Expresso Espresso

Game is completely broken and unplayable. Don't buy. Can not rotate items like counters, walls ect. as far as i know, couldn't figure out how to anyway and there is no control list or tutorial. When you hire employees they get stuck walking around because of poor or completely absent pathfinding. At this point, you would have to pay me to play this

I really wanted to like this game, but as it is, I feel like it was released too early. There is no tutorial or guidance to start other then place x amount of y tiles. Once I had everything placed, the ai seemed to freeze and I couldnt get any customers. Adding or removing drinks, furniture, and machines didnt change it. I was also having issues with the building, but I was able to mostly figure them out when I went into setting, I feel that listing the controls when the save starts could be useful. I look forward to seeing how the game updates in the future.

I love cafe games and I really thought based on what was shown that I was going to have my own little sim cafe. Absolutely not even a game here. I want to point out a couple huge, easily fixed issues from a programming perspective first: - Cant deselect anything. - Cant rotate assets. - Upper and lower bounds of map unnecessary, just sit the screen to include the street/customers. - Respond to player clicks/accepts; I made 18 "brews" in my coffee machine before realizing it was saving them all. This is an easy crash point depending how much data is stored here. This needs a lot more work, the dev is super new or is trying to scam you out of 8 bucks.

disclaimer: i asked for a key and got it to play this game on my channel. very grateful for the generosity but cannot recommend the game in current state. the game feels like it is in alpha. it should have never been released how it plays at time of writing. everything is buggy and unintuitive, nothing is explained. no settings button in menu. cheap looking UI. half the buttons dont work or dont work as intended. i have a hard time coming up with anything positive about this game and it almost makes me feel bad. i am very open to playing this game in the future after it has had a huge update. but in current state DON'T BUY IT. spend your money on Beans instead. that game is a buggy mess too but at least it has a narrative, a tutorial of sorts, and some soul. or just donate your money to a homeless or animal shelter.