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Dish Life: The Game – Simulation Game Review
Dish Life: The Game is a Simulation/Education game from Pocket Sized Hands Ltd, first launched in 25th February 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 11+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dish Life: The Game Stand Out
In Dish Life: The Game, experience the life of a stem cell researcher by managing the daily life of a laboratory and growing your very own stem cells. Manage your laboratory and nurture your stem cells to become a celebrated stem cell scientist. Come face to face with issues that stem cell scientists deal with daily; politics, social issues and staff problems are just a few of the types of dilemmas you’ll have to deal with in Dish Life.
Dish Life: The Game aims to educate and inform players of both the scientific processes of stem cell science as well as address the wider issues and misconceptions that are associated with stem cell research. This game is produced by the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), with the support of the Wellcome Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dish Life: The Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st July 2022
Recent improvements include:
German language support
Download & Availability
Dish Life: The Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dish Life: The 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:
The game has a really cool concept, and we believe you can add more things to make it more interesting and more levels. Some things become really repetitive, which makes it boring. Its very slow unless you play it three times faster. Im stuck now with two differentiation petri dishes that we cant solve, we dont know why. But its taking space out of all the dishes. Im hoping you can help with this issue. We would also suggest if there is a skipping button for all the dialogues if we dont really wanna go through all of them.
We love the concept of this game! The main issue is that there is a limited number of things you can do in the game, so it becomes very repetitive with minimal need for strategic thought/decision making. The projects dont change – they are just different combinations of the same mundane tasks. The gameplay doesnt change at all as you progress from undergraduate to professor, which is a great shortcoming. You have to play this game at three times speed or else its very slow. The dialogue boxes and conversations with colleagues do not affect gameplay at all and only hinder the flow of the game as you constantly have to exit out of dialogue boxes. The issues that arise in these dialogues could be opportunities for side quests or additional projects, such as addressing morale of the entire lab community. In summary, this is a noteworthy start to a unique game, but there is significant room for improvement.
A cool concept, and fun to play but has quite a few glitches that made it unplayable early on. (Quests not completing, not being able to assign someone for differentiation and being stuck with a differentiating plate you can't use etc.).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.3
- Size: 665.29 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Pocket Sized Hands Ltd
Last updated: 1st July 2022 | Genre: Simulation, Education | Developer: Pocket Sized Hands Ltd