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Chef Umami – Simulation Game Review
Chef Umami is a Simulation/Food & Drink/Family game from 力 杨, first launched in 17th January 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,095+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Chef Umami Stand Out
You are the one and only Chef Umami! Make the most delicious food the world has ever tasted… or at least try to!
Prepare delicious meals for your hungry little customers by using dozens of different ingredients and kitchenware. Fulfill their order in the way they want, or give your meal your own creative spin. With endless food combinations you can experiment with ingredients and create your own unique recipes.
With the AR camera enabled*, you can take photos of your dish in real life and share it with your friends!
Have fun, but be careful… Don’t burn your food!
Require iOS 10 or higher
Hardware requirement:
-iPhone 6 or higher
-iPad 4th gen. or higher
-iPad Mini 2 or higher
-iPad Air 2 or higher
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Chef Umami is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st October 2018
Recent improvements include:
Thanks for playing Chef Umami! In this update, we have made the following improvements:
- One level where the Ice cube man refuses to eat is finally fixed!
- Now you can drag food when it's on the cutting board for more precise cutting!
- Sometimes the serving plate can't be picked, it's fixed too.
- Stacking food on plate and other foods has been made easier and more dynamic!
- Some minor details that probably nobody noticed.
Download & Availability
Chef Umami is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
We were going to download again, thinking the bugs have been fixed, but we find out it hasnt been updated in seven years. This really makes us sad because we used to love this game despite the bug and was really hoping things have changed :(. We hope nothing has happened to the dev and theyll come back to this project.
Ni hao! We dont know is your Chinese but ni hao so we love playing this game and its kinda hard to say we love that its 360 and Yeah thats it bye.
We really enjoy this game bcuz when we bored or offline that it a lot to use simply and we enjoy to cook all of this.
You need to cut the bread right, and make food and juice for both of them.
Whenever we try to turn on the camera to take a picture of the food, it makes us frozen, and we dont know how to fix it, also can you add more characters? This game is so fun with different characters.
We are a Chinese player we are from Beijing chaoyang we would like to thank this game for letting us know more about cooking it is so fun.
This game is a delight to play, with minimal gameplay and simple controls. This game is a must play for everyone.
This game helps with our stress and with our anxiety and depression we love it we hope it never gets out the App Store.
This game is a very good game, we love it a lot and play all the time! We think it being In VR would make it %100 better! We love this game a bunch we really recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good cooking game to play or just a relaxing fun game to play when youre bored.
We love this game so much and any time we play it people always we ask what Im playing, we love the amount of freedom in the game and how cute it is.
This game is great and all, but once you get to 150 and above it starts to glitch. The character freezes and we cant seem to take control of it. Ill still give it 5 stars since its not bad overall, just that.
We LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH we GOT IT YESTERDAY AND IM ADDICTED, also the pirate saying we could use us some rum but this game pg 13 cracks us up love it its cute GET IT.
How do we tell when its fully cooked.
We LOBE THIS GAME SM BUT THERES LIKE NE PROBLEM, THE DEMON GIRL WHEN SHE ASKS ME TO MAKE THE SOUP THINGY, we TRY TO DO IT PERFECTLY MULTIPLE TIMES BUT ITS NEVER PERFECT BESIDES YHAT we LOVE THIS GAME EAAARAAAAAAAHGGGHHH!1!1!1!1!1.
The ice cube guy is eating but the food wouldnt be fine and he wont leave at all we know yall just fixed it but can you try to fix it again please.
We rate this a five out a five its a very fun game we just wish u can add ur friends and cook with them so if u can do that we will never stop playing.
This game is so fun had never played so much before l definitely recommend but there was a issue with one level, it was with the ice cube it refuses to eat, it said its fixed but for us it doesnt work we deleted the game and put it back on but still didnt work so if you could please reply to see what to do. We would appreciate that.
The only flaw about it is sometimes it cant tell when you drag your finger across this has a ton of freedom for a mobile game usually for a chef game they make you drag something to a circle and it slices it for you it reminds us of games that we played when we were a child.
Its cool and all but theres a lot of things and it lowkey stressed us out so basically it stressed the skibidi out of us so we were a jittleyang but its all good we turned ourselves into a sigma fuhguhlahtogan again.
