Dish Life sees you following you dream of becoming a scientist, but you start off as an undergraduate in a small office space.
You’ve got your own lab, which is more than most, as well as an assistant who can help you out. The beginning of this mobile games has you playing around with stem cells, doing research, and trying to complete quests. There are a bunch of different quests to choose from which can give you XP. You can have up to three quests pending at a time.
Your main goal is to keep an eye on your cells and continue your research. Cells need to be happy to help you with your research. This means you must feed them, make sure they are not crowded in their dish, remove any dead cells, and make sure they are well looked after. If your cells are happy, your characters are happy and can do better research. In your lab, you can make food for the cells, work at various stations, and take a rest so that your work can be done in a more efficient manor.
There are some things you can do to upgrade your lab and give you more actions. When it comes to improving the space, your XP works as currency which can be spent to upgrade existing equipment, purchasing new rooms, or grabbing new items that can then be helpful in your research. You can also purchase more cells if you need to fill up your dish so you can do more experiments.
Throughout Dish Life, there are a number of different factoids that appear, asking you about different aspects of stem cell research, which you can try to guess at. There are also different dilemmas which will require you to make a decision. These decisions then affect how people work with you, if people want to join your lab, and what happens at your lab.
Dish Life also has some really brilliant graphics. I got to play a bit of the game at Pocket Gamer Connects London and really enjoyed both taking care of the adorable cells and trying to learn a bit about the research currently being done in stem cells.
Dish Life is coming to iOS, Android, and Steam this year. In the meantime, you can find more information about the game on the developer’s site.