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Space Chef

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73%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
73% User Score Based on 82 reviews

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About Space Chef

Space Chef is a single player and multiplayer open world role playing game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Blue Goo Games and was released on October 28, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Hunt down strange alien creatures and plants, then cook 'em! Deliver your tasty creations to the galaxy's most unsafe places on your homemade star scooter. In a quirky mix of exploration, cooking and action, you’ll rebuild your mysteriously destroyed kitchen using nothing but junk and scrap parts.

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73%Audience ScoreBased on 82 reviews
graphics6 positive mentions
grinding17 negative mentions
  • The game offers a unique and addictive mix of cooking, exploration, crafting, and space travel with a charming cartoony art style and an incredible soundtrack.
  • There is a vast amount of content including hundreds of recipes, numerous planets with unique ecosystems, and a satisfying gameplay loop involving gathering ingredients, cooking, and running a restaurant.
  • Developers are active and responsive in addressing player feedback, releasing quality-of-life updates and patches that improve progression, reduce grind, and fix bugs.
  • Progression and quest systems are often unclear and unintuitive, causing players to become stuck or frustrated without consulting external guides.
  • Durability of tools, equipment, and cooking appliances is very low, leading to excessive grinding and resource farming which can feel tedious and disrupt the game’s flow.
  • Inventory management is cumbersome due to small inventory size and lack of quality-of-life features like tool wheels or better stacking, making resource and equipment handling frustrating.

  • story

    29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    10% positive mentions, 80% neutral mentions, 10% negative mentions

    The story in Space Chef offers a unique and rich world with diverse quests and exploration, but suffers from unclear quest progression, poor direction, and frustrating gating that often leaves players stuck without clear objectives. Many quests rely heavily on fetch tasks without meaningful guidance, requiring external resources to advance, leading to a disjointed and tedious narrative flow despite an engaging setting.

    • “[i]space chef[/i] features a lot I often look for: hands-off exploration (on foot and in-vehicle), variety in all aspects, resource gathering, cooking, farming, unique quests (no radiant/fetch), romance, character customization, interior design, and a unique world that feels lived-in.”
    • “Overall, I love this game from the graphics, variation of explorations like the planets and creatures all the way to the missions.”
    • “The progress feels so natural, story and gameplay-wise.”
    • “Eventually, when the game feels you've done enough (you're checking an invisible box here), the quest updates, and you'll exhaust all options concerning the new objective, once again feeling stuck as it's placed on hold with no explanation.”
    • “Without this specific single item you cannot proceed the next quest and without reading a guide you wouldn't even know where to find it.”
    • “Due to this the story mission hasn't moved on in 12 of the 12.5 hours I've been playing.”

  • grinding

    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in Space Chef is notably excessive and often tedious, with unclear progression mechanics and no automation to ease repetitive tasks like farming and resource gathering. While some players enjoy the ingredient collection and tool upgrades, many find the forced durability, expensive items, and slow resource availability create a frustrating grind that hampers overall enjoyment. Improvements in UI clarity and quality-of-life features are needed to better balance the game's grind-heavy design.

    • “It is very grindy, which I don't mind, but there's no automation, which makes it a problem, especially for this type of game.”
    • “The biggest problems are the progression design and the balancing: everything has durability which forces you to use everything as little as possible, items are way too expensive, the game hard gates the acquisition of different resources per in-game day making gathering super tedious, etc.”
    • “Sadly though, in its current state what started off as a really enjoyable game I’d waited a long time for became an tedious slog and grind with no way of knowing what actually needs to be done to progress. This is a recommendation not to buy unless the upcoming QoL patch fixes these issues.”

  • gameplay

    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    19% positive mentions, 62% neutral mentions, 19% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a unique and enjoyable loop combining exploration, cooking, and light survival with a strong focus on food as a central theme. While controls, particularly for navigation and the rocket, can be frustrating and some mechanics lack clear explanations, the game remains engaging, detailed, and filled with charming characters and discovery. Overall, it delivers a cohesive, fun experience with natural progression and plenty of content to explore.

    • “Space Chef is a a delightfully eccentric genre mash-up that manages to feel both cozy and adventurous, blending cooking, exploration, light survival mechanics, and small-scale business simulation into a surprisingly cohesive experience.”
    • “The gameplay loop of the game: exploring planets, hunting aliens, cooking food, selling dishes.”
    • “Lots of new things to discover and explore almost right away, the gameplay loop is very fun and unique, and the characters are genuinely interesting.”
    • “The navigation can be frustrating (looking at you, Caveron), and some mechanics lack explanation.”
    • “During exploration gameplay, the rocket is really hard to control and you always waste your money on repair and fuel.”
    • “You can destroy them using asteroids but due to stupid mechanic control it doesn't even matter.”

  • graphics

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    55% positive mentions, 18% neutral mentions, 27% negative mentions

    The graphics of the game are praised for their charming, cartoony, and fun art style with creative and varied visuals, including adorable creatures and interesting planetary explorations. Users appreciate the overall design and aesthetic, highlighting a cute, innovative vibe that complements the gameplay well. However, some experience occasional visual freezes during play.

    • “The graphics and overall design are nice and very creative.”
    • “The art style is great, creatures are adorable and the music is amazing!”
    • “Always after an hour or so, the visuals freeze but I still hear music.”
    • “Overall, I love this game from the graphics, variation of explorations like the planets and creatures all the way to the missions.”
    • “Plays well and I love the art style.”

  • music

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    88% positive mentions, 12% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is consistently praised as excellent, amazing, and great, complementing the charming art style and enhancing the overall atmosphere and experience.

    • “Soundtrack is incredible.”
    • “Space Chef is a charming game with a lovely art style and a great soundtrack.”
    • “The art style is great, creatures are adorable and the music is amazing!”

  • humor

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor is generally well-received, characterized by a chill and cozy vibe with chaotic, funny moments. While some find it repetitive or unintuitive toward the end, the blend of quirky scenarios and playful art keeps the experience amusing and enjoyable.

    • “Fun art, chill humor, and tons of customization.”
    • “Space Chef is chaotic, cozy, and hilarious — one minute you’re chasing alien giraffes, the next you’re serving gourmet meals in zero gravity.”
    • “A bit unintuitive and repetitive at the end, but still good and funny.”

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game experiences occasional bugs, particularly when boarding ships during planetary exploration, but overall remains stable and enjoyable.

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Play Times

30h Median play time
27h Average play time
12-40h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 3 analyzed playthroughs
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Space Chef is a open world role playing game with science fiction theme. Common tags for Space Chef include indie, aliens, exploration, life sim, relaxing and others.

Space Chef is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others.

On average players spend around 27 hours playing Space Chef.

Space Chef was released on October 28, 2025.

Space Chef was developed by Blue Goo Games.

Space Chef has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Space Chef for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

Space Chef is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Chef RPG, Luma Island, Above Snakes, Towers of Aghasba, Solarpunk and others.