Cooking Trip New Challenge Reviews

I enjoyed it, I want more!

I wish the achievement is in steam too, not only inside the game..

Very buggy for me. It was difficult to give the customers food

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] Cooking Trip New Challenge is an asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated someone else's example/template/tutorial game, changed the name/reskinned a couple of things, and submitted it to Valve as if it was their own game.[/quote] Cooking Trip New Challenge is a pointless restaurant management platespinning type screen tapper/clicker game. As featured in hundreds of mobile apps, gameplay here is a woeful routine of platespinning... that is to say, you need to tap on your iPhone screen to satisfy various customers as they come in and take care of other little busywork jobs. You'll soon find yourself tapping away madly at your iPhone as you have so many customers all at once! Surely the iPhone is the greatest gaming platform of all time, so understandably the developer wants you to pay them for this free mobile app garbage on Steam. They've dumped this same restaurant manager platespinning game on Steam before. I've seen this same game on app stores from completely different publishers with slightly different skins on it. More intellectual bankruptcy and plagiarism from these guys. Here's a list of the asset flips of this asset so you can see for yourself: [list] [*] Cooking Trip [*] Cooking Trip Back To Basics [*] Cooking Trip New Challenge [*] Katy and Bob Way Back Home [*] Katy and Bob: Cake Cafe [*] Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe [/list] These are all reskins of exactly the same mobile app! What value do these shallow, fake reskins of a low quality mobile app have for gamers? None at all! Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the 1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes Cooking Trip New Challenge might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 6 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Cooking Trip New Challenge has the total ripoff price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Far Cry 3", "Fallout 4" or "Fallout: New Vegas". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

A nice little time management catering game. Works well and is nicely challenging particularly in the latter stages.

A great time management game! A challenge on some levels, which is good. Need more Cooking trip games. Love them.

This one introduced critics, who only appears in the first restaurant, even so it was a nice challenging addition, but it is good, because in the second restaurant you start having issues clicking the hit-box on the correct drink machine, so you are running around whit the wrong drink order. SMH. I could live with that but by the third restaurant it isn't ONLY the drinks but it starts to get hard to click on John for some weird reason :-\ They have also added new music. The comics are just as ugly as before but in-game graphics are pleasing, orders can be differentiated clearly and if you upgrade music machine first you won't need to replay a single level to get 3 stars. (Too bad I started with service speed :-P ) I am on the fence to be honest about this recommendation, but considering the price of 99 cents I have decided on thumbs up instead of down. Edit: Oh, and the robot is extremely unreliable. Previous games he was doing well, not this one. He DOESN'T operate the drink machines as promised, he leaves food to burn on the stove all the time, and I have to race with him to reach food items that don't fit on the 2 trays provided because he has a "space" for one extra in its inventory, but I cannot click on him to take it away if I was slow. I have to empty one tray so he can place it down first. This is why I'm suggesting upgrading him last, AND using the furthest (4th) burner when available when making a third dish not premade.

Third game in the series annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd...! >.>... Where first one was a start... Second perfected it... Third... Tried new changes and it became strange. What's strange? Your robot NO LONGER PICKS UP COINS! YUP! It plates dishes and if you are fast, it will disrupt your combos + sauce smearing sessions! I yelled at the poor thing... Although it wasn't its fault and still... I lost so much time/dishes because of it. The robot likes to get stuck under the table too and REFUSES to pick up NEARLY BURNING dishes!!! He gives up at the last second... Because of course!!! Level 40 Comic strip is stuck and appears incorrectly. There are missing panels and then it becomes a mess of jumbled comic strip story line. There is a new thing... Called the "Food Critic"... You think he is hard on you? Well don't worry... YOU WONT SEE HIM PAST LEVEL 20!!! He is in the comics... But he never comes in anymore!!! What's the point of putting him on easier levels then...?! There is NO TUTORIAL for "brother makes dishes" side in BONUS LEVELS! I will teach you myself... Ham - > Jellied Ham/Multiple Hams. Cake Slice - > Giant CAKE. Piece of Cheese - > PIZZA! Also, you start off with EVERYTHING upgraded... So better learn quick as to which dishes look like what the customers are requesting!!! Customer flow is strange as always and some customers get locked in behind other customers or never show up when you need to turn on the music machine... Only to show up AFTER you got done with a single/two customers. I do like the upgraded brother/sister sprites and other things... But everything else... I don't know... I really think the second game got it right and this one... This one just exists if you still want to keep up the TM spirit going. So let me tell you the strategy of things... Because there is no way to handle all 5 spots of customers with 3+ dish request... Do a customer 2 or 3 at a time, then swap. If you have the right upgrades: you wont lose a bunch of money and will still double or triple the profits. Otherwise... Even the fastest hand and eye movement cannot compete. I now officially had my fill of TM games... For now... So this will be my last one... For now... Yep... For now... It's not bad... But it's not the same... :> Eh.