Overview: Sweet World is a cooking-themed harvesting game along the lines of Cafe World. It’s also an unsubtle advertisement for Hostess products. Whether the former outweighs the latter is certainly a matter of taste (if you’ll pardon the pun,) but Sweet World is oddly-paced at best, and barren at worst.

There isn’t much of a tutorial, but it covers the whole of the game – bake a cookie, sell the cookie, use the money to buy decorations. You start off with enough to buy more ovens, if you care to, but not much else except floor tiles and counters. There are actually lots and lots of neat decorations, but the vast majority of them either require real-world cash or a higher level to unlock.

The other very odd design choice is that there isn’t a single recipe that requires less than an hour to bake. What this means is that you can play for about five minutes, spending the starting cash and flipping through the menu (that does include actual real-world recipes for various snacks, all of which, of course, require Hostess brand ingredients – the “Ding Dong Dessert Sandwich” is just one example.) Then you’re stuck waiting for your cookies to bake for at least an hour.

It’s very rare that we actually pan a game here – we try so hard to present each game in the best possible light, so our readers can decide for themselves whether or not to try a game out. But Sweet World appears to be an ad rather than a game – if you are dying to learn how to make Lemon Twinkie Fruit Tarts (we wish we were kidding,) then by all means install it, but there are far, far better games of this type to spend your Facebook time and dollars on.