Idle Cooking School

There needs to be a way to unlock teacher cards and not only use gems to get them

The game has a typical premise which is fun. I couldn’t make it all the way through the tutorial without the game forcing me to buy something with gems. The game requires you to get medals to hire and upgrade teachers but no matter how many medals you get, you have to “make up for the difference” with gems. I had 20 medals for a 20 cost teacher, game said I had to pay 30 gems because I didn’t have enough resources. So I got 50 medals for the 20 medal teacher. I still did not have enough and had to pay 30 gems. Even looking at the reviews about a guy who paid for a No-Ad Pass and received almost nothing in return because the game offered no options to gain extra money (from ads) because they were no longer there. Instead it would always suggest him to just pay with gems instead. Either the devs just havent dont enough beta testing or theyre completely predatory and trying to get someone to pay $20 for a horrible package. Just to keep paying more for the gems they cant produce.

The UI and upgrades are fun, you acquire gems easy enough so you don’t feel starved for using them which is needed for teacher upgrades. The objectives are somewhat unclear, perhaps a language barrier…an objective will say “upgrade X” but there won’t be anything named X and you have to figure out what upgrade will satisfy the objective. Example: “upgrade passenger flow”, there is nothing about passengers or flow anywhere, this objective is completed by increasing the amount of students who come in and the front desk. Example 2: the game talks about “RV activities” but there is no RV or anything to do with RV’s anywhere…. Sometimes clicking an objective will bring you to what needs to upgraded but occasionally (in the Japan setting the most) you will brought to something that is not related to objective at all…so either the objective is mis-labeled or it is connected to the wrong thing for auto locate. Additionally, there are tons of visual issues. The floors/carpets look like they have collision issues for a good example. Additionally, mini objectives to locate a student with a matching interest has unclear symbols to explain interests, the objective should show what symbol match you are searching for. However, the worst visual crime is the amount of screen clutter. Holy heck, there is so much stuff popping up, and bordering the screen. I feel like I am being strong armed to going ad free even knowing that much of that clutter wouldn’t go away as it isn’t ads but in-game content. I am just moving on because this game is not yet worth the $20 to see if it really improves.

The person is lying. This game has ads

So I have to level up my chef if I don’t have enough gold metal or whatever it is and now I don’t have enough gems that they want you to buy about uninstalling this game.

There are limited weekly events which drop rewards. I had grinded the event this week and was first place, only to see < 2 days of the event remaining it has removed me from the leaderboard, my ranking is bottom 5000+, despite my in game metrics clearly reflecting my progress. So much time and gems invested for the game to bug out like this. I am hoping to receive my rewards accordingly for the effort I had put in.

does not give enough.

This game was fun until I noticed it was giving me all the medals I had earned. You earn diamonds to use to get medals or you get free boxes that come with medals and then they don’t go to your total count. And unfortunately you have no way of contacting them to fix this problem. Sad!!!

I’ve played a lot of idle tycoon games. This has to be top 3 on my list. Still very new with a lot of potential, but already great within itself. 10/10 would recommend to a friend for sure. Thanks guys for not being money hungry and actually giving us the option. I’ll gladly spend money on this game.

Its a good game but it is unnecessarily hard if you dont have certain tools to proceed the game is difficult to upgrade anything. Im not sure how to progress