Games Like Life, the Universe, and Restaurants
About Life, the Universe, and Restaurants: Manage an otherworldly restaurant by automating food production through robot deployment and supply chains while catering to increasingly demanding divine customers. The game emphasizes experimentation with different operational builds to maximize profits and climb toward galactic restaurant supremacy.
Played Life, the Universe, and Restaurants dry? Below are the 25 Steam idle games closest to it in our catalog. Every entry shares at least one of its tags (Automation, Base Building, Building, Casual, Cooking, Cute). Rarer overlaps rank higher, ties broken by players.
Top picks if you liked Life, the Universe, and Restaurants
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DEFRAG
Shares: Casual, Deckbuilding, Idler
DEFRAG frames resource collection and system optimization around a defragmentation theme, letting you build custom configurations rather than following a single upgrade path.
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The First Million
Shares: Deckbuilding, Idler, Management
The First Million combines idle progression with deckbuilding mechanics, letting you unlock cards and upgrades that compound into exponentially more powerful strategies.
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This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
Shares: Casual, Deckbuilding, Idler
A straightforward card-flipping incremental where you build poker hands to generate income, unlock new decks and cards, and purchase upgrades.
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Pay 2 Win: The World is Mine
Shares: Casual, Deckbuilding, Idler
A deck-building incremental where you combine cards and items to generate escalating numbers with minimal active play.
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Lucky Hunter
Shares: Automation, Casual, Deckbuilding
Lucky Hunter combines deck-building with auto-battling roguelike progression, where your pieces fight autonomously while you manage synergies and artifact combinations to overcome escalating hunts.
All 25 similar games
| # | Game | Match | Rating | Players | Price | |
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| 1 | Casual, Deckbuilding +6 | ★ 94% | 6 | $2.09 | Store | |
| 2 | Deckbuilding, Idler +3 | ★ 76% | 4 | N/A | Store | |
| 3 | Casual, Deckbuilding +4 | ★ 86% | 33 | $5.99 | Store | |
| 4 | Casual, Deckbuilding +5 | ★ 82% | 2 | $14.99 | Store | |
| 5 | Automation, Casual +4 | ★ 92% | 4 | $5.99 | Store | |
| 6 | Automation, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 88% | 6 | $5.99 | Store | |
| 7 | Casual, Cute +4 | ★ 61% | 1 | $3.99 | Store | |
| 8 | Automation, Casual +6 | ★ 94% | 7 | N/A | Store | |
| 9 | Casual, Cute +3 | ★ 78% | 2 | Free | Store | |
| 10 | Casual, Cute +3 | ★ 99% | 2 | $9.99 | Store | |
| 11 | Casual, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 73% | 64 | N/A | Store | |
| 12 | Casual, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 95% | 2 | $9.99 | Store | |
| 13 | Building, Casual +3 | ★ 98% | 2 | $9.99 | Store | |
| 14 | Casual, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 76% | 30 | Free | Store | |
| 15 | Casual, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 92% | 2 | N/A | Store | |
| 16 | Casual, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 100% | 2 | N/A | Store | |
| 17 | Casual, Deckbuilding +2 | ★ 94% | 7 | $9.99 | Store | |
| 18 | Casual, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 91% | 15 | N/A | Store | |
| 19 | Casual, Deckbuilding +3 | ★ 77% | 10 | $4.99 | Store | |
| 20 | Deckbuilding, Idler +2 | ★ 100% | 1 | N/A | Store | |
| 21 | Deckbuilding, Idler +2 | ★ 65% | 3 | Free | Store | |
| 22 | Casual, Deckbuilding +2 | ★ 81% | 21 | Free | Store | |
| 23 | Casual, Deckbuilding +1 | ★ 94% | 4 | N/A | Store | |
| 24 | Automation, Casual +5 | ★ 83% | 2 | $2.39 | Store | |
| 25 | Casual, Cooking +4 | ★ 87% | 2 | $2.99 | Store |
