Games Like Restaurant City: Management, Cooking & Social Sims

Restaurant City (Playfish, 2009–2012, Facebook) blended restaurant management, cooking, decorating, and friend-visiting. Since Flash shutdown, it's gone. Here are the best modern alternatives by category:

Restaurant / Cooking Focus (Mobile/PC)

• Cooking Fever (Mobile) — Fast-paced time-management, many venues, upgrades.
• Good Pizza, Great Pizza (Mobile/PC/Switch) — Chill pizza sim with story, toppings, upgrades.
• PlateUp! (PC/Console) — Roguelite restaurant automation + cooking co-op.
• Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator (PC/Console) — Realistic cooking, menu design, management.
• Overcooked! All You Can Eat (All platforms) — Chaotic co-op cooking action (less management).

Social / Town Building + Restaurant

• Township (Mobile/PC) — Farm + town + restaurants, co-op, regatta events.
• Hay Day (Mobile) — Farm-focused, but adds town visitors, cafe, and neighborhood trading.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) — Design cafes/restaurants on your island; visit friends.
• Stardew Valley (All) — Farm/social sim; mods add restaurant management.

Deep Management / Tycoon (PC)

• Restaurant Empire II — Classic detailed tycoon (menu design, staff, critics).
• Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game — Recipe creation, staff hiring, critic reviews.
• SimCity / Cities: Skylines — Zone commercial districts; mods add detailed venues.

Browser / No-Download (Closest to Original Feel)

• Papa's Games (Flipline Studios) — Papa's Pizzeria, Burgeria, Freezeria… now on HTML5 (papasgameria.com) — pure time-management cooking.
• Café World (Zynga, discontinued) — Was the direct FB rival; no longer playable.

Pick based on platform: Mobile → Cooking Fever / Township; PC co-op → PlateUp!; Solo deep sim → Restaurant Empire II; Browser → Papa's.