Star Chef™ : Cooking Game

OLD REVIEW- Pretty good game! I would recommend it to someone who wants to try something new. The thing I like the least is that the customers order ”surprise me” from a station I don’t even have! Like- Boom! As soon as I level up and I can get the Mexican station everyone is ordering “surprise me” from it. But since the stations are REALLY expensive it takes me forever to save up for it, which is hard because since I can’t serve the “surprise me” they keep taking up more and more tables! Right now I only have one table that isn’t a “surprise me” order. Can you make it so you can only get the “surprise me” orders once you have the station that the order is for, Make it so I can send away a certain amount of people each day, or just make the stations way less expensive? Cause literally 9/10 of the people in my restaurant have been sitting there for MONTHS! Other than that this game is a really fun game, I haven’t ever gotten bored of it even if can be frustrating. Unlike some people in other Reviews. I don’t think that you have to pay to play. The game play doesn’t become gridlocked even if “surprise me” orders are taking up 90% of my tables. Wish I could give this app a 5 star rating. UPDATED REVIEW- The customer service is amazing! Even though my problem couldn’t be fixed completely they gave me suggestions to help. My suggestions in the previous review still stand, but this game has definitely earned a 5 star rating just from the customer service. They were kind and didn’t criticize me in any way. 👍Awesome game guys! Thanks!!!👏👏

On the surface, when first trying the game, it seems great. Especially if you want low pressure, casual game play. But once you get into it, it’s not just casual game play, it quickly becomes grindingly slow and frustrating. The cooking times are too high. Add to that, the limits placed on actions by “goodies” - basically a second in-game currency, that limits farming and ingredient purchasing actions. Then, the cost of upgrades and expansions are WAY too high in proportion to what you earn. I just leveled up again, but have been unable to buy the new cooking gadgets or the necessary land expansions to have a place to put them from my previous two or three level-ups. That’s ridiculous. (There are other features I can’t access that have unlocked with these updates.) There are games that are challenging & games that push challenging to the level of frustration. This is the latter. If the pace of game play could be changed to balance out a player’s ability to start accessing new features as soon as they level up, this would be a great game. Lower cooking times, increase cooking slots. I have had the pizza oven, for example, through three or four level ups, but still have 2 or 3 levels before a second slot opens up. Yes, I can cook 2 servings at once, of ONE recipe. That’s not helpful when 5 tables want pizza. I’d love to see this game keep the ability for players who want to play at a more casual pace continue to play this way, which is simple to do, just keep the diners as they are, perpetually patient, but speed up game play by lowering times & costs so we can enjoy the benefits of leveling up faster.

My 1st review I wrote out of frustration, but I received an email from the developer right away explaining how as I got further along earning coins & stuff would be easier, so i stuck with it & it definitely has me hooked now! I had read in another review about using the chef store & food truck to earn coins faster, & it definitely does. Still the only problem is the cost for goodies, new plots & appliances is a little ridiculous- especially since the restaurant customers pay so little for their meals after they took so long to cook. There are cookies that take over 6 hours to cook just 1 tray! You can ask for help to speed it up or pay an insane amount of game dollars, but you only get to ask your friends for help 3xs every 24 hours, so that’s not much help at all. My BIGGEST problem right now is that the next appliance is 45,000 coins, which is very high & right now 6 of my 10 tables are waiting on a new recipe from this appliance & now there’s 1 table waiting for the next 40,000 appliance! So I only have 2 tables & the wine counter to earn coins from, but the wine counter doesn’t help too much bc it cost so many goodies to make the food & the fruits sell for so much more in the chef store. & in between the 2 appliances is another one for 29,000, that I’m pretty sure I’m going to need to make most of the recipes in the 45,000 one! Please fix this- there shouldn’t be more than 1/2 my tables waiting for a new recipe from a new appliance that Is taking Forever to purchase bc only 2 tables are open but have to wait 2-3-4 hours for their order! I also purchased dollars & coins bc I do love this game