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The Chef's Shift on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The Chef’s Shift is a fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING.

The Chef's Shift is a cooking, typing and time management game developed by Panitia GameDev and published by Catoptric Games.
Released on March 31st 2025 is available on Windows and MacOS in 12 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean.

It has received 385 reviews of which 375 were positive and 10 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Chef's Shift into these genres:

Cooking Typing Time Management Crime Simulation Difficult Singleplayer Narration Management Dark Humor Arcade Cute 2D Funny Indie Colorful Text-Based Casual Top-Down Strategy

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7/8/10+
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GPU with at least 256MB of VRAM
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS Mojave
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GPU with at least 256MB of VRAM
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

Steam Price & Best Deals

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User reviews & Ratings

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9 hours played
June 2026
Why does it hurt so much? This game made me cry several times. My heart hurts writing this. All I wanted was a fun little typing game and instead I got writing to rival The Sopranos. Why does this game have such an insane story? Before addressing the writing, the game itself is fantastic. For reference, I'm an adept typist so I played through the campaign on the hardest difficulty and my experience of the difficulty curve is dependent on that: Well-built mechanics are introduced steadily and explained well. Each level of the campaign feels like it appreciably builds upon those before it. Whenever I felt like the game was getting too easy, it would bump the challenge up the perfect amount. There were a few levels in which I kept failing the level condition, but it always felt like my own fault and it was never frustrating or unfair. The gameplay is reactive, satisfying and fun. The graphics are cute, suitable for the gameplay and the few visual issues I had were minor. This is without a doubt the best typing game I've ever played. But the writing... what on earth? It feels like the team who wrote the story for the campaign didn't know what game they were writing for. The story is completely at odds with the art, the music, the gameplay, everything. The game as a whole is completely tonally inconsistent. You will watch a mother take her own life in front of her daughter before being thrown straight back into upbeat, fast-paced, chipper gameplay. It's insane. So many times the levels were made more difficult not because of the gameplay itself, but because I was so shocked and sad over the events of the story that I couldn't focus on the level I was immediately thrown back into. Why are themes of adultery, drug addiction, muder, suicide and child abuse thrown in so casually with a cute, cartoon art style and (initially) silly humour? Then again, why shouldn't they be? If anything, this game sets out to prove once again that typing games - which have traditionally been resigned to the target demographic of children - can be very much adult. And yet, it's fantastic. I think so, anyway. It's extremely difficult to tell if this game is well executed; the writing is incredible and the gameplay is fantastic, but it does feel like they interfere with each other. Gameplay was sometimes difficult because I was wrapped up in story, but more concerningly, I don't know if the themes breached by the story are done justice when juxtaposed with the gameplay. This game may be triggering for people with certain traumas, and while I don't think that's a bad thing, the game does not prepare you for it all. I had to consider if it was an artistic choice; a comment from the developers. Is this life? A series of horrific, traumatising events between which you simply have to get on with busy, day-to-day activities? Perhaps I'm reading too deep. When our main protagonist is still wearing his cute, comical little chef's outfit while he relives the day his wife died and he abandoned his young daughter, it's impossible to tell what is simply dark humor and what is unintentionally poor execution. I highly recommend this game. If not as a flawless, cohesive masterpiece, then as one of the most strangely fun, creative, gripping, amusing and shocking experiences I've had with a game. Truly a little gem that I will likely never forget.
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13 hours played
Feb. 2026
this game was so much fun to complete! perfect combo of the typing and cooking genres :3
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6 hours played
Feb. 2026
Got this game because of the Steam Typing Fest and started playing it the same day. Could. Not. Stop. The gameplay is simple yet challenging, the story is rich and humorous. Had to pull myself away after the first chapter to leave this review it's that good. I look forward to finding out what happens next, Panitia GameDev did a great job it's literally *Chef's Kiss*.
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17 hours played
Jan. 2026
This is such a fun game, from the various restaurants with different cuisines to the overarching story. I wasn't expecting something so engaging when I started, but enjoyed the mechanics of typing to queue up tasks for your chef to complete. I also love the gradual increase in difficulty through the restaurants and levels, and definitely feel like the levels themselves or the endless mode could be used to teach or reinforce skills of those less familiar with their typing skills. As for ease I type quite quickly and only had significant challenges with the most difficult levels. But even with that challenge I didn't feel like they were insurmountable, and like it would continue to hone skills without being too too difficult for slower typers to complete. There's also easy, normal, hard, and very hard difficulties to scale your own playing experience, if you're not super confident in your keyboard skills!
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10 hours played
Nov. 2025
Came for the typing, stayed for the incredible telenovela-style plot. 11/10
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Chef's Shift is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.

No, The Chef's Shift is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.79€ on Steam.

Yes, The Chef's Shift received 375 positive votes out of a total of 385 achieving a rating of 8.95.
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The Chef's Shift was developed by Panitia GameDev and published by Catoptric Games.

Yes, The Chef's Shift is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Yes, The Chef's Shift is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

No, The Chef's Shift is not playable on Linux.

The Chef's Shift is a single-player game.

No, The Chef's Shift does not currently offer any DLC.

No, The Chef's Shift does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, The Chef's Shift does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, The Chef's Shift is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Chef's Shift.

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The Chef's Shift
12.79€ Buy Now
Rating
9.0
375
10
Game modes
Features
Online players
25
Developer
Panitia GameDev
Publisher
Catoptric Games
Release 31 Mar 2025
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