Rolling Hills: Cozy Sushi Restaurant

First I wanna start this with I played the entire game on steam deck as I got a pop up saying it's better on controller. I do not have a controller. So Steam Deck it was. So keep that in mind. I'm giving this game a tentative recommend. There's quite a few things I wasn't a fan of with this game, but the overall gameplay was enjoyable enough that I feel like it gets the recommend button (seriously steam we've been asking for years for a kinda button...) So what is the game? You play a little robot that makes sushi (except you don't) and you go to a failing town as a chef to open a sushi place under false pretenses. Not gonna spoil the story, but the town needs your help and your revenue. When I say you don't make sushi I mean it. The "making" of the sushi is just your robot pressing a button on a machine and the machine makes it. You don't make anything. Then you just go table to table and deliver the plates. People will order dishes based on category (sweet, fish, vegetable, and hearty). You also have the bonus category of rainbow, which can be given to anyone. They will also want a certain quality of food represented by a number. So you'll see a color bubble with a number on i…

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Chill game, has some fun upgrades and progression

Fun for the first few hours, but got very repetitive and grindy after level 10. Also feel like there should be more to do with the actual sushi, all you really do is serve it.

enjoyed this game alot! easy and forgiving controls. good upgrade system. nothing was too complicated and the difficulty went up fairly. storyline was easy to follow. had to grind for a few hours at the end to get all the acheivements but it was rewarding when i did!

Initially, I was drawn to this game based off the graphics - they're super cute and right up my alley. Also have been a long time fan of time managements / job simulator games and SUSHI! Ironically, my time management skills are not so great in real life.... The best part of this particular time management is not having micro transactions in the game! I'm just coming back to these types of games again (used to play diner dash, etc.) but man it was a turn off when they started trying to charge for upgrading everything so I took a long break. This game was not only really cute and really cozy, it's a well developed game with a great story. One of my favourite parts was designing my restaurant - this is not something I normally enjoy; however, there was a good balance between my choices in furniture mattering (XP, money, patience levels) and being aesthetically pleasing so it felt less daunting and more directive than normal. This game had a really good amount of upgrades between dishes, furniture, relationship building giving me a lot of goals to help with the replayability and to not get tired of serving dishes everyday. I'd say my only complaint, and it's small, is the challen…