A challenging restaurant/resource-management. It has a nifty concept of not only choosing ingredients for cocktails, but also measuring the amount for each drink.
The game could use some UI adjustments to make mixing and serving drinks more intuitive. Although hovering over objects with the mouse will display a tooltip with important information, the objects themselves don't really stand out from one another. As can be seen from the thumbnail, many of the drinks share the same color of white/yellow/brown, and the only way to know for sure what type of substance each bottle contains is by hovering over the bottle to activate the tooltip.
This is also true for the different types of cups you need for each cocktail, which can be hard to locate on the right of the screen.
Ultimately, the game is more of a point-and-hover game where you need to use context clues from tooltips in order to figure out what the actual intended gameplay is, which breaks down like this:
- Wait for a customer to appear.
- Hover over the customer to see their order.
- Hover over the glasses to see which glass they want, then grab it with one hand.
- Hover over the bottles to see what liquor they want, then grab it with the other hand.
- Pour the liquor. Repeat with any additional liquor involved with the cocktail.
- Serve the drink to a customer and repeat.
Memorization become a necessary component for an optimized playthrough since none of the bottles are labeled outright.
Also, I found in my playthroughs that some customers would queue directly on top of other customers, which messed up the picking algorithm for displaying tooltips, making it difficult to discern the correct order for a customer as well as delivering drinks to respective customers.
This is definitely a game that has genuinely fun ideas with it's emulation of practical mixology, what with having to juggle bottles and tumblers in each hand and having to manually measuring drinks out while you pour. With a little more refinement on the UI side, this game could definitely have the potential to be an incredible standout.