Chocolatier | 
| From: Brighter Minds
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1870
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Mac Os X
Genre: Artificial Life Simulation Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 13 x 7.4 x 1.2
MPN: PCSTK261143
UPC: 612761611434
EAN: 0612761611434
ASIN: B000TZBYM4
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand NEW in Metal Collectable Tin. Fast 1st Class Shipping Only $3.99.
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| Features:
| • | Build a chocolate empire scouting out elusive ingredients, reigning in recipes, parlaying prices and outwitting conniving competition | | • | Over 130 different quests through 14 cities throughout the world | | • | Exciting mini game to set your level of factory production for every recipe you obtain | | • | Two game play modes: story and freeplay | | • | Delightful art and music that transport you straight to the 1800's |
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Product Description
Oh the gloriously rich and delectable life of a chocolatier! Constantly surrounded by mounds of chocolate bars and boxes of mouth-watering truffles! Become a master chocolatier one ingredient at atime as you travel the world to find the best prices and maximize production...but don't forget about those conniving competitors who wish you poorly! Do you have what it takes to conquer the world through chocolate?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 DARK & DELICIOUS FUN - WITH ZERO CALORIES! November 25, 2007
NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in Orbit)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a Business-SIM focusing on chocolate trade. Although sold under $10 as a casual game, I found this much more fun and enjoyable than more advertised and much more expensive games!
You start out as an apprentice and have to master ingredients, recipes, ordering and marketing. This is a well balanced game and you and your family will have great Fun!
I think it would be a good idea to download the 60min-trial version from Reflexive (you can Google it) and decide whether this is your cup of tea.
WARNING! This game may precipitate INTENSE Chocolate-cravings! :)
RECOMMENDED!
 Addictive! December 28, 2007
Amanda Tinsley (Phx, AZ)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was given this game for Christmas, and didn't have very high hopes for it. Within ten minutes I was completely absorbed. This is a very addicting game. You travel around the world to find chocolate recipes and make the chocolates in your factories. You also have to buy ingredients for your chocolates and not every port will have the ingredients you are looking for; you won't find cocoa in New York but will have to travel to Trinidad for instance to buy it. Lots of things to do and a lot of missions to accomplish to achieve Master Chocolatier! Very fun game.
Excellent game! Not what you might expect! February 4, 2008
J. Weiss (Flushing, MI)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Chocolatier is a business simulation game where you make and sell different kinds of chocolates. You go around the map to find ingredients at low prices, sell chocolates you have made at your factories, and to run errands for other businessman which leads to more chocolate recipes.
While I have played a lot of different business "tycoon" type games, Chocolatier is by far one of my favorites. Addictive, interesting, and at times funny, Chocolatier had my attention and I loved playing every minute of it. Great for rainy or snowy days when you don't have any plans to leave the house because trust me, once you start playing this game you will not want to stop!
If you are looking for similiar games to this one, Tradewinds and Tradewinds Legends are also very good. Also Chocolatier 2 is now available and is very good.
Extremely tempting! December 25, 2007
Robin C. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I LOVE this game. Basic concept is you run chocolate factories and sell your chocolates to retailers in various exotic locations. You travel the world purchasing ingredients and collecting recipes. Highly recommended for chocolate lovers!
Can be played on a Mac! February 23, 2008
Sleepless (Anoka, MN)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am always on the lookout for non-shooter games for my kids that are compatible with Apple OS and this one is for sure a keeper! I popped it into the laptop the first night after it arrived and played until 2am (how does time fly like that?)
I won't retell the story line or anything so dull.... You can read other reviews for that.
Give this game a try. It is fun for kids and adults alike. My 11 & 13 year olds both defeated the game before I did, but then they both played it again with different strategy trying to beat their scores. It also does not go on forever and ever in long boring quests. It is a quick game that has doable levels and rewards as it moves along and keeps the player's interest.
Plus a few of the characters have little tidbits of trivia about chocolate history, so it is *mildly* educational.
I think this is a game that can be put away and revisited later and still give good play value. The quests are just enough random that the game is not too overly predictable.
!! HOWEVER !! We did experience a mid-game crash under OS 10.4.11. I contacted the company via email and they responded quickly. This is a known bug in the CD copy. The cure for the crash is to download the online Mac version of the trial game over the already installed CD version..... that patched it up like a charm and it ran perfectly from that moment on.... the crash turned out to be a minor hiccup in game play.
The trial version/ game patch can be found free at PlayFirst(dot)com
Even though the trial version says it only runs for 60 minutes, the game has no such limit when patched over the CD version of the game.
Give this little gem of a game a try. I plan on buying more games from this company,
Decent Mac games are hard to find and are usually overpriced, so this is a great find....
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