Rory's Restaurant: Winter Rush

Taking care of a business is no easy task, especially if the business in question involves having to deal with customers directly. Hence, restaurants are among the hardest establishments to manage, at least if you want a place with a good reputation. On the other hand, it can also be a good thing to interact with people and learn how to be both quick and efficient.

Rory's Restaurant: Winter Rush is a match-3 game with time management elements, in which your goal is to serve customers the dish they desire and make sure you do it as quickly as possible. The action gets tougher to handle later on, mainly because the match-3 sections start to require more attention and faster reaction times.

As the name gives it away, the story revolves around Rory and her restaurant business. After starting a successful restaurant on her own, Rory decides to return home for the holidays and see whether she can do it again. Hence, you have to take it from the top and build a business from the ground up, which is obviously a pretty difficult task to achieve.

Although you start with mere sandwiches, the recipes get more complex later on, and you have to match the right ingredients in order to obtain them. Speaking of which, each customer has a certain amount of patience, and it quickly runs out of you ignore their order for too long. It’s also important to keep purchasing new recipes when you get enough points.

Lastly, the graphics are simple and unimpressive, as they usually are in the genre, but that shouldn’t hurt the overall experience. Every recipe and interface item is nicely detailed and quite colorful, so the visual component is definitely not an issue. Not much can be said about the sound, on the other hand, although that has an even smaller impact on the experience.

In the end, Rory's Restaurant: Winter Rush is not a brilliant game, but it can be addictive enough to keep you playing for a few hours. Granted, the gameplay gets repetitive after a few levels, but the new recipes might be enough to make you ignore that aspect.

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