Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim

I LOVE THE GAME SO MUCH! The moment I started playing, I fell in love with its warm pixel art, relaxing music, and adorable animal characters. I didn’t expect making coffee to become one of my favorite parts, but it really is. I love unlocking recipes and learning how to make different drinks, and I often find myself happily reading the customers’ conversations while making their drinks. I love that you can expand your menu to sell fresh pastries alongside your drinks, which makes the cafe feel even more complete. Decorating is another feature I spent way too much time on. I kept moving chairs, rotating plants, and trying different furniture combinations because I wanted every corner to feel just right. Being able to decorate both the indoor cafe and the outdoor terrace made it even more fun to create my own cozy little space. I also love how the game lets you collect plushies, and I placed them all over my bedroom, turning it into a warm and personal space. I even started imagining having my own real cafe like this, with a shop downstairs and a cozy home upstairs. I honestly think if this cafe existed in real life, I would never leave… LOL. I'd probably live there forever, surrounded by adorable animals, waking up upstairs and walking downstairs every morning to serve coffee, pastries, and chat with a cafe full of animal customers. Highly recommend this game to anyone who loves cozy games!

This is a game which I can tell has so much love poured into every aspect. Something I hadn't expected is quite how Ghibli-esque this game is, but that only makes me even fonder. The character designs and the tone of the story feels so wholesome and deeply enriching, with many natural intersections between the "people" in the neighbourhood and the player's journey. I found the forest sprites to be really charming, reminscent of the soot sprites or the kodama from Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke respectively, and the main animal characters are each very unique while still forming a cohesive cast of friends. Gameplay wise, the loop is very satisfying with enough versatility already that nothing feels too repetitive or forced. Upgrades feel earned but not too grindy with tangible improvements. It's not too complex while still remaining simple enough to fit into a "cozy" niche, especially as you upgrade your skills. The developer is actively engaged in trying to ensure as smooth and rewarding a gameplay experience as possible and I feel that effort translates into an early access game well worth its price tag. For players concerned about customisation, Tailside has a rather astonishing amount of aesthetic options for a game not yet fully released, and you can even import your own character sprite to replace the main character, plus it recently got steam workshop support which means it's only going to get more options for customisation in the future! I think if you're someone who likes cafe sims, someone who enjoys a cozy story and gameplay experience, and especially if you've been eyeing it for a while, I urge you to give Tailside a chance. I've been having a lot of fun with this game already and really am excited to see what its future holds.

There are some games where, within the first few minutes, you already know that they are going to be exactly what you hoped they would be. Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim was absolutely one of those games for me. I recently played another cosy café game called Pour Decisions, and while I could appreciate what that game was trying to do, it never quite delivered the relaxed café experience that I had been expecting. Tailside, on the other hand, gave me precisely that. This is a game that understands what I personally want from something calling itself cosy. You run your own little café, make drinks for your customers, decorate the space around you and gradually unlock more things as you progress. The big difference here is that everything feels wonderfully relaxed. There is no constant sense of pressure hanging over you. You are not fighting against awkward physics, worrying about spilling everything everywhere or being pushed into rushing through each order as quickly as possible. Instead, you can simply take your time. You prepare the drinks, add the different ingredients and even create pretty designs on the top of your lattes. It is one of those simple little interactions that could easily have been made stressful in another game, but here it just feels pleasant. You can work at your own pace, enjoy the process and make something nice without feeling as though the game is standing behind you tapping its watch. That relaxed approach carries through into the rest of the game too. Your café gradually becomes your own little space to shape and personalise. You can add furniture, plants and decorations, moving things around until everything feels right to you. Later on, there is even more space to work with, including an outside area and an upstairs section, giving you plenty of room to continue developing the café beyond the small starting area. For me, this is exactly the sort of progression that works perfectly in a cosy game. You start with something relatively simple and then slowly watch it grow around you. Nothing feels as though it is being thrown at you too quickly, but there is always another little thing to unlock, another area to improve or another item that might fit nicely into the café you are creating. The world itself is full of charm too. There are lovely characters to talk to, along with adorable forest sprite visitors who come into the café. These little touches give the game so much personality and help the café feel like part of a wider place rather than simply being a room where customers appear, order a drink and disappear again. I particularly liked the local newspaper. Each day, it gives you little reports and stories connected to what is happening and how you are progressing. It is such a small feature, but it adds an enormous amount of character to the experience. It makes it feel as though your café and your actions actually exist within this little world and that things are happening around you. And honestly, the more I played, the more I found myself smiling. Tailside is not trying to create tension. It is not trying to test how quickly you can serve a queue of impatient customers. It is not trying to punish you for taking your time. It simply lets you enjoy running a charming little café, making drinks, meeting characters and decorating the place exactly how you want it. That sounds like such an obvious thing for a cosy café game to do, but so many games add systems that slowly chip away at that relaxed feeling. Tailside never did that to me. Everything I encountered felt as though it belonged in the type of experience I had hoped for when I started playing. The pace was right. The atmosphere was right. The characters were charming. The decorating was enjoyable. Making the drinks was satisfying without becoming frustrating. It genuinely ticked every single box for me. I normally try very hard to find something that I would change or improve in every game I play, because no game is perfect and there is almost always something worth mentioning. With Tailside, though, I am struggling. I genuinely cannot think of a single thing that negatively affected my time with it. That does not mean that everybody will automatically love it. This is a deliberately slow and relaxed experience, and somebody looking for a demanding management game or a café simulator filled with pressure and optimisation may find it too gentle. But for the audience that Tailside is clearly aimed at, I think that gentleness is one of its greatest strengths. Cosy game fans are going to absolutely adore the pace of this one. They are going to enjoy making the drinks, chatting with the characters, meeting the little forest visitors and slowly turning the café into a space of their own. I certainly did. Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim gave me exactly the experience I had hoped it would give me. It was charming, relaxing and genuinely lovely to spend time with. I went into it wanting a cosy café game where I could simply slow down, make some nice drinks and enjoy creating my own little space. That is exactly what I got. And sometimes, that is all a game needs to do. Absolutely loved this one.

