The Game Census
Automachef cover art

Automachef

Rhombico Games · Team17 Digital Ltd · 2019-07-23

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IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 22, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 23, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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!

4
playing now
72%
positive of 921 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 23k–55k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 921 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$1.93-87%
GreenManGaming$1.96-87%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.17-86%
Humble Store$2.24-85%
IndieGala$2.24-85%
WinGameStore$2.24-85%
GamersGate$2.25-85%
GOG$2.39-84%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2021-11-08) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 141 of 189 observed days · $0.93 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

802026-08-11 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.252019-07-232026-08-302019-07-23 — best price $10.892019-10-21 — best price $14.992019-12-10 — best price $14.992020-01-27 — best price $14.882020-03-20 — best price $14.992020-05-27 — best price $7.492020-08-03 — best price $12.932020-09-28 — best price $7.042020-12-05 — best price $12.492021-02-04 — best price $13.392021-04-13 — best price $12.632021-05-30 — best price $12.292021-08-18 — best price $3.792021-10-25 — best price $3.752021-12-13 — best price $3.652022-02-08 — best price $3.752022-04-04 — best price $3.742022-06-24 — best price $2.992022-09-13 — best price $3.192022-12-06 — best price $13.192023-03-06 — best price $2.992023-05-27 — best price $14.992023-08-21 — best price $2.442023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-02-13 — best price $14.992024-04-11 — best price $14.442024-06-19 — best price $2.992024-08-26 — best price $2.162024-11-14 — best price $2.242025-01-20 — best price $1.942025-03-30 — best price $2.252025-06-05 — best price $2.242025-08-20 — best price $1.932025-10-08 — best price $2.172025-12-11 — best price $1.942026-02-23 — best price $14.992026-04-20 — best price $2.122026-06-19 — best price $1.962026-08-14 — best price $1.962026-08-30 — best price $1.93
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
63.3%
earned "Native Machine Code"
2.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,4772%11
Switch (Nintendo)250%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FunnyIndieCasualPuzzleCookingBuildingStrategyTacticalAutomationManagement

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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