Review code provided with many thanks to Supernova Games.
Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos is a cute, cooking simulation game all about making money by running a kitchen almost entirely alone. You begin with a cute cafe and expand into new businesses with new items to serve.
The Gameplay of Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos
As stated above, Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos is all about running a few restaurants all alone. As you gain more and more items, things become more hectic, forcing you to run like a crazy cat all over the kitchen to get all the orders done and served before customers become angry.
Some of the items need to be cooked, blended, or chopped before serving, and you need to handle all that without much help. There eventually is another kitty who helps you to chop things, but you are doing just about everything alone. You need to start the blender, cook the bacon, plate the desserts, and everything else. It’s mostly just moving and hitting the interact button with each of the items.
In spite of the simple premise, Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos has a lot going on. There are cute critters to serve, and some of them have special powers. There is a cat client that always overpays you, a polar bear client that freezes the timers on other customer’s orders, and more. You also get to upgrade all your different machines to cook faster, blend better, or just have better ingredients to make customers happier.
Each day earns you coins and stars; the coins you use to upgrade items and buy things to help you serve better, and the stars give you bonus items.
Feels Like a Mobile Game
Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos feels like a mobile title for a reason: it is a mobile title. It started life on Android and iPhones, and the game retains the mobile game feeling. As you progress, levels get extremely challenging to the point where you need to use items. In the original game, items could be purchased by spending real money as well as energy, which doesn’t exist in this version.
Since you don’t have that in Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos on PC, you end up playing the same levels over and over to upgrade your machines and buy helpful items. You basically rely on the items to pass a majority of the levels you play. I was surprised at how much of that push for microtransactions remained even in a version that doesn’t have them.
After having played the mobile version and the PC version for several hours each, I actually think the mobile version is easier, gives you more coins, gives you fewer customers, and there is less space to move through in the cafe itself, speeding up your cat’s movements.
The Pros and Cons of Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos
Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos is kind of fun. It has cute music and sound design, cute animal characters, and even a cute storyline. I didn’t come across any bugs or issues while playing. However, I didn’t like it as much as the mobile version. The mobile version feels more fleshed out, balanced, and has a lot more currencies and things. It also feels better to play, in my opinion. The levels feel better to play.
However, the Steam version has no microtransactions, but you can mostly avoid them in the mobile version if you watch ads or are careful with your in-game money. While Purr-fect Chef: Kitchen Chaos is super cute for the PC, I don’t think it’s going to stand up to the mobile version for fans. I didn’t find either of the versions of Purr-fect Chef to be Purr-fect, but they were okay games if you are looking for a cute, wholesome little cooking game to play on your phone or other device.