The Great Chocolate Chase

**The Great Chocolate Chase: A Chocolatier Twist** is a spin-off time management game in the Chocolatier series. It was released by PlayFirst in 2008 for Windows and Mac computers.

## Story

The game takes place in the early 1900s, between the events of Chocolatier and Chocolatier 2: Secret Ingredients. Baumeister Confections has undertaken a secret initiative, which is to supply means for small chocolate shops to produce custom confections in situ. To that end, the company has hired Klaus Werner, an eccentric inventor, to create small steam-powered chocolate-making machines. The player assumes the role of Evangeline Baumeister, who travels to remote locations around the world to test out Klaus' machines by herself.

During her visits to six villages and settlements with varying climates, Evangeline befriends locals as well as travelers who frequent her chocolate shops, and duly records notable events in her journal (which is shown before the start of each level). As time goes on, she notices something suspicious about Klaus' behavior, in that he persistently asks for origins of unique ingredients and flavors that she gets to know from interaction with her patrons. While staying at Kamchatka, she realizes that Klaus must be connected in some ways to Schokolade Weltriech, the main competition of Baumeister Confections, upon hearing the news that the company came upon the same set of ingredients she had been experimenting with. In order to foil him as an industrial spy, she contacts Klaus about the discovery of a supposed new ingredient called Russian Cashews, which she had not really discovered. Her suspicion is proved when Schokolade Weltriech is found to be circulating inquiries for Russian Cashews. Klaus is not heard from anymore after that.

After conclusion of the events at Kamchatka, Evangeline briefly returns home to San Francisco to spend time with her husband, and heads to Gaberoun Oasis, Libya, a few months later to finalize the design of the machines without the help of Klaus. Here, the headquarters tasks her with a series of quests, and contributes additional sums of money upon completion. After finishing the tasks at Gaberoun, Evangeline realizes that her journey to test the machines has revealed many valuable ingredients, for the benefit of her and her company, and that success indeed tastes sweet.

## Help articles

### Introduction

In The Great Chocolate Chase: A Chocolatier Twist, you'll have to fill customer orders as quickly and accurately as you can to make your shop profitable. In these next few pages you'll learn everything you'll need to know to run your shop.

1. Intro
2. Serving Customers
3. Chocolate Stations
4. Chain Bonus
5. Customer Patience
6. Upgrades
7. Sweet Rewards

### Serving Customers

* Customers will come into your shop and order chocolates. First, you'll need to give them a menu.
* Once they have decided what they want, they will place an order. The picture of the chocolate in their thought balloon will tell you what they want.
* Fill their order and bring it to them. Collect the money they leave on the table.

### Chocolate Stations

Chocolates come in different flavors and shapes and have different ingredients and toppings.

* **Sauce Station:** Orders from the Sauce Station are the easiest to serve, but you'll have to wait for it to refill before you can deliver another.
* **Flavors:** The color of the chocolate will tell you if it is Dark, Milk, or White chocolate. Match the color of the chocolate to the button on the Mixing Station.
* **Shapes:** The Chocolate Press can mold chocolates into one of three different shapes. Match the shape of the chocolate to the button on the Chocolate Press.
* **Ingredients:** The colored stripes on a chocolate will tell you what ingredients you may need to include. You have to add an ingredient to a barrel of chocolate before you take it to the Chocolate Press. Match the color of the stripes to the button on the Ingredient Station.
* **Toppings:** The Topping Station will add a topping to your chocolates. Toppings include everything from cashews to coconut! You can add a topping to finished chocolates and infusions.
* **Infusions:** Round chocolates with a hole in the center are Infusions. Match the color inside the hole to the button on the Infusion Station.

### Chain Bonus

Serving multiple customers at the same time will earn you a Chain Bonus.

Any time you perform the same action multiple times (like delivering menus, delivering orders, or collecting money) without performing another action in between, you'll get a Chain Bonus. And the longer the chain, the bigger the bonus!

### Customer Patience

If you keep customers waiting too long they'll get upset and they might even leave! You can tell how upset they are by the shape of their order balloon.

You'll meet many characters in the different locations you visit, and they'll all have different personalities. Some are patient, while others are always in a hurry. Learn their quirks and serve the impatient customers first to maximize profit.

### Upgrades

You can use the money you earn to buy lots of great upgrades to boost your profits and make your shop more appealing!  There are three different types of upgrades and each type affects your shop differently.

* **Decoration:** Buying these upgrades will increase the attractiveness of your shop.  An attractive shop will make your customers more patient and encourage them to tip more **generously**.
* **Machines:** Buying new machinery and ingredients for your shop will give your menu greater variety and make your job easier.  Faster machines will make your shop much more efficient and more exotic ingredients will make your chocolates more profitable..
* **Power-ups:** Buying power-ups for Evangeline will make her faster and better at working in the shop.  Power-ups can dramatically increase Evangeline’s skills and increase the profits she makes for selling chocolates.

### Sweet Rewards

The Sweet Rewards screen contains chocolates that serve as trophies for all of your accomplishments in the game.  From serving your 100th customer to completing every location in the game, a visual catalog of your achievements can be found here.  You can enter the Sweet Rewards Screen from the Main Menu.

## Locations

 Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
 Namche Bazaar, Nepal
 Krakatoa, Indonesia
 Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, Russia
 Gaberoun Oasis, Libya

## In other languages

To play the game in other languages, access the link on the right of a language's row to play and download in your native language. Or challenge yourself and play in a language you don't know - the choice is yours!

## Sweet Rewards

Sweet Rewards are achievements in the game as a way to commemorate reaching a certain goal.

## Trivia

* **The Great Chocolate Chase** is the only game in the *Chocolatier* series to not involve Big Splash Games in development.