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The Chef's Shift: First Course

Panitia GameDev · Published by Catoptric Games · Official site ↗

Content notice: The story is about mafia families and crime life. There will be frequent mention of criminal activity in the storyline like drugs, gang wars, illegal gambling etc. The most violent thing shown is the display of gun and killing rats.

Overwhelmingly Positive — 98% positive (525 reviews)

Last updated 27 Sept 2026

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!

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Indie, Simulation, Free To Play, Casual · 2025 · More free games

In The Chef's Shift: First Course, switch between typing up recipes and serving dishes at an Italian restaurant. Experience the thrill of a free-to-play kitchen challenge with quick fingers and steady hands.

About this game

Get ready to cook up a storm in "The Chef's Shift: First Course" - a fast-paced typing game set in a bustling restaurant! With your keyboard as your weapon, you'll need to cook and serve delicious dishes to hungry customers before they lose their patience. But that's not all - you'll also need to juggle all kinds of crazy distractions, from rat invasions to unruly customers.

Embark on a culinary journey through the Italian restaurant in The Chef's Shift: First Course, and experience the start of Lorenzo's chef career. Savor the diverse flavors of the cuisine, where each dish will feature different quirks & challenges.

  • 1 teaspoon of chaotic, fast-paced gameplay

  • 1 package of easy-to-pickup, hard-to-master TYPING mechanic

  • 1 cup of fun time management bits

And we mean it!

  • Navigate through the menu by typing

  • Prepare & serve your customers by typing

  • Select your dialogue choices by typing

Throughout the game, you will meet various characters, from customers with their own personality, to characters who propel the story forward.

System Requirements

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7/8/10+
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GPU with at least 256MB of VRAM

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS *: Windows 7/8/10+
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GPU with at least 512MB of VRAM or better

Supported Languages

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

Latest news

  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    The Chef's Shift is out now!

    Hi everyone, We're really excited to announce that The Chef's Shift is out now! For the launch, the game will be available for 10% off for the first week! steam://openurl/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2390230/The_Chefs_Shift/?snr=1_5_1100__1100&utm_source=steamwidget {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43966288/7cb21d519f806677438252e16fed1a23ca8e26c8.png FEATURES A mix of the typing and cooking genre, where you'll have to up your WPM to cook and serve the customers. 6 restaurants from all over the world, each with their own cuisines, culture, and challenges. A fun storyline with a colorful cast of characters and choices to make, offering 6–9 hours of playtime. Endless mode, where you can customize everything from customer types to dishes, rat spawns and patience timers. Pick whichever options you'd like and practice or challenge yourself as the customers keep coming! BUNDLES For the release, we've partnered up with several other developers to bundle our games together. You can grab the games together with an additional 10% discount on the bundles! The Chef's Shift & Glyphica: Typing Survival https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51914/Chefs_Glyphs/ The Chef's Shift & Coffee Caravan https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51881/Chefs_Caravan/ The Chef's Shift & Galaxy Burger https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51908/Chefs_Burger/ The Chef's Shift & Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51924/Chefs_Kebab/ The Chef's Shift & Blood Typers https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51951/Chefs_Spooky_Special/ The Chef's Shift & Corner Kitchen Fast Food Simulator https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51952/Chefs_Corner/
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Update Notes v1.0.19

    Hi we have fixed many tranlation error with Chinese and Russian Language. :D That's all :D
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Update Notes v1.0.18

    Now we have included Japanese Language! It's the hardest language to implement by far, because there's multiple way to write a word. For example: 出張 means business trip In hiragana it could be written しゅっちょう To write that in Hiragana, you could write it one by one per character, like this si lyu ltu ti lyo u (where the small hiragana character need to be written with prefix l or x) In this case, there's multiple way to write し, which is si, shi, or ci. To write ゅ, you could type lyu, or xyu To write っ, you could type ltu, ltsu, xtu, xtsu To write ち, you could type ti, or chi To write ょ, you could type lyo, or xyo To write う, you could type u, wu, whu To make matter worse, there's a shortcut to write しゅ, together it could be typed as syu, or shu. And the hardest part is this っちょ. You could write it together as ttyo (with double t). Or it could be ccyo, or ccho. Or you could write it a little bit separately, like ttilyo, ttixyo, cchilyo, cchixyo. Or you could write this っ first as ltu, ltsu, xtu, xtsu, and write this ちょ as tyo, cyo, cho, or even separately tilyo, tixyo, chilyo, chixyo. I hope with this update, it's already covered all this stuff. If you are fluent in Japanese Typing, please do try it!
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Update Notes v1.0.17

    Hey we have added support for Russian language! So you could type with Cyrillic alphabet now. And we fix several bug: - the difficulty is not saved when quiting - character name has not been localized - when you finished a restaurant, when you replay and finish a level, it will go to wishlist page instead of continue And we add some rebalance and QoL: - the rat spawn less in Italian Restaurant - the customer will dim if it's not interactable - the customer will have angry emoticon when their patience is empty.
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    TCS v1.0.16

    Hello everyone, just a quick update. We encounter several issue with the previous build: - The game is too hard, accidentaly we set up the default difficulty to Hard, in this build we fixed it, and also lower the difficulty in general. Let us know what do you think about this. - Sometimes the game stuck, it's because if you have downloaded the TCS Demo from the Main Page, and try this one, they try to use the same save file, and it's not compatible. This update will fix that, but to make sure, you could just reset the game. - Some Chinese Pinyin is wrong, this has been fixed. - The Quest still pop up in the level that doesn't have any quest, it has been fixed. - We refactor some structure of the game, and it will make the game resetted, we aree sorry for the inconvenience, because we haven't made the architecture to make the save file forward compatible. That's all, I hope you enjoy the game more :D
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