Recipe for Disaster ★ Cooking, colleagues, disasters

In the management and administration game Recipe for Disasterpublished by Kasedo Games, players with a passion for gastronomy want to become a star in the restaurant world. In the role of an inexperienced chef, the aim is to efficiently manage all areas of a restaurant. The staff must be friendly and competent, the design and ambience must be right and the most important thing: delicious food for every taste.

This may read like a relaxed dream, but as anyone who has ever worked in the catering industry knows, the Reality doesn't look quite so rosy. Guests are rarely patient, cooking requires timed perfection and things can go wrong at any time.

Fame or ruin, it's in your hands

With this idea, developer Dapper Penguin Studios, known for the Set-up game Rise of Industry, its restaurant simulation game, stands out a little from the competition. The atmosphere is livelier and a pinch of procedural chaos provides variety. To put together a team of staff, for example, players can only choose from a randomly selected group of candidates.

All candidates have their own likes and dislikes that need to be taken into account. If you assign grumpy cleaners to clean or let grumblers serve, you will quickly realize that the candidates are not lifeless extras. This brings liveliness to the restaurant and presents the players with exciting challenges. Challenges.

Start small, but improve steadily

Of course, this also applies to customers. Recipe for Disaster takes place in real time, which means that players have to deploy their team at all times so that orders can be taken, food cooked and customers served. Realism is provided by many details that make the game system more complex than it initially appears. For example, guests have allergies or peculiar preferences. Recipes have to be created from scratch using a crafting system. Players who ignore these game mechanics will find themselves in an empty restaurant in no time at all.

The good thing is that if your employees are deployed skillfully and prudently, their skills will improve over time. The better they do their job, the more customers enjoy the Visit to the restaurant. Once you have built up a reputation, you can soon replace the dubious greengrocer with a first-class supplier or raise the prices a little. Success is fun in Recipe for Disaster. But so is every small or large disaster.