Restaurant Tycoon

Introduction

Restaurant Tycoon lets players build, staff, and manage their own restaurant, following the familiar tycoon formula of design, hire, and operate. Developed by Zkolibre Studio and published by My Way Games, it launched on Steam on 5 December 2017 at NZ$7.45. Its 11 English-language reviews sit at 9% positive, Negative — too few for a formal score, and this review read every single one.

No missions, no goals, nothing to play toward

The dominant complaint across this tiny sample is remarkably consistent. "The game doesn't have any missions or goals to complete," reads one detailed review, comparing it unfavourably to Overcooked's "complex mechanics" by contrast. "Game has no challenge to it, you just constantly build to get more people. No tasks or anything to complete. The day is never ending," reads another, independently reaching the same conclusion. The sample's most-upvoted review sums it up bluntly: "Fun for five minutes. Do Not Buy."

Crashes and a broken autosave

Layered on top of that structural emptiness, technical problems recur across multiple reviews years apart. "It keeps fkg crashing and auto save is not working," reads one review from 2026. "Only five min into the game it crashes," reads another, independently, from 2021. This review checked the developer's own Steam news feed and found the last post dated April 2018 — over eight years of silence, consistent with these unresolved issues never having been addressed.

An unverified but detailed allegation

One reviewer raises a more serious, specific concern this review could not independently confirm. "I'm not really sure if Restaurant Tycoon is an asset flip. It is a product from a known asset flip scammer. This looks like they may have just stolen/'appropriated' someone else's low quality game/homework assignment," reads their detailed account, which goes on to note some elements do suggest original assembly work. This review is reporting the claim with attribution rather than asserting it as fact, since it could not verify the specific origin of the game's assets itself.

Verdict

Restaurant Tycoon has functional building and hiring tools but nothing resembling a real game once the initial setup is done, and this review's full read of every review it has ever received confirms that emptiness as the near-unanimous complaint. Combined with repeated crashes, a broken autosave, and over eight years of developer silence, there's little reason to recommend it even at its low price.