Diner Dash:® Hometown Hero™
Giving this game a negative review not because of the crashing, but because a critical flaw in the game design that shatters the formula that makes other versions of the game fun.
The crashing, as others have mentioned, is simply fixable by deleting the intro.swf and outro.swf files from all the folders in the local files.
The real problem wit this came is that some of the new features fundamentally undermine the fun of the game. The early levels are fine, and are much like the first game. New things are introduced, like a noisiness mechanic and new types of customers. But eventually, the game becomes bogged down in unfun and unfair mechanics.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
Note: this review was posted originally on Neoseeker. I reviewed Diner Dash: Hometown Hero after playing it on iWin free with ads.
Flo is going back to her hometown for a journey through her childhood memories with her grandmother, Grandma Florence. But when she discovers that her favorite places are in poor state and nearing the definitive disappearance, she decides to save them by working in their restaurants with her grandma in the kitchen.
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero is the fourth game in the Diner Dash series, featuring Flo, owner of different restaurants in Dinertown. She has to save five different places in her hometown: the zoo, the baseball stadium, the museum, the lunapark and her grandmother’s restaurant, which has been closed before her birth and can be saved by a jump to the past. That’s Diner Dash for you, Flo can do everything in every time.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
Cook-Out
Awesome game, its Overcooked VR.
I’m about a third of the way through the game, and it has gotten really complicated. I’m now chopping, saucing, grilling, cleaning, and plating all at the same time with my friends, and its delightful yet difficult.
Technical:
The multiplayer lobby system is REALLY easy, its just a room code. The Netcode is also really great, the polish is high, I’ve honestly had zero technical issues with the game.
This is a multiplayer-forward game, if you want a more single-player oriented experience, I would direct you to Rags To Dishes.
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
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This is probably the one of the best VR Cooperative games to play with friends when you want something chaotic ala Overcooked. Missions become harder and harder as one progresses, and even with 3 friends requires quite bit of coordination to get past some of the challenges with full 3 stars.
There is also a puzzle mode which is fun to do while waiting for everyone to be ready trying to figure out various recipes. Some feel a bit obtuse tho and dont provide enough hints on solving them.
There are occasionally some bugs as well, but these are relatively minor: Had desync issues (between people playing across europe and us) but this gets solved by reconnecting on the next round and are relatively rare. The mission difficulty also is a bit all over the place with the later where very hard missions (to get full stars on) get followed up with something that is a breeze to 3 stars, but not sure if thats intentional or not.
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
Cooking Dash®
Who is thinking of purchasing this in Late 2018? I just spent my allowance on it, to do a video on it this week. I liked the game a lot, it’s a memory. Unfortunately though, it’s way past its prime, and it’s likely on the verge of obsolescence with MacOS Mojave. The reason I am doing this is because one thing I’m interested in is Apple’s 32-bit phase-out. I recently did a video on it, which you can check out here at my YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/DmqGZWKTYx4
So, do I recommend it? Well, because the next MacOS will likely compromise this app, as according to Apple, I do recommend it, but only if you’re OK with the fact that this app may not last the MacOS Mojave update.
– Real player with 119.6 hrs in game
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Cooking Dash is a several part, time and click order management series. I played this and the other parts throughout my childhood. As you advance through the game you move through several different restaurants, upgrading the restaurants aesthetically and the equipment. I would not call it customization as there are no options to choose between.
Unfortunately the game does bug out and crash on Windows 10. Just a quick restart fixes the problem but it is annoying.
TLDR: It was a great game in its time. Still okay when working. Simple, addictive, get on sale.
– Real player with 28.8 hrs in game
Diner Mania
Diner Mania is what it sounds like, a combination of Diner Dash and Cake Mania. As far as content goes, Diner Mania is bare bones, offering only the most minimal of content a game of this genre can present. The storyline is fairly straightforward: A string of family friendly restaurants are driven out of business by rowdy bikers who vandalize, terrorize, and refuse to pay their bill, leaving only the owners of the Italian restaurant in charge of helping rid their town of the biker plague and put their neighbouring restaurants back in business. Despite this endearing storyline, this game itself is anything but endearing,
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
Diner Mania is a game where you are given the task to run a restaurant, serve customers and try to get gangsters to leave the business. With the money you earn you can upgrade your restaurant and get new dishes to serve. Eventually you save enough money to buy three more restaurants and you should try to earn the full three stars in each restaurant to finish the game.
The game has a good pace, and can get quite difficult at times when you are swarmed with customers. Thankfully you are able to switch restaurants in the game, so it never really gets boring (until the end, when I was trying to get the three stars in the last restaurant, and no upgrades left, that was a bit tedious).
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Galactic Chef
Galactic Chef is a fast-paced cooking competition show game with procedurally generated ingredients and voxel-based cooking simulation. Your dishes are scored by alien judges on flavor, texture, ambition, technical execution, and the unique requirements of each challenge. Can you make it to the finale and win the ultimate title of Galactic Chef?
