Critter Café

I feel bad saying this but it feels like a glorified mobile game. The controls are very bare-bones and all in all just lacking in content. While I love cozy games that offer exploration, I expect the exploration part to have something to... you know... explore. The moment I had a chance to avoid running the cafe and simply rely on events, I did. Because the cafe minigames are really annoyingly simple. The puzzles also keep disappointing and I really have no drive to play this game any further. This is the first time I have written a negative rewiev and I wish I had a "kinda meh" button. The game feels targeted at children primarily and I think a child might enjoy this a lot, allthough it feels steep at the price. I got it reduced for 4,99 instead of 19,99 and I think the 5 Euros is a fairer price. I would maybe understand 10 to 15 euros, as I didn't play far into the game, but I can already tell that the things most people find exciting in a cosy game aren't here or are just not fleshed out enough. Also the Cafe space feels limited, I don't feel like I can actually decorate the way I wanted, the critter designs are, while being cute, rather uninspired some of the time, which i…

I really wanted to like this game. I played it for 13 hours and got 79% of the achievements. I am probably another few hours away from finishing it, but I don't really feel motivated to fire this back up for the ribbon. I hope that absence will make the heart grow fonder and a future Me will be willing to get it to the finish line, but I doubt what I say here will make her want to install critter cafe again. What worked: + Some complete ideas: the cafe is a place with decorations and recipes, customers, and mini games, the outside maps are little places and towns, the portals open, you do the little challenge maps, find the critter, ta-da, simple + cute aesthetic, options: different skins for creatures and decorations + bingeable (to a point, in my case) Improvements: - For a game that wants you to perform timing and jumping challenges it is remarkably poor at keeping track of your location. - The simplicity becomes repetition becomes tedium - Timing and jumping became a huge part of the puzzles by the end (23 critters caught) and I found them frustrating. Why is this cozy cafe game about these puzzle maps anyhow? - Running the cafe is not fun. I mostly put on parties. - There …

Warm drinks, gentle smiles Lost critters find homes through care Friendship fills each cup

This is not a $20 game but it is decent for $4.99 which is the current price on sale. Yes - it is repetitive. The puzzles are almost too simple, the cafe mini-games are very repetitive, and there isn't much growth involved. As you play you unlock "upgrades", but unfortunately these upgrades actually make the process of serving your guests take longer. It also doesn't help that sometimes the controls don't register and you have to stand at very precise areas to "take orders" and "serve orders". The cafe side of things oddly enough felt the most clunky. But this game is nice for those that like to build and design things - as the customization is all basically free. You have to play to unlock items, but you can build and customize as much or as little as you'd like. There's no currency involved. You can design your cafe, but you can also design the critter habitat which is much larger and has a lot of options once everything is unlocked. Overall, it's been nice to spend a couple of nights unwinding and playing, so if you go in with expectations of a cute, easy, cozy sim, that's basically a cafe decoration game, you won't be disappointed.

This game has been such a surprise, It's relaxing and cozy with some problem solving on the side. I recommend purchasing if you're a collector as it will have you hooked trying to obtain all of the critters and the puzzles aren't so difficult that its not enjoyable, there are multiple locations, decorating, care etc included also. The only fault I would give is I would love to have been able to interact with the towns people but this has only come up as the game has exceeded my expectaions!

Cute little game. Good combination of cute creature collecting, customisation, exploration, and light, relaxing platforming puzzles. If I were to suggest anything else for future patches or sequels, I would have liked to see: 1. Customisation in this be a bit more meaningful - at present, whilst there is a pleasing number of options to unlock to furnish your cafe and the habitat for your critters, there isn't any meaningful reason to engage with that feature other than pure cosmetics. I would like to have some mechanical effect to it - for instance, certain critters liking certain areas of the habitat and being happier if certain furnishings are present; and 2. A bit more levelling that is possible for the critters. It generally feels like the traits are only gained at a point where you'll use them a little bit and then the critter is maxed out, at which point the incentive is to then switch to using other critters to get them levelled up as well. Alternatively, a bigger incentive to use maxed-out critters might be good.