The Chef's Shift: First Course
A fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING. Play through the Italian restaurant and get a taste of The Chef's Shift!
- Release Date:2/7/2025
- Franchise:Panitia GameDev
- Developer:Panitia GameDev
- Publisher:Catoptric Games
- Last Updated:4/2/2025
- Steam App Id:2516920
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, The Chef's Shift: First Course has 9 concurrent players online and in-game. This is 98% lower than its previous all-time peak of 521 players achieved on 2/8/2025.

Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for The Chef's Shift: First Course. It has received a total of 187 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 88 (Very Positive).
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for The Chef's Shift: First Course and its growth over time. It currently has 302 followers on its community page.
About The Chef's Shift: First Course
The Chef's Shift: First Course is a Simulation, Indie, Casual, and Free to Play game developed by Panitia GameDev. On 2/7/2025, it was released on the Steam Store by Catoptric Games.
Players have rated The Chef's Shift: First Course as "Very Positive" out of 187 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 182 positive reviews and 5 negative reviews — an overall 97% positive review rating.
It is available for gamers to download and play completely for free.
It can be played and ran on both Windows and Mac systems. At the moment, there is no confirmed information regarding Steam Deck support for this game.
It also supports 6 languanges in-game including English, French, German, Chinese (Simplified), and Japanese. Each language comes with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
According to Steam’s category system, The Chef's Shift: First Course supports the following features:
- Single-player
From the Steam community, The Chef's Shift: First Course has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Difficult
- Text-Based
- Management
- Typing
- Narration
- Dark Humor
- Cooking
- Simulation
- Cute
- Crime
- Time Management
- Funny
- Arcade
- Top-Down
- Strategy
- Indie
- Casual
- Colorful
- Singleplayer
- 2D
Media & Sceenshots
Watch the featured video for The Chef's Shift: First Course and see the latest screenshots from the Steam Store.
Supported Languages
The Chef's Shift: First Course is available in 6 different languages with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
Name | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
---|---|---|---|
English | Yes | No | Yes |
French | Yes | No | Yes |
German | Yes | No | Yes |
Chinese (Simplified) | Yes | No | Yes |
Japanese | Yes | No | Yes |
Russian | Yes | No | Yes |
Frequently Asked Questions
Soures & References
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The Chef's Shift: First Course data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2025, April 2). The Chef's Shift: First Course on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2516920
- Valve Corporation. (2025, April 2). The Chef's Shift: First Course. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2516920
- Panitia GameDev. (2024, December 5). The Chef's Shift: First Course. The Chef's Shift: First Course. https://panitiagamedev.carrd.co/