Cooking Simulator (2019)

I honestly can't get enough of Cooking Simulator.

I currently own all DLCs with the latest (Shelter) being a strong favorite of mine: during the years of development, it has changed and straightened most of its frustrating bugs and performance issues, expanding over the tools and mediums they decided to go for.

If you need a past time, this game is sure to fill that niche pretty decently.

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit i'm still playing this time to time (alternating it with PC Building simulator). Reason being The Cake and Cookies DLC is a large improvement over the original game (it actually plays completely different and bears no semblance other than using the same engine)

Cakes and Cookies not only lets you more or less explore your own creativity, but it actually (semi-competently) manages to tie in a business simulation aspect into the game... The game has in game 'tweets' which you can see to target demand for an audience and then use the same hashtags of those tweets with in game photography of your sweet pastry creations to try and market to that target audience.

The trouble is, it's still not that much fun and learning the janky ins and outs of how to bake stuff is a bit of a learning curve. Still, it's satisfying to bake some stuff, put it on the shelvsee and then throughout the day see most of it disappear as people pay for it, then rinse and repeat the next day as you explore something else to make that could be the same, or could be different.

Still somewhat meh experience but the design of C&C is leaps and bounds better than the 'chef make this now, chef make that next' formula of the base game, and you can still do the same silly stuff like drop things on the floor or put a gross ingredient in something... If you have an interest in you know, baking cakes and cookies you will probably find this worth getting and satisfying to market your tasty treats (or snicker as people gobble up those cupcakes with something naughty in it!)

Undercooked and not really what one desires when going out to eat.

Some things are probably a lot to hope for with this and maybe too much to ask. A proper cooking simulator is a pretty advanced endeavor and in many ways this is admirable in what it seems to try to venture to do (or pretend to) However what is served in CS is very chaotic and haphazard. You attempt to fix meals and have to do it at a rapid pace (a bit like a simulated version of Overcooked) you get scored and level and earn cash and othe rewards for your performance, however the game has a lot of flaws.

-I've found that there are recipes where you do not have to actually include certain ingreidents (hence faster, easier) adding them does no effect -Adding a wrong garnish (oregeno instead of parsley is my weakness) is a gruelling dissapointment to clients.

I wanted to like this more because It's a fun game to try and bork and play silly. cook them up something nasty, burn it bad, etc. see how much you can drop it on the floor and how much silly stuff you can do to something and they go 'mmm hey that not' is a bit amusing for a while. But to play this seriously its stressful and unforgiving and the jankiness causes so many problems. It's very easy to spill things out of containers for example and it can happen in ways that are just so lame. Cutting things into pieces and picking them up one by one as they jiggle around in a pot and zip out can really reallly try one's patience.

i have no idea how you actually melt and serve cheese in this game. roasted cubes that they dislike was pretty much i called it quits. A Royale With Cheese. Or maybe nothing but?