Coffee Simulator Tycoon

Genre: Idle Game

Players: 1

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Review:

Coffee Simulator Tycoon is an Idle Game released on Nintendo Switch in 2024. In this game, players take the role of the owner of a coffee shop, hiring staff, expanding the number of tables you have, and improving the speed of your service… and that’s pretty much it.

Yeah, as Idle Games go, Coffee Simulator Tycoon is among the worst I’ve encountered when it comes to giving the player options. You can spend cash from served customers to either hire more staff, add more tables to your restaurant, or increase the overall speed of your staff, and that’s it until you reach a specific criteria. When you get three servers of the same skill level, you can also opt to combine them into one more capable server who can carry more coffee cups (which can be done repeatedly, changing them from green to orange to red to purple, with each improved over the last). Then, after you’ve added enough seats in the restaurant, you’ll automatically add a drive-through, then at set intervals you’ll add more machines for your staff to grab from.

There, I’ve just described everything you will ever see in the game.

There’s no expanding out your restaurant, no adding items to the menu, no added skills for your servers. There’s very, very little in the way of choice here. Within an hour you’ll have seen everything there is in the game. Within three hours you will have upgraded everything to maximum, leaving nothing left to do but watch your staff serve guests and the money counter go up infinitely.

In Idle Games, they often add an interactive element for those players wanting to speed things up, and here it’s the most annoying mechanic possible – button mashing. Not with a face button, no – you have to mash ZR. Oh, and there’s a max limit to how much your button-mashing can increase the speed too.

This gameplay is presented using pretty generic 3D visuals with simple “stick man” characters in an uninteresting-looking coffee shop shown from an isometric view. The camera will shift to show upgrades as you buy them, but you cannot move it independently on your own, so cross your fingers and hope that whatever it decides to show next is interesting enough to watch until the next upgrade. This is all backed by an annoyingly repetitive soundtrack.

Coffee Simulator Tycoon is exactly the sort of Idle Game that gives the genre a bad name. It’s short on choices, boring to look at, makes the interactivity as irritating as possible, and everything you can possibly see or do in it is done within a few hours. Even if you love this genre and you’re a coffee-maniac, skip this game.

tl;dr – Coffee Simulator Tycoon is an Idle Game where players run a coffee shop, but unfortunately there’s little in the way of choice here, the interactivity is annoying, the game looks uninteresting, and you’ll see everything the game has to offer within a few hours. Skip it.

Grade: D

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