Gourment Ranch Review
Gourmet Ranch is developed by an English game company, Playdemic who perfectly combines FarmVille and Cafe World into this game. Now there’re more than 143,000 monthly active users in Gourmet Ranch and this number is still keeping climbing.
In the world of Gourmet Ranch, you will own a small farm area where you can grow crops. After you harvest your crops, you can then turn to your restaurant area and cook dishes on your stove for your customers. At the same time, you can put up fences to house animals. Here, you are a real farm lord and restaurant owner.
Growing Crops and Animals Freely
Since you are a farm lord in Gourmet Ranch, you are able to grow various kinds of crops such as carrots, tomatoes, onions, cabbages and other vegetables. Meanwhile, you can also house pigs, chickens, cows and other animals in your farm. Well, just building some fences, you can start to feed them on. Each item will take a specific period of in-game time to produce, so you can choose the item you want to produce accoding to your available time. For example, if you will work in the day time, you may choose those items whose produce time ranges from 8 hours to 10 hours. As soon as you are back home, you can harvest the fruit. On the contrary, if you are free today and have enough time in front of your computer, you can choose those items like tea and coffe with a very short produce time, only 5 mins. I think it’s a good choice to arrange your time with the production well. Of course, you can select any item you want to grow as your wish.
In fact, growing crops is a simply matter. All you need to do is to click your mouse to pick a plot and put a seed in it. And then what you should do is only to wait for the harvest. Seeds, animals and trees can be bought at the market or you can buy the full item with coins.
Being a Restaurant Boss in Gourmet Ranch
In Gourmet Ranch, you are not only a farm lord but also a restaurant boss who manage an inn. After harvesting what you have planted, you have two ways to choose: one is to trade them with your friends; another is to serve them for your customers. Once you have vegetables or fruits, you can click on your stoves and start making dishes by using the materials. You are a beginner through expert levels of food you can serve. To be brief, at the beginner level you can only serve tea and tomato soup. When being at the expert level, you will serve Mango Lassi, oliva tapas or Jerk chicken. As you level up, new ingredients will become available. In the end you will be able to make all the dishes and become a master in the game. Once your dish is ready, be sure to click the stove again to clean it. Hence, it can be ready for the next dish. And serving can earn more money than trading.
As we all know, all the social games on Facebook have the same feature: interaction. So is Gourmet Ranch. When finishing your harvest, you can go to your larder to have a look. If you have many friends in Gourmet Ranch, you can put your harvest into trade store to sell them to your friends. Although you will earn less money than serve it to your customers, you can earn money quickly in this way. Yup, in Gourmet Ranch, you need to serve for your customers, trade with your friends and decide how to manage your own restaurant, since you are a restaurant boss.
Decorations and Expansions
You are given a few decorative options in the game as it stands right now. You can add new tables and chairs into your restaurant as well as stoves and serving counters. You can use decorations such as flowers, pots, a TV, barrels, fences, hedges and signs. New floors and walls are also available so you can finish your restaurant the way you want. The game also gives two expansions. One is for the restaurant itself and another is for the farming area. With the expansion, you will need double the money for a further gameplay. Now you will find that earning money in the game is very important. It would be nice if you could expand everything at once. Some decorative options, like the fish pond, are insanely expensive which will cost you a lot of money. The game does have quite a few decorative options but it could use a few more.
A Highlight in Gourmet Ranch
In this game, when you level up, you will acquire some rewards like money and keys. In fact, keys are the highlight in Gourmet Ranch. Maybe you will think it is only a normal key and won’t have any other usage. If you think so, you are totally wrong. The keys in Gourmet Ranch can unlock those new items in your farm. For instance, if you want to plant the kiwi fruit, you must use one key to unlock it in the market. To some extent, the market is like a production tree. If you want to specialize in trees, you can use all your keys to unlock those high level trees, through which you can cook those expert dishes that will be sold in a higher price. With your specialization, it is also a way to earn money quickly. Meanwhile, the keys give you enough choices to select what you want to cook to serve your customers. In this way, you may feel you are a chef now.
Conclusion
Gourmet Ranch doesn’t really add to the farm or cafe style popular on Facebook but it does a good job of combining both and give you a different game experience. If you like farming with running your own Facebook restaurant, Gourmet Ranch is worth checking out. Be sure to check back often as the game looks to have some new features coming soon that haven’t yet to be implemented.
