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Run a Tokyo night café, mix hot or cold drinks for humans and yōkai, and follow their stories toward different endings.
Released 21 May 2026
Serve Humans and Yōkai
Mix Hot or Iced
Shape Customer Endings
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Developed by Chorus Worldwide Games, Toge Productions · Published by Chorus Worldwide Games
You run a café open late at night in modern Tokyo, serving a new cast of human and yōkai customers. As the barista, you prepare their orders and listen as their lives, relationships, and concerns emerge over conversations at the counter.
Make drinks by combining ingredients, with options for hot or cold preparations and additions such as whipped cream or ice cream. You can also customize latte art. Serving the requested drink can affect how a customer's story unfolds; free-play and timed challenge modes offer ways to make drinks outside the story.
The story progresses over successive café shifts, with outcomes that vary according to your drink orders and discoveries. Tomodachill, an in-game social network, lets you browse posts and follow hashtags to uncover hidden updates, clues, and additional dialogue. Character endings and a special epilogue are tied to story progress.
Many reviewers enjoy the calm late-night café setting, lo-fi music, pixel art, and stories that they found moving or reflective; some said the characters’ lives and connections stayed with them after playing. The new cold-drink options and expanded Tomodachill feed also appealed to some players. Others found the writing too blunt or repetitive, felt the cast and stories were uneven, or wanted the supernatural setting to play a larger role. Frequent complaints included having to check many social posts and difficulty interpreting some drink requests.
Coffee Talk Tokyo returns as a cozy, narrative-driven visual novel set in a late-night café in modern Tokyo. Brew drinks, listen to heartfelt stories, and shape the lives of humans and yōkai alike through meaningful conversations and impactful choices.
In a city of paper and steel, where old and new coexist, a small café becomes a refuge from the sweltering summer heat. Behind the counter, you serve the right drink at the right moment while your customers open up about love, loss, identity, and second chances, all to chill lo-fi beats.
• Brew hot and cold drinks for humans and yōkai
• Listen to deeply personal, branching stories
• Make dialogue choices that influence character outcomes
• Unlock hidden Tomodachill posts through interactive hashtags
• Discover multiple endings shaped by your decisions
Every shift brings new conversations, new connections, and new possibilities.
While the atmosphere feels familiar, the customers and their journeys are entirely new.
You’ll meet:
• Kenji, a traditional kappa salaryman searching for meaning after retirement.
• Vin, the Barista’s assistant coping with a fractured past and the lingering consequences of a previous disaster.
• Ayame, a happy-go-lucky but recently deceased It girl struggling to understand her unexpected afterlife.
And many more new faces, each story unfolds based on how you listen, respond, and serve.
The composer of Coffee Talk and Coffee Talk Episode 2, Andrew “AJ” Jeremy, returns with an all-new lo-fi soundtrack to accompany every shift behind the counter.
Serve returning favorites and discover new drink options, including refreshing cold beverages perfect for Tokyo’s summer heat.
Enhance your latte art with sprinkle stencils, then personalize each drink by adding milk and etching your own finishing touches.
Engage with your customers beyond the café through Tomodachill, the in-game social network.
Tomodachill now features clickable hashtags. By following these hashtags, you can uncover hidden posts from characters you do not yet follow, revealing new layers of the story like a trail of breadcrumbs.
Some hidden posts contain important clues that influence how storylines unfold and can affect your path toward the best endings. Others expand the wider Coffee Talk world, sometimes offering glimpses of familiar faces.
Every post, reply, and connection may matter more than it first appears.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 44 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 81/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
