Can anyone recommend other games like Coffee Talk?

[Forlorn_Zorn]

I really enjoyed this game. It was nice to take a break from hack and slash RPGs and relax. The Plat came relatively organically as well, which was nice. Anyone else have any other suggestions for games very similar to this?

[DoctorDrPepper]

VA-11 HALL-A is a cyberpunk bartending game. Mostly visual novel with drink making. Great story, awesome visuals, fantastic music. Can not recommend it enough.

[DrBloodmoney]

4 minutes ago, DoctorDrPepper said:

VA-11 HALL-A is a cyberpunk bartending game. Mostly visual novel with drink making. Great story, awesome visuals, fantastic music. Can not recommend it enough.

Exactly the game I was going to say ?

 

Haven’t played it myself yet, but it came highly recommended by someone who’s taste I trust, and from what I know of it - and Coffee Talk - I’d say it’s exactly the game you are looking for!

[grifteskymfning]

Coffee Talk 2 is in the works and should be released soon enough.

[Raidou Kuzunoha XIV]

Aside from VA-11 HALL-A and Coffee Talk 2, Necrobarista is supposed to release on PS4 at some point. Though that isn't quite as comfy as the former games.

[postofficebuddy]

I’ve been looking forward to Necrobarista for years. When the hell is it coming out? 

[Neocarleen]

VA-11 HALL-A would be the moat similar, because it's also a visual novel that has making drinks as a gameplay mechanic. But besides that, I can only suggest other games with similar themes:

- We should talk.

- Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan

- Teacup

- Tacoma 

- Beholder

- Persona

[Helyx]

https://www.50gameslike.com/games-like/coffee-talk/ps4

[MandA60VISE]

11 minutes ago, Helyx said:

https://www.50gameslike.com/games-like/coffee-talk/ps4

The first result is Zero Escape which is nothing like Coffee Talk except for also being a visual novel. A psychological horror VN about being locked in a coffee shop and trying to escape might be cool though.

[DrBloodmoney]

45 minutes ago, MandA60VISE said:

The first result is Zero Escape which is nothing like Coffee Talk except for also being a visual novel. A psychological horror VN about being locked in a coffee shop and trying to escape might be cool though.

50gameslike.com just uses percentage matches across various genre criteria, then looks as the average across all of them and chooses the closest games based on those…

…but has no “human element” to actually look at what about a games makes it what it is, and makes it feel like the game it does.

 

It’s “matches” are basically the videogame equivalent of when you order your shopping online, and an item isn’t in stock, so they send you a computer selected ‘equivalent’.

 

You know - when they don’t have a chicken, so they send you a chicken stock cube.

Or they don’t have red onions, so they send you a tin of red gloss paint.

Or they don’t have broccoli, so they send you a copy of the latest James Bond movie, produced by Barbara Broccoli.

Edited January 12, 2022 by DrBloodmoney

[Breakingthegreen]

To me, Coffee Talk's main appeal was its genuinely mature, human life and problems that the characters face and discuss. So that's what my recommendations are based on

• It's gonna sound like I'm messing with you, but Bugsnax, the side characters have got bundles of mature themes I mentioned. Of course it's a puzzle pokemon type game too, so slightly trickier.
• I'd also say 2064: Read Only Memories has a major character focus, but it is an actual progressing story, so some characters to feel a little rushed over, and it's branching narrative is kinda dumb by the options being, "be nice" or "be a jerk for no real reason." It's a point and click mystery game with a similar pixel artstyle.
• Headliner Novinews is a good character focused game, with overarching themes of the news's impact on society, with characters experiencing different troubles based on the articles you do and don't publish.
• Spiritfarer's a farming management game where you escort people to the after life, It's natural to get attached to the character how talk about their life and what they never resolved and also cry when they leave you (and yes I did cry too)
• A game that is the embodiment of big character with writing alone is Thomas was Alone which successfully makes you care about rectangles with writing and narration alone.
• Everyone is saying VA-11 Hall A for good reason, it's basically the exact same as Coffee Talk.

There are other ones, like Persona, and Evan's Remains, but it's nearly midnight and I'm doing a 100 mile drive in the morning.

[Helyx]

2 hours ago, MandA60VISE said:

The first result is Zero Escape which is nothing like Coffee Talk 

 

It's more of a reference tool. I know nothing about Coffee Talk or Zero Escape. 

[Forlorn_Zorn]

Thanks so much, everyone, I really appreciate these recommendations. I've compiled a list of them all to check out

[Troz]

Papers, Please. Same art style (pretty much), and it also has the gameplay of people walking up to you and having diverse conversations is the biggest part of that game.