Coffee Tycoon Review
As Commonplace as Starbucks
|
You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Addictive, straight-forward and a light diversion. The graphics and gameplay are competent, if not actually very interesting.
Simplistic, unoriginal, visually unexciting. Unexciting in general, actually. While this game can be played, it isn't exactly going to light the world on fire.
Sometimes it feels that game developers are making lame, derivative sim tycoons because they know they'll sell... oh wait. They totally are.
This game is next in a long line of seriously lame tycoon games and I'll admit freely that I own a lot of them. Frankly, however, I had to check to remember the genre of this particular tycoon as I was writing it; coffee shops are just like restaurants are just like cinemas are just like trains.
Sure, this game has good graphics. I'm not going to deny it. But they are good in such a bland way – sanitized, kiddie creations that never stretch what we have all seen before. The game-play is nothing special. Easy for anyone whose ever played a game before, sure, but intuitive and with a low learning curve.
All that being said, I was strangely hypnotized. I'd work through the random events, watch my coffee shop grow and develop, get a strange thrill out of buying new menu items and talking to customers. It isn't a game that has any sustainability in my mind, but it is more addicting than it deserves to be.
It's an average sim game with average sim game components... but it is bizarrely entertaining. Nevertheless, spend your money on a game that will be playable even when you come down from your caffeine high and realize the game pretty much sucks.