The story was great. I thought the art was clean and very cute. Paige is so adorable in this one.

There is just one problem if you are an achievment hunter. I'm not sure if everyone has this problem, but several people (including myself) can't unlock the achievments "The Cupcake Bean Bag" and "The Full Storage Chest" which results in being unable to get "The Full Princess Outfit" (unlock all other achievments). Those achievments require you to have used every menu item. The problem lies in the Farmer's Market item "Refreshing Fruity Water". No customers orders it and Emily cannot pick it up (aka its a glitched item). Without being able to use this item, those achievments are unlockable.

Overall its another fantastic game from the series that I highly recommend, it would just be nice if they fixed the bug.

I am a big fan of the Delicious games as well as hearts medicine. This game is fun and quick with a simplistic but nice storyline. A big problem with this installment of the delicious games are the bugs. While doing challenges, I can do everything the same (exceed the score set by the challenge and fulfill all requirements) multiple times, but it will fail me regardless. I find if I get a lower score (after a few attempts) than usual and scrape by, the challenge registers as completed. Not sure if it is just my game or if this is a common bug. If you aren't a completionist, I'd say buy it. But completionsists ye be wary. There are bugs afoot.

Emily's HSH is about what I expected from a Delicious Emily game. The QOL issues that earlier titles had are mostly gone (entertainers still get in the way a bit, and some dishes are incredibly similar to each other, but that's just a flaw with the entire series). The gameplay had that frustrating yet addictive quality that makes you ragequit, then restart the game (thankfully, erasing everything in the "branding" folder makes restarting the game quick and easy) with a new strategy that allows you to easily ace the level.

The plot also reached the expected level of sitcom insanity, as Emily's work as a temporary chef reconciles a series of wacky parents to their children (and vice-versa), all while a power-hungry councilwoman plots to demolish Emily's new home (to be fair, Emily's family did break her daughter's legs).

With that said - since the developer outright stated that the current bug-ridden condition of the game is here to stay, and even game breaking bugs like the Russian translation not working at all will never be fixed, I cannot in good conscience give this game a positive recommendation.

Edit - I note that the game's store page no longer claims to support Russian. I guess that's one way to fix things. Simpler than fixing the translation itself.

I really enjoyed this game, renovating Patrick and Emily's house is super fun. The nightmare neighbour makes their lives a living hell, Emily has to prove herself not to get their dream home taken away. In the end it's worth fighting for, seeing their dream house is a something GREAT to experience. I enjoyed the different locations, the different challenges and I loved little Paige too. Great story and you feel like part of the family as well, recommending this one for sure!!

- Comments on this game:
Great story. One of my favourite of the franchise. You can now serve many objects other than food: tools, toys, etc. Takes 20 hours to get all the achievements.

- Comments on the franchise Delicious Emily
This franchise is part of my wife's childhood gameplay memory. I bought it to play with her, and I enjoyed the whole franchise thoroughly. Almost every game from this franchise is a great time management game with a superb story and appealing graphics. The mechanism varies slightly from game to game, so it does not feel too repetitive. The progression of the coherent story, the different restaurants, and the new items to serve are compelling enough to make you play title after title. If you are interested in time management games, I strongly recommend getting the Delicious 8-in-1 Bundle, and playing them in release order.

It is a pity that early titles from this franchise are not available on Steam. So the franchise on Steam starts from Emily's New Beginning. However, three previous titles before New Beginning (True Love, Wonder Wedding, Honeymoon Cruise) are free to play on Apple Store, so don't miss them! They should be played before the 8 titles on Steam, since their stories set the premise of the 8 following titles.

- Comments on the developers:
The developers, GameHouse, do not seem to care too much about their games. They just release their game and then disappear. Bugs are seldom fixed (well, you can see on SteamDB that the depots of some titles are last updated even before the release). The worst of all is that traditional Delicious Emily games are somewhat abandoned, probably because GameHouse cannot milk much money from them. Instead, they have now switched their attention to developing a mobile game Delicious World with tasteless stories, boring and repetitive gameplay, and microtransactions. Shame!

The Delicious games are silly and fun time-wasters. I usually play them while watching videos on the other half of my screen. There's a decently heartwarming story, and lots of varied recipes to play with. You can go deep, but I would recommend against it, or you're get tired of the routine.

This is a rather cute series from Gamehouse. It is a typical time management game that we would see from these guys, with an equally cute and engaging story. The challenges are not too bad, and if you are one of those 100% achievers, you should not have any issues obtaining that goal. Thankfully this series is not a train wreck like the Fabulous Angela games I have played, so it makes it much more enjoyable. It is a cute game and worth it if you are a time management game junkie like I am.

Fantastic little game, engaging, fun, difficult at times, emotional ups and downs... all the usual things that you'd expect from Delicious!

Except for one thing...

The Fruity. Drink. Bug.

Apparently it should have been side-stepped already so you can still unlock all the trophies even with the bug around, but I've been through all the products TWICE and it still says I need to use one little unlocked product to receive my final trophy... which has left me to believe it is hinting at the darn Fruity Water which I can't access!

Should you buy it? If you're not frustrated by the fact that you can't unlock all the trophies, sure, absolutely go for it. If you're like me who has a bit of OCD and NEED to complete everything a game offers you, then DON'T.

I do enjoy the Delicious - Emily series. This one isn't among my top favorites, but the story is interesting with a pretty entertaining antagonist. The different areas have their own little mini stories which allows you to continue to be engaged without getting burnt out. I do like the game-play a little more for this one because there are so many extra challenge levels along with little challenges for each regular level. There was a bug for getting the 100% where it said it was missing 1 item (which it wasn't), but revisited this game, started a new one, and was able to finally 100% this thing. That being said, I have 19 hours on record and that's with 2 full play-throughs and 100% the game, so keep that in mind with the price. I recommend if you are into the Delicious - Emily saga.

Disclaimer
I DO NOT RECOMMEND this game for anyone who want to get 100% achievement as there’s an annoying bug that the dev won’t fix since 2015 and there’s no way to get 100% achivo once you encountered the bug (unless you want to waste your life replaying the game over and over again). This will make you couldn’t get 2 achievement whoever countered this bug (including me). if i know that i'd encountered this achievement bug, i wouldn't play this game.

I personally think that the story is very cringe and cliché. The main protagonist is too kind, clumsy and stupid type of story where you can find on most old TV drama series. I don’t like this type of story so I skip most of part and only play the game for the game itself and to get 100% achievement

I do enjoy all the game and the levels though at some special levels I kinda get disgusted because this is a restaurant and F&B game but there’s mouse all over the place. Like it’s very gross to me.
But I do enjoy the other levels. It’s very nostalgic. I used to play this kind of game like Sally Saloon back when I’m still a kid and I enjoy the moment when I play this game. This game is very fun and stress-relief.

It’s almost perfect and smooth. just I find it that the coffee machine / any drink machine are a bit clunky when we took the drink and restock it.