Recent reviews by Chef Dan

TLDR: Cute Pixel Art, Great Integrations, Fun Games, More Than I Expected!

Dino Market is the zenith of stream interactive gameplay. It artfully balances a solo experience with a simple yet rewarding gameplay cycle.

Dino Market has three main uses with plenty of quality-of-life features. The solo experience, which can also be played with help from chat through integrated capabilities, revolves around an idle/clicker game style. You play level by level, upgrading each of your collected animal market stalls, and satisfying clients' orders. You can assist your automated stalls by buying upgrades and manually clicking to speed up the production rates. For each five levels you complete, an additional animal/stall is added to your screen. Juggling with upgrading, responding to client orders, completing challenges, and using unique skills brings a fun and exciting twist to the classic clicker/idle style.

If you get burned out with the fast pace of this portion, you can switch it up with some chill time between levels, where you can interact with your viewers who have joined in alongside your market animals. They float, crawl, and jump around while you play or work. You can interact, providing petting, dancing, and surprise to interact with your viewers even more. This is fantastic to have in the foreground while you're busy with other tasks on stream like art or work, allowing chatters to engage without disrupting your concentration. If the viewers are restless, they can join you in playing four different on-stream, integrated games. These mini-games are simple and are able to be customized to fine-tune what is right for your stream.

The final way you can use this game is as a productivity booster, a game type that has been gaining traction and popularity recently. You can set tasks on a checklist, use a cute tomato timer which helps you to balance between work and break, and even keep track of longer-term goals.

I recommend Dino Market to any streamer who wants to engage more fully with their viewers, who struggles to find meaningful interactions, or who wants to add another layer to their stream environment. The game provided entertainment beyond my expectations of a simple animal overlay, including a captivating solo game, fun multiplayer mini-games, and a robust framework. I encountered few, if any, unintended features and the application ran very well on my mediocre computer.

I hope that the developer continues to work on this project, adding additional integrated games, backgrounds, music, and productivity tools. I wish I could have opened more than one tab of the menu, displayed the different commands for chat in game, or had some sort of "sticky note" tabs for ease of accessibility. Thank you for this obvious labor of love.