I love this game! I came across it on Instagram where there was a really cute animated ad of a girl eating hotpot slurping it and it sounded delicious! I decided to give it a try and I was not disappointed. I’m usually very good at figuring out how to play games without having to spend a dime, and that was the case here! You can play until completion, obviously it will take longer to achieve some things but not entirely too long! I would say progress for free-to-play is steady and realistic. The graphics and art are super cute, I’m obsessed with reading the different food and broth options. Another thing I like are the added mini-games, as well as the matching of items to develop broth! Love it, 10/10 for a free game 🤍
The game is so fun and the designs are cute!! It’s so addicting that I’m constantly trying to level up but leveling up is so hard to do when you’re trying to increase your food rating. You only get 3 or 5 pts (and you need like 2,000 to level up) when you upgrade a dish so your best bet is to serve tables so you can get the ingredients to create a new dish. However half the time they give me a dish I already have. I just had 4 chances to get a new dish and I got all repeats. And on top of that, you need to have the app physically open for the tables served to count. And once you hire employees, there’s not much for you to do and therefore not much reason to have the app open for a long time.
This game came up as an ad on my TikTok ForYou page and seemed like a pretty decent management idle game. I’m playing everyday, checking constantly. Love all the aspects of the game expect for when you go to Develop a new dish. I serve 30 tables right now to be able to earn all three Dish Elements to Develop a new dish from the cat, but more often it gives me a dish that I already FREAKING HAVE. There’s a book of all the dishes, there’s 600 DISHES. I’ve only unlocked about 80. Please please please take this out. I eagerly look forward to unlocking all dishes, but it’s a challenge when I’m constantly getting duplicate dishes. I wait and wait on tables to NOT earn a new dish which I need to get to the next Tier. I know they turn into clovers that can get me new dishes, that cost 125 clovers though. Thank you for this awesome game and can’t wait for future updates! ❤️
This game is so fun and engaging! From the base game to the event games and even the arcade and lottery, theres just SO much to do! I am actually so obsessed with this game lol i play it every single day, multiple times a day! So many recipes to unlock and upgrades! There’s always something to do. This is the best idle game i’ve ever played!
My only complaint and the reason i give 4 stars is bc the initial start up of the game always has an error message and sometimes i have to force close and restart or press ok multiple times to get into the game. Also we really need some type of way to save game progress like facebook or apple or something so that if i get a new phone or have to reset my phone i dont have to start all over.
literally… with this new update makes it harder for you to get training books. Before the new update, you can easily get training books (in the store) by refreshing the game (leave and enter the game) again. With the new update, you have to wait for 5 HOURS for the store to refresh and be able to buy new items on the stock… You can only rely on the lottery and the game outside the restaurant (+ the merging broth area) which is TERRIBLE horrendously. Literally if you are in “Silver Tier 1-3”, you will definitely cry because it’s SO SO difficult to level up to Gold 1 for buffet without the training books. I understand that you have to get money for the game but please. Make it easier for us to get training books. You will lose players like this…
On a positive note, this is one of the good idle games. It’s fascinating to see new menus and conversations but really…. please PLEASE please make it easier to get TRAINING BOOKS!!!
I've had this game for about a month now. It's pretty easy to earn money and update/upgrade things. Merge plants/ingredients in storage to make broth. Wait for the lucky cat to count tables and it will give you items for food. Simple enough. Once you reach the Bronze levels however, it becomes more expensive to do things. It can be done! But it requires more patience and keeping an eye out. Allow your restaurant to save up money and it's best to only buy/upgrade items that will improve your level statistics (facility, service, and food). The arcade is the best way to save up to upgrade workers, the claw game more specifically. And utilize the lottery! Everything about it is very cute and fun. But you have to be willing to wait for things. It's not a game where you can sit and stare at it all day hoping for things to change. You DON'T have to use real money. The game can 100% be played without real money.
My Hotpot Story is about unique among all the games available in the Apple Store. Seemingly every part of the game is interactive. You can touch the characters to stop them from taking a break and sometimes they drop mergable or sellable items. You can buy new dishes or earn them and upgrade characters the same way. You can listen to customer’s’ conversations and serve and clean up after them if your staff is taking too long. It’s all delightful! The best part is that you don’t even need Wi-Fi to play it :)
My only detraction would be, as a Westerner with picky tastes, I find some of the food pretty gross. Especially when the customers order the chocolate fondue and put something like duck blood in it. 😨
This game is totally worth downloading!
I really enjoy this game. I’ve been playing it non-stop. Most of these tycoon-type games end up forgotten about or deleted. This game is just jam packed with different tasks, aesthetics upgrades, mini games, and strategy!
In terms of critiques, I think that there should be some leveling. I’ve progressed quite a lot in this game and it becoming increasingly difficult to make progress. Upgrades cost far too much, compared to the amount you are making, and with each upgrade you complete, it doesn’t raise the value of your product by very much. For example, I just purchased a menu star on my menu item for $12,500 (approx), and I only received 8 points to raise to my food score. When you are asking for me to raise my food score to 4,800 points, you can begin to understand just how time consuming this becomes. I have been trying to upgrade my store for over three (irl) days, and every time I join on, I can only upgrade about two things and then I have to wait another three hours to start again. I really enjoyed the pacing of the game earlier. I would love if this could be sorted.
I just started playing this game a few days ago. The graphics are cute and I love that I don’t have to be on the phone the whole time. And the diamonds can be easily earned by watching ads. But not sure why, the notepad on lower left suddenly disappeared for me. I’m at bronze 2. Also, it’s not very clear what to do when the employees have a thinking bubble with fish inside. I can’t seem to always get items from them when I’m tapping. Not quite sure what I’m doing wrong. Without the notepad, playing this feels .. not as great as it was with the notepad. The notepad sets incentive for me to earn some money while leveling up. PLEASE FIX? I don’t want to stop playing but .. I’m a little discouraged right now.
I’ve had this game for maybe a month and I freaking love it. I can leave the game all day and come back with money, watch an ad and get 2x the money. Most of the problems I have with other games is not them trying to get me to purchase but to force me to watch ads. This game never makes me watch an ad whenever I decide I don’t wanna get 2x the money. It takes patience to level up definitely as you need to upgrade you restaurant to get a total of points but saving up money and watching ads does the trick. I check up on it while I’m at work for a second and it’s so easy. I would 100% recommend this to friends!!
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