If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to have Gordon Ramsay lobbing F-bombs at you as you tear around the kitchen trying desperately to impress him – and who hasn’t? – a new mobile phone game featuring the chef might well be up your alley.

Gordon Ramsay Dash was developed by Glu Games and released on iPhone and Android last month. In it, you take on the role of a “Rising Star Chef,” starting your career in a humble burger joint before travelling the world and building a culinary empire.

Ramsay is on hand all the while to give you instructions, occasionally encourage you and – particularly as the game gets more difficult and your customers begin to lose patience and leave – hurl abuse at you. (Unlike on the television shows that have made him a household name, he does occasionally lift a finger to help: when you play well, you build up a store of energy that, when unleashed, will see the chef tear around the kitchen serving everyone at once. It’s a good excuse to pause from clicking for a moment, the better to ward off RSI.)

The game follows the success of Glu’s Cooking Dash and Diner Dash games and – like Angry Birds, Candy Crush and countless other games before it – is designed to be both mindlessly simple to play and increasingly, frustratingly difficult to master. (At least without the optional in-game purchases, which allow you to upgrade your kitchen much more quickly than if you were to play the game without them.)

It certainly shares with those other games a certain addictive quality: it won’t be long before you’ve used up all your ingredients (read: lives) and are forced to put your phone away – though you’ll doubtless wind up checking it obsessively, waiting for the opportunity to do so again.

The gameplay is straightforward: customers appear on the left of screen, an image appears above them showing you what they want, and you have to click the items in the correct order to make the dish and serve it to them before they become impatient and leave.

But there are hurdles. At least until you’ve upgraded your kitchen, you only have one burner, one storage bin, one deep-fryer, and so on. But you’ve usually got more than one customer requesting the same thing. Time management – every recipe involves several steps that take specific amounts of time to complete – is paramount. (Prepare to be faced with completely different kitchens and processes when you start travelling, too. Your second restaurant is a pizza place, with a whole new series of steps to learn, the recipes becoming much more complicated as the game progresses elsewhere.)

To make matters worse, your avatar-chef – whose appearance is fully customisable, by the way – only has two hands to carry plates with. Expect countless hours of tapping away furiously, picking up the wrong items, having to bin them and start all over again – all while Gordon Ramsay stands there, arms folded, constantly berating you.

Wow. That really does sound like MasterChef.

Getting Ramsay to record his voice for the game – and he’s clearly done a much more extensive recording session than most celebrities who lend their names to such ventures – is clearly a stroke of genius. Gordon Ramsay Dash is certain to appeal to fans of his television work even if they’re not they kind of person who traditionally likes to play games on their phones. Some fans have complained that there’s not enough swearing in the game for it to feel properly realistic – though complaining about a mobile game’s level of realism strikes us as a bit unrealistic itself – but wait until the game gets harder and you start failing more (clicking Ramsay repetitively instead of the food has the same effect) and see what happens. Granted, it’s not exactly world-class cussing, but it’s not nothing. The Angry Birds may have been angry, but they never called you a f—ing donkey.