Burger Shop is a time management game in which you are the owner of a burger joint. In this game you have to serve waves of customers as quickly as you can. The faster you serve your customers the more cash you earn. But you have to earn a minimum amount at the end of each level to go to the next level.
Granted the concept for this game seems simple enough to grasp. Since on paper all you’re doing is combining items of food that come across a conveyor belt to serve customers. But the game isn’t as easy as you would think.
Whilst you may be thinking that it looks like an ipad game it can’t be that difficult. However, the challenge lies within each individual customer. This is because each customer has their own traits. Each adding their own difficulty such as being impatient, asking for 3 of each item. However, some customers are neutral as they can be very patient whilst simultaneously asking for a large order. Also it isn’t one customer at a time as you have to deal with up to 3 at any one time. Which doesn’t particularly seem hard; but later on in the game you get more items to make food with. Adding to this you have to deal with waves of impatient customers.
But to make things easier you get upgrades to assist you. Some are active such as a robot that completes one order of your choice. Other power ups are more passive and appear on some items of food. If food with power ups is given to a customer it benefits you in a variety of different ways. Whether it is allowing your equipment to cook food instantly or giving you extra cash for that item. You can also give out cookies to customers in order to appease them for a few moments. But, you only have so many cookies to give out each level. Unless, you are able to use the power up to get more cookies that you can have more to hand out.
However, the challenge doesn’t stop there is each mode does provide a different challenge biased on the mode selected. In game there are 5 different modes on offer each with their own offerings for a challenge.
Firstly, you have story mode and expert mode which is a harder version of it, with every item unloc. This serves as a standard mode in which you serve customers in a variety of different restaurants. This mode also plays out as a pseudo puzzle in a sense. Mainly because the items that come across the conveyer belt are items that you need to combine to appease customers. Also all the items you get are a pre set amount of items that are needed.
You use them to you can build an item such as a basic burger to use to then expand on. But as well you get a tray to put one item on. This gives you an extra free space on the conveyer belt in order to get more food options. I tended to put basic items I had built on, which is helpful especially in later levels.
Secondly, you have relaxed mode which is the easiest game mode to play on. This is because relaxed mode offers players the right to deliver to customers at any time. As customers on relaxed mode will never leave your shop, until they have been served.
But you don’t have a limited amount of items to choose from. Instead you get a pick and mix of assorted food items that is infinite and random to choose from. This is both good and bad biased on how you look at it. Primarily because it will give you items you don’t need at the current time but will want later. On the other hand you can have one of each drink, ice cream etc on their respective equipment. I used this to my advantage as I could give one item out just as I had one cooking. I liked this as you could get these items when you want them.
Thirdly, you have challenge mode, this mode operates the same as relaxed mode. However, the main difference between the two modes is that you get 60 seconds per wave to serve customers. To add to this in challenge mode you can fail this mode because once a customer loses patience you will fail. The further you get in this mode the more likely it is to happen.
Lastly, you have extreme mode which is a hard version of expert story mode. The main reason it is called is extreme is because you have to score perfect scores all the time. If your customers start to lose patience they will take cookies to appease them. However, the moment you lose all your cookies you have to redo the level from scratch. This mode I feel is frustrating because of this. Particularly on the later levels it is annoying due to the amount of reattempts you have to make. However, in order to unlock this mode you must complete expert story mode.
Overall I feel that this game is a good game with a decent enough amount of content. Although, this is game does become repetitive overtime. I do also highly recommend this game to children and casual gamers. Particularly due to the accessibility the game even if later levels gradually get harder. I would also only pick it up when it is on sale. Mainly because, for many after you have completed the game once and got all the achievements. Odds are you probably will not go back to the game.
