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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.0 hrs on record
Posted: Nov 16, 2018 @ 6:21pm
Updated: Nov 16, 2018 @ 6:22pm
Product received for free

Early Access Review
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
Please note: I received this game for free as part of the Steam Curator Connect program with no obligations.

This is yet another Cooking simulator / Counter Fight clone in VR. The one thing this game brings that is relatively new is the online multiplayer aspect, which I'll discuss later, and leaderboards. There are supposed to be three different types of foods you can make, but at this time only American food is available to cook. This game is still EA but is relatively polished, except for a few minor issues I noticed.

The good news here is that everything is within standing reach. You can adjust your height and even lock it in to avoid any accidental readjustments (of course, I dont' see that ever happening). However, you will need around 270 degrees reach as some items are diagonally behind you. In the American food play, you have 20 levels in single player. Each level adds a degree of difficulty.

At first, you'll only be making burger(s) and maybe adding ketchup or mustard (no mayo) or adding cheese. Then you'll have to prep the fries and slice the bacon and get it ready to be cooked. You will also be slicing cucumbers and onions (no lettuce!) and doing combinations of all the former. You'll also be making drinks. Orders come in fast and things get very hectic after the first few levels. Unfortunately, this game is very finnicky and your cooked up orders aren't always accepted and sometimes it's difficult to know why. Grabbing items can also get a little irksome, especially when you want to get rid of something. Also, you slice the bacon but there's really no place to put it.

I'll be honest, after about an hour of playing this game, my back started to hurt & this game actually felt like real work. I used to work Fast Food many years ago and this game started to give me flashbacks to those gruesome, grease filled days. I did also test out multiplayer and it worked fine. I think you play against online ghosts (past online scores from other players) versus actually playing live against a person. But regardless, it does a convincing job even if there is no voice chat.

Rate 6/10. It does need more food choices, but apparently that's on the way. I think it's semi-fun, but it really doesn't bring anything ground-breaking to the genre and I'm not sure it's better than Counter Fight. It's still EA so it has potential to improve ... we shall see.
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