Roadkill Cafe is an action-based resource management game from Canadian indie game developer Atommo.

The Game

Git ‘em furry little critters!

You are in Hicksville, USA (Or so I like to say) and you have opened up a roadside cafe, but what food are you going to serve? Well, the road is right there, and apparently drivers couldn’t give a crap about what they hit and what gets splattered right then and there, so you might as well capitalize on the situation and serve up that roadkill to your customers. Welcome to Roadkill Cafe, where all you are essentially doing is picking up roadkill, bringing it back to your cafe, and making customers very happy. You control your character by tapping the screen and moving your finger in the direction you wish to go, which can cause some issues sometimes; namely the fact that my fat hand blocks the screen and sometimes I run out of screen real estate causing my character to stop dead in his tracks and die a horrible, horrible death.

Roadkill Cafe does have some more variety behind it with a total of five gameplay modes: Cafe, Arcade, Survival, Vengeance, and Rampage. Cafe is the aforementioned collection of animal carcasses for mass consumption with several levels at hand, where completion is getting a five star rating at your cafe – the five stars being consistency and volume of food served, not the quality of course. Arcade mode is the unlimited version of Cafe mode, trying to get the highest score possible so you can have bragging rights on the leaderboard. Survival is a frogger-style mode where you are thrown into the middle of the road and it is up to you whether or not you make it out alive (You won’t.) and you must try to survive for as long as you can. Vengeance is basically revenge of the animals; you are in the middle of a field and chickens will begin appearing from all over the place and you just need to stay away for as long as possible. Last but not least, Rampage mode is revenge of the wheel-barrow driving fool that you are, and you get behind the wheel of a car and attempt to run over as many animals as possible for the highest score.

Graphics

Run from the chickens!

Roadkill Cafe has simple 2D sprites that get the job done. They are by no means spectacular, but you can tell when a car is coming at you, what kind of animal it is hitting, and what emotion your customers currently have.

Sound

There is no better way to describe the soundtrack of Roadkill Cafe other than the word “yokel-y”, and that isn’t even an actual word! It has a very southern flavour to it, heavy on the banjo, and definitely should have been played with a straw hat and a denim jumpsuit.

Conclusion

Roadkill Cafe is a simple and fun game, but there isn’t much else to it. There sure are a variety of different gameplay modes, albeit shallow, but at least it will keep you busy for 15-30 minutes at a time. Check out the lite version and decide if it is the game for you.

Score

MustTap Score: Iron Tap

It's technically solid, but what comes out is pretty plain.

Bottom Line
Roadkill Café is a simple game that puts you as an entrepreneur who collects roadkill and serves it up in their roadside café. Once the novelty wears off, there isn’t much else to the game and the controls often feel weird, but it is fun for short little bursts.

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