- Update v1.3.7 - Fixing achievements and improved tutorial - 13 October 2025
Hello everyone, with leaves starting to fall and green turning into bright red we took out the Espresso machine and brewed a fresh update that addresses your top reported issues that were preventing you from reaching a 100% achievement completion.Achievement FixesWe made changes to the four following achievements:TycoonReduced the requirement of the achievement and fixed a problem where money earned wasn't updating the right steam stats.OverachieverFixed a problem where money stats instead of roasting points were being used to unlock the achievement.Tribean and Bling!Fixed a problem where reaching diamond bean rating could lock you out of the achievement. Now diamond rating also counts towards the total stores that have a "Gold Rating".Tutorial ImprovementsAdditionally we made the following improvements to the tutorial:Button interactions are now highlighted with a pulsing notification…
- Update on Donations - 26 July 2025
Hello! I'm Hector, creator of Coffee Shop Tycoon. I want to personally thank you for coming together to support this amazing cause! From June 10th to today, you have bought 367 copies of the game. This might not sound like a big number to some, but for us, a tiny team of three, it means that 367 more people get to enjoy the game that we've poured 8+ years of our lives into making. And that is already a big win!I started this project out of college and worked on it mostly at night or very early in the morning before going to work and during weekends. Later, Roberto and Gaby joined the crew and helped get it through the finish line. Today, we are happy that its existence helped contribute to something that fills our hearts with so much joy. Watching how Cancer survivors can tell their story and enjoy a new day thanks to St Jude has been the highlight of following Ryan's and Haley's advent…
- In support of Ryan and Haley - 10 July 2025
For the past month, we’ve been cheering from the sidelines as Ryan and Haley work tirelessly to reach their fundraising goals for St. Jude. We are deeply inspired by this journey and the impact that every dollar can have on the lives of every child fighting a serious illness. Today, we’re proud to join the cause by donating $5,000 to St. Jude. On top of that, we’ll contribute an additional $0.50 for every copy sold during the "50 States in 50 Days" series!At a time when headlines are filled with stories of violence and economic uncertainty, marked by thousands of layoffs impacting the gaming industry, it is refreshing to see a cause that brings so many people together in kindness and hope.If you already own the game but would still like to support the cause, just click the button below to donate directly to the fundraiser and help maximize your impact!Donate
- Summer Update is out! Changes to retirement, Spanish support, and more! - 19 June 2024
Hello! Welcome to another update for Coffee Shop Tycoon, this time we focused on three major areas: Addressing feedback, bringing the game to more players, and modernizing the game. With that, let's start with some changes to retirement. Employee retirement changes We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear, "Employees are retiring too soon". Retirement is supposed to help balance the game to prevent having god employees that can single-handedly do everything after playing the game for a while. It is also a mechanic that tries to simulate employee rotation in real life and put some economic pressure to make the game a bit more challenging. For those reasons we are not fully getting rid of it yet, first we want to try something out. Starting from this update, any new employee that you hire will have a significantly longer retirement time, this retirement time depends on the level of the em…
- Update 1.3.0 is Live! Auto-Roast, employee level changes, and UI improvements - 7 March 2024
Hello! We are back with another update for Coffee Shop Tycoon! This time, we wanted to address some of the top requested features from the community, starting with roasting and the end-game loop. Auto-roasting and roasting challenges We follow the reviews and comments very closely, and one thing that immediately jumped to the top of the list for us was that the end of the game feels grindy, and roasting stops being fun; for that reason, we made several significant changes. First, we rebalanced all the roasting milestone challenges to reduce the roasting required to complete the milestone by half in most places; this still provides a challenge without feeling like a chore to complete. Secondly and most importantly, we added Auto-Roast when creating roasting profiles for employees with the "Roasting Expert" specialization. If your employee is level four or higher, you can specialize as a…
- v1.2 Full Crew - 29 June 2023
Hello everyone, we hope you are enjoying Summer in the northern hemisphere! To compliment your ice creams and cold brews, we are releasing update v1.2 Full Crew. Towards the end of last year, we celebrated the full launch of Coffee Shop Tycoon, a game that started from a simple idea while I was beginning my journey as a game developer. Along the way, I was able to partner with great people to bring this idea to you. A couple of years ago, we founded Riff Studios, and now we are glad to announce a new member, Gaby, just joined the team! While we are working on cool new concepts and games, we still care deeply about Coffee Shop Tycoon, and we wanted to delight you with this new update. Full Crew If you have played Coffee Shop Tycoon, you might be familiar with the two faces behind the counter of your shop. We felt it was time to see some new faces, so we added four new character models fo…
- v1.1 is out now! - 1 March 2023
Hello everyone! We hope the beginning of 2023 is turning out nicely for you. Here at Riff Studios, we have been working on two new updates for Coffee Shop Tycoon! With v1.1, we are addressing some of the top concerns and bugs you have encountered during your game play-through. We have been monitoring the forums and noticed some recurrent problems we wanted to fix. Here is a list of the changes we are making: Customers now complain about specific missing services. The "wifi" icon is no longer used as the "services" icon for customer thoughts. This will clear some confusion about the customers' expectations. Adjustments to fix the problem of price volatility, old products now have a lower impact on price. The objective for the teen demographic mission in Akihabara doesn't show a percentage anymore; instead, it will only show a checkbox. This percentage was confusing because it showed the…
- Happy Chinese New Year! - 20 January 2023
Hi all, As you may know, the year of Rabbit is around the corner! We'd like to send our best regards and wishes to everyone for the new year ahead! Looking back on the past year, we'd like to thank all of our players for supporting “Coffee Shop Tycoon”. It has been quite a journey. We hope our game has brought you some fun time. Happy New Year everyone!
