User Reviews: My Hot Pot Story

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  • Guide to get more trainingbooks

    I see a lot of reviews from fellow gamers stuck at rank silver 3. At this stage, it would require 2400 service rating, and it becomes excruciatingly hard to continue due to lack of ways to obtain training books.
    I want to compose a list of ways I know that may help:
    1. Play the arcade outside of the restaurant. You get to play it 5 times every 12 hours. On average I could get 2000 tickets, which equals to 20 training books.
    2. Repeated receipts from potions gives you clover leaves which can be exchanged for training books.
    3. Workers will give items when you tap them during daydream phase. Waiter Wang will give multiple items if you spam clicking him. Combine two items and you it will randomly give you training books.
    4. Play the lottery in the shop. It refreshes every 12 hrs, and you get a chance to trade for training books.
    5. The item page in the shop, sometimes will have training books to purchase.
    6. REMOVED method: fishing
    7. REMOVED method: mini soccer game

    With the above methods, you should be getting at least 30 training books per 12 hrs cycles. If you time it right, you can get 60 books per 24 hrs.

    It is extremely difficult to raise the service rating as each upgrade only gives very little points. It would theoretically take awhile to get to GOLD.

    I hope the game developers will implement more mini games or other ways to reward players with training books.
  • I love it!

    This game is great by far, skewing around in the review section; I do understand that this game can take a long time in progression that is common with every other mobile games.

    The fact that the game developer had come out with this game in less than half a year is amazing!! (with zero to none ‘blaring’ ads), it also includes with some good small story lines that you can eavesdrop and hear their life/events; it gives quite a broad perspective of reality. Even to get along with your own workers, hearing their thoughts is wholesome.
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    I really became fond upon Achang and Xue :’)
    Their relationship is really nice.
    (Brother Yu and Lu, their companionship is awesome (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾)
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    The most recent event really did do a good boost on my start of the game; which really made it much more interesting for me. Thank you.
    This game is really great when it comes to pass time a bit more quickly, I’m also an in-depth player so I like seeing all the little small things and the little details too!

    I admit, I dropped a bit of money on this game but reason being for that is because this game potentially grew attached to me ( ;∀;)。
    (Personally speaking; I feel that me spending money on this game, I hope that I am supporting the developer to produce much more detailed in-game configurations)
  • Wonderful but…..

    Okay so I LOVE LOVE this game. I enjoy being able to decorate & see what different recipes comes when you develop your ingredients. I am a huge fan so far! Also no adds unless you want free diamonds!! I couldn’t believe it!

    Here comes the but…. The issue is now that I’ve been playing for a few days it’s much harder without spending a lot of money for ingredients to develop to move forward. I’m starting to feel stuck. I don’t want to delete this game at all because I’m addicted. It would be nice if there were other ways to be able to make new things & continue to level up! I hope that one day soon there is a way to acquire the things needed without having to spend so much
  • Fantastic game, I really love it.

    I originally got this game on a whim because I love eating hotpot irl, but after a while of playing, I’ve realized it’s a real gem. It’s full of character and culture, is fun to play, and doesn’t have ads every 30 seconds. You can play this totally without ads. There are micro transactions, but most of them are out of the way or easily ignorable. I have a lot of fun opening it up every few hours to check in on my little guys and get new dishes. It can be a bit grindy to get leveled, but patience and checking in for offline cash will get you there. It’s an app I definitely recommend!
  • Great Game With NO ADS!

    I’ve been playing this game nonstop since I saw it on TikTok. Every game I’ve downloaded plays an Ad every 30 seconds you play and this game doesn’t! You can watch ads to get diamonds faster, but it is not needed at all to be able to play the game. Besides that, it is addicting in all aspects as you want to upgrade your restaurant, decorate, train employees, and gain new recipes. I am currently on Silver 2 after 1 week of playing! My only complaint is I wish you could have more access to training books, cookies, and food/condiment ingredients. It is apart of the daily’s, but I wish you could play the arcade game more or something to obtain it a little quicker. I have 3 star cooks while the rest of my employees have 1 or no stars still. BUT I’m sure that’s apart of the game that keeps you playing for longer. Tip I wish I knew sooner is to hit your employees whenever they’re daydreaming! You get ingredients quicker. Highly recommend! Download it!
  • The game was fun but…

    I love this game. Its fun, addictive, and really engaging. But once you get past silver level 1 it takes WAYY TOO LONG to do anything else in the game! It took me two weeks just to get from silver 2 to silver 3 and I’ve been silver 3 for over 2 months now and can’t go further. The problem is it becomes a money trap after that. You have to use real world money to purchase materials to level up staff and menu items. I’m talking $30+ just to level up your restaurant and get to gold level. You could try to buy the notebooks and the two fish cookies 5 at a time with in game money, but they rarely show up in the “shop”. So I’ve only been able to buy them twice. If the cost of these expansions weren’t so expensive, I honestly would have bought the packs already and paid maybe $1-$5. But I do not want to pay $30+ for a mobile game pack that might not even be enough to get me to the next level. So this is another mobile game that is basically only fun for a few weeks. Then it looses it relatively. My advice would be to make it where you can use in game money to buy fish, notebooks, and anything else you need to level up. Also make the cost of the expansion packs lower. This is not the economy for $30 packs.
  • Fun Game But Progression Is Slow

    This game is really cool but once you reach a certain level everything becomes expensive and the potions you mix to make boils use to have a 2 minute turn around time to refill but now for me it takes an hour. Be mindful they refill after you use ten of the same ingredients and you have to match them together so you don’t make as much progress at all. I understand not wanting a fast game but this game got entirely too slow for me. I would have to exit out the app and come back hours later and repeat the same process after I played for ten minutes. It’s ridiculous and I hope the creators of the game fix this.
  • Slow service rating, impossible progression

    I like the game and all, but I’ve reached a point where I am not making any progression at all. I am on silver 3 trying to get to gold level. Yet it would probably take me months to get there because of how little the service rating point they give you. I can have 40 training books saved and used in hopes of getting so much more service rating, but no you only get 10 and I still have 1000 points to go. So there’s really no more fun working towards gold when it is almost impossible to reach gold. I really wanted to see the buffet part open but for now with how slow the service rating is going at this rate, I’d rather delete the game. It was fun while it lasted, hope they can change this soon!
  • Addicting

    Honestly I love it! At first I was worried it would be one of those games that is “free” to play but not really free, but I haven’t spent a cent and it’s actually quite doable to progress. There’s an enjoyable amount of grind and I love just watching my restaurant work by itself.

    The one complaint I have would be, I wish the staff’s task selection was a bit better. As soon as a task pops up, every eligible staff member starts walking towards it, but only one will be able to do the task, meaning the others have just wasted their time by walking. I think it would be better if only one staff could “claim” a task, and the others would pick the next available task to do.
  • Could Be a 5 Star Game

    I would give it 5 stars because up until this point it’s been pretty easy to advance between ranks. But to get from Silver 3 to Gold 3 is going to be basically impossible, even if I threw money at the game. The amount that the service rating going up with easy level is ridiculous and I’d need close to 500 books to get the amount of staff I have up to the correct service rating. It’s lost a lot of its fun now that I have nothing to chase. Every time I level up with books it should be equal to the amount of books I use. Ie: I use 10 books service rating goes up 10, or 15 really. Just to make it possible to even keep playing. Or give me 30 books a day with which I can upgrade 1 or 2 people. Or let me buy the further employees ahead of time. But as of now I think I may just delete this impossible to continue game.

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