Procedurally Generated Content
Each season of Galactic Chef comes with new ingredients, challenges, judge preferences, and NPCs who will generate never-before-seen dishes. Every game is unique if you want it to be, or you can share your RNG seed so you and your friends can play with the same ingredients and challenges.
Dynamic Simulation
Behind the pixel art is a complex voxel-based cooking simulation. The unique properties of each substance determine how voxels react to heat, moisture, damage, and more. Solids can melt, liquids can boil, and you can even sculpt your foods in 3D with the laserboard.
Tastelize Everything
You Tastelizer will tell you everything you need to know, from flavor balance and texture variety to hazards you’ll need to address before serving the food. Just don’t use your actual tongue - we don’t know how many of these ingredients are toxic to humans.
Beat the Clock!
Each challenge lasts 5-10 minutes, so you’ll have to think fast to plan and execute a better dish than your opponents within the time limit.
Unlockable Content
Every season you win will earn you new prizes - new equipment, guest judges, ingredients, kitchen skins, and more. No DLC, no microtransactions.
Recipe for Disaster
The game has been in E.A. for 10 days at the time of writing this review. After completing the campaign, I am sorry to say it’s a thumbs down.
It’s not because of some bugs (like the WASD keys not responding), some weird pathfinding (like your employees using the back door and running all around the building to sweep the front steps) or some data base missmatch (like the patrons who both love pork loin and hate pork loin) but because the core game mechanics are shallow.
In short:
- The recipe/culinary creation part and the expectation/feedback from patrons is a joke.
– Real player with 49.4 hrs in game
I feel like this game is a good precedent of a very shallow Early Access game. I literally played all 5 scenarios and tutorials 3 times including the bonuses. There are many things wrong with the game:
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Constant UI glitches (like so many)
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There is only 1 disaster that happens 2-4 times a day (fire)
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AI is too basic
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UI/UX overall is terrible (when viewing menu there is always a window that you cannot close on the right hand side and gets in the way of seeing your full menu/prices). Constant spam of messages in game you cannot turn off to0. I don’t want to know if Osama is making bad food every single time.
– Real player with 31.8 hrs in game
Baking Bustle: Ashley’s Dream
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Approximate amount of time to 100%: 3h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1, there is level selection
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: No
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
game crash after level 12 wont let you do notting or move fix the game developers are bother fixing all of their games!
!INSTEAD OF NOT CARING ABOUT YOUR GAMES! ONLY CARES ABOUT THE MONEY NOT THE GAME! VERY GREEDY Dishonnest developers developers TO LAZY TO FIX THEY GAMES!
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Mary Le Chef - Cooking Passion
I love the Emily Delicious games from Game House, so I had to buy this one. I have learned a lesson. Evidently, the publisher will option games from outside developers that are extremely similar but not quite of the same quality as the ones they develop in house. This is one of those games. The story is good and it follows the familiar format of 60 levels in varying difficulties. You earn and then spend to buy café upgrades. Challenges are similar to what you’ve seen in other Game House time management games. However, this game has just enough irritating qualities and glitches to render it more annoying than satisfying. When you chain items for pickup you don’t always see the shadow outlines of the items in your tray to help you remember what you’ve chained. The point/click is not reliable. There were some levels where I had to really watch and make certain I was clicking in just the right spot to activate an item for pickup. This is one of those games where you wish they had spent a little more time on refinement and testing to make it the same quality as the Emily games. Overall, I mostly like the game but I really wish I had waited for it to go on sale. This game is only worth the full price if the developer/publisher makes some tweaks and refinements.
– Real player with 44.8 hrs in game
Mary Le Chef is a time management, puzzle, clicker game that reminds me of games you normally play on your phone.
It looks cute and colorful.
I’ts simple, easy to understand, fun and it becomes addictive to achieve a perfect score.
With each level that you clear, you earn money.
You need money in order to upgrade your restaurant.
In each level to clear you can also find a mouse for extra points and for fill a task that will give you diamonds.
Those diamonds can be used to unwrap gifts in your room.
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
The Cooking Game
Second Update on review:
I still really want to give this game a good review but I can still only give it a neutral rating. As you can see I have over 182 hours play time……
There are a lot of good things about it and a lot of bad.
Pros:
Fun to play
Great time waster
Builds up your clicking muscles
Overall attraction is great when you first start out
Cons:
-The game has a lot of bugs - i.e. glitchy where I can’t move food around - it just sticks there
(The developers DID answer my query however want a screen shot or video which I can’t give since the glitches are sporadic) - Update – so far with the last update this hasn’t happened anymore - this continues to be true – only minor glitches on some of the missions)
– Real player with 222.7 hrs in game
I played this game several years ago on mobile. I forgot what was the reason I uninstalled it after quite some time, probably related to the diamonds.
I was expecting the developer will improve the game to work better on a different platform but it seems they just put the entire game into a different platform and only removed the diamond purchase. And the game is lacking of compatibility and user interface testing before it rolls out to a different platform.
Some problems I experienced playing this game:
– Real player with 185.2 hrs in game
Pub Simulator
Serve as many meals and drinks as you can to get the three star achievement. Challenges include chopping, pouring, cooking and multi-step orders. Additional modes for higher level gameplay.