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The Chef's Shift: First Course
A fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING. Play through the Italian restaurant and get a taste of The Chef's Shift!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“cute and fun little typing/restaurant game! i played the free version. it got me a bit hooked and interested, but not necessarily enough to make me buy the paid one”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“The gameplay was fun I like the fact that the typing symbols is the hardest part of the game But my favourite part is the story I liked it a lot Sofia best girl ever.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“As someone who loved those typing games when I was a kid and who loves restaurant management games... THIS IS AMAZING!!! The game mechanics itself is fun. The story, art, and dialogue are all huge pluses. I can't wait for the rest of the game!”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
The Chef's Shift is out now!
Hi everyone, We're really excited to announce that The Chef's Shift is out now! For the launch, the game will be available for 10% off for the first week ! steam://openurl/https://store.steampowered.c
Update Notes v1.0.19
Hi we have fixed many tranlation error with Chinese and Russian Language. :D That's all :D
Update Notes v1.0.18
Now we have included Japanese Language! It's the hardest language to implement by far, because there's multiple way to write a word. For example: 出張 means business trip In hiragana it could be written
Update Notes v1.0.17
Hey we have added support for Russian language! So you could type with Cyrillic alphabet now. And we fix several bug: - the difficulty is not saved when quiting - character name has not been localized
TCS v1.0.16
Hello everyone, just a quick update. We encounter several issue with the previous build: - The game is too hard, accidentaly we set up the default difficulty to Hard, in this build we fixed it, and al
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Cooking · Simulation · Typing · Time Management · Crime · Difficult · Singleplayer · Management · Dark Humor · Arcade · Funny · Cute (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Latin America |
| Official site | https://panitiagamedev.carrd.co/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/10+ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GPU with at least 256MB of VRAM