Cocktail Rush is a match 3 game with visual novel elements and nice hand-drawn graphics. You need to help the cute bar workers with the work at the bar by connecting the same drinks into groups.
The worst idea ever for a match 3 is to have to select the drink you want with the mouse then press enter to actually swap the drinks. Swap is only horizontal just to make it more annoying. I guess pressing and sliding in the direction you want was too difficult to code ?
Everything is timed, even the small VN part which you need to select the answer...
Cocktail Rush is a "template" flip. The "developer" filled out a basic Match-3 template in the craptastic GameMaker Studio, changed the name/reskinned a couple of things, and put it on Steam as if it was their own game. This is par for the course for the Russian asset flippers at Crooked Road/Piece of Voxel (as is using multiple shell accounts to try...
Cocktail Rush combined tile-dropping and match-three gameplay. The game also includes storyline and visual novel elements.
While this Match 3 game system sounds simple, it is a complex and fulfilling experience in practice, requiring players to think strategically.
The object is to match three identical blocks vertically, horizontally, or side by side.
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