I'm only two to three hours in, but I feel like I don't really want to go on--it's taken this long to even get within sight of any meaningful gameplay change.

The game starts with you managing 4 prep stations (which sometimes get bogged down with chores) to prepare food. Yes over the course of the beginning of the game you acquire money to buy new foods to put on the menu, and upgrade those foods, but a lot of the content is gated behind how many stars your restaurant is--you start with zero stars, and you have to go through 20 days to even get to being a two star restaurant (in addition to a bunch of other things that you'd have to be really bad to not have done by day 20). I believe I satisfied all of the other requirements within 8-10 days (around the first hour and a half-ish), and the past ~7 days have all just been the same thing waiting to unlock the next star.

The game is neat, and I've enjoyed it, but if this is the pace the rest of the game is going to have I'm not going to be playing much longer. As of right now I'm not even sure I'm going to come back to play out the next three days. I half expect a hard requirement of 50 more to reach two stars.

If the trailer, which accurately represents the game, looks like fun to you, the game is most certainly worth a couple bucks to take a look. It seems to have a lot of other modes and whatnot that I'm not terribly interested in but might be good for a go (co-op looks possibly interesting), just be warned of the hard cap on pacing in story mode--it may make you lose interest before you fully get a chance to enjoy the game.

I'm only two to three hours in, but I feel like I don't really want to go on--it's taken this long to even get within sight of any meaningful gameplay change. The game starts with you managing 4 prep stations (which sometimes get bogged down with chores) to prepare food. Yes over the course of the beginning of the game you acquire money to buy new foods to put on the menu, and upgrade those foods, but a lot of the content is gated behind how many stars your restaurant is--you start with zero stars, and you have to go through 20 days to even get to being a two star restaurant (in addition to a bunch of other things that you'd have to be really bad to not have done by day 20). I believe I satisfied all of the other requirements within 8-10 days (around the first hour and a half-ish), and the past ~7 days have all just been the same thing waiting to unlock the next star. The game is neat, and I've enjoyed it, but if this is the pace the rest of the game is going to have I'm not going to be playing much longer. As of right now I'm not even sure I'm going to come back to play out the next three days. I half expect a hard requirement of 50 more to reach two stars. If the trailer, which accurately represents the game, looks like fun to you, the game is most certainly worth a couple bucks to take a look. It seems to have a lot of other modes and whatnot that I'm not terribly interested in but might be good for a go (co-op looks possibly interesting), just be warned of the hard cap on pacing in story mode--it may make you lose interest before you fully get a chance to enjoy the game.