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The Chef's Shift: First Course

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!

Released Feb 7, 2025 Developer Panitia GameDev Publisher Catoptric Games Platforms Windows · Mac CookingSimulationTypingTime ManagementCrime
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

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98.3%positive525 reviews
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“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
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“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
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“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 played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

94all-time peak
0 25 50 2026 21 avg · Feb 2025

Latest official news

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Mar 31, 2025
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

Feb 23, 2025
Update Notes v1.0.19

Hi we have fixed many tranlation error with Chinese and Russian Language. :D That's all :D

Feb 21, 2025
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

Feb 14, 2025
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

Feb 11, 2025
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

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play
Player tagsCooking · Simulation · Typing · Time Management · Crime · Difficult · Singleplayer · Management · Dark Humor · Arcade · Funny · Cute (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Latin America
Official sitehttps://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