Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| GameZone | 6.5 out of 10 |
| Macworld | 4 out of 5 |
| Gamezebo | 4 out of 5 |
Chocolatier was awarded Gamezebo's Zeeby award for best strategy game of 2007. The game received a positive response from critics, though GameZone's Anise Hollingshead found the game too easy, noting "there really isn’t a whole lot of thinking involved." other reviewers called it "a delightfully challenging business tycoon game", "challenging but not frustratingly so", and said that the game "turned out as beautifully as the chocolates." The game's graphics and sound received praise: Marc Saltzman noted "the game's wonderful art style and delightful music", but website Killer Betties' Jason Van Horn found the graphics "alright, simply doing what it needs to do to get its gameplay across."
Reviewers praised the amount of freedom given to players, Meryl Evans of Blogcritics stated "There was no right or wrong, or a set path you must take", but added that the game lost pace when she had gathered a large amount of money and had to find a specific character to speak with before completing her current quest. After finding the non-player character, the game "picked up again and kept me hopping for the rest of it." Didi Cardoso of website Grrl Gamer also enjoyed the freedom, but noted that sometimes she felt lost and was unsure of how to find the location of the next recipe. The chocolate manufacturing mini-game was also praised as "fun". Peter Cohen of Macworld noted that some fans of business simulators might find the mini-game "off-putting", but also suggested that it helped break up gameplay. Marc Saltzman expressed the same opinion, while Anise Hollingshead found the mini-game to be too easy to play.
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