Kitchen Craze vs Pixel Shopkeeper
Kitchen Craze
Kitchen Craze is an intense and rather fast-paced, time management game that has a gameplay that is very similar to Big Fish Games' most recent hit, Cooking Craze. Instead of the usual drag and drop, you simply need to tap to prepare your ingredients, cook them and serve the cooked dishes to your customers... it's that easy!The food variety in this game is pretty huge as well. you'll be serving a myriad of food types ranging from fast food to Mexican tacos; from Japanese sushi to Italian pizzas. There are plenty of restaurants for you to unlock as you advance in this game and of course, if you crave for an extra bit of challenge, you can even hop on over to the game's food court challenge and put your time management skills to the test.
Overall, Kitchen Craze may not introduce any element that is uniquely its own, but if you love Cooking Craze and would like to play another game just like it, then this game will be just perfect for you.
Pixel Shopkeeper
Pixel Shopkeeper is a fun, indie shop simulation and management game where you head out to raid dungeons just so you can gather items to sell and then sell them at your very own shop. The looting system in this game is immensely challenging. It has a bit of inventory management that may bring to mind dungeon crawlers like Diablo, but unlike those games, this one employs a tetris-like gameplay. So, basically, you'll be trying to bring back as many items as you can by fitting each oddly-shaped items (like tetris pieces) into your square-shaped bag. You can purchase other bags later on as well. Different bags have different grid shapes, making fitting those items a bit more challenging than usual. Some even have special grids that will double or triple the number of the item that is placed over it.Featuring nostalgic pixel graphics, this game also has a rather unique "crafting system" - if you even can call it that - whereby you can combine lower-level items to create a higher quality and hence, more valuable item. This also means that you may find yourself re-running lower level dungeons just so you can gather enough items to do your crafting.
Being a simulation game, your shop is upgradable too. You can purchase better furniture such as display shelves, tables, or cases to place more items on display. Note that only displayed items can be sold. You can also polish the items while waiting for customers just so you can get extra cash from the "Shiny" bonus. The adventurers you sell your items to may have special quests for you from time to time. Oh, and don't forget to tap on them as they pass by your shop to encourage them to check out your wares!
Despite its simple, pixel looks, Pixel Shopkeeper is a surprisingly in-depth shopkeeping simulation game with some elements of RPGs. It's very entertaining to be able to farm dungeons for the items you sell and even turn them into more profitable goods. If you enjoy a good shop simulation game and you like idle-like RPGs, then this is a game you don't want to miss!