This game is very good, we like it very much and decompress it very much. Every time there is a different challenge, and every time the guests are different.we like it a lot.
There is a pirate character in this game, and he greets you with a sentence. But we listened very closely and he said this game is pg-13. Im not sure if we misheard it, but we checked 2 times and it heard the same thing. But the rest of this game is excellent.
This game is such a fun game to play on car rides and plane rides. It is our favorite game to play without Internet.
We LOVE this game so much however we wish it could be two players, we think itd be fun maybe a little chaotic but overall fun to play with your friends or people online. Im not saying to take away the option to cook alone but we think itd be super cute and itd expand the game in a positive way.
BEST GAME we EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE.
Love the game but one thing we wish they would do is let you center it without using phone tracking.
For some reason even though the app says that its fixed the ice cube man level for us isnt working. Other than that we are in love with this game and all the details in it which makes it a beautiful and fun game to play.
We love this game so much happy you can move around with the screen its fun to do and hard at the same time happy theres no time limit we really think other people should get this and it deserves more then 4 stars theres also no ads we will definitely recommend to our friends and family we love this game a lot ik we said it a lot lol.
The game is so great, it is simple but it is so attracting.
We will openly say we will play this game for hours and not get bored. We love the idea and just in total a great game.
We love this game because it has no ads and because it doesnt need WiFi we feel like its very cute.we found this game on Tick tock searched games to play when bored and we were scrolling and it said this game and the tutorial. But we think you should definitely get this game.
We love this game so much. We love the mechanics and the idea. Everything about it is just amazing! There were some bugs, like lagging or some stuff not working, but we think it isnt a big deal. Overall, we love this game, and there is a little portion of our heart for it.
We are in love with this game! Its just so fun for us! We enjoy how you can move your phone to look around its tuy a great game.
We think you guys should add more foods and recipes but this game is awesome for long car rides ( this game is no internet we recommend you playing it).
This game is nice but its a little hard and we think there is no ads idk but its a good game 5 STARS.
This game is the best! Its so funny and nice at the same time but theres one thing we wantSOME NEW UPDATES.
One thing tho is please fix the part where the ice cube kid with the floaty refuses to eat. We made him the grilled pineapple and chicken breast but hes just stuck there. Please fix.
We saw it on steam ( we think ) originally and we fell in love with it omgg we kept downloading and deleting it off our computer so we could replay the game over and over again, but the only think we would want is more levels and more zones with expansive food themes. Other than that, maybe make the standards of the food making a little easier we used to get frustrated that the little people / creatures(???) wouldnt like our food :( maybe we did it wrong but it was fun still :).
It is so fun for an iphone game and we are just in love with it. Our only complaint is it does get repetitive easily but its still cute and very well done.
Its so interesting for its unique gameplay and warm picture.
This is the best cooking game ive ever played in mobile! Its exactly what ive been looking for because you get to chop the ingredients, cook & season the dishes & you get to try and make the final plate look cute (not that it matters but its so fun trying) we love the whole vibe of the game, it makes us wish we had a VR set for our phone.
Yes we are a real human! We very much love this game as someone who loves to cook but their parents always insist on making dinner Ive always looked for a game thats free for us to do not like cooking mama or papa Johns or cooking fever we like to cook what we wanna cook and this game is perfect for that! Im a pretty patient person so the small amount of glitches we dont really mind.
It's a unique cooking game and it really is a blast. You can serve any dish you want, although the recommended recipe yields the highest praise.
We love the game. It does need a few improvements but overall, its wonderful. We hope this game gets more good reviews and updates in the future.
We absolutely love this game, its so much fun and has been keeping us busy all day! We do think it would be pretty cool if there was an option to cook desserts, like pies, cakes, ice cream, and etc. Overall this game is very fun and we do recommend it.
We love this game, but theres a certain level with the blue boy by himself where he want us to make him an Aloha chicken we make it, but when we finish it and give it to him he dont eat it its like he pick it up but hes not actually in his hand and he eat the air and he likes laggy out and we dont take us to the next level with the next person we tried to restart the levels and but that still didnt work.
Its a good game no doubt just wish u could place the food more easily.
The ice cube man still isnt eating pls fix this.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.2.2
- Size: 495.06 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: 力 杨
Last updated: 21st October 2018 | Genre: Simulation, Food & Drink | Developer: 力 杨