Rorys Restaurant: Winter Rush

[h1]Good concept, but fatally flawed execution[/h1] This could really have been a fun game - Rorys Restaurant tries to marry the concept of Diner Dash-like time management games with the match-3 format, and it does seem good at first... until you start advancing in level. The purpose of the game is to serve customers what they ask for before they run out of patience. Dishes are prepared by matching the required number of match-3 ingredients. There is a minimum goal to be met every level, and if you fail to meet that goal, you cannot progress further until you do. There are upgrades in the form of recipes and ingredients, which you buy with coins. Nowhere are you told how on earth you earn these coins, and as a result I always found myself short of them. As you progress, more customer types are added, each with different characteristics (e.g. some have less patience, some must be served first, etc). The biggest problem with Rorys Restaurant is that you are completely at the mercy of the AI and what matches it gives you. There is no "reset" button so you can't reset the board if you can't find any matches, and neither is there a "reshuffle" button. Instead, you just have to hope …

Game is a technical mess. Every other level locks up so that you can't complete it. Sometimes customers just won't appear. Some times making a match doesn't register. Sometimes the items don't cascade down and leaves blank holes. You can usually restart the game and it will fix the issues, but then the level after that just breaks again. Not worth the effort. There are much better match 3 games out there.

https://youtu.be/4_0Zi38GJcA Landing only inches away from being a match 3 game with a good hook, the cooking and severing of meals is a fine by not refined experience.

Unfortunately it is full of bugs. I can recommend only after the bugs removed.

It's just an average Match 3 game mixed with hidden object and serving food minigames, but there's nothing that will hook you for hours, to be honest. I thought it would be much more fun, but after playing it for about 30 minutes, I think I've had enough. Maybe if you are a hardcore fan of the genre, you'll dig it, but otherwise, I doubt you'll enjoy it.

I like the idea of the game and it is pretty addictive. However, there are too many bugs and missing standard features at present time.