- Get Coffee Shop Tycoon with a 30% off during the Steam Winter Sale - 23 December 2022
Hello to all the coffee-shop-owner wannabe! The Steam Winter Sale has kicked off and we are glad to announce that you can get your copy of Coffee Shop Tycoon with a 30% discount! Opening your own business has never been so profitable. And, between you and me, we are all in this game to make money, don’t we? We're very happy with how things are going just two days after the full release of the game. And we want to thank all of you for your support during these years. Remember that the discount will last until January 5th! Get a copy of Coffee Shop Tycoon if you want to: Create the most successful coffee shop. Make drinks that people actually love. Keep your staff happy. Play a game influenced by the real coffee industry. TAKE YOUR BUSINESS TO THE MOON (like, for real, we have added a new location on the Moon). Happy Holidays!
- v1.0.1 Hotfix for moon location and awards - 22 December 2022
Hello! Thanks everyone for all your interest in Coffee Shop Tycoon, we are very excited to see all the new players brewing and roasting exceptional beans. We have been monitoring the Steam forums and found out two bugs that we wanted to fix as soon as possible. Thank you for all your patience while we sorted this out. v1.0.1 fixes the two following bugs: Fixed a problem where the moon remained locked in early access saves even after completing the "Emerald City" missions. Fixed a bug where the "Best Roast of the year" award wasn't not updating correctly. So far we haven't seen many problems but please feel free to reach out through the discussion forums and we'll try to get it fixed quickly. Again thanks for playing and good luck reaching the moon!
- Full release update out now! - 19 December 2022
Happy Monday, dear coffee lovers: It looks like a good day to share with you a little surprise, don't you think? It's our pleasure to announce that Coffee Shop Tycoon has officially become a complete game after six years of Early Access stage. Its full-release update is now live on Steam! This version features the Moon as the last unlockable location, a complete rework of the Du Latte Awards, several quality-of-life modifications, and the game credits. However, this is not a goodbye at all -- next month, we'll be sharing the last patch to include 10 sci-fi-themed items and the new employee models. Here's a list of the most important changes that players will enjoy in the Full Release update: The moon! Added the final location of the game, now you can take your magnificent roasted beans out of this world and start delighting more customers in our solar system. Rehauled Awards The Du Latt…
- Coffee Shop Tycoon: our journey so far - 16 December 2022
There is an age-old question about what came first, the chicken or the egg. The origin of Coffee Shop Tycoon is a bit similar. You might wonder, what came first? The love for coffee or the game. Funny enough, the game came first. My name is Hector, and I'm the designer behind Coffee Shop Tycoon and co-founder of Riff Studios. The idea behind the game has deep roots in classic tycoon games I played as a kid growing up. The one that comes first to my mind is Roller Coaster Tycoon. I remember thinking about how amazing it was to feel like you owned an amusement park and how fun it was to build only half of the roller coaster and see the cart fly out of the rails ( •̀ᴗ•́ ) . Still, in all seriousness, I think that the first time I discovered this genre, I started viewing games and life in a completely different way. The story for this game starts in 2013, that is around the time when all th…
- Nominate us for the Steam Awards 2022! - 23 November 2022
Good morning everyone! Today we come to make you a very special request. As you already know, Coffee Shop Tycoon has been on Steam for 6 years now as an Early Access game and its full version will be released next month. To make it a real success, we need as many visibility boosts as we can get before the game's launch — and certainly, competing in the Steam Awards 2022 would be a big help. For that reason, we're asking you to nominate us for the Labor of Love award. ↑↑↑ Submit your vote up there! ↑↑↑ The Labor of Love category was created for all those games that were released in previous years but still receive new updates. Year after year, Riff Studios has worked very hard to add new content based on your expectations and concerns. In addition to this, we also committed ourselves to search for other ways to strengthen our relationship with our players. Now you can find on Steam guide…
- COFFEE SHOP TYCOON TO INCREASE ITS FULL PRICE NEXT MONDAY - 4 November 2022
