Espresso Tycoon
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.2h
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX1050ti / R9 280, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.79. 36 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 55 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Megaquarium ($24.99, scores 85) and Two Point Campus ($29.99, scores 69) both outscore it.
This site sampled 484 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 196 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Once you get to a certain spot no matter what you do you cannot continue the game,
Great game, the biggest mistake was using an Ai character/voice tutorial as the forefront for marketing. That kind of water-down your genuine hard work and authenticity behind the gameplay. Now the game just looks cheap.
Espresso Tycoon is a solid idle management simulator. It has its little quirks about it quality wise, but I am able to really sink some hours into it and there is a good amount of content to explore before you feel like you have done it all. The campaign felt easy during the earlier levels, but did get more difficult in the last few locations. It is scaled to introduce new management aspects and increasing customer...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Espresso Tycoon scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1543280/espresso-tycoonReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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