Travel Cuisine Collector's Edition

Alright, well... The game isn't bad. It has it's goods and bads, but it's just a normal TM with nothing overly special. I say that because there are some ... Questionable things. First things first: You get to play three regular restaurants + one Collector's Edition. It'll take you about 4hrs+ Depending on how focused you were. Now then... I have a question... WHAT are Matthew and Tammy are to one another? Just friends? Lovers? There is no answer, so I will make up my own then. The money... I think the game kinda forgot to calculate money correctly. Example: 1st restaurant board upgrade cost: 6 coins. Cool. Next restaurant: You will have more than 1k now, so it says: upgrade cost: 6 coins... Not that I wasn't happy... But it's just strange... Because I am pretty certain that didn't happen on third and fourth restaurants! Then there is the matter of the goal money... It shows... 100 coins (example)... And you make... Over 500. Granted that also makes me happy ...

"Travel Cuisine Collector's Edition" is an asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated someone else's example/template/tutorial game for a cooking/platespinning restaurant mobile app, changed the name/reskinned a couple of things, and submitted it to Valve as if it was their own game. "Travel Cuisine Collector's Edition" is a pointless restaurant management platespinning type screen tapper/clicker mobile app. As featured in hundreds of mobile apps, gameplay here is a woeful routine of platespinning... that is to say, you need to tap on your iPhone screen to satisfy various customers as they come in and take care of other little busywork jobs. You'll soon find yourself tapping away madly at your iPhone as you have so many customers all at once! Surely the iPhone is the greatest gaming platform of all time, so understandably the developer wants you to pay them for this free mobile app garbage on Steam. They've dumped this same restaurant manager p...

Love time management games and happy to see more being added to Steam, but this one isn't enjoyable atm. It needs polishing, e.g. so we aren't forced to click multiple times around an item to catch its hit box. Also needs balancing to make the upgrades actually useful and challenging to afford. The fish recipes are terrible; there are too many recipes using the same ingredients and equipment, just in a different order. Would be much clearer and more satisfying to add different ingredients/dishes instead. It's unintuitive and frustrating when some items can be put back down (cooked chicken) while others can't (maki). (Or maybe maki CAN be put down, but I simply couldn't find the hit box for it.) Visuals are appealing. Soundtrack is passable. The game mechanics just need improving.

So far as value for the price goes, I think that at just under $5, this game is a bit over priced... There has already been a review of this game that was quite thorough and complete...I am not going to reword that here. I think that with all that has already been said in the previous review, that this game should have delivered a bit more. I was able to complete it outside my required time frame to price ratio...which is, 50 cents per hour of play time... but I do make exceptions and it fell within one of my exceptions: that I MUST get at least one hour of play time for each dollar I spend on a game...Barely scraped by. Hey, that's just how I roll...I completed the game in 6 hours. But, I got the game on sale, so it WAS worth it for me. Don't get me wrong, this is a nice TM game and I really did enjoy playing it despite the annoyances that popped up now and again. I enjoyed the complexity even while it made little sense and was annoying. But this company has some great TM games...