Virtual Families: Cook Off

The game is very intentionally rigged for players to lose. Timed challenges are far too frequent, and far too unfair. No matter how fast you move, it’s never fast enough to beat them. But oh look! Here’s some handy Chef hats you can buy to give yourself another shot! The customers move too slowly. Up to five seconds can pass before a customer comes on screen. These timed challenges are always a good 5-10 seconds shorter than what they should be to allow for the slow customer movements, meaning you’re basically rigged to lose. The dish number requirement timed challenges are also rigged, meaning customers who normally order two or three things will now only order just one, and again, you’re rigged into a loss and forced to either waste your hearts in fruitless attempts, or pay real money to try again. For a while you could watch ads in order to get some extra time, but after a few venues, those stop appearing regularly and take a half an hour to reset, so the one thing that made the game FAIR is taken away from you. Here’s the REAL kicker; this game was released on the SWITCH. These guys have some nerve releasing this for actual consoles when they can’t even be bothered to fix the problems on the mobile version. Greedy, lazy game design at its finest. And no, developers. No amount of coddling in the “I’m so sorry you’re dissatisfied” pre written reply this review will inevitably get will be enough. You know full well what you’re doing and you don’t care. Don’t bother.

I enjoy the game overall but the timed levels have major issues! I find that most of the times, the customers are served right away with no wait yet I fail and then forced to use chef hats or play over and over again until I win. It becomes very frustrating. I also have a problem with Canadian section. I press the microwave a lot and it doesn’t back any cookies during fast paced levels. You also have customers that appear immediately asking for the colored cookies that aren’t made yet because we don’t have a choice which colors get made which is also annoying. The microwave constantly has issues at high levels which causes me to lose a lot. Level 69 has a huge issue as well. I served all customers immediately and have constantly coming up short on points then forced to watch an ad for three more customers which I do and then fail again and now asking to BUY hats to continue which won’t happen! Please fix the issues and it would be a lot more fun. I appreciate that you have much different food from most of the other cooking games which makes your app a lot more interesting. Thank you!

I really like this game. The levels ramp up their challenge in a nice way. However, the games says you can change the upgrades on the houses anytime but when I try to change them it only allows me to change the siding every time no matter what I tap on the house; which is very annoying since I want to change the windows. It also charges you chef hats to change stuff so I “paid” to change it thinking then I’d be able to change something else then paid to change it back because it still wasn’t what I wanted. So just know if you pick something on the remodel even if it’s a mistake you’re stuck with it. Other than that the game is extremely fun and satisfying. Update: As I’ve been playing the game more it’s glitching more. Some of the items are not cooking when tapped, especially the first time they’re being activated. I tried different levels to see if it was a new challenge for that level and it’s the same items each time. This results on items burning or not being as efficient in game play making playing less satisfying and fun. If you loose because you loose that’s one thing but to loose because the game is glitching is extremely annoying. Also, MAJOR issue is when you go to get app support you’re taken to a website that doesn’t list this game and has no way to contact the developers for this specific game. That’s really crappy. If this game keeps glitching and this issue gets worst I’m going to delete it.