Cooking Fever

- Reviewed on PC -

Cooking Fever released on September 27th, 2014. 

Undoubtedly Cooking Fever is one of the most popular games in the cooking genre and it has made waves on many different devices around the world. 

The fact this game is still updating and providing content six years later for a mobile game (and now PC) is very impressive. 

For me personally I have had this game on my PC for a while and I always log on to this game everyday to play a couple rounds. Due to this, I can say that Cooking Fever is definitely my favorite cooking game out of them all. 

This review WILL have Major Spoilers so keep that in mind before continuing...

Cooking Fever has three different regions (as of writing this) with an enormous amount of restaurants to unlock in each. 

The three regions are...

    - City
    - Paradise Island
    - Alpine Resort

No matter who you are and what device your playing on, Cooking Fever starts you off at a Fast Food Court. Here you learn all the basics to playing this cooking game. 

With my time playing Cooking Fever, I never had problems playing through this game. Yes, playing Cooking Fever on a mobile device is much easier and faster than playing with a mouse and keyboard, however after playing through a couple levels on PC, you get very used to the controls and this game is no doubt, a brain trainer. 

Managing all the customers requests and making sure you don't burn food or make wrong meals, Cooking Fever grabs your attention 100% of the time. 

However, every good thing has a negative side effect of some sort. 

Cooking Fever is a simple, easy to pick up (and learn) game, but once you pass the first two restaurants, getting enough gems becomes an issue for non-payers. 

Gems are valuable and rare if you are not willing to pay real money in this free game (microtransactions). Gems are used to buy restaurants, upgrade equipment, refill special items, and speed up time constraints. 

I love Cooking Fever, but once I started to run out of gems due to me wanting to get perfect three stars on all previously played levels, I found myself not playing as much anymore. 

You can get two gems (along with 900 coins) per day after you login for a week straight, and this is what I do everyday instead of actually playing anymore, which is a problem. 

Gems aside, this game is amazing and really puts you in the hot seat for managing, cooking, and delivering food items. 

Like previously mentioned, upgrading items allows you to either increase prices for menu items or increase the number of slots available on the game screen (during levels). 

Don't bother not upgrading (saving resources) because if you don't you will never complete all the levels in a restaurant. 

Each restaurant has 40 levels and you can either get one star, two stars, or the maximum three stars per level. 

As a completionist for video games, I tended to obviously upgrade my tools and go for all three stars for all 40 levels, but again gems are rare and don't get hot headed with the gems, you will need them later (if you don't want to pay microtransactions). 

For a free title, Cooking Fever is a must play if your a fan of the cooking genre like myself, and I highly recommend getting this for a tablet instead of a PC. 

Pros: 

    - Easy to Learn Controls
    - Generous Login Rewards
    - Nice Looking Graphics
    - Tournaments for Prizes

Cons:

    - Long Upgrade Times
    - Gems are Pricey / Rare
    - Microtransactions
    - Bad Longevity 

My Rating for Cooking Fever (on PC):

3 / 5


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