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Automachef
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“This game is super fun. Some levels can take you an hour or more to figure out what it wants you to do, and some of them are super easy. It's a great game if you like the visual programming style games, it reminds me of shenzenIO but it's more visual like snap was. You put food…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played“Loved this game. I enjoyed the challenges and I liked the business mode that just let you play forever. I couldnt finish the game. the final couple stages where above my pay grade or something. :-) The game revolves around fitting an assembly line into a certain space and…”
— a player, Steam review · 330 hrs played“Automation is too nitpicky, the machine selection would benefit greatly from a grid view”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Simulation · Indie · Automation · Puzzle · Resource Management · Funny · Programming · Cooking · Management · Strategy · Singleplayer · Tactical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese |
| Achievements | 11 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.rhombicogames.com/game/automachef |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 or AMD A8-5600K Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 550 Ti or Radeon HD 7770 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card