TasteMaker
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5500, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
April 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $7.19. 24 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Winkeltje: The Little Shop ($14.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Cafe Owner Simulator ($18.99, scores 11).
This site sampled 511 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 278 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
41% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
TasteMaker scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1289340/tastemakerReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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