Topic: Any cooking / town building combination games?

There's an iPad game called Crazy Diner where, in addition to the cooking element, you get to build and manage the town around your restaurant(s) as you earn more money so it's a combined cooking & town building game. It breaks up the simple cooking element with something else to do as the cooking part alone, largely simple time management and muscle memory, gets old fast (for us anyway). Been looking for something similar on the Switch but can't find anything yet. It's either one or the other, cooking OR town building, not both.

I've looked at Overcooked All You Can Eat and Cook, Serve, Delicious too but the former is more of a party type cooking game and the latter is just a more advanced in depth cooking game.

@Kraid ask @Anti-Matter, he knows a lot about those types of games.

Thanks. I'll do that

@Kraid
Cooking + Building ?
So far from my experiences, maybe these games will be fit for you.

Epic Chef
Cooking Battle (Use your Math skill to count the points in order to win the cooking battle) + decorating your farm like Story of Seasons

Dragon Quest Builders 2
Cooking is for making your consumable items and you need to gather the materials, you can plant some crops like farming while for building aspect you can shape the entire island like Minecraft and furnish your house with furnitures like The Sims / Animal Crossing.

That's brilliant! Thanks for that, Dragon Quest sounds like it might be a better fit. Not really my thing TBH but my wife really likes them. I thought about Overcooked and also Cook, Serve, Delicious (CSD) but I think CSD is just a more complicated / deep version of the Tycoon series and Overccoked seems to be more of a semi rush around and prep type game as opposed to anything involving building.

@Kraid
Oh, the other Dinner Dash style game is Lemon Cake.

The closest thing that comes to mind is Little Dragon's Cafe. The gameplay loop is cooking dishes for customers, running around an open world looking for ingredients, and doing both in a tight daily time limit. Not a bad game. But I soon felt like I was falling behind in one aspect or the other.

Thanks. I'll look at both of those. I'm not into tablet / phone gaming at all but it does seem that the Crazy Diner game has achieved a good balance. Personally I find doing the same thing over and over but just faster gets to repetitive, but then my wife doesn't see the point in wandering round for ever in open world games. She has a point LOL. Different tastes at the end of the day.

@Kraid
You can try Epic Chef for different cooking game.
Basically Epic Chef have cooking battle like Iron Chef.
The cooking activity here is basically put the three ingredients in correct order to get highest flavor points depend on the ingredients you put.
This is Mathematic counting game, not a Diner Dash style so you can calculate the numbers first before having cooking battle.

In Epic Chef, every ingredients have three judging points: Vigor, Spirit & Sophistication.
Certain ingredients will add you synergy bonus like more points or multiply the Vigor / Spirit / Sophistication points if get paired with specific ingredients or being cooked as first ingredients.
While cooking your ingredients, you can stir up or just toss the ingredients to get specific numbers of Aroma.
Highest point aroma will be judged first, then your dish will be judged by specific rules and the points from Vigor, Spirit and Sophistication will be accumulated. The winner is who collected the highest score.
Sometimes there are some restrictions during cooking battle such as not allowed to use specific ingredients or your points will be cut.

Also, the cooking activity in Epic Chef is very important to level up yourself as you only eat when to level up. Your stats are divided into Vigor, Spirit and Sophistication. By doing certain activities, it will make the multiplier numbers getting bigger so you can level up faster and unlock synergy bonus from certain ingredients. But, once your character eat the dishes from your cooking experiments, all the Vogir, Spirit and Sophistication will get back to zero. It can be refilled again by doing certain activities.

Well, some explanation about Epic Chef*.

@Kraid

Tristia: Legacy, perhaps?

There's cooking in: Neko Tomo & Cooking Mama Cookstar~ I don't really do to many cooking games but if I come across any that are really good I'll let you know~ 🤷‍♀️✌️

Happy Gaming! (^_^)

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll look them all up. Not sure but in Epic Chef I get the feeling the cooking maybe too serious for what my wife wants, the time constrained ordering with build up to very rapid is good enough but with some town building on the side. All the suggestions will help me do some research rather than just blustering off buying every game that springs to mind.