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Run a café by designing its space, crafting customer-tailored coffee recipes, and managing staff, supplies, and finances.
Released 07 Jun 2023
Create Coffee Recipes
Match Customer Tastes
Decorate Your Café
Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!
Developed by DreamWay Games · Published by PlayWay S.A.









Take charge of a coffee shop and shape its look with furniture and decorations. Hire and manage employees while aiming to keep customers satisfied and the business operating profitably.
Use a 3D editor to combine ingredients into coffee recipes, then adapt your menu to customer preferences and changing trends. You can also research ingredients and offer snacks.
Order supplies, manage costs and prices, promote the shop, and build its reputation. Campaign missions introduce management tasks across different locations, while sandbox mode lets you run a café without mission objectives.
Players who enjoy Espresso Tycoon often praise experimenting with coffee recipes, decorating their café, and balancing the day-to-day business, with campaign missions providing structure and new challenges. Some also find it a relaxing game to spend time with. Other reviewers feel the experience becomes repetitive or limited after the campaign, and opinions on the visuals and technical performance vary.
Espresso Tycoon is a brand-new approach to the old classic tycoon games you remember from your childhood. Build a coffee shop from your dreams, where your customers can relax and drink delicious coffee. Deal with the emotional rollercoaster and build a successful coffee business.
Just imagine… you’re the boss here! Feel like the real cafe owner, an empire builder, and create the whole strategy, which includes:
decorating
hiring and managing employees
taking care of the supply chain
analyzing the budget
advertising your coffee shop
and, what’s most important, keeping your customers happy
You have your favorite coffee, right? So do your customers. Do the market research to find out their preferences. Use a 3D coffee editor to make different recipes to delight them. You can combine multiple ingredients in a very creative way.
Start, build and develop your coffee shop. Check your budget - do you have enough money to invest, or will you have to make some cuts? Decide where and when you want to start your new coffee business. Hire (or fire) a barista, do the marketing campaign, create a relaxing place, and collect the rating points.
Complete all the missions!
Immerse yourself in the new coffee shop simulator. Build the best café in the city. Create, customize, sell snacks, cookie, and manage baristas – all of that in the new coffee shop simulation game. Become the coffee tycoon, don't feel stray, build the circle of trust with your customers, cross the frontier, and create the whole empire - the best on the planet!


| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 94 |
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| Controller required | No |
| AI disclosure | Tutorial character (Kim) and voiceovers were created with the help of AI and then retouched by our team to fit the game. AI tools have been used solely to assist our small indie dev team. Please be assured that the game's content represents our team's creativity and dedication. |
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| Website | Official website |