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Design compact automated kitchens, program machines, and solve food-production puzzles under space, power, and budget limits.
Released 23 Jul 2019
Program Food Lines
Pack Tight Kitchens
Balance Power and Budget
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!
Developed by Rhombico Games · Published by Team17 Digital Ltd









Automachef puts you in charge of designing automated restaurant kitchens. Each level asks you to build a production line that can prepare specified dishes and fulfill orders.
Place and connect machines, conveyors, and other equipment, then program machinery to coordinate the work. Solve spatial and resource-management challenges by fitting your layout to limits such as space, power, and budget.
Progress through campaign puzzles, take on contracts in business mode, or experiment in sandbox mode. The game also supports custom ingredients, recipes, and scenarios through Steam Workshop.
Players who enjoy automation and logic puzzles often praise the satisfaction of building and optimizing production lines, along with challenging levels and multiple modes. Some also enjoy the humor and room to experiment with machine layouts. Other reviewers find the rules or interface confusing, and describe restrictive puzzles and fine-grained efficiency tuning as frustrating.
Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchens, today!
Design and build automated restaurants, then program them to run like well-oiled machines! Do you have a can-do attitude and the know-how to conquer the world of automated restaurants?
Fine tune your mind as you tackle intricate spatial, resource management and scenario puzzles! Not enough hot dogs? You’ll sort it! Kitchens on fire? No problem for a smart human like you!
Take on the campaign levels, traverse your way through the business world in contracts mode, or just go nuts and bolts in the sandbox test mode and play until you get your fill!
All delivered in an abundance by our helplessly misguided human protagonist- Robert Person. Who is definitely a human. Don’t ask questions.
Think you could bring some more pizazz to the table? GREAT! Step on up to the plate and create your own ingredients, recipes and scenario levels via Steam Workshop!
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 11 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 71/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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