Dining Zoo vs Meeple Station
Dining Zoo
Dining Zoo is a café simulation game where you set up your very own virtual café. Purchase ingredients from the ingredients market, cook up a variety of mouth-watering cuisines from all around the world and serve them up to your hungry customers. Expand your café by clearing neighboring land and buying them up. Decorate your café to beautify the place and don’t forget to keep an eye out for the food inspector for he is not one for waiting around. Serve him quickly and you may just get a higher Milinche (a.k.a. Michelin) score. There’s even a social element to the game where players can trade food and ingredients with each other.Giving the usual time management café games a wide berth, Dining Zoo is a café simulation game that has a more relaxing gameplay and is perfect to be played in short bursts throughout the day. If you’re looking for a café simulation game that’s not too demanding, Dining Zoo is the game for you. After all, even in a world where every human being has been turned into walking and talking animals, people will still need to eat... and this is where you come in!
Meeple Station
Meeple Station is a space-themed, sandbox simulation game that focuses a lot on exploration, trading and team management. In this game, you’ll need to build your starter space station and then venture out into the galaxy to find a place to set up shop, so to speak. Mine nearby resources and refine them into valuable bars and other alloys, and trade the resources you have with passing spaceships for resources that you don’t. Don’t forget to assign your meeples with tasks that suit their respective personalities, and give them everything they need to be content despite being cooped up in a tightly-packed space station.The game doesn't have a multiplayer mode (yet), but I can see the potential of having the game mode added in the future where players will be able to trade with each other and even raid other player’s stations to plunder resources. It’ll probably be somewhat similar to Minecraft’s multiplayer mode.
Overall, Meeple Station is definitely an early access game with plenty of potential. Despite the bugs and game issues, it is a rather fun sandbox game to play where you can build your own space station, explore the galaxy, mine and trade for resources, and manage your team of adorable meeples. If you’re interested, Meeple Station is currently available for purchase on Steam. Check it out!