Robots and recipes
Ever wanted to run your own restaurant and help the destruction of man come to fruition? Automachef gives you that chance. Automachef, developed by Hermes Interactive and published by Team17 Digital Limited, offers a top down kitchen cooking game that challenges the player’s ability to sort out order of operations and resource management, all while being accompanied by lovely music and an ambitious robot trying to eradicate the human race. The game does a wonderful job of equalizing the stress of configuring the perfect machines your kitchen needs to satisfy all the orders with smooth and catchy tunes to help the brain think.
Go ahead, play with your food
Gameplay in Automachef requires placing different machines on tiles within the kitchen. The objective is to set up conveyor belts, food producers, grills, assemblers in any arrangement that will produce and then get the food to the window to appease the hungry customers. Most games of this type have the individual parts performing one function, but Automachef provides much more depth to the mechanics of these machines. Players are able to change the settings on all the machines in the kitchen, meaning that they can customize how quickly, how often, and how much a certain contraption performs its task. This adds a whole new layer of considerations that a player has to factor in when building the layout to complete the level. All of these things must also fall within budget and power usage, creating even more restraints on what a player can construct on a certain level. Adding all of these things together forces the player to really rack their brain for cost effective and creative solutions to these problems.
Cooking burgers by day, taking over the world by night
For all of its technical level difficulty and depth to the mechanics of the game that make the player rise to the challenge, the game also has quite a bit of charm. The Automachef himself guides the player through the tutorial and levels, doing a very convincing job of keeping his world dominating intentions hidden. But the best part of this game might just be the soundtrack. The soundtrack is what sets this game apart from other cooking-esque type games. When you go into machine menus, it fades to the background seamlessly. All of the music contains a certain element of retro-futurism, simultaneously having a robotic and 1950s feel to it. Even in moments of deep thought and head scratching trying to figure out how to get the grated cheese to the bun conveyor belt to get into the assembler for a cheeseburger, the music keeps the flow going.
Helping bring down humans as the dominant species and cooking up some burgers always provides a good time. Automachef is a nifty game that serves as great brain exercise and soothing tunes for the soul.
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Automachef will be available for PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch in Summer 2019.
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