Vending Dokan!: Kozy Kiosk

Lives up to the name. Cozy game, can even let it run in the background and just listen to the chill lo-fi beats if you want. Progression is good and there are so many customization options it is crazy!

Cozy, great music, always something to do, really a great game.

I want to like this game but I can't and here's why: In the video and screenshots it showed that you can hire workers, have multiple locations, ect. Yet, when in the actual game you need to hit certain milestones in order to unlock these things. And normally that's fine BUT you need to hit milestone NINE to unlock staff and hit milestone SIX to even unlock the SECOND location. Not to mention it says it's unlocked but how do you buy it? No idea, doesn't say. Not even a tutorial pop to tell you. I played for 1 hour. It took me an entire hour just to unlock the SECOND location of multiple. WHAT? It's labeled as cozy and relaxing not boring. You can only sell items for 30 cents to $1 more than what you paid by milestone 5. And more vending machines are over $300. You start with $500 but the game tells you to increase the 'vibe' aka decorate but leave a bit for restocking. I left $150 for restocking. Yes, it has a fast forward button and guess what? I had that baby on the entire hour until I got to $500. An HOUR for a few hundred? SERIOUSLY? That's not cozy and relaxing that's boring and waiting simulator. Frames the game as something relaxing with a lot to do. NO. NO, YOU DO NOT GET A LOT TO DO. You get a TWO SLOT vending machine and a higher slot one is $350 but guess what? IT ONLY HOLDS ONE SLOT MORE AND DOESNT EVEN TELL YOU THAT IT ONLY HOLDS 3 SLOTS. WHY? There are SOME vending machines that have the description being 'can hold 4 items' but not this one. I bought this game because I love cute, cozy, relaxing sim games. But I'm literally just sitting here staring at the screen doing NOTHING. That's NOT cozy or relaxing, that's BORING. This does NOT match what was show and how it portrays the game to be. The only thing I did in that 1 hour was: -Order more drinks a total of 3 times. -Repair the vending machine around 5 times. -Clean the vending machine around 5 times. -Slap down 2 lights, 1 table, 2 chairs, a trash can, and a cat bowl. That is all I did. Ordering is 5 clicks. Repair and cleaning is less than 1 minute as cleaning is holding down left mouse button and moving your mouse back and forth. Repairing is clicking your mouse button on the same spot around 5-6 times. Decorating is easy and I did that within the first 10 minutes of the game during the tutorial bit. And while, yes, you can increase prices, you don't get to decide the price, no. You click + or - and the game will jump the price up by a random amount. Example one drink is set to $2.20. Do one + click and now it's $2.36. You do not get to type in what you want that drink to be and yes, that is for all of them. Not to mention with just one price increase a LOT less people will buy from the machine and it IS noticeable. People will stand in front of the machine, do the thinking animation, and leave without buying anything. I tested it for about 10 minutes to see if I'd earn more money faster by increasing the prices just by one. No, it actually is the same pace because of how many people will just not buy drinks. If you want this game open in the background while you do something that'd be fine but you'd still have to tab in because at least the starting vending machine only holds 20 cans. Maybe the $650 or $900 one holds more but to unlock those you need Milestone 4 or 6. So you can't just have this game open in the background while doing other stuff because when you tab back in you'll see 0 in your vending machine and you have no money so I can't even tell you it'll be fine to play if it's a background game. Oh, not to mention even with a trash can people will still litter and you do have a cleanliness gauge you need to look after so if you tab out and there is trash all over the ground that will also decrease the people stopping at your machine. Lastly, the camera angles suck. I have clicked 'free camera' mode and it just changes the angle. Rotating the camera is awful. Yes, there is a change angle button. No, I was not clicking that because the first time I thought maybe I did click that and not free camera but no. The camera mode/angles are just so bad it's difficult. TLDR: It's beyond a slow pace game, slow money, little to nothing to do unless you wait around for 3-4 hours yet still need to be tabbed in to make money and keep up your stuff. Boring not relaxing or cozy. Not worth it.