Coffee Talk

It's cute, calming, and taught me about a lot of drinks I now wanna brew at home. Fight me.

Vibe with the day-by-day, and you will love this.

Everything about ‘Coffee Talk’ – like the soft colour palette, the gameplay, the lo-fi soundtrack, the gentle story – radiates a relaxing atmosphere. This visual novel with puzzles is set in an alternate reality, in which “the great war between races is but a footnote in history.” By that, it means fictional creatures like elves, orcs, werewolves and nekimimi coexist with humans. It’s the ideal game to play when you’re stressed. It’s clear from the start that ‘Coffee Times’ is an allegory of modern times, but it’s hardly political. It doesn’t go deep into themes like race, sexuality and parenthood that drive its story arcs. Whether that’s good or bad will depend on your views. For what it’s worth, I found the story about the star-crossed lovers, one of whom is an elf and the other a succubus, to be most interesting. Although this game has you listening to your customers’ problems and serving them drinks to alleviate their woes, it moves at your pace. Story Mode doesn’t impose any time pressure as you prepare beverages, and you can save your game anywhere. As a result, there’s very little need to backtrack, unless you’ve really messed up your drink orders. The game’s puzzles involve making correct drinks for your customers. The beverages you prepare will have varying degree of warmth, cool, sweetness and bitterness. You’ll have to combine the ingredients in such a way to create drinks with the requested flavour profiles. Some combinations will even produce real-life specialty beverages! If Story Mode of ‘Coffee Talk’ is too soothing for you, you can try the Challenge Mode, in which you have to create beverages to your customers’ specifications within time limit. You can always play the Endless Mode to experiment with different combination of ingredients to unlock recipes. With game modes of varying degree of intensity and challenges, ‘Coffee Talk’ aims to please a broad spectrum of gamers. I think it succeeds in doing so, making it very easy for me to recommend.

THe game is one that I would recommend if you want to chill and forgeet about whatever is stressing you out. The characters are charming enough, the story never overstays its welcome, the artsyle is very pleasing to look at, and the soundtrack is very well made for the vibe it was going for. My slight complaint towards this game is that one aspect about a character is never really explained even though they alude to it, so it was kind of a letdown to not know what happened in the past with said character. Other than that, this game is really nice.

I bought this on Switch (Full Version was on there first.. Sorry GOG) and it's been a nice game to play with easy relaxing music and vibes laying in bed before your ready to get some sleep. Finished the story once and i'm doing a second playthrough right now messing up all the drink orders just to see the reactions. Enjoyable