Latte Stand Tycoon

Neat idea but the execution is severly lacking. As others already pointed out: You spend the first ingame week finetuning the recipies which is somewhat fun. After that it's all downhill. It takes until around day 30 or at max 40 to unlock everything, then you adjust the recipies again a bit and that's it. The story is flimsy at best (the mayor visits a few times) and doesn't even have an actual payoff at day 90. It's even worse: It teases you with a new location but you never get to see it as far as I can tell (stopped playing at day 100). Instead your only option is to continue the mundane task of adjusting the coffee each day and then sit there mindlessly watching your money pool rising since you can't spend it on anything but milk, spice and coffee.

[list][/list]Note: This review will be edited once Valve fixes the carriage return problem with Steam. Apologies for the lack of paragraphs, I blame Valve. Seriously, for some reason, all paragraph/carriage returns in this review are removed by Valve when the review is posted.[list][/list]Latte Stand Tycoon is a 2D retro pixel coffee making business tycoon game heavy with visual novel elements (and what's rule #0 of game design? That's right, if you can't tell the story interactively through the game mechanism itself, DON'T!).[list][/list]Poorly written e-book components aside, the tycoon component has a modicum of depth as you need to get your recipe right and account for weather conditions that influence customer demand, as well as do some upgrading of your coffee stand. Having said that, it's still incredibly shallow compared to, you know, real tycoon games like the Rollercoaster games, Jurassic World, Cities Skylines, Tropico, etc etc... you know, the games this is competing on the same store with. Sure would be great for amateur devs if games existed in a vacuum. And terrible for gamers.[list][/list]From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requir…

After not having sold a single latte in almost a hour of play, I looked for clarifications online. Apparently the gameplay consists of guessing the right amounts of coffee, milk and spice. The in-game hints as to how to do it are unclear to the least. Really bad game design.

Bad UX all over, obscure gameplay mechanics and feedback.

Bought for mindless and thoughtless, gave me exactly that, it's a game that needed a lot more fleshing out by the developers but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. I got this to mess around, if you want a good time waster, mindless game, that plays itself apart from daily weather set up .... this is it - i kept breaking the cars by not having enough coffee ready. For the price, I know many don't recommend because of bugs but i had simple ones. It's not a serious game, it's not meant to be but it's nice to chill with .... so if that's what you are looking for once you crack the recipes - this is it.

Not sure if the terrible calculator-like graphics are meant to be a 'designer' thing, but it is almost impossible to make out any of the images at all. There are a few bugs that need fixing, but all in all, a fun game to play.