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Automachef
Released On: Jul 23, 2019
68
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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8% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
68
42% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Automachef is a really fine and simple automatics system puzzler game. Even with its abundance of options and menus, which can be its good and bad thing. It is still a fine game with its price tag and offers hours of problem-solving missions.
The type of gameplay that Automachef offers in’t going to be for everyone, but if you enjoy having to flex your brain a little, it offers a rewarding experience. It’s also a great entry point into basic programming. Perhaps playing on PC will offer a more intuitive experience, but the Switch version’s button controls aren’t enough of a barrier to stop Automachef being worthwhile to play.
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Based on 6 User Ratings
6.8
67% Positive
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Based on 6 User Ratings
6.8
67% Positive
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33% Negative
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Automachef does not stand out graphically, but in its difficulty and its simple gameplay is its virtue.
Automachef is a slow and methodical puzzle game that is at times unfriendly due to the lack of tutorial. Nevertheless, it can be quite rewarding to try things yourself and learn all the rules when creating a mind-bending food factory.
It looks as boring as it sounds but Automachef is a surprisingly engrossing game of logic and planning that refuses to dumb down for its audience.
Automachef is about managing resources and handling several objectives at the same time. For players who can take on such an exercise and who enjoy this kind of challenge, Automachef will be very welcome experience whereas for players looking for a simpler experience this will be an excessively complicated effort.
Automachef fails to really shine in any particular regard, and the control issues push an overall all right game towards mediocre territory. There’s so little depth to the puzzle solving that even now I struggle to really say anything about it that I haven’t already said. The best solution is too often to just brute force your way through the puzzles with little finesse or cleverness. Perhaps there’s an intentional meta-joke at play commenting on automation being able to push its way into jobs that humans could handle with more artistry, but all it leads to is a game that’s as rote and monotonous as the average job that could be done by a robot.
Summary Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life. It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today.
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Jul 23, 2019
Developer:
- Hermes Interactive
Publisher: Team17
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