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The Chef's Shift

The Chef's Shift

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.

Released Mar 31, 2025 Developer Panitia GameDev Publisher Catoptric Games Platforms Windows · Mac CookingTypingTime ManagementCrimeSimulation
View on Steam ↗ $9.09 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

97.4%positive385 reviews
Recommended · 19 found this helpful

“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…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 12 found this helpful

“this game was so much fun to complete! perfect combo of the typing and cooking genres :3”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“Bought it for the gameplay, stayed for the story. I really enjoyed the twists and turns the story had, they were pretty interesting and, seeing them unfold as the chapters went on, was great. Pretty solid game if you enjoy this type of gameplay and, if you've never tried one of…”

— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:25 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

37playing at last check
14624-hour peak
532all-time peak
0 100 200 2026 157 avg · Feb 2026

Achievement 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.

34achievements
33.7%median completion
7.0%rarest: When 'All-Stars' is not enough..
95.4% of players 94.6% of players 92.9% of players 72.8% of players 70.7% of players 64.9% of players 57.5% of players 56.5% of players 55.3% of players 49.2% of players 48.6% of players 45.7% of players 43.3% of players 42.3% of players 40.1% of players 35.6% of players 35.2% of players 33.7% of players 32.2% of players 31.4% of players 30.9% of players 30.7% of players 29.6% of players 29.2% of players 26.2% of players 25.6% of players 24.1% of players 22.9% of players 20.1% of players 19.5% of players 17.6% of players 15.3% of players 10.2% of players 7.0% of players 95.4% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
95.4%From Rags... — Upgrade restaurant for the first time
94.6%Perfect Beginning — Get 3 stars in one level for the first time
92.9%Keyboard Warrior — Get 90% Accuracy in one level
Rarest badges of honor
7.0%When 'All-Stars' is not enough.. — Get all stars in all restaurants in Very Hard difficulty
10.2%Donburi Dynasty — Serve 50 Donburi
15.3%A Pacifist's Run — Complete a level without exterminating a single rat

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$9.09−30% right nowcurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$12.99base price
$9.09lowest since tracking began2026-07-25
US9.09 USD−30%
EU8.95 EUR−30%
UK7.69 GBP−30%
Australia13.26 AUD−30%
Canada11.89 CAD−30%
Japan1,050 JPY−30%
Brazil29.39 BRL−30%
China34.99 CNY−30%

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$5.2 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$10

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 05, 2026
Dutch Language Added, Improvement for English and Portuguese - v1.1.3

Hi everyone, we are glad that we got 1000 Overwhelming Positive reviews! Thank you for everyone that spent the time to leave the reviews for us, it means a lot! And I'm glad that the community helping

Oct 19, 2025
New Languages & Daily Deal

🧑‍🍳 Fresh Out of the Oven — The Chef’s Shift v1.1.0 Adds New Language Support and Daily Deal Steam Discount! Order up! The kitchen just got a global upgrade! 🌎 The Chef’s Shift, the fast-paced typing

Apr 28, 2025
Changelog v1.0.36

Hi everyone, sorry for really late update. We have fixing several bugs, and rebalance several stuff. Major Bugs When cancelling some Minigame, the game stucks, and cannot type anything. It seems the a

Apr 16, 2025
Community Items now available for The Chef's Shift!

Hey everyone, We're happy to announce that Steam Community Items are now available for The Chef's Shift! We've added 7 trading cards, 3 profile backgrounds, and 5 emotes . The profile backgrounds and

Apr 02, 2025
Changelog v1.0.33

Localization Bugfixes: - For French, there's a bug in Tortilla Mini Game in Mexican Restaurant, the word "trancher" should be written with "tr" rather than "t" only, to prevent clashing with "tortilla

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From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.

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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.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsCooking · Typing · Time Management · Crime · Simulation · Difficult · Singleplayer · Narration · Management · Dark Humor · Arcade · Cute (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean
Achievements34
Estimated owners0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy)
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 Storage: 200 MB available space