Good Coffee, Great Coffee is the newest mobile game by developer TapBlaze. The follow-up to 2014’s Good Pizza, Great Pizza, this management sim takes place in the same universe, but with a different shop type. Keeping the same charming art style and engaging humor as its predecessor, Good Coffee has players immerse themselves in a cozy café. Like before, you will manage daily operations, interact with funny characters, and serve caffeinated beverages.
As a fan of Good Pizza, I have been eagerly awaiting the release of Good Coffee since the moment I heard of its existence. I remember playing Good Pizza a bunch in the summer of 2023 and loving every moment. What’s great is you don’t need to have played Good Pizza before playing Good Coffee. Both games are very similar, with each being accessible to newcomers.
The Newest Brewist
In Good Coffee, Great Coffee, you play as the newest brewist (rhyme unintended) in Coffee City. As you open your shop, you find yourself competing to be the best brewist in town according to the World Coffee Association (WCA).
Similar to Good Pizza, there are chapters with specific goals and products to learn, with each chapter varying in length. Throughout Chapter 1, reps from WCA come to your café and teach you new recipes and latte art. You will be judged on your work, but it’s pretty fair. No need to be perfect—decent art will do. I’m not the artsiest person, so if I can pass it, you most certainly can too.
Good Coffee, Great Coffee Starts Rough, But Soon Finds Its Beat
Mastering the coffee-making mechanics was difficult at first. Unlike its predecessor, Good Coffee takes time to get used to the recipes and motions. Thankfully, TapBlaze has been working to tweak the game via updates since its launch on February 27, making it run smoother across a variety of mobile devices. Also, like Good Pizza, the game is perfect for touchscreen devices, and I have been playing on my iPhone 12 with ease.
The first couple of real-life days I played Good Coffee were a little rough. For one, the in-game clock ticks very fast. There was one instance where it took multiple in-game hours to make a single latte. I get it, Good Coffee isn’t real life, but that feels wild, especially as you need the time to serve more customers and earn money.
Another mechanic that bothered me when starting the game was the customer satisfaction bar. This bar shows a percentage, informing you of the customer’s happiness or disgust with your service. When beginning Good Coffee, it went down very fast, to the point that I could barely make and serve an espresso shot before satisfaction went down to 70%. If it was a latte, it was even worse. However, making specialty drinks becomes much easier and quicker with practice. Once you know what you’re doing, the fun starts!
I would like to shout out a supportive Facebook group where players share their struggles and achievements in Good Coffee. While the game isn’t hard, the learning curve felt surprising compared to Good Pizza. I do have a past as an unsuccessful barista—maybe that doesn’t help? LOL.
Watch Out: Customers Are Angry Without the Perfect Cup of Joe
The biggest complaint I’ve seen about Good Coffee is how mean the customers can be about minor issues. It seems to happen to many, including myself. One example is when I accidentally poured a little extra milk into an iced latte and the customer was irate and asked to be refunded.
There are also many cases of customers receiving drinks with one scoop of ice (recipes require two) and requesting a refund. This can be a rather distressing experience, especially because customers in Good Pizza weren’t so hangry. In the worst-case scenario, they would tip less but they would still take and pay for their order. While Good Coffee’s customer anger adds spice to the game, it feels unnecessarily cruel for what’s essentially a cozy game.
Aside from some meanies, the customers are still as wacky as ever. They can be cute or weird, and even make some pop culture references in their orders. You might even recognize some familiar faces!
Good Coffee Is Off to a Great Start
Don’t let all my issues deter you from playing Good Coffee. TapBlaze continues to work to perfect the game and will probably do so for years. After all, Good Pizza’s last major update was in 2023—nine years after its release. There is only one chapter of Good Coffee so far, while Good Pizza has five, so it’s safe to say there will be more content in the future. Each chapter adds more to the story and adds elements to the game beyond managing a shop.
My favorite part of the game, surprisingly, is the latte art. In games like Coffee Talk and Coffee Talk 2, that element was my least favorite because of how difficult it could be. However, in Good Coffee, it’s been a blast impressing customers with fun art on their drinks. After training, you can make anything you want—a heart, tulip, or nothing! In a future update, I’d love to see a free-play mode added to the game where players can do latte art for fun.
Mobile Game or Not, You Should Play Good Coffee
While the beginning of my time with Good Coffee, Great Coffee was rocky, it’s been a joy overall. I am grateful the world of one of my favorite games has been expanded. Despite being a mobile game, Good Coffee (or Good Pizza, which is also on consoles) should be high on your list of cozy games to play. Not only are they free on mobile, but ads are optional, earning you gems to buy cosmetic items.
With a cutesy world and aesthetic cartoon style, Good Coffee, Great Coffee is a charming game for coffee lovers or management sim fans.
Score: 8.2/10
Good Coffee, Great Coffee, developed and published by TapBlaze, was released on February 27, 2025, for iOS and Android. MSRP: free, with optional in-app purchases.
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