User's Review
By Lazaru76
High Tea is a strange kind of time management game-kinda like Papa’s Pizzeria in the sense that you have to manage your time well to meet your deadlines. The similarities end there though. High Tea tries to teach us of the history of the tea trade in the 1800’s between Britain and China. You are a trader charged with sating Britain’s thirst for Chinese tea by buying and selling opium. When you complete orders in timely fashion you receive another ship. The game progresses and your orders increase and the time that you have decreases. The plot thicken-well not really, it just speeds up.
History lesson aside, the game is so-so. I like the historical impact, a little preachy-but illuminating none-the-less. The game play is simple-buy low sell high is the only real strategy-don’t lose your ship trading in risky ports. Fill the orders as fast as you can. It becomes repetitive pretty fast. It’s fun for one run through, but I didn’t enjoy the game any more through several plays.
The market trends are somewhat unrealistic making it near impossible to grab onto a solid profit. The ‘surprises’ in the game help some but seem pretty infrequent-I’m not sure if that’s for historical accuracy or just to be annoying. I did like seeing the stats at the end of a game-it’s tough sometimes to do one’s job, but every once in a while it’s nice to see the results of all that hard work-108 million opium addicts can’t be wrong. What is a humble tea trader to do?
All in all it was okay to read through the history, but kind of a dry playing experience.
High tea receives 2.5/5 Bgames stars
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