Amelies Cafe Summer Time. Working Vacation

Pros: Nice artwork. Challenging play. Bonuses.

Cons: Lacks innovation. Short.

After astounding success in Amelie’s Café, Amelie isn't going to stop now. In the sequel, Amelie’s Café: Summer Time, the ambitious lady starts a new business. She takes her best cooks and travels to an exotic island where she opens a beachfront café. Your job is to help Amilie turn the rundown place into a flourishing café that serves fresh drinks and delicious snacks.

Like its prequel, Amelie’s Café: Summer Time blends time management and simulation while playing like those fast-paced Dash games. Although the game play isn't much different than the original and introduces nothing new, you’ll find it challenging enough to play through 49 levels in Career Mode, or you can also test your time management skills in Survival Mode.

Your main task is to serve food, drinks and sweets to customers. As soon as move to advanced levels, you’ll serve more variety such as lollipops, cakes, soda, ice coffee. While you dash from tables to counter, your cooks prepare the food at their workstations. Not only are you responsible for delivering food, but also you need to keep all the stations clean, otherwise your cooks will not prepare food in time.

The faster you do your job, the better your reputation is and the more profit you earn. Remember your customers have different temperaments.  For example, a stay-at-home woman has a moderate amount of patience, but she's not a spender, while a businessman has very little patience and spends more and eats more.

You can upgrade your café and your skills in between levels. While café upgrades add decor, skill upgrades like faster cooks help you progress through the game. 

Every level comes with a match-three mini-game in which bonus symbols appear whenever Amelie performs a chain of the same actions. When you make matches of three of four identical symbols, you activate one of five bonuses. Coins increase profit, candy restores customers’ patience, brushes clean up every cook’s workstation, wings increase Amelie’s speed for a short time and snowflakes freeze customers’ patience and workspace cleanness.

Upon finishing a level — depending on how well you played — you can get an award for collecting all the possible bonuses or for keeping every table clean.

One of the drawbacks with Amelie’s Café: Summer Time is its short length in Career Mode. However, you can put your skills to test in Survival Mode with its three difficulty levels. Just play to earn money to upgrade your café. But be careful! After you lose three customers, you have to start over.

Though Amelie’s Café: Summer Time has little innovation and it's short, the game still challenges and the art is decent enough to satisfy time management and Dash game lovers.