[h2][b]Early Access Review[/b] 🩷[/h2] [hr][/hr] If you love cozy games, please consider following my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46234350/]Steam Curator Page! [/url]🩷 At the time of this review Tailside is still in early access, That being said I believe the game has a solid foundation. As with most management sims things start to feel repetitive pretty quickly, Most of the days blended together for me as it felt very rinse and repeat. The tutorial explained certain things extremely well and others poorly, For example the recipe learning process is very easy to follow but the upgrade system was not made clear to me. I didn't understand that there were two different books for upgrades, You upgrade your skills via the journal but the shop upgrades are only available through the book on the counter. At surface level the game is very fun but once you play a few hours and dive deep it feels lackluster [hr][/hr] [b]Pros:[/b] [list] [*]Relaxing atmosphere [*]A Decent amount of progression (Recipes to unlock, Shop Upgrades, & Tons of decorations to unlock) [*]Each character you meet has their own distinct personality [*]Smooth controls and optimization [/list] [b]Cons:[/b] [list] [*]Not much to do aside from decorating or brewing coffee [*]I don't like that there is a waiting period for decorations to be delivered (You can skip the wait with the in game currency which is nice) [/list] [b]Changes I would like to see:[/b] [list] [*]I think a variety of small mini games or side objectives would be a nice refresher in between each shift [*]It would be nice if there was a friendship mechanic, It would give us a reason to interact with customers and act as another objective [/list] [hr][/hr] Overall the game feels smooth to play and although it may not be my ideal game, It was still fun to boot up and play for short periods of time. I personally don't know if I will be playing this anymore while it's still in early access, but I will definitely revisit the game at a later date after it has been fully released. If you love a more laid back approach to management games and enjoy decorating then you might enjoy this more then I did!

Add Russian language!

Café é como um abraço quentinho... Uma dose de café baseada em mecânicas básicas Uma dose de fofura somada a gráficos e personagens que lembram livros dos anos 90 Uma colher grande de sopa de letrinhas com uma lore que quase chega no centésimo dia Esse é um jogo que na promoção custa menos de R$15 O começo é "comum demais" para jogos do gênero, porém com o passar dos dias a história fica curiosa e envolvente. É relaxante, simples e fofo... Como um livro infantil.

It hurts to not recommend, I wish there was a neutral option. I can tell alot of heart went into this! the gameplay is fun, the characters and art is super cute! I will absolutely come back to change my review when it comes out of early access or if it gets an update! Unfortunately it runs pretty badly. I am unsure if playing on steam deck makes it worse, but I really struggled getting it to register clicking when placing/selecting decor. Even using the touchscreen to try to go into mouse mode, it would often miss, double click, or deselect and put the item away instead. Decorating Latte's also sucks, on deck weather you use the touch screen or the analog sticks it's bulky and terrible. On top of that there are strange lag spikes, dialog will overlap and disrupt what I'm doing, but I can still move around and do things. I think sometimes this is intentional, but possibly again due to steam deck, it disrupts the controls and blocks me from doing some actions, meaning I have to stop to click proceed anyway. The biggest frustration for me was I completed the tutorial and the game promptly closed itself before I could save. It's the first time a game has done that on my deck, and I've played plenty of games with no deck support at all. Hopefully all these problems will be fixed in the official full release! I will be keeping an eye on it and try again now and then.

not my cup of tea, but undeniably a good, well made game. love the cute, cozy art style. 7.8/10

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