Last updated on November 28th, 2025 at 09:01 pm
Delicious Message in a Bottle – Family Game Review
Delicious Message in a Bottle is a Family/Entertainment/Simulation game from Gamehouse LLC, first launched in 11th August 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 6,513+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Delicious Message in a Bottle Stand Out
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Discover a message in a bottle that changes Emily’s life forever, while cooking divine dishes in Italian kitchens!
Now Paige has fully recovered from her fever, life has settled down again in Snuggford. That is, until the entire Napoli family hears that Emily’s missing grandfather, Vitto, is still alive – and might be in Italy! Emily’s father, Eduardo, is especially overwhelmed by the news. He and his four brothers haven't seen their father, or each other, in years. Reuniting them is going to be quite a challenge… Will Emily succeed in bringing everybody together at the big family dinner?
Emily’s Message in a Bottle is the 13th season of Delicious, the award-winning cooking series with a deep, personal story. Dash through 91 levels, cooking over 200 dishes as you strive to bring the family together again.
Delicious – Emily’s Message in a Bottle Features:
PLAY THE NEXT CHAPTER IN EMILY’S STORY – Head across the world to Italy and cook with Emily in a brand-new Delicious adventure
RUN YOUR DINERS – Manage Italian diners and serve food across 65 story levels in multiple different kitchens
SERVE DIVINE DISHES – Make delicious Italian food like pizza, salad and cake
TAKE ON CHALLENGE LEVELS – Prove your skill as a chef in 26 challenging bonus levels
MANAGE TIME AND RESOURCES – Keep your restaurant running in exciting time management levels
UNLOCK REAL MESSAGES, FROM REAL PEOPLE – Win trophies as you dash through lovely locations to unlock trophies with real messages on them
COLLECT DIAMONDS – Your skill will help Emily reunite her entire family through the power of cooking
FIND HIDDEN OBJECTS – Search for secret objects and find hidden mice. Can you discover them all?
Start a restaurant in idyllic Italy, where Emily will live out the next chapter of her life. Can you manage the perfect Italian restaurant while reuniting Emily’s long-lost family?
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This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Delicious Message in a Bottle is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th May 2025
Recent improvements include:
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What's New?
- General Update of all the game SDKs
Download & Availability
Delicious Message in a Bottle is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
This is really cute and a ton of fun to play! The story is so touchingsad and heartwarming at the same time.
We been playing Emily since the first one , the new game are different , love the old ones should be keep it the same way dont really like the new one Im not only with the same feeling.
We love delicious can u plz make more.
We honestly havent seen more care and love put into a mobile game ever in our life. Makes us love the series even more! We really like the message in this one too.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE bring these kinds of games back. The newer ones are just not good.
Ive already paid for this twice over the course of several years due to loosing our original email and account, we love this game so much we didnt mind to get it again, thats how much we love all Emily (delicious) games, we hope and wish the developers will go back to family situations and food service with cuisines from all over the world, its the American dream all wrapped into a little game, thank you, forever a fan.
Awesome game! Ive played almost all the games! This one by far is our favorite.
We normally never write reviews but this is the best game we have ever downloaded on our phone! We have been an Emilys fan for so many years and Im so glad we were able to play through all the levels without having to purchase it! 30 second ads or not we will continue to play these games! We continue to recommend this game to all of our friends, and will continue to do so! The story lines are amazing and all the different restaurants really told a story. We would love to, in the future, have a game of this franchise but with Paige growing up and getting to work in the restaurant!! Thank you so much for continuing to make amazing games, God bless you.
It's a good game. We love it. It's the best one we've ever played. The only problem we're having is we can't complete this challenge for the life of us where we can't serve the same dish twice. We don't know how to do it.
Its rlly good would recommend.
The delicious series is a great some of the best games we have enjoyed playing online. They have a great story line and they always challenge you. We have never had any issues with series that we had to go to customer support over and that says something for these games. The only one we didnt care for was Emily Bed and breakfast and that was because you had to play puzzles to play the game. But the rest of the series we have enjoyed tremendously and have given the series 5 stars because of it thank you for making this game anyone can enjoy it.
This game is soooo cool but we feel bad for Emily and grampathath.
We have various of the Emily/Delicious series of games. And have yet to get/play one we didnt like. We. Enjoy playing each one multiple times (like about 1-2 times a year). Thank-You for thinking of all different story lines.
This is the third time we play this , one of our favorite game.
This story had us laughing and crying.
Its an amazing and entertaining game and we love it, but! We can only play about two levels before the app closes and we dont know why, we guess its a bug but its really annoying. Please fix this.
We love absolutely love this game and every other one!!! Keep them coming. Never had a a issue or even a hiccup with anything! If played many stories and they were all awesome.
Omg we love Emily she is a nice game she has but the challenge we dont play cuse there hard and page is 5 years old and this guy at the farm yells at her cuse he told her not to play with the pig but she is 5 she is having fun so and um its the best game ever we love her thanks to emliy with her game people play this game its the best.
We love it. But the sing made us cry we were just tearing up. But this we one of our favorite top ten games.
This is an amazing game we love all the Emily games the only thing is we wish their was more levels but besides that love the games and we hope they make more.
Our first management game has always been Gamehouse Emily games to the point of ordering a monthly subscription to Gamehouse.
The game is fun,please fix…keeps pausing in middle of game,an likes to shut down while playing..we have to keep resting it.
We love the Emily delicious games and have played them for years. Our favorite is the first Christmas one but cant seem to find it anymore. Any chance of bringing that one back.
We already bought the game. Which we dont mind because we live Delicious Emily Franchise and have all the Game House games downloaded. But if Ive already bought the game why do we have to pay an additional $10 a month so we dont have to see ads. That should be an option for someone who hasnt bought the game. Not someone who already had. Really really upsets us that Game House has done this to their fans.
