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Recipe for Disaster
Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“Underrated, Actually Recipe for Disaster is a flawed game that might've bankrupted its creator, BUT there are some really good things here! If you liked the Sims 2: Nightlife and Open for Business's restaurant simulation, but want more depth with the menus and general restaurant…”
— a player, Steam review · 36 hrs played“Fun little restaurant manger sim. Reminds me of Sims but for Chefs. Not as in depth as sims but designing restaurants is the best part of this game. Creating recipes is super simple and you can make some creative dishes.”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Save your money, I played it once tried to return it, turns out I was past the 2 weeks. Its a unfinished game and the developer has thrown in the towel.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Latest official news
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Ho ho ho! A gift for y'all!
After a long time in the dark, we're "cooking" (pun intended) something that you might like. Meanwhile, got something for you: many bugfixes and especially a massive change to the renderer, so now eve
Hold on to your chef hats, 1.0 has launched!
Exciting news, restaurateurs! Fully baked and hot from the oven, Recipe for Disaster has officially exited Early Access. To those of you picking up the game for the first time, welcome! If you have an
1.0 Development Update Preview
Here it is, the last of our Early Access development update videos! Tomorrow’s 1.0 release includes three new, highly thematic scenarios, along with a variety of new decorative objects and, of course,
Get ready for the main course – Recipe for Disaster to exit Early Access!
Hi everyone! It’s with great pride and excitement I can officially announce that Recipe for Disaster will be exiting Early Access on August 5th, with the full game including new features, customisatio
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Cooking · Management · Casual · Simulation · Life Sim · Building · Time Management · Procedural Generation · Economy · Automation · Capitalism · Character Customization (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese |
| Official site | https://www.kasedogames.com/recipefordisaster |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: Default API is Vulkan 1.1. Directx11 API is provided.