WWG Casual PC Gamer

I’ll warn you now, I’m addicted to this game. There are so many things to love about this game’s many options that I’m going to have to concentrate on keeping this post from turning into a book! This is a time management game at it’s core, based on a “fill the customer’s order within a reasonable time to keep them happy” theme. You play as Alex, a girl that takes a wrong turn into a magical forest, and stops at a coffee shop hoping to find help. The conversation with the shop owner (who happens to be a witch) goes bad, and you wind up in a fairytale land, with the task of serving magical drinks in order to learn how to get home.

Three game difficulty levels make this a fun game for all ages, and skill levels. In “Easy” mode, you’ll be required to master 20 recipes. In “Medium” mode, you’re required to master 28, and in “Difficult” mode, you’re required to master a whopping 38 recipes! The magical, fairytale setting is visually pleasing, as well as strangely comforting. Along with the three difficulty levels, you also get to choose between playing:

• Story Mode (play the game with the story)
• Freedom Mode Our Recipes (play the game without the story using their recipes)
• Freedom Mode Your Recipes (play the game without the story using your own recipes)
• Create and Share Recipes (Create custom recipes and share them with your friends)

After I completed the game in Easy mode, I realized that there were more recipes to learn if you change the difficulty, which of course made me replay it immediately. So, if you enjoy games with a high “replay” value, this one is for you! Half way through Medium difficulty, I remembered that there was an option to play with your own recipes, so I went in and created a few that I had wanted to make while playing the normal story mode. I’m a big coffee addict, so recipes just came to mind immediately, and I enjoy the option to create my own… but playing with them is just a bonus I never dreamed of! Download the free trial of Yummy Drink Factory here.

Note: The option to “share recipes with your friends” is not what you might think. When you create a recipe, you can then click on it in the recipe menu, and choose to export it. This means that other players of the game installed on your computer will be able to “import” your recipes into their own player profile. This way, when they play in the “Freedom mode Your recipes”, they will be challenged by the recipes you created, as well as their own. Originally, I thought there may be an Internet database of recipes out there that you could import, but that is not the case. When you play a game with your own recipes, they are presented to you in the recipe book, just like all the others, mixing instructions and all!