BBQ Roast is a cute browser game with a tasty food theme and a BBQ twist on the usual match-3 gameplay. The graphics in BBQ Roast are cute and fun, reminding me of a Cooking Mama challenge (and I still love Cooking Mama).
In BBQ Roast, players have 6 skewers of barbeque ingredients, starting with fish cakes. The goal is to combine 3 of the same ingredient on the same skewer, to make the next level of barbecue cooking, becoming veggies, salmon and so forth. Every few moves, new ingredients come down from the top, either adding to the tasty trios on the sticks, or ruining the player’s strategy.
A good casual game is easy to pick up and play, with a mechanic player can understand in just a few moves. There are 6 levels in the game, with more challenging drops and more possible ingredients. The first couple were easy and casual for me, but as the number of possible ingredients grew, it required more planning, a bit like in the number puzzle games 2048.
And — call me old-fashioned — a good casual game shouldn’t have loads of pop-up ads for HomeScapes, either, or harass you to spend money on virtual currency because that’s the only way to progress. BBQ Roast meets all these requirements, there are no pop-ups and no pay-to-play at all.
BBQ Roast is a cute and casual little browser game, with an easy-to-learn casual mechanic and attractive food art. Casual games are appealing for many reasons, but their accessibility and ease is key. With short play times and clear, simple mechanics, casual games like are easy to pick up and play immediately. That works well for a browser game, since many players are looking for a few minutes of a cute, fun puzzle, often while waiting for something else.
For other browser games, I’ve really enjoyed Doublespeak Games’ A Dark Room, a strange little adventure with no graphics at all, and Grey by Kevin Does Art, an indie platformer with a story twist.
What about you? Are you playing any good browser games?
