Happy Chef 2 vs Merchant
Happy Chef 2
Happy Chef 2 lets you dive right into the exciting sequel to the popular time management game by Nordcurrent, Happy Chef 2. Start your career as the ultimate chef with an authentic Italian pizza and pasta place and eventually travel throughout the world and set up your restaurants in various different countries as well. Similar to the original, this game features a plethora of dishes you can prepare, cook and serve along with a myriad of equally impressive line of upgrades for both your kitchen and your restaurant. Interestingly, this time around, the game even included 5 fun mini-games for you to enjoy whenever you needed some time off from the intense gameplay that time management games are often known for.Happy Chef is an amazing cooking-themed time management game that warrants a sequel and now that the sequel is here, Happy Chef 2 turned out to be better than anticipated. It is definitely the sort of game that fans of the genre would want to try.
Merchant
Merchant is a fun little idle game that's designed to be played on the side, while you're doing something else on the computer. In the game, you'll need to hire heroes who you will then send out on adventures to gather crafting materials. The materials obtained can then be turned into numerous types of armor and weapons, which you can in turn equip on your heroes or sell them off for a tidy profit. There are two main ways for you to sell your goods - you can either put it up for sale in your shop or you can fulfill the orders of passing merchants and heroes.Although the game starts out as pretty fun, the progression in this game gradually becomes rather grindy after a while - imagine: sending the same hero on the same quest will require the same amount of clicks as sending the hero on a new quest or even sending a new hero. Some automation would be great here, especially considering that the game's an idle game.
So, despite the fun concept and gameplay, its progression can truly kill your interest in the game. That being said, if you just want a simple game to play as you watch Netflix or YouTube on your computer, Merchant might just be the kind of game for you!