Turbo Subs

The success of a certain sub-selling fast food company has come on the back of a health-focused ad campaign. Get your lunch from here, they claim, and you’ll be ingesting far less fat than you would during a visit to McBurgerjoint.

Of course, their advice (unlike their subs) needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. Add in all the dressing and cheese that a normal person wants in their sarnie and you’re looking at a very similar calorie count to a Triple Whomper With Fried Cheese meal.

Is Turbo Subs from I-play everything it appears to be – a solid, fun time management sim – or are there hidden calories set to weigh down the experience?

Anyone who’s played or heard of the likes of Diner Dash or Cake Mania before should know what they’re in for with Turbo Subs. The goal is to meet multiple customer orders as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Of course, the key difference here is you’re working in a sub shop rather than dealing in cakes or hot dinners. But the core principles of multi-tasking and keeping customers happy are basically the same.

The first step is to provide a menu by tapping on the customer’s question mark bubble. Then, you need to produce their order, which can involve setting your chef to work on a sub, making a coffee (with or without cream), or just grabbing a cookie or a soft drink from the appropriate section.

Whatever you need to do, it’s always a matter of a simple tap or two. Thus, as the orders pick up, play becomes a hypnotically rhythmic affair, tapping extended sequences of commands in order to meet multiple orders.

As well as being efficient, such an approach grants you extra money thanks to the game’s combo system, which rewards accepting or delivering multiple orders in a row. It’s certainly an effective incentive to plot the optimal path around your work area.

This money, in turn, can be spent on improving your facilities, which in turn allows you to make even more money and buy even more stuff.

While none of this is anything revolutionary, and it probably won’t get your pulse racing even if you’ve never played a game of this type before, it’s undoubtedly fun.

What’s more, there aren’t many games like Turbo Subs on Android, so it stands out far more than it does on other platforms.

Ultimately, Turbo Subs is good, healthy snack-gaming. It won’t fill you up for long, but there are no hidden calories to make you regret taking it in either.