Terrible experience. I love this kind of games to relax, though the first surprise was that it is not relaxing game at all. You are seriously pressured to perform with speed and accuracy, while the game is (either intentionally or non-intentionally very innacurate or more correctly said not having pleasant controls).
The main problem I encountered is though that it is programmed in a way that it intentionally gives high effort to make you lose. I truly managed to provide what the game asks: great speed, performance, accuracy on my side, even learned to use the skill "tree" in strategic way, yet the game seriously made me lose no matter.
I don't want to say it's not possible to win because there might be some combination of steps and luck that allow you to win, maybe, maybe... But I really gave great performance and was forced to lose even though I was really good.
If the purpose of this game is to show you how it feels difficult to be entrepreneur, then I don't need that! I have my own real-life experiences. Thanks, but I don't want that, this should be game and it should be fun.
The in-built progress is that you have to buy skills, but those skills are more upgrades which are a trap, as they also give you great disadvantages - either you have to pay higher rent, wages etc. or you have to play with too many ingredients and combinations that are less likely to match the incoming recipes. So no matter what you choose, you will end up either paying more money than you can make or you end up unable to fulfill the recipes.
Other variables are number of recipes/orders (since you cannot fulfill many, you need even more to have chance to have luck to get one that is possible to fulfill) and time. But since I learned to be really quick, the additional time was even against me as I repeatedly found myself having to wait for the time counter to run out as I had nothing to do anymore and there is no way to end the round manually when nothing can be played anymore.
The authors would in my case probably say that I didn't buy enough skills that would give me more orders, that my problem was not having enough fulfillable orders, but if I bought those skills, I would have to pay more rent/wages and then I would lose even sooner as the profit would not match the expenses anyway. This is the process of squeezing you into a trap.
I have even series of screenshots to back up what I am saying, that I was given intentionally repeatedly unsolvable scenarios. What do I mean? Simply you are given random ingredients and random recipes. Well, they want you to believe that probably, but I don't believe that they are random anymore after the hours I spent on it. You are in fact intentionally given recipes and ingredients that do not match.
Yes, by being even quicker and doing what is possible, sometimes the needed ingredient drops in and then if you are super super speedy you can do the time-sensitive task that gives more profit. I managed even that! When it was possible. I even accepted that I may need to continue playing for long and suffer the times when life is hard in order to survive for the better times but the better times never came. In fact, I was given unsolvable scenarios again and again until it robbed me of all money.
And yes, I was even clever to not spend all money so I have something for the bad times... while yes, I also thought about buying skills in time and not do the opposite mistake either. But no, the game is not sovlable, not playable. It's fake. Maybe maybe someone can get lucky, combined with this superman performance and correct steps, yet...that was not my case.
I am really really annoyed because I became superman instead of relaxing and it was not enough to win or even reach closer to end. Too long series of unsolvable scenarios and I don't believe it was bad luck. There should not be such a bad luck possible anyway, in a properly programmed game.
While I like the concept, it's unique, and I'd love the game to work properly, I have to say I was robbed of money. Sad story and not relaxing, not greatly done and not possible to win.
I am writing this angry review on behalf of all the betrayed players as I can very well imagine how others are fooled by this and how the authors rely on people not getting to the goal and thinking they (the players) screwed. Because it's inhuman to become so robotically precise, quick etc. it means that most people will simply think they are doing mistakes, that it's their fault. Well, I got beyond that barrier and I know I became good enough yet the game is the one that is causing the failure.
Edit: Played it again with even stronger eye on the strategy which skills to choose first and on precision and it really is as I said, in short the difficulty is set too high, it's virtually impossible to win. I forgot to say last time that also whenever you make a mistake, you are severely punished: just after you do the mistake, you are deprived of the ingredient that you used wrong and in order for you to "feel" your mistake stronger, you are given many recipes that need that ingredient. It's really really extreme, as if the game had difficulty levels and you picked "insane difficulty" by accident, except there is no difficulty choice in this game. How can you be punished for wasting one ingredient once by being given all recipes requesting that exact ingredient and at the same time being deprived of that ingredient completely? That's some really harsh BDSM. The creator seems to have been extremely frustrated person that needed to vent their pain from their own failures in business or it makes no sense. Again I made screenshots and I have evidence that you are easily given all screen of recipes for the exact ingredient you are short of. And another detail for you to know how purposefully malicious the author is: he intentionally hides one time-sensitive recipe at the bottom of the list of recipes (orders), knowing you will overlook it first. Yet even after you learn that trick, you are not victorious, because the difficulty requesting from you great speed raises high. Also, through buying skill that assures having more recipes (orders) you are not safe by having more options to make profit but instead you are requested to fulfill perfectly all of them or you lose. Losing in this game means you have to start from scratch again btw. Really, the difficulty is set by default on insane and you are not given any option to change the difficulty. This game creates only pain and extreme anxiety. It is absolute opposite of relaxing game. The most extreme of extremes.
