You should play this extremely chill game about serving coffee to vampires and elves
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You should play this extremely chill game about serving coffee to vampires and elves
There's something supremely satisfying about the ritual of making coffee: the smell, the heat, the way all of the tiny details eventually become second nature. For some, the process can be as important and gratifying as the end product. And it turns out that can be true even when you're brewing a virtual cup.
Coffee Talk is a game about, well, coffee and talking. It's a sort of visual novel where you play the proprietor of a coffee shop in an alternate version of Seattle. It's still 2020, and it still rains every day, but the world is also full of magical creatures. Your patrons include not only humans, but also vampires, elves, werewolves, mermaids, and other mythical beings. The cafe is only open after midnight - fans of Netflix's wonderful Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories will feel right at home - and so it attracts a rather eclectic bunch. (Also, everyone seems to smoke for some reason.)
Each day starts the same. You can scan the headlines of the local paper, the Evening Whisperer, to get a sense of the state of the world before opening the shop. There's a regular, Freya, a journalist who spends her evenings in the cafe struggling to write a novel. But for the most part, you don't know what to expect when the front door opens and someone steps in. It could be a budding pop star who is stressed out by her overprotective father, an orc game developer in the midst of exhausting crunch, or maybe an elf and succubus whose families won't accept their relationship. You might even be accosted by a government agent looking for a literal alien.
The cast is quirky and fantastical, but their stories are grounded. Most of the time, your job is to simply sit and listen