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Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.

Release DateMay 27, 2009
Price$ 19.99  Top 10%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)77.7% (mostly positive) / 74.7%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)72.6% / 70.4%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)265  Top 25% / 340  Top 25%
Curators25 reviews  Top 25%
Median Play Time14.1 hours  Top 15%
Play Time per Dollar42 minutes
Followers1.2K  Top 30%
Owners± 103.6K  Top 15%
Copies Sold± 19.8K  Top 20%
Gross Revenue ($)± 162.6K  Top 20%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Restaurant Empire II steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows Restaurant Empire II's Steam rating and reviews from July 2011 to December 2023. Steam's rating is in a range going from 75.2% (December 2022) to 51.5% (May 2015).

With its 340 reviews Top 25%, Restaurant Empire II could be considered a decent success for an indie game.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Restaurant Empire II and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows Restaurant Empire II's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (63%), followed by Simplified Chinese (6%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 23 languages represented. The game has 2 translations (English and French). More translations could have boosted the game's popularity.

Time Played

Chart displaying Restaurant Empire II percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the number of hours played in Restaurant Empire II depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is great, reaching 54 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 10 times less than the median for positive reviews. When the negative review time is low (median : 123 minutes), it can be a sign that the game crashes on some systems or that players misunderstood the nature of the game (Does the Steam page clearly explain it, with gifs and a gameplay video ?). It can also mean that some players were somehow offended by Restaurant Empire II and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • fun
  • management
  • entertaining
  • simulation
  • challenging
  • educational
  • easy to learn
  • casual
  • variety
  • world cuisine
  • micromanagement
  • design flaws
  • barebones, removed features
  • frustrating
  • trial and error
  • AI path-finding
  • customers always complain
  • no updates or improvements
  • non-OS friendly
  • outdated

The intention behind these pros & cons isn't to establish a balanced evaluation of the game, but rather to assist developers in identifying enhancement opportunities. The game's 77.7% rating should be factored in during their evaluation.

Please keep in mind that this list was AI-generated with only a statistical sample of Restaurant Empire II's review data that Steam provides. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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