Cook Serve Delicious

Cook, Serve, Delicious is a relatively recent addition to my library, I purchased it off the Humble Bundle Store for a very humble price (although the exact value escapes me right now). This one was actually purchased for my wife, but since I received a Steam key along with the DRM free download I activated it on my account after downloading a copy.

This one is listed simply as an Indie game on Steam, but, if I had to classify it, I'd call it a Casual game. You run a restaurant, take orders and prepare the food, it doesn't get much more complicated than that. Along the way you need to do maintenance chores, like wash dishes and take out trash, to name a couple, while keeping up with the orders. Foods have varying degrees of difficulty to prepare and everything is done with the keyboard (the mouse works for much of it as well, but it really just gets in the way)

The gameplay is well done and works efficiently, however it gets repetitive after a short time; making money allows you to buy new foods with different preparation techniques, but it ends up being the same end with different key strokes; the story is almost non-existent, your goal is to increase your restaurant rating and become the top of your field, but, beyond your own need to achieve there is nothing compelling you to play.

I'm rating this one as  6/10, the game is well made and rock solid mechanically but there is so little variety there is nothing to keep you coming back to it. Couple the lackluster gameplay with the almost 10 dollar price tag (at full price) I can't rate it much higher than that.