Gamers Evolved

Coffee Tycoon is the newest game to the PC world, which is every bit unusual as the name(well maybe the name isn’t unusual). The creator, Jamapolis, are known for making games that people usually like to play. Whether or not this will be a hit game is hard to tell.

Starting in one of five different coffee shops in five different cities, players will have to manage employees, add items to the menu and buy certain business upgrades on their way to becoming the coffee czar. There are three types of employees in Coffee Tycoon: Baristas to sell coffee, Managers to bring in customers, and Executives to buy up more stores.

Each day you can adjust the proportion of your employees working in each of those three areas. When you’re ready to open, you’ll watch the game play through a single day and watch your profits rise and fall according to your decisions. The game requires you to achieve 1,000,000 customers in order to achieve victory.

Easily 90% of the time spent playing this epic disaster will be spent clicking on one button: Begin day. Sure, you’ll need to occasionally manage your employees between the whopping three choices available. Better yet, buy some new products or add employee benefits, all with the potential to completely bankrupt you within a week of game play. The problem here are the random events that transpire through the day. On the left side of the screen, text based actions, which the player has zero control over, make or break the business you’ve started. With any luck, you’ll have three local papers do a story on you in the span of one day, earning cash bonuses and extra customers. On the opposite side, your competitor may offer a coupon and take all of that away.

The game is a little bit of a letdown and is not as fun as it looks. The game may say that it offers alot to help you win the game, but there are so many obstacles that all you can think of is how to best destroy the game(burn it or break it?). Unless you like a game that does nothing for you, I would avoid it altogether.