Coffee Tycoon Review

Here's how bad the game is. When you start the game you have one store. Once you have $500, you can buy another. But during the game, stores are automatically added or subtracted from you due to events beyond your direct control. After playing the game for 15 minutes, you may find you own 29 stores, even though you didn't buy any!

At the start of the game, you select what city you want your store to be in. I selected "Los Angeles". I guess the game makers haven't been to Los Angeles, because the game was showing it snowing outside while the guests inside the store were dressed for summer. And that about summarizes the game - no thought is given to anything. A two year old child could climb onto your chair and bang around the keyboard and click the mouse and create a coffee empire even though he has no idea what he is doing.

The only "control" you have over the game is to change the percentage of staff you have "workers | management | executives" and to select menu items or supposed "upgrades" for your store (none that are shown visually in your store, which is always stale). That's it! You can't control anything else. You can't hire workers, fire workers, manage your budget, design your store, control spending, monitor profits, etc. There's virtually no interactivity, making this one of the most boring tycoon games ever created.