Slow Coffee Tycoon: Idle Cafe

A cozy coffee empire, run on decisions, not taps. Acquire cafes in twelve cities, hire baristas, take loans, set your own prices, and watch the business grow — even with the app closed. WHAT MAKES SLOW COFFEE DIFFERENT • You manage. The cafe runs itself. No tapping to serve, no scripted clicker grind. • Buy real, already-running cafes — already brewing, already earning. Not empty buildings. • Honest money. Wages, marketing, interest, credit score. Take a loan; pay it back; or default and recover. • Cozy by design. Warm illustration, calm typography, no slot machines, no manipulative timers. • Genuinely offline. No account, no login, no internet required. Your cafes keep earning while the app is closed (capped at eight hours). HOW IT PLAYS Open the app. See your offline earnings. Tap a cafe to review the cards: cash flow, reputation, marketing, workforce, equipment, inventory. Move marketing up; hire a tier-three barista; upgrade the espresso machine; nudge your prices; consider whether to take on debt to buy the next city. Close the app. Come back in a few hours. Your decisions compound. You'll spend two to five minutes per session, two to four times a day. There is no end goal beyond watching the empire grow. LEVERS THAT MOVE THE NUMBERS • Price per cafe, from -10% to +20%. Charge more per cup, or draw a bigger crowd. • A signature drink per cafe — it sells more often, at a small premium. • Barista specialties. Put the right specialist on the shift that matches your menu and customer flow rises. Rename any barista. TWELVE CITIES, ONE EMPIRE Start in Vienna with Marmor & Samt — a small kaffeehaus you've just inherited. Earn your way through Beton & Bohne in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Cà Phê Trứng under a Hanoi fan, Finca Altura at Bogotá altitude, İki Kıta Kahvecisi on a Bosphorus rooftop, Riad al-Bunn in a Marrakech riad, Neon Bukchon under Seoul neon, Hakuro Pour-Over in the Tokyo crowd, and Banco Brera near Milan's Brera. Three more — Uji Matcha-an in Kyoto's quiet lanes, Pike Roast & Reserve under Seattle rain, and Bistro Paris — are optional purchases. A FULL MENU Thirteen drinks across hot and iced: espresso, americano, latte, cappuccino, mocha, filter, pour-over, matcha latte, black tea, cold brew, iced latte, iced americano, iced mocha. Unlock the Dessert Menu for croissants, brownies, tiramisu, cheesecake, macarons — plus gelato, affogato and granita, which sell harder on hot days. The Coffee Plantation Estate adds three single-origin drinks and cheaper beans empire-wide. REAL WEATHER, REAL EVENTS Every city runs on its own local clock and weather — sunny days lift hot drinks, rainy days nudge customers indoors. Cultural events from Vienna to Marrakech bring traffic spikes you can plan for. WHAT YOU WILL NOT FIND • No ads. Not at launch. Not ever. • No virtual currency. No coins, no gems, no diamonds. Every purchase is a tangible product. • No forced timers. No fake scarcity. No "watch a video to continue." • No login. No social. No leaderboards. Just you and your cafes. WHAT'S INCLUDED The base game is free — run cafes, take loans, learn the loop. Coffee Club is the keystone: -20% wages, -15% coffee restocks, -15% equipment upgrades, faster reputation growth, twelve-hour offline earnings instead of eight, higher loan tiers, an extra daily mission slot, and access to Finca Altura in Bogotá. Weekly, monthly, yearly or lifetime — whatever fits. Optional one-time purchases: the Always-Open Pass, the Dessert Menu Unlock, the Coffee Plantation Estate, and three premium cafes — Kyoto, Seattle and Paris. All purchases restore on reinstall. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime in your Apple ID settings. Brewed slowly by an indie developer. Questions, bugs, or just want to say hi? [email protected] Privacy Policy: https://tugrul.works/projects/coffee-tycoon/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/