all over BECAUSE OF THE FUCK!!!!

lovely it run great on steam deck as well

wow...seriously, i buy this game 5 days ago and now its 75% off? thanks for the heads up steam, you people are useless

very fun and detailed game, it also doubles as a language-learning tool! haha

I wanted to like this game, but I wasn't able to move past the plating in the tutorial. There wasn't an option to move on to the next section after taking a photo of the plate. It's frustrating and not user friendly.

kmm,\

This game is actually quite perfect..amazing camera angles..Impressive detail..but! I think the cherry on top would be that you guys make a desserts menu!! Play all fancy and stuff :D love it👌🏻

the different way of cooking dishes and how it looks like real food.

This game had potential, a chef game running your own restaurant/cafe or bistro, ordering in produce and setting up for dinner service. You can't hire staff and only have access to a sous chef, no one else. I repeat no one else in a chef game where you could expand for example if the game had that mechanic or even getting big enough for massive restaurants. This game is not worth it unless they change it and or we actually here from the developers.

This is a great game but it has one bug that absolutely makes this game annoying. If you are seasoning a dish and click anywhere but the quit button for seasoning the camera will zoom on the dish and you can't do anything. You have to completely exit to the main menu and restart the whole shift.

I like this game compared to other cooking simulators because of the tips and simplicity of the recipes. My main complaint is that the keyboard controls are really weird & almost every time I play I end up having to close it out because it gets stuck when I cook anything on the stove. I still recommend this game, but I recommend only buying when it is on sale.

I generally like the game, but I don't think there is enough focus on the business side. It is not normal that serving 7 people is enough to support a business. The scale seems off. Still, it can be very engaging.

Also, you should be allowed more than two chefs helping. A real kitchen has a dozen. Why are there so few chefs? Also, they "like" to cook some things - this is nonsense. You cook what you are told, you don't get grumpy because you don't get to cook your special ingredient.

Finally, my biggest complaints is that there is no dessert. In a game about food, WHERE IS DESSERT?!

I recently purchased this game and have been playing, but am now locked out of leveling up Adele, my sous-chef, because I upgraded the dish "Boef bourguignon" to level 2 "slow-marinated Boef bourguignon" and now I cannot complete her quest to make "3 marinated cubes of beef"

This is a huge oversight, and an easy fix would be enabling her to marinate the cubes of beef for this dish, or having the option to make the "level 1" version of dishes that we have already upgraded. I've already sunk 20 hours into this game and don't want to start all over just to be able to complete my sous-chef requests. It's extremely disappointing that this issue, and other similar ones to it, have not be fixed or addressed, especially considering the price point of the game, and the DLC.

I was enjoying the game up until I couldn't progress on this, but I cannot recommend a game that locks you out of quests and offers no way to even reload a previous save as a work around. The only solution is starting over, and it's disrespectful to people who spend their time and money on the game.

addicting

this is a very solid game for people looking for an in-depth restaurant management game, so i'm giving it a recommend.

unfortunately, this game isn't for me. i thought it was just a regular restaurant management game where you manage workers, ingredients, and designing your restaurant, but it's taken several steps further than that. you actively play a character and go around the kitchen gathering ingredients and cooking food. this isn't a bad thing, but again, it's just not what i was looking for or wanted personally and it's not for me. it was too much for me.

intresting, fun to play :)

so addicted but i wish they would make it so u can stay open until u decide to close so u can stay open as long as u want apart from that i love the game

I love it