Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe Collector's Edition

Running a business can be a fun and fulfilling activity, but only if you decide to do what you really dream of and you are not just pursuing money. Granted, such a thing is out of reach for most people, because it’s anything but easy to start your own business and make a living out of it. Hence, sometimes it’s easier to just do the whole thing in a virtual environment and not worry about profits or losses.

Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe is a time management game in which you get to help a couple make money from their restaurant business. The goal of the game is to move as quickly as possible to serve customers, as well as to make enough money to upgrade your shop in order to accommodate more people or serve better food. There are no huge changes in the gameplay department, so the fans of the genre should feel right at home.

As the name gives it away, the couple in question are Katy and Bob, who decide to go on an exotic island in order to try their luck at the Safari Park. The whole story is explained through short comic book strips, and it’s obviously not that important in the grand scheme of things, but at least it allows you to feel like you are getting somewhere after every victory.

Your actual job is to run around from one place to the other in order to give the customers menus, take their orders and fetch the food they ask for. All of this must be done as quickly as possible, because there are only so many hours in a day’s work. Depending on your customer satisfaction levels, you can also receive tips, which in turn increase your profits and allow you to purchase upgrades for your shop.

As far as the graphics are concerned, the colorful backgrounds and simple animations are to be expected in the genre. Everything looks pretty smooth and enjoyable, on the other hand, especially since the expectations are pretty low in the world of time management games. The soundtrack is quite tropical and jolly as well, which should keep your spirits high.

When it’s all said and done, Katy and Bob: Safari Cafe does not try to innovate or change things too much in the gameplay department, which is a good thing. Hence, the fans should feel right at home even with the tutorial disabled from the start. NOTE: This is a downloader for the game. Once run, the application will automatically download and install the game on your computer.

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