Cats and Cups

A different take on a cat café

My Score: 6/10

This café shop sim is good, but there are major flaws with the economy side of the game. The actual gameplay mechanics are fine and the making of the different types of drink and food are quite fun; I also like the croissant making mini game.

The problems start at the end of each day when you have finished serving your drinks, you have to go into the stores to buy new ingredients, otherwise you won’t have enough to sell the next day. The ingredients, particularly the fillings for the croissants, are really expensive compared to how much you make during the day part of the game, so you end up spending all of the money you’ve made on replenishing the ingredients. If you are lucky and have enough stock, you spend it anyway on the upgrades that don’t see to do much compared to how much they cost.

I would also comment on the instruction in the game, in that they are very minimal. When you unlock a new machine, you also unlock new types of drinks you can serve. The problem is that there is no tutorial or explanation of what you have to do until a customer has requested it for the first time and you have to guess how to make it. If you make it wrong or you take too long, the customer gives less money or they walk away and you get nothing, meaning you waste your ingredients.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3521410/Cats__Cups/