Diner Out: Merge Cafe NETFLIX

I love cooking games and although this isn’t a conventional way, it was surprisingly fun to play. I originally had an issue with running out of energy and restocking in the very beginning of the game. But as I played more it wasn’t as big of an issue anymore. I normally have access to a lot of different ways of earning more energy that I just choose to wait for my energy to charge up instead of charging it up instantly, which is great. And now that I have higher level items, the restocking doesn’t take that long so I just wait a bit. Really fun game. If you’re having issues with energy and restocking, just wait it out, it’s gets better. My advice would be, always buy an energy bulb and energy charges every time is gets restocked in the shop and horde them until you need them. Don’t worry about money so much so you can open up your storage to store the energies. Just as a warning, NEVER SWITCH PROFILES. I switch Netflix profiles so I can play the game again while waiting for the new update and it completely deleted all my progress from my official profile… I don’t know if this is a bug or what but thats just horrible. I decided to delete the app and reinstall it to see if it would fix the problem and it did bring back so much of my progress but still a lot of progress was still gone…

I really enjoy this game it’s mindless fun. I like that the bugs are out but it’s becoming very redundant at this point. I’m at level 45 and nothing new or exciting is happening anymore. I love the events that pop up but those are the same pretty much so I’m thinking of deleting the game soon even though I’ve made so much progress. I like that there aren’t any in app purchases even though I hate running out of energy. That’s ok though because there are plenty of ways to get more. All in all I wish the developers would switch it up a little and also finally do start the clubs feature or take it down.

This is a Netflix app yet the limited energy + buying more energy in order to play exists. Kind of silly when Netflix users already pay for the service. In any other case, I’m all for developers getting their coin to make a living, but if you publish through Netflix, it seems like double-dipping. Additionally, I only made it to level 8 before finding game-breaking bugs. If you are going to try to monetize an aspect of a game, please ensure you have done enough QA testing and bug smashing before trying to capitalize. I say this as a video game developer myself, please think of the end users, aka the customers, aka the players. Limited energy making players exit the game and find something else to play is a good way to get them to uninstall. Keep your players in the game. Get creative. If you’re bold enough to have forms of micro transactions, make sure your game doesn’t have game-breaking bugs. I’ve already filled out a bug report yesterday and nothing has come of it. This app would be 5 stars without the limited energy, and with thorough testing before publishing. Hopeful that you will listen to all of the reviews your player base is leaving because I know I’m not the only one.