TasteMaker

Tastemaker is such a charming little restaurant management game, especially if you enjoy building something that feels personal. Designing the layout, decorating the space, crafting your menu, and then watching customers react to what you’ve created is genuinely satisfying. It strikes a nice balance between creativity and management, and there’s something really rewarding about seeing your restaurant fill up and run smoothly after you’ve put the work into setting it up. It’s the kind of game where you plan to make one small improvement and suddenly realize you’ve been playing for hours. That said, I do wish the developers had expanded on it more and really focused on adding deeper content and long-term progression. It feels like there’s a lot of untapped potential, and with more updates it could have become something truly special. From what I’ve seen, their attention seems to have shifted toward developing other games, which is a bit disappointing because Tastemaker deserved a bit more love. Even so, it’s still a cozy and enjoyable management sim that’s easy to sink time into.

This game is an attention getter, and the name of some of the achievements, has me rolling I mean ROTFLMAO.. its fun and busy body for sure! id give it a 9/10 so far. Not easy to get the steam achievements and i like that!

Tastemaker honestly feels like a game with a lot of wasted potential. After 3 years, the game looks almost identical to launch, and it hasn’t received a proper update in over 2 years. The reason for that feels pretty strange and out of nowhere, but it seems the developer moved on to a new game called “Aviassembly,” which, to be fair, actually looks pretty good from what I’ve seen. I don’t know the full reason behind it, and I’m not sure if the developer ever explained why, but because of that, Tastemaker really feels like it was left behind. The game itself is very basic and doesn’t have much depth. The employee AI feels unfinished, and after a short while you’ve basically seen everything the game has to offer. The scenarios are fun at first, but they start getting repetitive pretty quickly. I did enjoy the hour or so I spent with it, and there’s definitely a solid foundation here for a good management game. But in its current state — and realistically the state it’ll probably stay in I just can’t recommend spending your money on it.

It's such a simple yet satisfying 'number go up' game. If you just wanna see big number get bigger while vibing to a splashy jazz soundtrack, this was made for you.

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