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Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
By Big Fish Games, released 1 Jan 2009
- Microsoft Windows
- macOS
- business simulation game
What it is
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design is a business simulation from Big Fish Games about building a chocolate enterprise. Travel between ports to find ingredients, create chocolates, and help the Baumeister family. The game lets you choose the ingredients, appearance, name, and description of custom recipes; those choices also affect your economic success. Its setting draws on the economic and technological changes after World War II, and the goal includes working toward leadership of a chocolate empire. The game is listed as a strategy and business simulation title, while its Steam genre is Simulation. Steam lists single-player and Family Sharing, with versions for Windows and macOS. Big Fish Games is the maker and developer, and PlayFirst is the publisher. It was released in 2009, with a Steam release date of August 12 of that year.
What players like, and what they don't
- Players customize recipe ingredients and appearance.
- Recipe choices have an economic impact.
- Travel to ports to find ingredients.
- Family Sharing is listed.
- Steam lists single-player only.
- Steam lists Windows and macOS versions.
Who it suits
It suits players interested in a single-player business simulation built around creating and selling chocolate. Recipe customization and ingredient discovery are central to its listed play.
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design puts recipe creation and ingredient hunting at the center of a chocolate business simulation. Its single-player format focuses on customization, travel, and economic consequences.





