Introduction

In Night Market, you are a budding food stall owner in a new night market in Taipei City. You will be spending your days sending out workers to collect goods and your nights satisfying the specific tastes of the customers you have attracted. Throughout the game, you will upgrade your humble stand into a thriving, bustling business of tasty snacks and signature dishes. 

Night Market features an innovative worker placement mechanism and an interesting spatial puzzle at its core and attempts to capture the feel of a bustling night market. So does the theme come through, and does the gameplay hold up? Let's dig in and find out. 

Food Fight!

Night Market takes place over four seasons, consisting of three phases: day phase, night phase, and upkeep. The bulk of the gameplay occurs during the first two phases, and each has its own puzzle to solve. The game ends after the four seasons, and whoever has the most reputation wins. 

During the day phase, you will be sending out your workers into districts to gather ingredients and upgrade your market in various ways. Each player has five workers and will place all five of them during the day phase. You place them onto districts that depict the four different goods: stinky tofu,…

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