CoffeeBiz Tycoon

I really tried to like this game, because I'm also a developer, and I love tycoons. It's just.. I won't judge it for bugs, because it's of course an alpha, but I will judge it's gameplay. First of all, I don't like playing scenarios in this kind of games, so I went straight for sandbox. I've chosen 40.000$ for start, rented the moderate place, hired moderate worker, bought moderate coffe machine, bought ingredients.. And if it's all moderate, (not cheap at all) then it should be quite alright, shouldn't be? But then suddenly my worker at his first day of work got ill, his performance dropped to 5%, energy to 0. The next day he was okey, but as the night came my kiosk got vandalized, and after that night my worker got ill again. 2 days after - kiosk got vandalized again. It's just.. If it's a tycoon, give a little room to breathe, I would like to see my first income. (Opinions were B so it wasn't bad but sales were horrible). And I tried couple of times.. It's always the same, worker...

I like the concept of a serious strategy game, where you can loose after a couple of mistakes. Early Access version has some bugs and seems lack of content but for me its OK for such price and fact that its made by a single person. Graphics also are very nice. But if you want a polished product, better wait for some updates. I hope developer won’t abandon the game and continue development. I see some potential here.

Game is dead, no updates for over a year. At its current stage it is definetly not worth buying.

Developer appears to have vanished off the face of the earth. I hope he's ok... but I also have a bad feeling about the future of this game.

Positioned somewhere in between of Industrial Giant 2 and casual Your Strategy Needs a Strategy from BCG, CoffeBiz provides intense gameplay full of challange and fun. You need to try it several times to start earning money but than you will become obsessed :) The only economic simulator with true economics in it. P&L and CF, management of intangable assets, marketing, HR management, R&D, expansion, customer profiles - all is in there. Totally recommend for all economic nerds.

For Early Access Game, price is OK. Interesting, easy to learn

I preface this by saying I liked the game and concept. It reminds me of games I played when I was young. The game is in fairly early alpha right now, by a single developer. It is quite buggy, for example, you can't unpause using the GUI speed buttons, but you can with the number keys 1-3. Also, for some reason NPCs spawn and get stuck after playing a game for quite a while. It's an alpha so you know...There are also several features not yet implemented. This includes the inability to auto repair broken coffee machines and auto service them, even though the check boxes exist. Some work is needed, as an example office staff never have energy, and even decrease in energy when they have nothing todo (0 work on research and 0 on management tasks, totalling 0% workload). I cannot rightfully recommend a game that is in the current state this many years into development. They claim it isn't their focus right now, but the game still costs more than 10 pounds (5 for me due to a sale). Really ...

Great potential for a really serious and in-depth economic simulator. If you miss the great economic simulators of the old, and looking for a challenging game, this could be it! A bit rough around the edges at the moment, but the dev seems pretty involved, so hoping for some quality of life updates soon.

Spelling mistakes (high is spelled hight), absolutely no direction given so you have no idea what to do, even placing a stand is a chore. I really wanted to like this to give it a much needed positive review but I just cant. It does have a very nice style though, and the concept is great. It just shouldn't have been released into early access at this stage.

It's a real cute little game, but the developer keeps saying he's working on it about once a year, but there hasn't been an update in more than like 2 years now? Don't buy it expecting much, or for it to ever be finished.