Betty's Beer Bar Review

15Jul/110

Betty’s Beer Bar Review

Help Betty fulfill her dreams by working in a rundown, rowdy beer bar until she has enough money to buy a tropical paradise drinking establishment in Mac sim time management game Betty’s Beer Bar. As a young child, Betty found the rural lifestyle of a remote farm not to her liking. At the first opportunity, she left for the bright city lights to make her aspirations come to life.

The play begins with you selecting the type of game you want to perform. There are Story Mode, Time Challenge and Free Play. In Story you view the photo album about Betty’s youth, the Time Challenge posts your score online, and Free is unlimited play. The second selection is how long you want your level to last from a minute to 15 minutes.

The sim time management is much like many other games of the same genre. You wait for the customer to put in their order, click on the empty, clean beer mug, click on the keg, click on the customer to serve, wait until the client is finished, click on the empty mug and money to collect. It’s fairly straightforward until the customer drinks too much, may pass out and not pay their tab. If you see the client getting drunk, you serve them coffee to keep them awake enough to tip you. Nothing worse than a wide awake drunk but you must make your money. In addition to serving beer, you must wash the dirty mugs before serving your customers. If you see the hand with bubbles, you can forego washing the mugs because they magically get clean without washing. There are other helps throughout the play like the caffeine pill where Betty will slip into the mugs of drunk clients.

The customers are from all walks of life from businessmen and women to harem girls, nuns, aliens and slobs. Many of the people look rough and mean. One of the women looked a lot like Joy Behar on the View. The artwork is not cute, but it is good and funny.

However, this game is not for young kids. The beer drinking until you are drunk and pass out theme is not appropriate for children. In addition, the idea of nuns drinking in a bar of that caliber is not proper. If the developers stuck to the aliens and robots, they would be okay. I know we may have gotten enough of the sugary sweetness of some other sim games like Jessica’s Cupcake Café, but beer in a rundown biker hangout?

Other than my holier than thou outlook, Betty’s Beer Bar is a easy sim game with all the usual busyness associated with these kinds of play. It starts out slowly with a good tutorial for you to get used to the outline of the game. The characters are all a little depressed looking and are very demanding when they do not get their beer. If you do not mind the theme, get working on helping Betty buy her dream bar serving mango martinis in the setting sun of a tropical island.