Food Truck Tycoon

Genre: Arcade

Players: 1

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Review:

(Note: This game is included in multiple bundles. If you want a breakdown of which bundles contain which games, check out this page.)

(Note 2: Multiple versions of this game have been released. In addition to the original game, there is also Food Truck Tycoon + Expansion Pack, which contains Expansion Pack #1, the Premium Edition, which contains Expansion Pack #1 (as far as I can tell, this is exactly the same as Food Truck Tycoon + Expansion Pack), the Multiplayer Edition, which contains the Multiplayer Mode DLC, Co-Op Edition, which contains the Multiplayer Mode DLC and Expansion Pack #1, and the Complete Edition, which contains Expansion Pack #1 and Expansion Pack #2. For the purposes of this review, I am only reviewing the core game.)

Food Truck Tycoon is an Arcade-style game where you work in a food truck making foods to order for customers in a fast-paced game of responding to each specific order with the corresponding series of simple commands. Kinda’ like Simon Says, but with food orders that can require multiple steps. Or for a more direct comparison, you can look to Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!, which plays so similarly that I’m copying much of this review from that one.

People might be put in mind of the Overcooked games, which have been a huge hit on the Switch, or the Cooking Mama series, which have been big on Nintendo platforms for generations, but Food Truck Tycoon doesn’t play much like either of those. For a typical order, you’re reading the order, and then selecting the right toppings and pressing the corresponding buttons for that order.

For this game, what customers will order is fairly straightforward – You can cook sausages, prepare a cup of juice, prepare salads with various ingredients, deep fry fries, and prepare a few other sides, with your list of potential ingredients growing from level to level. This is more complex than Pizza Bar Tycoon, but still fairly simple overall.

Unfortunately, even with this added variety and complexity, this game is a bit too simple for its own good, especially when compared to Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!, since this game lack’s that one’s menu variety, the requirements that different foods be prepared in different ways, the ability to design your own menu, the multiplayer co-op, and the sim-like elements of growing your own restaurant empire. While the core gameplay of Burger Chef Tycoon is similar, this game feels like it took the formula of Cook, Serve and stripped it down to its bare essentials… although to be fair, this game came out a few months before that one did, so I suppose you could argue, conversely, that Cook Serve took the basic idea of this game and added in more depth.

The game’s visuals are simple but decent enough. The characters are cartoony and the food looks like a decent but slightly cartoony representation of the real deal. Nothing phenomenal, but it works well enough.

Food Truck Tycoon is still a decent time-waster of an Arcade-style game, and players looking for something more simple than Cook, Serve may find this more to their liking, but in my opinion the simplicity of this game can’t hold a candle to the variety and depth of Cook, Serve.

tl;dr – Food Truck Tycoon is an Arcade-style game that doesn’t play much like Overcooked or Cooking Mama. It’s more like a food version of Simon Says, where players respond to orders by selecting the correct ingredients. The gameplay is decent, but this game lacks the variety and options of Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! If you’re looking for an Arcade-style food prep game, I recommend you get that one instead.

Grade: C+

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