TasteMaker

TasteMaker

released on Feb 18, 2021

TasteMaker

released on Feb 18, 2021

TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon/simulator game. It puts you in charge of making your restaurant the best dining destination in town. Build and decorate, manage staff, keep your facilities clean, serve delicious food, and more.


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Such a great concept of a game, but there are obviously a few details that aren't fully fleshed out yet because it's in Early Access. It has a bunch of good things, like the art is fun, the concept of starting from scratch and expanding is great as well, but there are bunch of things that should be improved upon.

For example, negative effect furniture don't really affect much, and you can't really wall them off either. Customers don't mind if I put a toilet in the middle of the restaurant, but instead start using it like there is nothing wrong with seeing someone do a dookie while you eat your french fries.

There is just one staff model, and it's a waiter. The staff do everything, but you can specify which staff member cleans, cooks, washes dishes and takes food to the tables. The waitering is not very realistic, as they bring just one plate at a time to the tables. There is no break time for the staff members either. They are just endlessly making food as slaves for eternity as customers just keep pouring in one after another.

You also don't have breaks for building and expanding. The customers just keep coming and if a customer is where you want to build, you will have to wait for them to move before you can do anything to that spot. Otherwise the building aspect of this game was quite fun, but lacked options for making your restaurant unique.

I managed to encounter just a few bugs thankfully, one of them being even when I had enough shelf space, the ingredients would get plopped on the floor. I also found it weird that Milk was put on a shelf and not the refrigerator, but I wasn't sure if that was a bug or an intended thing. Also, no matter how negative your restaurant rating is you always get a full stream of customers.

The game looks fun and is a great idea, but that's all that it is currently, scraps of an idea sold for 10€ without much content inside. I will keep an eye out for updates and such and update my review accordingly.

really bland with not much personality or replayability imo, wait until its out of early access to play