Snowy: Lunch Rush 1.0

After searching for treasures in Africa, the Middle East and the Mayan Jungle in Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2, Snowy (the lovable polar bear who can’t sit still) is back for another adventure in Snowy: Lunch Rush. This time he explores “the madcap world of food service.”

That’s how Alawar Entertainment presents it: “Snowy: Lunch Rush drops you into the madcap world of food service and challenges you to run the best restaurant in town.”I am not going to focus on the fact that working in the food service industry sucks to high heavens, I am going to focus on the game.

Snowy: Lunch Rush is a pretty amusing game that will keep you entertained for some time. You are put in charge of a restaurant and you have to manage things like seating your customers, getting your customers the food they want, and earning money to upgrade your eatery and stay in business.

There are 60 levels to go through, levels presented as day – so basically you have to survive in the “madcap world of food service” for 60 days. Things are pretty easy in the first days and they get more and more complicated as time passes.

The game features an Endless mode that you can unlock by doing well in the game. In Endless mode you can purchase faster stoves, bigger tables and a better sound system.

Should you decide to give Snowy: Lunch Rush a try, you must download it (the download weighs in at 18.6MB) and install it on your Windows-powered computer. Once you are done installing the game (the installation process is simple and straightforward, so it shouldn’t pose a problem), you can play the game free of charge for a trial period of 60 minutes. Be careful during the installation process though as you will be asked to change your default search provider, you will be asked if you want to change your homepage, and you will be asked if you want to install Game Box (contains Alawar Entertainment’s catalog of games). If you don’t want to change your homepage or search engine, or if you don’t want to install the Game Box, make sure to opt out.

Pros

• Captivating gameplay
• 60 levels
• Endless Mode
• Nice graphics

Cons

• Offers to set Ask as your default homepage
• Offers to set Ask as your default search provider
• Cannot select the directory where the game will be installed
• Creates an Alawar Games shortcut on your desktop without asking; the shortcut is not removed when you uninstall the game.

About Alawar Entertainment
Founded in Russia back in 1999, Alawar Entertainment is a company that specializes in the development, publication and distribution of casual games. To date the company has published more than 200 PC games that reached users in more than 60 countries. Alawar Entertainment’s games can be played on various platforms, including the Windows operating system, Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, Playstation and the iPhone. You may already be familiar with some of the company’s best known titles, such as Farm Frenzy, Craze and The Treasures of Montezuma.

Additional information on Alawar Entertainment and the casual games it has to offer is available here.

Snowy: Lunch Rush has been reviewed by George Norman on 25 Jan 2011. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Snowy: Lunch Rush 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent