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Sushi Empire Tycoon—Idle Game – Strategy Game Review
Sushi Empire Tycoon—Idle Game is a Strategy/Simulation/Entertainment game from Codigames SL, first launched in 10th May 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,519+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sushi Empire Tycoon—Idle Game Stand Out
Ready to run your restaurant empire and collect the freshest ingredients to succeed?
Sushi Empire Tycoon is an addictive and engaging mobile game that puts you in charge of your own virtual sushi restaurant. The game's unique idle gameplay mechanics allow you to progress even when you're away from the game, making it the perfect pick-up-and-play experience for busy players.
The main goal is to build up your business empire by serving demanding customers delicious dishes like California rolls, sashimi, or maki rolls and grow by upgrading your restaurant and hiring talented staff members. You'll need to adapt your strategy to manage your working teams, deal with suppliers, and plant your own zero-mile ingredients in your garden to ensure you always have the freshest ingredients for your elaborations. And, of course, you’ll need a boat fleet to catch the best fish in the deep seas!
You'll start small, with just a few basic meals and a simple setup, but as you progress, you'll unlock new recipes, like spicy tuna rolls and dragon rolls. You’ll also be able to customize and decorate your venue with exclusive items which will take your restaurant to the next level.
The game features beautiful graphics and charming animations that bring your restaurant to life. You'll watch as customers sit down to enjoy your dishes, leaving them satisfied and eager to return. As you grow your business, you'll encounter new challenges that will test your management skills. But with each success, you'll feel the satisfaction of seeing your restaurant thrive.
The game is easy to pick up and play, but its deep and challenging gameplay will keep you coming back for more. Sushi Empire Tycoon is a must-play whether you're a fan of idle games, tycoon games, or simply a sushi lover. With its fun storyline, addicting gameplay, and charming graphics, it's sure to be a hit with players of all ages. So why wait? Start building your sushi empire today!
Main Features:
- Casual and strategic gameplay for every player
- Innovative mechanics: farm and fishing management and supply chain.
- More detailed management system
- Dozens of objects to be unlocked and upgraded
- Lots of characters and interactions
- Funny 3d graphics and great animations
- Management of a successful business
- A small living world in miniature
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sushi Empire Tycoon—Idle Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd April 2024
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixes, and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Sushi Empire Tycoon—Idle Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Sushi Empire Tycoon—Idle Game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Phone gets overheated after an hour of playing this game. Fun to make different types of sushi. We now have over $1 MILLION but am waiting for the bonus gems and purple tokens to expand our kitchen and make our tables larger. They fit six people when maxed out. Once you unlock a roll that uses shrimp, you cannot fish for shrimp unless you have 50 purple tokens, but you can build a water tank that is quickly emptied. The quick emptying of the water tank limits the amount of avocado you can harvest for the California roll.
Can we get an expansion on the game? Maybe make the resto bigger, kitchen, parking space, etc. Once you got everything there is nothing to do.
Im having fun with this game, and have played other games from this developer that are fun too. This game makes our phone SO hot though, so much that it lags and needs to close out, and we havent even run the app for very long. Would love a power saver mode or other solution, or we literally cant play.
This game is fun and has decent pacing but more than half the time we cant redeem the ad rewards and twice now we lost all the money we earned being idle trying to watch an ad to make the rewards x2 and then ended up receiving nothing instead. Kinda frustrating because then we cant do anything in the game.
Fun game but too many times we will watch an ad to speed things up and it wont let us claim the reward. Our biggest issue is waiting for construction to be finished and if you go out of the app it usually resets. Super annoyed.
The game is pretty good at first but if you do not purchase the ad free option the frequency of ads increases until the game is no longer enjoyable, only annoying.
Unless you feel like spending $14 on a no ad, add-on. You'll fight with ads every two clicks on your screen.
It takes absolutely forever to progress in this game and you need to watch ads to get some stuff which is understandable but then when you watch the ad the game will reset itself and you wont get whatever it was you watched the ad for.
We liked the art style and the concept of growing a sushi restaurant. In practice, we found the game painfully slow to progress. It would be better if you could upgrade faster and move through the levels. Without paying for anything, you quickly hit long roadblocks to progress to the next level. Also, it auto-plays ads when we interact with free portions of the game. We hate that. Im okay with watching an ad for a temporary boost. We shouldnt be forced to watch ads to engage with basic parts of the game, like collecting tips or upgrading the level of a table.
Fun game with a lot of potential, but $13 seems excessive for no ads. When we try to watch ads for more money, the game crashes after the ad is over and doesnt reward us at the end.
So many ads that you cant even play the game.
We played long enough to think we were going to enjoy the game and purchased the ad removal. Not long at all after that, they add a second required currency in order to progress and that currency is much rarer and in order to keep progressing, youre pretty much forced to spend more money. The underlying game is fun and looks good, but the paywall is high here.
This game is great! But the only issue Im having is that, when you need the purple tokens to unlock and upgrade things its hard to get them without buying them. And when you get the gems, its not a lot. We need more ways to getting gems and tokens without getting stuck at the soy sauce and the upgrades.
Love the game and finished it Please give us an update that will keep us coming back for more.
Its forever stuck on the loading. Ive deleted and redownloaded the game and still nothing.
