Cafe World is another typical restaurant theme game where you as a player run a restaurant business with your trusted friends and make it a successful and number 1 restaurant in the world (Facebook anyway). This Zynga-developed game has some similar themes to Playfish Restaurant City and a few twists of its own.

how to play
As its name describes, Cafe World is all about restaurant and coffee shop and as a player you are in charge of managing it as you see fit. We start the game with the usual boy or girl gender customization screen. From there, Amelia, the cafe world instructor, will walk you through how the game works and what needs to be done to make your cafe work. Cafe World is very simple and easy to follow for everyone.

Those who play Restaurant City may feel a bit out of place playing Cafe World for the first few minutes. Instead of the usual upgrade dishes, this game has no such options. Instead, the game allows you to prepare your own dishes yourself. For you, the player himself is your own boss and also the chef in your own Café.

The idea sounds a bit interesting for those who want to get a little realism into their game, but once you level up a bit more it can be a bit challenging just clicking on all 16 stoves in your kitchen repeatedly trying to get your dishes. to cook.

Alright, we look at the cooking part. You as a chef will have your trusty recipe book with you and inside the book you will have some recipes unlocked during the start of the game. From there, you choose the easiest and cheapest food you can produce. From there, you will continue to prepare your ingredients until your food is cooked on the stove. Some foods take a few minutes to cook, while others, depending on the quantity and cost of production, can take hours or days to prepare. This game caters to those who want to sit in front of the game for hours or just a few minutes.

The best part about this game is that if you are the type who hates waiting for food to cook, then all you have to do is collect food from your friends who have posted on their wall. This can save a lot of time if you are running out of food to serve to your customer or if you need quick money (will be explained in the Tutorial)

Once you have prepared your food, you can serve it to the guest. This is where your friends come in. At Cafe World, you don’t really have to go looking for your waiter/waitress. All you have to do is click on your friends list and choose who you want to work for you. Mainly, there are pretty limited things you can do with your friends, since all they do is serve the customer food. You can’t even customize her clothes. I find this quite limiting as I want my friends to look their best instead of wearing a simple waiter costume. However, she sometimes finds some of her waiter or waitress outfits a bit strange, as this is how their owner customizes them and she can’t change them.

Now we also look at your Cafe. The game is very easy to move around and everything is usually automated. All you have to do is get your workers, prepare your food and the furniture needed to serve the food.

Shops and inventory in Cafe World allow players to customize how their Cafe works and how to make it work the way they want. From the tables to the chairs and from the decorations on the walls to the floor that customers walk on, everything can be customized the way you see fit. However, there are bit limitations in the game engine. I realize that after changing the floor tiles, selling the items that are still in your inventory is quite difficult. I can only sell one item at a time! It can be quite troublesome since I have more than 30 tiles to sell and I have to do it 30 times to get the stock out of my inventory.

I do like the upload feature in Cafe World though. It used to take more than 5 minutes to load the game last time as it needs to load all the sprites and textures. Now the game loads faster, but in 3 phases. First the game will load the engineer; once you are in the game, the game will load the rest of the textures and design. This reduces the charging time. I really appreciate how the developers manage to do that.

Once you spend some time playing this game, there are other features in the game that will keep the player busy. Things like getting a special seasoning, helping friends with their mini-quest, or building a special stove that allows you to prepare food faster.

Graphic
The game is very beautiful, mixing 3D and 2D together. His character models are 3D animated and the texture is well done. The furniture and decorations have also been done very carefully as they look very detailed even when zoomed in (especially the food). The movement and animation are quite fluid, but sometimes you will find that the dishes will fly off the counter and move towards the table. This is somehow a small bug that I notice very little.

Dream
Cafe World has nice and very nice music. I couldn’t comment much on the sound system as it’s just like any other simulator game that has the same old sound running on a loop.

conclusion
I prefer to enjoy playing this game as it is a change of taste compared to Restaurant City, however due to the slight changes in gameplay it takes some getting used to. However, it is a game worth investing your time in.

I give this game a rating of 3.5 out of 5.