The Chef's Shift Steam Charts & Stats

The storyline is kinda insane, but the gameplay is really fun!

Heavily recommend! Challenging in just the right way, the story is engaging (Although I personally believe that the ending was kind of meh) Played through the game 2x, once on Normal, again on Very Hard, to get 100% achievements. Heavily worth my time and effort. If you like Typing games, this is one of the good ones

( full review with screenshots: https://www.gaming-parrot.com/post/the-chef-s-shift-review-my-keyboard-is-my-kitchen ) The Chef's Shift is basically a fusion of Diner Dash and Typing of the Dead, with some obvious influence from Cook, Serve, Delicious as well. Levels follow the Diner Dash formula of needing to run around your restaurant and get meals to customers before they lose patience, but all actions are performed by typing random words and some recipes are made by playing minigames straight out of CSD. No individual piece of this game is very original, but the way they're combined is unique and generally works out to be satisfying. I would highly recommend setting the difficulty to Very Hard if you're able to type at even an average speed, however. The difficulty takes a long time to ramp up, and even if you end up dropping it later, the early levels won't be very satisfying on lower difficulties if three and four letter words are trivial for you. The game features a series of restaurants that each have 10 levels, each of which in turn can earn you up to 3 stars for performance and a bonus star for completing the level challenge. The restaurants all have a similar progression where each level introduces either a new recipe or a new variation on an existing recipe, and several of the early levels will introduce new customer types that have their own gimmicks. Most customers have special rules for the types of word you use to interact with them, such as only using emoji or numbers, and the recipe progression typically builds towards unlocking recipes with multiple cook steps and different combinations of ingredients. It never gets as complicated or as stressful as CSD, but you will need to plan around the bonus challenge and customer types on the harder levels of each restaurant. Surprisingly, the story is actually a decent selling point for TCS. Typically cooking games don't bother with a story at all, but this has a plot that starts out silly and eventually builds to be quite elaborate and heavy. It definitely has some soap opera vibes with how complicated the relationships are, but it's well written and builds to a strong conclusion. That said, it probably could have used a clearer mature content warning - this looks like a kid's game, but it absolutely isn't unless a mafia story with multiple murders and plenty of drug use fits your definition. It's also unavoidable that, although the game seems to have been written in English originally since no translator is credited, nearly every sentence has some kind of basic grammar error. I don't think this is simply the way English is used in the dev's area from my experience with other Indonesian games and the prevalence of things like capitalization errors and word omissions. It's always clear what the game is trying to say, but it's impossible not to be distracted by the errors when the game is trying to be deadly serious and the characters have words in the wrong order or can't get their tenses right. Still, as long as you can look past this and some melodrama, it's an entertaining and well crafted story. I normally wrap up with the graphics and music, but there's not much to say here. The art basically looks like a bunch of clip art that's animated chiefly by bouncing it around. It gets the job done, but it's nothing special to look at. Similarly, the music is mostly free public domain pieces if the amount of Kevin MacLeod in the credits is anything to go by. It works, it fits the scenes, but you're not going to remember it. -------- For more reviews, see [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43219041]my curator page[/url]

Incredibly fun, I really recommend. I have beaten the game on hard and collected every star, which wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but still a fun challenge. Just buckle up though, the plot gets wild and somewhat heartfelt. But the plot goes crazy, but it all makes sense looking back.

Buy this game for the typing and cooking experience, but got amazed by the story at the end. Never expect such a memorable plot with so much twist and turns. The gameplay is great as well.

This story is a WILD ride. The gameplay is very challenging, fun and unique! I had a great time start to finish.

Very fun typing game with restaurant management aspects. Highly recommend if you're a fan of the Diner Dash series.

This game is awesome. It remind me of Texorcist where you had to do typing to play. And the story is awesome ! There is a lot to do in this game to finish it. A couple of hours of play time.

fun stressful typing game with good drama story! I enjoy playing so much (even tho sometimes i want to snap my keyboard in half) but i had so much fun playing it! hope they work on dlc or updates.....

Did not expect to have so much lore in a cooking game but highly entertained and pleasantly surprised!! Diner dash gameplay with a twist. I'm not the best typer so def broke my brain getting all the stars in some of the very hard levels but had fun regardless! 10000000000000000000/10 would recommend!