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The Chef's Shift cover art

The Chef's Shift

Panitia GameDev · Catoptric Games · 2025-03-31

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 31, 2025 (Mac), Mar 31, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

The Chef's Shift is a Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $12.99, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (97% of 2,069 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-14

97%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 176 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 29,402 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 41k–93k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,069 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.09 at Steam (2026-04-24) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
17317320252026Week of 2025-03-31: 173 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-07: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-04-07: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-14: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-04-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-21: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-28: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-28: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-05: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-05-12: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-19: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-26: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-02: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-23: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-30: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-14: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-21: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-04: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-18: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-08: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-29: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-09-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-06: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-20: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-11-03: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-10: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-17: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-09: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 80 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-23: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-02: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-09: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-06: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-18: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-25: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-17: 6 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$9.092025-03-312026-07-272025-03-31 — best price $11.692025-04-07 — best price $12.992025-06-06 — best price $11.692025-06-20 — best price $12.992025-06-27 — best price $11.692025-07-10 — best price $12.992025-08-25 — best price $11.692025-09-01 — best price $12.992025-09-29 — best price $11.692025-10-06 — best price $12.992025-10-19 — best price $10.392025-10-26 — best price $12.992025-11-28 — best price $10.392025-12-12 — best price $12.992025-12-18 — best price $9.742026-01-05 — best price $12.992026-02-05 — best price $9.742026-02-19 — best price $12.992026-03-19 — best price $9.742026-03-26 — best price $12.992026-04-24 — best price $9.092026-05-08 — best price $12.992026-06-13 — best price $9.092026-06-20 — best price $12.992026-06-25 — best price $9.092026-07-09 — best price $12.992026-07-20 — best price $9.092026-07-27 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

34
achievements tracked
95.4%
earned "From Rags..."
34.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)68318%34

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DCuteCrimeFunnyIndieArcadeTypingCookingDifficultNarration

Census log

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

Recent updates

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