So we love the delicious games, a big part of our childhood and we still enjoy playing them- so much so that we bought most of them on our phone in full several years ago. Lately, we got an itch to play them again only come to find out we have ADS for a game we ALREADY PAID FOR because now we have to pay $9.99 a month for a game AND SEVERAL OTHERS that Ive already PAID IN FULL FOR!! What a rip off and a waste of money. Dont buy the game expecting you wont have adds because now you need a membership because gamehouse wants to milk you for every penny you have.
Ive loved playing Emily games for years. Ive purchased almost all of them; we even bought a subscription for bundles of Emily and Angela games. But now Im being told we either have to purchase Message in a Bottle again or watch ads in between each level. Why is our original purchase not being honored.
We have deleted a bunch of our games and its still saying connect to WiFi over 200mb. Why is it still showing this.
Before we start, several people also have this problem and neither the developers or Apple refuse to address it. We already paid. The RESTORE button does absolutely nothing. Now ai have to watch 2 ads before every level to play a game we already for. This isnt the only installment that does it. Several others are asking us to pay again as well. The restore button on those games do not work either.
We love this game.. Had it on our kindle. Just spent $10 to get it on our iPad and theres ads.. Not very impressed by that. Spending $10 on a game and still having to watch ads before we can play is a shady move .. For that alone it gets one star.
We only gave it one star because we have bought the whole game and had to buy a new phone but when we re download the game we have to pay for it all over again Im tired of having to spend our money a lot just for the game we literally buy practically all of the Emily games that you guys have.
Already paid for the full version now we have to pay MORE money to play without ads.
This series was a favorite of ours. We have purchased many of the games at full price to have access to all levels. However, an update was done and ads were added to the game. Ads were not a part of our before the update. Now, Im being asked to pay more money to have ads removed. The games we had already paid for and were ad free now had ads. We feel ripped off and will be deleting all the Game House games we have and will not purchase anymore.
Never played a time management game and got so emotional. Ive always enjoyed and been a fan of the delicious game, but never been so moved by the story. Seeing emily singing and grappa going away just really caught us off guard. Thank you delicious team.
LUV DELICIOUS EMILY GAMES!!!! NUFF SAID.
We really like the game it is really fun to play.
We have played probably all the delicious games and love them but the fact that you have to pay 10$ to continue playing is aggravating.
We love this game but it keeps saying there is no internet connection even though there is. So frustrating and really messes up the flow of the game.
The tells us that we have no internet connection when we clearly have one. Seems fraudulent to take our money for a game and then have it crash right away.
We are so frustrated that we cant play this game. It keeps telling us that theres an internet connection error when Im using our cellular data or we connect to our WiFi. Theres NOTHING wrong with our internet. This game is making us mad.
Thank for this game Ive been playing this game since our daughter Emily was born we love all Emily games just except the one that are lock we cant play it because we have to pay for it.
We really like the game except when you have to play levels twenty times to get all the variations.
We love the Gamehouse Time management games, but PLEASE make the expert levels harder. The expert levels on Maggie's film festival are perfectly difficult.
We got a update saying we had to buy this game to stop the ads. And we already got the game a long time ago.now that we updated it the game wont work.
Downloaded the game awhile back and loved it (5stars) When we did the most recent update, it began telling us that we needed to pay for the game again we order to play it ad free. We didn't hear back so we went and did research found we were not the only one with this problem and searched for what their solution was which is find the restore button press that and it was fixed. So far no request for us to pay again.
Dont mind the ads but they dont load and wont let you play. And then rarely the ads will run and you can. Error message most of the time.
We love all Emily games. We always buy the full game content. But now you want us to pay an addition $10 for no ads??? We try to watch the ads and keep getting a box saying ad wont load. So we cant play the game we paid for. Please fix it so we can watch the ads because we are NOT paying another $10 for this game or give us our money back.
We think its insane that we have to watch ads on a game Ive already paid for. And then to be prompted to pay for it again so we dont have to watch them is even worse.
Ive been IN LOVE with delicious Emily games. Im evening getting her sisters games, doctor heart etc. Loving it! But Ive noticed that our older delicious Emily games are charging us for no ads so when Ive paid 10 bucks already and unlocked the hole game we need to pay 10 more for no adds? Also we tried playing delicious Emily hopes & fears which we ALREADY PAID FOR when it came out. And now when we try to go to the next few levels after the first part of that story it shows the rest of the game is locked. We already paid for this game to be COMPLETELY unlocked THE DAY IT CAME OUT. So what? You guys just locked them again she. An update on our iPad happened and now you wanna charge us yet again to unlock the rest of the game?! That isnt far. But you bet your butt Im checking the rest of the older Emily games Ive bought into and if this has happened with a lot Im going to be angry and we want SOMETHING DONE we WILL NOT PAY AGAIN WHEN we PAY THE DAY THEY COME OUT. So therefore we shouldnt have to pay again whatsoever. We should be able to play it whenever we want. Whether we havent played them for months to a half a year but if we wanna play it we shouldnt have to pay 10 more dollars because you guys locked it again and we havent played them in a year. That isnt right whatsoever! Youll get a five star from us when our levels are unlocked again because we wont be paying twice when that is unnecessary.
We have many time management games on our iPhone and we keep coming back to this one. Really engaging story and all of the levels are fun and challenging! Highly recommend.
We love all the Emily series. The stories are interesting and the game is addictive and fun. Keep them coming.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.16
- Size: 305.15 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TL, TH, ZH, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Gamehouse LLC
Last updated: 14th May 2025 | Genre: Family, Entertainment | Developer: Gamehouse LLC