Dish Life: The Game

Really enjoying it so far! I love the paper art style :) The core loop of managing the cells' happiness and researcher energy works really well, fun and educational

So, I dunno. For the price its okay, but the more I play the more I don't like it. I do get that it's educational and very cute, but there are some issues I have with it. The amount of cuts to talk to the lady who owns the lab... Dear god does she like to talk. And I've noticed it keeps throwing me out of the dish menu for no reason. I understand if its for a cut scene but it wasn't. And now that I've finally got a new collaborator in my lab the time has frozen. It is permanently stuck at 12:35 or whatever. Nothing is making progress. I can't make the food, and I cant make XP because I cant get anything. I tried backing out and then going back in but that didn't work I tried sending whats his face home that didn't work. SO... Here I am stuck with nothing to do. It is a great idea and I had fun in the beginning but the days are to short and just too many things in the way of the game play. And I dunno for 4 bucks it's okay, but I just can't bring myself to like it. Basically TLDR- A frustrating game that is okay in the beginning, but has a lot of bugs. And a ton of things that cut into the game play.

Dish Life: The Game is a free mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... this free mobile app has been dumped on Steam as a paid product, a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. The game is an evangelical educational game where you run a science lab growing stem cells, learn something about science, and play a somewhat shallow, tedious tycoon game at the same time. And that's something about science, it's often an incredibly tedious, repetitious effort. It's important, but it's not fun, that's why they have to pay scientists to do it. This doesn't translate well to a game, and the game here is as dry as sand in a desert. There's a lot of problems here and some highly questionable behaviour from the developers, one of which is apparently the University of Cambridge, who should bloody well know better, but apparently they don't. This game was designed to evangelise and educate, but to prevent people from actually engaging in this, they've got a ridiculous price tag on it (on PC). I guess the science gig isn't working out so well for these guys and they need to scam PC gamers into paying for free mobile apps to make ends meet. This poor att…

This game is a very pretty clicker. I think my frustration is even though you are see the career progress from undergrad to professor. You're not dealing with any of its stress. So yes you managed the student trying to managed their time with exam and study during their undergrad. Or struggle getting into good PhD program and all drama of writing Dissertation and defending it. Then learn to managed the lab the mentor the students as post doc etc. Over stuff is done passively and there's no mechanics for to experience it. None of pressure of publish or pressure etc.