The Chef's Shift
Panitia GameDev · Catoptric Games · 2025-03-31
Steam
CasualIndieSimulationStrategy
Modes: Single player
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.
98%
positive of 2.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Health check
Quietly active
- · 176 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
- · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
- · Top 13% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 40k–89k copies
Review-multiple estimate from 1,983 total reviews — how this is computed.
All-time low: $9.09 at Steam (2026-04-24)via IsThereAnyDeal
12-month high $12.99 · on sale 9 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)
Review momentum
PositiveNegative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.Price history
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).Completion
95.4%
earned "From Rags..."
34.2%
median achievement earned by
- · 95.4% of players earned From Rags...
- · 34.2% of players earned Banzai!
- · 7.1% of players earned When 'All-Stars' is not enough..
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
| Platform | Players tracked | Completion | Trophies/achievements |
|---|
| Steam (Steam) | 683 | 18% | 34 |
Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.
Census log
- 2025-03-31First review activity on record (week of 2025-03-31).
- 2025-03-31Biggest review week on record: 176 reviews (week of 2025-03-31).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
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