Game: Wander Scoop
Genre: Simulation
System: Nintendo Switch
Developer | Publisher: RedDeer.Games
Age Rating: US Everyone | EU 3+
Price: US $12.99 | UK £11.69 | EU € 12,99
Release Date: January 1st, 2026
Review code used, with many thanks to RedDeer.Games
Wander Scoop is a first person, ice cream van simulation by RedDeer.Games. Check out some of their other games we’ve reviewed.
Will it make me feel warm like a summer’s day, or leave me cold like the ice cream?
Scooping Out the Ice Cream
Wander Scoop starts with you standing inside your ice cream van, meeting Zoe. You learn that Zoe is the ice cream supplier, and she will guide you through the process of making ice cream cones by asking for strawberry ice cream. A pointy finger shows the order of doing things, and after handing over the cone, you get your next customer.
Whenever you need to learn something new, like preparing a soft serve cone or adding sprinkles, Zoe will appear and guide you through.
The gameplay is straightforward. A customer rises from the ground in front of your van, makes a greeting, and then gives their order. You move to the ice cream boxes, grab a cone, fill it with the right ice cream flavours, add any extras and hand it over. If you complete it in a timely manner, you’ll get a tip, but if you give the wrong order, you’ll have to refund them.
Unlike other food simulation games, there is no mad rush of customers, no stress to quickly fulfil the orders, and no rapidly decreasing satisfaction. I only missed a service once when I struggled to get the soft serve machine to work (user error, not the game!), but the customer simply said that they think their order was missed, and I tried again. You’ll only get a handful of customers, spread out across the day, and if you do forget what they asked for, you can review their order.
At the end of each day, you’ll get a summary of activity: sales, supplies used, tips, and any refunds. Your reputation as an ice cream seller will increase depending on the amount you make, and at various levels, you’ll unlock new ingredients, new equipment, or cute decorations for the van. The aim is to achieve level 32, which I did in around 6 hours.
Interspersed between the daily requests are more detailed conversations with each customer. There’s no choice of input from yourself, but just a quiet reflection on how life and ice cream can be compared. It’s a lovely touch, and together with the pastel colours, it gives Wander Scoop a chilled-out, cosy feel.
Gameplay
Wander Scoop functions well in both docked and handheld mode, with the text size large enough to read on the small Switch Lite screen. You use an on-screen cursor to prepare the ice creams, although there is also touchscreen functionality. The touchscreen worked OK, although there were a couple of oddities; I couldn’t select one of the upgrades, and occasionally I started giving a second scoop, as I struggled to move away from the ice cream boxes.
There’s no manual save in Wander Scoop; the game saves when you start a new day.
There are a few spelling errors, but the main downfall is the limited number of customer conversations, so it gets repetitive quite quickly. Sometimes the interesting background stories jumped ahead, so I didn’t get a chance to read the first part.
Conclusion
Wander Scoop is a sweet treat, but it could do a sprinkling of additional customers and conversations to enhance the flavour.
Final Verdict: I Like it 
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