TasteMaker

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.

I wanted this game to be good, I really did. Left it alone for a couple of years and then came back to it... was immediately reminded of why I stopped playing. Very little to do in it, seems like the employee stats mean nothing, and creativity is limited by scenarios and space constraints. It has so much potential, but the game gets stale really quickly. If the developers ever return to this game, maybe it will go some where, otherwise there are far better cooking and management games out there.

really good idea. feels unfinished. definitely had potential

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!

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.

gusel