

Espresso Economics
Balga Games · 2024 · Education, Economy, Management, Simulation, Cooking
PC
6 user reviews83% · 6
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About Espresso Economics
Coffee shop management game that teaches economics. Manage your own coffee shop and make money. During the day you serve orders at your coffee shop, during the night you manage it using economics principles like demand and supply curves, labour market, externalities etc.
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My friend who I play Counter Strike with said if I post a review on Espresso Economics and it gets 20 likes and 20 Awards that he will buy me a RTX 4060. So im just gonna leave this here. Help me bro7 found this helpful
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"Espresso Economics" is a big failure of a game and we must of course as always ask why... and the answer is because they're trying to make a tycoon game educational. And as happens so often with "educational" products, this is not making economics education better, it's just making gaming worse. The idea with this game is that you play a little 2.5D/iso coffee shop platespinner game that makes mobile apps like Cook Serve Delicious! look like AAA franchises, and you do this by respecting Adam Smith's invisible hand model of classical economic theory... no post-Keynsian/neoclassical synthesis stuff here. If this was even vaguely realistic you'd go out of business because a huge chain with an inferior product would open right next to you and clobber you with economy of scale, and also your workers would seize the means of production. Unfortunately after all that, people will buy something just because it's white (this is why Apple is still in business). No real consideration seems to have been made for what gamers want out of games with this product, though... poor visuals, worse gameplay, and really sloppy overall presentation. This could have been a browser app. This has …2 found this helpful
This game has got a lot of potenial, but has some major flaws Economy in this game is kinda lobotomised ( and i can say this even after not playing this game for a full hour) I know that supply and demand is one of a ( or even the most ) most important law in econ, but i think the introduction of price elasticity would make this game much more immersive bc u can simply put maximum price and your revenue is still at a good level. Also the glitches - on a second day i think - i had to buy 1000 pounds of coffee even when my demand for it was only 25, which kinda messed up my game. A lot of potenial - a lot to work on also
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