Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game
Released Apr 2019
Over 20 Million Downloads Worldwide! Play Star Chef, a cooking simulation game that celebrates delicious flavours, letting you run your own café and 5 star restaurant. Experience the joy of managing a bustling business dicing fresh ingredients while exploring your passion for cuisines across the world!
57% positive · 393 reviews
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Released, ongoing live service game
High confidence
Live Service
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Released, ongoing live service game
High confidence
Live Service
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game is a free-to-play cooking simulation that has been live since April 3, 2019 and boasts over 20 million downloads worldwide. The game is designed as an ongoing live service: it operates a recurring seasonal content cycle, regularly rotating themed events including Spring Festival, Summer, Halloween, and Holiday themes, which have been delivered consistently every year from at least 2021 through 2025. On top of these seasonal updates, the developer has also shipped gameplay feature additions — most recently on December 9, 2024, adding new Cooking Lab slots, extended boosters, and a UI overhaul. The most recent developer communication was a January 13, 2026 patch removing holiday content and addressing bug fixes. The game's structure — free-to-play with recurring seasonal themes, social features, and incremental gameplay upgrades — is characteristic of a game designed to operate indefinitely rather than reach a defined endpoint.
Evidence
New gameplay features added: Upgrade Academy at Trader Post, extra Cooking Lab slots, longer-lasting boosters, and a UI overhaul — showing continued feature development beyond seasonal theming.
Game is free-to-play with over 20 million downloads worldwide, indicating an ongoing live service title.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
99Games Online Pvt. Ltd.
Achievements
98
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Take your love of food and stir it in a cooking simulation game that celebrates delicious flavours. Run your own café and 5 star restaurant and experience the joy of building it from the group up! Enjoy dicing fresh ingredients with experienced chefs while exploring your passion for cuisines across the world!
Star Chef is an addictive cooking and restaurant management game that blends your love for food with the beautiful art of cooking! Run your own restaurant, cater to the insatiable desires of every customer through an expanding menu of worldly cuisines, and build the restaurant of your dreams!
In your journey of becoming a Star Chef, explore special dishes from every continent with skilled staff having exceptional cooking skills, who handle state-of-the-art kitchen and restaurant appliances. Manage the growing workload, power through rush-hours by doubling your cooking output, and decorate your restaurant to attract more customers! This is your chance to follow your passion in a cooking game that’s exciting, fun, filled with food and offers a backyard to harvest the freshest crops!
Realize your dream of becoming a Culinary Master! Play Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game!
Game Features:
• PERSONALISED GAMEPLAY: Serve worldly cuisines by cooking and serving hungry FOODIES walking into your restaurant!
• UPGRADES & CUSTOMIZATIONS: Wall decals, floor decors, fountains, and MANY MORE!
• VEGETABLE GARDEN: Grow your own veggies in the BACKYARD of your restaurant to prepare fresh food!
• CHEF’S STORE & FOOD TRUCK to trade cookbook secrets, veggies and YUMMY dishes!
• CATERING SERVICE: Expand worldly cuisines BEYOND your restaurant by cooking and catering for events!
• CHEF’S CIRCLE: Add friends on Facebook and Game Center to VISIT their restaurant and see what they've been cooking.
Star Chef is an addictive cooking and restaurant management game that blends your love for food with the beautiful art of cooking! Run your own restaurant, cater to the insatiable desires of every customer through an expanding menu of worldly cuisines, and build the restaurant of your dreams!
In your journey of becoming a Star Chef, explore special dishes from every continent with skilled staff having exceptional cooking skills, who handle state-of-the-art kitchen and restaurant appliances. Manage the growing workload, power through rush-hours by doubling your cooking output, and decorate your restaurant to attract more customers! This is your chance to follow your passion in a cooking game that’s exciting, fun, filled with food and offers a backyard to harvest the freshest crops!
Realize your dream of becoming a Culinary Master! Play Star Chef: Cooking & Restaurant Game!
Game Features:
• PERSONALISED GAMEPLAY: Serve worldly cuisines by cooking and serving hungry FOODIES walking into your restaurant!
• UPGRADES & CUSTOMIZATIONS: Wall decals, floor decors, fountains, and MANY MORE!
• VEGETABLE GARDEN: Grow your own veggies in the BACKYARD of your restaurant to prepare fresh food!
• CHEF’S STORE & FOOD TRUCK to trade cookbook secrets, veggies and YUMMY dishes!
• CATERING SERVICE: Expand worldly cuisines BEYOND your restaurant by cooking and catering for events!
• CHEF’S CIRCLE: Add friends on Facebook and Game Center to VISIT their restaurant and see what they've been cooking.
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Last evaluated Jun 15, 2026
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