Make a game called idle America empire where theres these types of houses: small home (p1)average house (p4) large house (p8) small mansion (p10) average mansion (p14) large mansion (p20) small apartment (p100) average apartment (p140) large apartment (p400) the p is for population and maybe get some stores add how people think about your city and have restaurants, small job buildings, big ones and of course have different cities and add Mexico Japan Korea china and lots others.
Overall, we really love this game and have spent and ungodly amount of time playing, but there are a few issues. The first one, as many have mentioned, is that it is difficult to progress due to the extreme lack of the purple research points. In the beginning this isnt a big deal, but now its honestly so annoying. Another issue is that the farmers are way too slow to keep up with demand. This game is great and we cant wait to see future improvements :).
The game is not loading. Its stuck on the opening screen at 0% and wont load. Tried deleting app, doesnt work.
This game is so fun but its really annoying that you have to wait for builders to finish one job before starting another.
The purple points cost too much you have to do everything with them the higher you move up an upgrades but this game is good.
Im stuck on the quest plant 10 soy plants but theres no explanation how to do so. So now our only way of getting the purple research card things is by watching ads how do we plant soy? Do we need to unlock a certain recipe.
Paid for no ads, which is quite a boost because there are lots of things that would have had ads. But it took us less than a week to max everything out, and there is no reset and start over with a bonus or even a weekly/regular special event to work on. Nothing. You just max it all out and then theres nothing else to do. Very limited replay value once everything is built and maxed out.
Great game for a bit, then you get stuck cus you run out of research points and the only way you can get more is if you watch ads or pay for them. If they fix that in a future update this game would be 5 stars.
We dont know if its our phone or our iPhone version or we just had to restart it but like our iPhone is the 12 mini.
Ive reached a point in the game where we have nothing else to upgrade or get what now.
Imma put 3 stars cus it looks like a good game but we cant even open it we get stuck loading at 0% Game looks amazing hope we can play it sometimes.
Even after paying for no ads. It is almost impossible to play the game after the first 8-10 hours. You need to purchase blue gems or you have no chance of completing your research or additional areas in the game. CodiGames needs to stop stealing peoples time by making them pay money to have fun. We normally will pay $15-$20 if a game is worth it. But you will have to pay much much more to finish this one. VERY SAD.
Great until we got a standstill with our research points. Very sad cause Ive only had the game for 3 days. Please fix and Ill give 5 stars. It would be nice to progress without in app purchases please.
Maybe some speed-up items rather than using gems so that you can progress a bit faster and more ways to earn the purple currency (we forget what they are called).
As always, we are enjoying this latest idle game. However, as a couple others have already pointed out, one big hiccup is the research points. While we understand their function, at a certain point in the game, it becomes difficult to progress. We've been at the same spot for two or three days now, all simply because we lack the research points to upgrade what we need to. We would be more than willing to watch some ads, but that's not even an option. If this is fixed, we'd be more than happy to give this four or five stars. Thanks.
We cant play any of your games non of them will load.
Was a really fun and addictive game UNTIL it got to the part where you unlock the water pump and have to wait to water all your plants. Takes way too long to water anything and they use up all their supplies so quick. A very dumb and useless feature to add to a seemingly perfect game.
Our game has stopped working and the Ive spent so much time and money into it please help.
There is a bug in version 1.0.0, the game progress is locked by purple money and no way to get more at about day2 playtime. Need to add more way to get the purple money.
We downloaded this onto our iPad and it wont go past the loading screen. Its stuck at 0%. Our iPad is up to date so no issues with that. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled the game 2 or 3 times and we still cant get it to load. Restarting our iPad has not worked and our Wi-Fi signal is not an issue. Please help.
We love Codigames, but this one comes to a screeching halt when you dont have the purple gems. You need them to advance, and if you do not buy them you will be stuck. Ive already paid for no ads, and even a starter package, but we refuse to continually keep buying them in order to play this game. Really has potential, but Im deleting this game.
Cant even get passed the loading screen.
Like others have stated, there are not enough ways to obtain enough research tokens to upgrade everything. Our progress is haulted despite us watching every ad for extra research tokens :/.
On our iPad we cant play. It get stuck on the loading screen at 0%. The user id doesnt come up. On our iPhone, we can play and a user id shows at the bottom.
Wont load once the app is open.
Is it just us or does anyone else have issues loading the game. Because we will wait for several minutes and the bar wont move at all. And we dont think its a internet issue.
It opens to the loading screen but it doesnt do anything else after that. It doesnt load nothing. A waste of time.
Its not letting us play. Stuck on loading screen.
You cant even open the game is just freezes up.
Our game wont even open up. Same with the prison tycoon.
Just opens to the title screen. Stays at 0% for the last 25 minutes. Non playable.
It would be nice if we didnt get stuck because of the amount of Research Points we have. All we ask for us and future customers is to add in more ways to get research points or just up the frequency of when we can watch a add for Research Points. On a side note, we have only watched 3 total ads for Research Points (because that is seriously the amount we have been given to be able to watch) and we only got rewards from only 1 of those ads. So Im in debt of like 35. Just pls add in more ways to get research points.
Dont really like to have to wait minutes and hours for upgrades but besides that its a fun game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.4
- Size: 569.04 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Codigames SL
Last updated: 23rd April 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Codigames SL