Restaurant City (PC)

Restaurant City is an app on Facebook made by Playfish, which lets you "run" your own restaurant. The premise of which is very simple. You hire staff, you buy the necessities, such as a cooker, table, chairs etc. and make money, earn exp, level up and so on... Whilst it might be fun to begin with, once you set your staff their tasks, there is NOTHING for you to do, and frankly watching these small computer people do their tasks endlessly ISN'T much fun... so you think, fine, I'll exit and come back later. NO. In order to level up, you MUST have the window open! This not only takes up computer memory, but is useless and frustrating when it ...  Read the complete review

Restaurant City, by Playfish Games, is available to play for free on Facebook, and as such you can't really go wrong trying this out for yourself. It is addictive though, and the game's shortcomings only become truly apparent after many hours of play. It's a very passive game, first of all, and while your restaurant is running there isn't a lot to do. I usually have the game running while I do other things, checking back occasionally to clean the toilets and feed/rest my employees. The problem with this is that when you have levelled up a few times, the game can take up a lot of memory, so I often have to abandon it when I am doing other things such as ...  Read the complete review