Courtesy to f2pgmaes.com
In the world of Gourmet Ranch, you will own a small farm area where you can grow crops. After you harvest your crops, you can then turn to your restaurant area and cook dishes on your stove for your customers. At the same time, you can put up fences to house animals. Here, you are a real farm lord and restaurant owner.
Growing Crops and Animals Freely
Since you are a farm lord in Gourmet Ranch, you are able to grow various kinds of crops such as carrots, tomatoes, onions, cabbages and other vegetables. Meanwhile, you can also house pigs, chickens, cows and other animals in your farm. Well, just building some fences, you can start to feed them on. Each item will take a specific period of in-game time to produce, so you can choose the item you want to produce accoding to your available time. For example, if you will work in the day time, you may choose those items whose produce time ranges from 8 hours to 10 hours. As soon as you are back home, you can harvest the fruit. On the contrary, if you are free today and have enough time in front of your computer, you can choose those items like tea and coffe with a very short produce time, only 5 mins. I think it’s a good choice to arrange your time with the production well. Of course, you can select any item you want to grow as your wish.
In fact, growing crops is a simply matter. All you need to do is to click your mouse to pick a plot and put a seed in it. And then what you should do is only to wait for the harvest. Seeds, animals and trees can be bought at the market or you can buy the full item with coins.
Being a Restaurant Boss in Gourmet Ranch
In Gourmet Ranch, you are not only a farm lord but also a restaurant boss who manage an inn. After harvesting what you have planted, you have two ways to choose: one is to trade them with your friends; another is to serve them for your customers. Once you have vegetables or fruits, you can click on your stoves and start making dishes by using the materials. You are a beginner through expert levels of food you can serve. To be brief, at the beginner level you can only serve tea and tomato soup. When being at the expert level, you will serve Mango Lassi, oliva tapas or Jerk chicken. As you level up, new ingredients will become available. In the end you will be able to make all the dishes and become a master in the game. Once your dish is ready, be sure to click the stove again to clean it. Hence, it can be ready for the next dish. And serving can earn more money than trading.
As we all know, all the social games on Facebook have the same feature: interaction. So is Gourmet Ranch. When finishing your harvest, you can go to your larder to have a look. If you have many friends in Gourmet Ranch, you can put your harvest into trade store to sell them to your friends. Although you will earn less money than serve it to your customers, you can earn money quickly in this way. Yup, in Gourmet Ranch, you need to serve for your customers, trade with your friends and decide how to manage your own restaurant, since you are a restaurant boss.
Decorations and Expansions
You are given a few decorative options in the game as it stands right now. You can add new tables and chairs into your restaurant as well as stoves and serving counters. You can use decorations such as flowers, pots, a TV, barrels, fences, hedges and signs. New floors and walls are also available so you can finish your restaurant the way you want. The game also gives two expansions. One is for the restaurant itself and another is for the farming area. With the expansion, you will need double the money for a further gameplay. Now you will find that earning money in the game is very important. It would be nice if you could expand everything at once. Some decorative options, like the fish pond, are insanely expensive which will cost you a lot of money. The game does have quite a few decorative options but it could use a few more.
A Highlight in Gourmet Ranch
In this game, when you level up, you will acquire some rewards like money and keys. In fact, keys are the highlight in Gourmet Ranch. Maybe you will think it is only a normal key and won’t have any other usage. If you think so, you are totally wrong. The keys in Gourmet Ranch can unlock those new items in your farm. For instance, if you want to plant the kiwi fruit, you must use one key to unlock it in the market. To some extent, the market is like a production tree. If you want to specialize in trees, you can use all your keys to unlock those high level trees, through which you can cook those expert dishes that will be sold in a higher price. With your specialization, it is also a way to earn money quickly. Meanwhile, the keys give you enough choices to select what you want to cook to serve your customers. In this way, you may feel you are a chef now.
Conclusion
Gourmet Ranch doesn’t really add to the farm or cafe style popular on Facebook but it does a good job of combining both and give you a different game experience. If you like farming with running your own Facebook restaurant, Gourmet Ranch is worth checking out. Be sure to check back often as the game looks to have some new features coming soon that haven’t yet to be implemented.
Courtesy to f2pgmaes.com
