Cocktail Rush

The worst idea ever for a match 3 is to have to select the drink you want with the mouse then press enter to actually swap the drinks. Swap is only horizontal just to make it more annoying. I guess pressing and sliding in the direction you want was too difficult to code ? Everything is timed, even the small VN part which you need to select the answer quickly and click on the arrow icon to continue to speak to the person. Yes the arrow icon, not elsewhere, only the tiny arrow. It feels like the person who made the VN part had no idea that usually unless in case of stress, answers aren't timed and you click anywhere to continue to speak. As bonus the VN part is not nice at all, managing the match 3 part with the person telling you that "of course you're too slow" is never a good experience. Buy any other match 3, I'm sure it will be better, this one is really the antithesis of the fun.

Cocktail Rush is a "template" flip. The "developer" filled out a basic Match-3 template in the craptastic GameMaker Studio, changed the name/reskinned a couple of things, and put it on Steam as if it was their own game. This is par for the course for the Russian asset flippers at Crooked Road/Piece of Voxel (as is using multiple shell accounts to try hide his identity). These guys do nothing but copy premade game templates and game tutorials, fill out a few things/stamp out basic levels using the construction kit templates, slap on an asset flipped set of sprites/assets, and dump them on Steam and into cheap nasty shovelware game bundles as cash grabs. Trying to get paid for someone else's game templates, assets... at best, this is shovelware, at worst, it's a scam/cash grab. This basic GameMaker Studio match-3 demo has no real value or interest as a serious game for PC gamers. If this was released on mobile app stores, it would do badly there... on PC? This just exists as shovelware to fill out random game key bundles. It's scamware. Piece Of Voxel have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab, through this …

[b]Cocktail Rush combined tile-dropping and match-three gameplay. The game also includes storyline and visual novel elements.[/b] While this Match 3 game system sounds simple, it is a complex and fulfilling experience in practice, requiring players to think strategically. The object is to match three identical blocks vertically, horizontally, or side by side. You can move the blocks horizontally only. If blocks reach the top, it's game over.