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Be a Bartender! – Casual Game Review
Be a Bartender! is a Casual/Food & Drink game from Pernod Ricard Europe, first launched in 29th September 2020.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 801+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Be a Bartender! Stand Out
18 +
Ever wanted to be on the other side of the bar? Battle your way through hectic nights serving great drinks to enthusiastic and unpredictable guests! Take control of your station and learn how to make your favourite classic cocktails with an air of grace and apparent control. But be warned, don’t take too long – make sure you keep those guests happy!
Features
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Earn your keep
Progress through the days to unlock new cocktails and explore the best ways to keep your quests happy. -
Recipe Book
Learn how to make your favourite classic cocktails at home – having fun along the way. -
Immerse
Plug your headphones in to be transported to the atmosphere of the bar for the most authentic experience
Drinkaware.co.uk
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Be a Bartender! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd October 2020
Recent improvements include:
Updated icon title on home screen
Download & Availability
Be a Bartender! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Be a Bartender! 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:
Its actually so much fun and it helps us pass the time, which is even greater because Im sick;).
Game doesnt have ads, cute characters and graphics for drinks, relaxing game.
Finally! A cooking or serving game that is actually hard, this game had us back and forth, remembering, finding tricks and more! We loved this.
App is so good, Ive learned a couple of things already, Ill update this later.
Great for 1st time learning if you have no experience.
We actually learned more from this game than we did from a $450 mixology class (though a few of the recipes in the game arent quite accurate). However, once you get past day 50, the experience becomes really stressful. The customers become incredibly impatient and rude, and the sound they make when they leave is honestly nerve-wracking. It would be much nicer to have an option for bar ambiance or background music instead of that annoying ugh noise. The interface also slows things down when it matters most. The juice pourer area is especially frustratingyou have to open it separately for each ingredient, which wastes precious time. The same issue applies to the garnish station. On top of that, allowing customers to order three alcoholic drinks at once isnt realisticor legal in many parts of the U.S. Still, despite the stress and a few flaws, its a great tool for learning and a surprisingly engaging game. We just wish the pacing and user interface were better optimized for the later stages.
We love this game. Its so simple and has no ads. Im learning a lot about bartending. This app doesnt need internet either.
Im trying to become a self taught bartender and this app is helping tremendously. It kinda throws you out there into everything in the best way possible, guiding and teaching you everything along the way. Im having a lot of fun and learning at the same time. Ive been playing 20 minutes and already know how to make about 5 classic drinks.
The game is amazing! No ads, plus an enjoyable experience. The only and very small setback is how quickly the people lose patience. No drink in 9 seconds? No full stars! Thats all.
Im using this as bar practice and its pretty cute so far.
We been looking for a bartender game its educational and cozy and fun.
Its a useful learning tool to get use to and helps you understand basic bar drinks and the ingredients that go with it.
Fire game ,real entertaining no ads! And some what educational for the bartending world.
The best game we have ever played.
Easy game play and addictive lol.
We love this app. We had 2 years without practice this and we remember now.
Realy nice and hope its grow up !!keep it up.
We got our friend hooked on it too! Lol.
Super fun and actually helps us learn stuff about bartending.
We live this game this could be us in the future in our every day life.
Just found this app looking for a Bartender! Lesson app and simulation game it uses real recipes and the graphics are pretty dope not bad not bad at all please expand on this type of quality.
Training for a bartender career and this game feels like a real bartending setting and puts the pressure on to please the clients. Good training and fun.
We like it it is not to hard and the names and how to make is somewhat accurate.
Very nicely organized easy to follow and enjoyable just add cake separately!! Maybe.
We love this game! NO ADS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its fun and great.
It could be expanded upon! More drink recipes would make it perfect. It becomes pointless and repetitive after a certain level. Which yes means we learned but we want to keep learning drinks. We dont care about our score. We care about becoming a better bartender.
Theres some levels that do get hard & the customers patience are pretty much non existent but we learned a lot playing this game prior to attending bartending school.
Animations are so cute and this game is so fun.
Fun memory game. Plus fun facts included.
Pretty intrigued lol we've always wanted to bartend and we think this is an awesome way to practice!! (Great job).
We wanna be a bartender and we think this helps us get some recipes down.
Just remember, in real life the ice goes first.
It's really good for practice for speed in the bar we really like that.
Theres like no ads and its a perfect adult game in our opinion !! We definitely recommend.
If you wanna learn cocktails and are a visual learner and learn from doing things, this is a neat simulation to do that with.
Im a bartender and we like this game to keep our reaction time sharp as well as keep recipes in the forefront of our mind – lets face it – drinks like Passion Fruit Martinis are not ordered often enough for the bartender to remember the recipe off the top of her head. This app is great for that if you play it everyday. We do have one complaint though: you are unable to select more than one ingredient at a time. For example: a margarita is garnished with salt and lime but when you select the garnishes it will only let you pick one, then the garnishes close out so that you have to tap the garnishes again to get the other garnish and it takes precious seconds to do that. In real life, Im grabbing all our garnishes at the same time and putting them on the drink at the same time. Its the same with drinks that require more than one mixer as well but we understand that a lot of times you cant pour more than one mixer at a time so Im willing to deal with the mixer/juices button closing out while the mixer is being poured. We hope this makes sense. Other than that, its well worth the download.
Fun and simple game to play in our free time.
Hate that the customers get visibly upset after waiting 10 seconds but we guess thats accurate to real life, great graphics.
We want to start bartending and was looking for a game that can also help us learn and it is exactly that. Its definitely a start.
Its actually not that bad learning this along with learning, the recipes can help you get into the rhythm of bartending.
Ive been wanting to try a bar tending game to see if our memory could keep up we like this one a lot.
You have fun and make drinks plus you learn how to make them too.
Should be more descriptive on the right drinks.
So we been playing this game making drinks for people. And we barely got to level 5 and its getting complex just how we like it! (definitely not for kids obviously) and the best part AD FREEEEEE.
Always wanted to play bartender for fun! This is perfect for it and exactly what we were looking for in a bartending simulator game.
Very fun app kind of hard playing on phone but still fun.
We have been looking for a challenge that will help us with bartending and serving.
We really love this game. It kind of help us with our patience.
We thought we came up with this idea ourselves Ive been researching some games. Ya got it.
Fun review for bartenders! Good animation and speed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.5
- Size: 43.25 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: [Pernod Ricard Europe]()
Last updated: 2nd October 2020 | Genre: Casual, Food & Drink | Developer: Pernod Ricard Europe