GourMania
Action & Arcade Games, Hidden Object Games, Puzzle Games, Time Management Games December 1st, 2008
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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The food industry is always a very lucrative source of business opportunities and here’s your chance to dominate this industry in a time management casual game. GourMania is all about earning your way to the top by monopolizing your area’s food shops, but of course, you’ll have to start at the bottom first, and that means being the sole chef for your new restaurants on their initial openings.
Starting off in the game, you are to work for an ailing fast food chain being its only chef. Earning enough money during your shifts will accumulate enough funds to buy this diner for yourself. Of course, you’ll soon realize that buying businesses that earn you consistent income is the best route to go, and thus, opens up a lot more opportunities for you to buy other underdeveloped food shops and save them from ruin for your own benefit.
GourMania is actually a blend of both time management and hidden object gameplay. Most of your task in-game is to wait for customer orders, find the correct ingredients for these orders and prepare the food for serving. All of these tasks should be done per customer as you take note of their patience levels. Your shop will also open for a limited time only, so be sure to serve the maximum customers within this limited time for more profit.
Earning money is really the name of the game. Most of the money you’ll be earning would be spent on buying upgrades and other tools to help you prepare food. Remaining money though would be used to buy other food shops, and honestly, I just get very excited whenever a shop goes public for purchase. I guess it’s just a very cool concept for a casual game to have you buying businesses, and earning residual income from them too after each day of operations.
The challenge of GourMania comes in its hidden object gameplay. As you progress in each shop, you’ll be bombarded with more ingredients to take note off and find. That’s why I think the best tactic to employ in this game is to earn money through combos and other bonuses, rather than making fast services that earn you minimum income for every dish. Replaying levels is a good idea too, but in later levels, this won’t be much necessary since your businesses will earn you money in autopilot anyway.
With you buying businesses, your real task is to grow these businesses for maximum profit before leaving them to earn for themselves. The tasks can be very repetitive since you’ll have to earn expert scores to increase a shop’s value and most of the time it’s really hard to distinguish ingredients from each other. The mini-game bonus levels don’t help bringing much interest to the game too. However, I still find the concept fun to play, making this game really worth your try just for the sake of experience.
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