Airplane Chefs - Cooking Game 4+

Cool game

It’s rlly fun n easy to play!! 🧘‍♂️

Save your money, pay-to-play

Be very careful with this game

Developers: Drop the fuel requirement for repeating levels!

Potential Players: This game currently has 11 “cities”. Each city is an airplane type in which your customers (the passengers) are seated.

Each Airplane (city) has 50 levels with the first 5 needing 2 units of “fuel” to play every time, the next 5 units and starting at level 11, you have to pay 10 units of fuel every time you want to play the app. Some achievements give you fuel units as a reward but they are sparse. There are two ways to get get fuel. One is to “buy” them with “Gems”, the other to wait. Fuel replenishes automatically when you drop below 50 units at a rate of 1 unit/12 minutes (5/hour, 10 hours will give you the maximum tank volume of 50 units). You then play 5 levels. Gems also come as rewards in achievements (one-time minor goals during gameplay) but are as sparse as fuel. The other way is to pay real money. 10 gems cost CAD 1.39 and give you 120 units of fuel (12 levels of play starting at level 11).

Each airplane/city has various machines (coffee makers, ovens, etc) and extra pieces for which a customer might ask (newspapers, side dishes, etc). This can reach to higher than 20 separate pieces per airplane to “upgrade”. The upgrade prices are ridiculously high and often include “gems” along with the in-game cash or you won’t get the upgrade. Each upgradable piece has a small bar that fills with green as you upgrade, suggesting when it is full, the upgrades are finished. This is not so. This bar empties and refills after 4 upgrades and there are MANY more than that for each upgrade. These upgrades vary from providing more money as they are sold to customers to reducing cooking, brewing or preparation time for a particular food item.

If you don’t upgrade as you move along, you will not finish the levels which leaves you to replay the levels (at the same fuel level prices) over and over to earn enough money to upgrade equipment. Of course, you cannot upgrade some things because they require gems as well.

This game is very frustrating and built solely for the purpose of revenue generation. If you have enough money to spend, it can be enjoyable, for a time since you have to continue to pay to play. The programmer missed the opportunity to bring about an app that can be enjoyed by more people and possibly have them spend some money as support or to overcome a small hurdle in the game.

If you have a hiccup in your internet connection (required to play the game), the app will quit. I have had it quit on me several times (iPad mini 4 running iOS 14.3). This will cost you the full fuel price (up to 10 units depending on the level of play) and no response from the programmer except an email that they are sorry for the delay (a few days after “customer support” is contacted) and they are “quickly reacting to each email”. They further thank me for my patience. They must have A LOT of people emailing them with these kinds of problems.

Save your money and mental health (very frustrating).

Addictive

Can’t stop playing

Developer Response ,

Hi, Chef! 🧑‍🍳 Thanks for your feedback, we are glad to hear you like the game! 🥰 We invite you to join our FB community, where players share their strategies and tips. We also run different contests awarded with gems and other encouraging prizes 🤩
https://www.facebook.com/AirplaneChefsGame