The Chef's Shift

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The Chef's Shift

Short description

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.

Developer
Panitia GameDev
Publisher
Catoptric Games
Release
Mon, Mar 31, 2025
Price
$12.99
Reviews
1,886
Positive
98%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
0 – 20K
Concurrent players
30
Genres
Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards
Tags
Cooking Typing Time Management Crime Simulation Difficult Singleplayer Narration Management Dark Humor Arcade Cute 2D Funny Indie Colorful Text-Based Casual Top-Down Strategy
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$998ksomewhere between $0 and $1.8m · roughly 0–151K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $11.76, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $12.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

3 data points since Aug 3, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$994k → ~$998k
Reviews 1,879 → 1,886
Positive reviews 97.7% → 97.6%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 102 further data points reach back to Mar 31, 2025 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $9.09 on Apr 24, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around The Chef's Shift is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Cooking + Typing + Time Management

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