Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator

My Fiancé bought me this game and I must say we were excited for it, we really like retro games with these types of graphics and the game seemed nice, this game isn't recommendable for a full release. The game is too short, there is no story at all, all you do is serve customers over and over again, the graveyard is very difficult with the police looking around like if you peek a tiny bit to check where they at, they already found you which was very frustrating. I didn't encounter any bugs or glitches only some items collapsing. Also the fact you can't put boxes on the shelves makes it difficult to move around the kitchen and the fact there's no trash bags or inventory slots it made it very annoying to clean the restaurant. There's some funny moments such as the toilet crap and the mixing ingredient effects. However the ending is absolutely horrendous like the moment the credits appeared I couldn't believe what we were seeing. I've never seen such a lack of effort and ideas from the developers. For what the price is $8.00 which is pricey for what it is. it has a endless mode but you will get bored of it within less than an hour. The cooking felt nice and smooth but other than that nothing special. Enjoyment 6/10.

It's got some potential that it fails to meet. The story starts off interesting only to fizzle out into a nothing burger towards the end with no real resolution, which took about two hours for me to reach and I feel was a such a cop out of an ending that it's made me write this review. The gameplay cycle, much like the story, starts off interesting but doesn't really expand itself as you progress: the grave digging aspect is actually somewhat of a bad move on the player as when I played, the majority of the meat gained from the corpses was rotten and thus I wasn't able to use it. And the more you do it, the more the police start patrolling around the graveyard, by the time I decided that maybe grave-robbing wasn't worth it, I had two officers patrolling the street and graveyard in a tight rotation that made it rather difficult to avoid being seen. So it becomes a high risk but low reward sort of situation. Then there's the sauces you can make, which so far I've only made one so I can't really talk much about it except for the fact the first one you unlock seems to get you more money from customers and has a chance of making them dance. But then there's the fact that the store page mentions being able to do side quests and explore the town. Exploring the town during the night shows that the town's pretty dead, the hot dog shop is the only building you can enter and the only people running around are the police looking for the rascal who's stealing corpses. So unless you're supposed to go exploring the town in the day, while you've got customers waiting on you, it doesn't seem like there's any real side quests during the night. Basically the game's story and gameplay loop is as shallow as a puddle and there's also the implication made out of nowhere that the main character suffers from schizophrenia but that's just used to justify the two creepy hallucinations you see, one midway through the game and one towards the end where it gives you vague as hell plot reveals. So as the game is right now. I don't think it's worth buying even for the low price of 6 pounds, should future updates add more stuff then I may change this review.

Залип с первых минут. Нет бешеной беготни по кухне и бесконечных рецептов просто жаришь сосиски, режешь булки, добавляешь соус. Но главный прикол ночью: крадёшься на кладбище, копаешь трупы, разделываешь их на мясо и прячешься от охраны. Днём мирный продавец, ночью гробовщик-предприниматель. Стрим геймплея можно глянуть тут - https://youtube.com/live/mCk2dUIVwX4

Хочу поддержать эту замечательную и глубокую игру. Только поглядите: Мы приезжаем в городок, открываем сосисочную. На кладбище начинают пропадать трупы. Люди кушают и нахваливают наши сосисоны. Мы вытаскиваем из могилы одного и того же (по виду) бедолагу из могилы каждый день. Разделываем его. Скармливаем грубой толпе. Толпа оставляет огромные какахи в наших унитазах. Полиция видит, что мы каждую ночь молча стоим за деревьями у ворот кладбища с лопатой. Но ничего не делает. Так иногда, поддушивает малый бизнес. Они даже задерживают нас пару раз с трупом на плече. Но заходят пообедать в наше заведение. Какая тонкая, бьющая наотмашь сатира на круговорот капитала в провинциальном аду! Игра виртуозно жонглирует аллюзиями: посестители - это общество потребления, а равнодушные полицейские - метафора коррупции, пустившей корни в самый желудок правосудия. Перед нами глубокое кафкианское высказывание. Мое почтение авторам за этот пир духа (и плоти)! На самом деле это медитативный симулятор, на интересную тематику и с весьма необычным душком.

It's almost good, but it fails to meet the expectations by not having a lot to discover. By the time you get things to be interesting, it ends.

This is unfortunately one of those games that feels like it was released without any play testing from individuals outside of the development team. The story and gameplay starts off nicely and seems promising. Although, every time you unlock something new such as the "sauces" it's a huge let down and not what you were expecting. There's a lot of potential with the idea and items you unlock along the way, they just fall short. Not having an inventory, meaning you have to pick up every piece of trash (every single customer leaves trash) by your hand and put it in the singular trash can behind the counter in the kitchen is tedious. Sure, you can throw the trash but that gets old quickly and is still extremely repetitive. Another poor aspect of this game is the huge lack of a story mode. When you first hop into the game, you feel as though the story is going to progress well, but it suddenly just fades away and the next entry you get is at the very end when you're thrown the ending in a two minute experience and then the credits roll. On the other hand, there's not much of a simulator to it either. The gameplay loop is repetitive; get bodies, grind bodies, grind into hotdogs, cook hotdogs, serve. There's not enough content to be considered a simulator when other games that focus on this same kind of gameplay loop do it so much better. I originally thought this was somewhat of a horror story, but now I'm not to sure. There's only two moments that are "horror" throughout the entire story, and they last for a good ten seconds each, and I barely would call them horror as it's the exact same things you've been seeing. I really like the idea behind this game, but I feel as though it was just executed poorly. There's also a lack of "comedic" things you can do, unlike some hilarious moments you can have in other games of this nature. $8.00 isn't cheap for a game of this style, and for what you get out of it, I feel it's just not worth it. If there are some updates in the future or there's a large sale, then I say go for it! But until then, it's something I recommend passing on. I would say if you were someone such as a streamer who could play this game while talking and laughing with your chat, you may find a bit more enjoyment out of it.

看到大家都想把马桶里的香肠夹面包里，我就放心了

This could use a story expansion in the future it's pretty short. But for what it is, it's fun! Also you DON'T have to pick up the trash item by item, just buy a garbage bag lol.