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen: After six years of hard work, we're finally entering the last stage of the early access period. We could say it started with the release of the October patch, but the news we just shared is the real turning point. Due to Valve's particular way of managing price changes, we decided to move forward by December and increase Coffee Shop Tycoon's to $9.99. This action will allow us to offer a release discount next month and extend it until the end of the Winter Sale. The new price will become effective next Monday in the morning (PST), so this weekend you’ll have a last chance to get a copy at early access price ($7.99). Of course, you will enjoy all the updates developed until the present day just as the rest of players. Next week we’ll be able to share further details on the release update of Coffee Shop Tycoon and the future of Riff Studios. In the mean…
- Coffee Shop Tycoon v0.9: The final stretch towards full release - 26 October 2022
Good morning, coffee lovers: Today we have decided to surprise you all by launching the new update you have been waiting for, so you can consider this entry as its respective patch notes. Coffee Shop Tycoon’s full launch is finally coming this December, so we wanted v0.9 to include a lot of relevant changes to help you manage your coffee business in a more complete and efficient way. You'll soon realize why we decided to release a simpler patch last time! In our previous entry, we gave you a preview of the customer dashboard and the new fan-based progression system that will take over from the traditional levels starting today. But now, it’s time to go deeper into this matter and the other features left to introduce — featuring more screenshots and GIFs that will help you understand them better! New leveling system Until now, the progression system was exclusively driven by reputation p…
- Road to the Autumn update: customer dashboard & fan system - 30 September 2022
Hello there, coffee lovers! We hope your autumn (or your spring!) it's been off to a great start. After a well-deserved vacation, we’re back to game dev with our batteries fully charged. In fact, it's been a few weeks since that but we decided to delay the new post until we could show you a preview of the next update. And, for your joy, it's happening today! Today we’re focusing on two aspects of the upcoming patch that you’ll find most interesting — the fan base system and the customer info dashboard! But first, let’s quickly remind ourselves of the rest of the changes this Autumn update will bring. Important notifications such as the status of coffee or the lack of demanded services will appear above customers’ heads. Customer thoughts will turn into review tags that can be aggregated for a summary. Side tables with sweetener dispensers will be functional. The number of marketing camp…
- The Economy Update is now live! - 4 August 2022
Hello, coffee lovers! Today is the day! We are super excited to announce that, finally, the Economy Update is out! We are very happy with the result of these months hard work and we want to thank you for your patience and your support. Now it is your time to play it and let us know what you think about it. Remember that the Economy Update will let you set prices for food and beverages in your coffee shops. But not only that, as the reputation of your business will have a significant impact on how much you can charge for a cup of coffee. You can take a further look at everything that this update brings to the table in this link. And now, let's brew some coffee!
- A further look at the next major update of Coffee Shop Tycoon - 15 July 2022
Hello there, coffee gourmets: Thank you all for coming by one more day to learn the secrets of Coffee Shop Tycoon. In today's post, we're going to explain in detail what the next big update to the game is all about, which, as we said last week, is still scheduled for this month. You can actually take a peek at the update tomorrow, Saturday 16, as we will be streaming it at 7pm PST. This patch won’t only bring the price editing system, but also bug fixes that you have mentioned several times both on the Steam forums and Discord. Without further ado, let’s go for it! Pricing & Customers’ Expectations It’s sad to say goodbye to our famous $1000 cup of coffee, but we had to make some changes for the sake of players’ immersion. From this update onwards, each cup of coffee will have a different price according to its value in the real world — which, following the law of supply and demand, obe…
- New live stream next Saturday - 8 July 2022
Correction: The Livestream is happening on Saturday July 16th at 7pm PST Hello there, coffee lovers: We're very happy to inform you that we're in optimal conditions to carry out the live stream event we planned for the beginning of July... so it's finally happening next week on Steam! There we will show you firsthand all the contents of the new update, talk about our plans for the upcoming months and share with you all our experiences as tycoon game developers. Plus, we may indulge in coffee madness and do something really crazy to make the event more fun — who knows what you'll miss if you don't come? We're still balancing our schedules to choose a date that fits for both of us (the one you'll see now on Steam is not accurate), so make sure to check our Twitter account or this entry in the coming days to learn more. Have your first coffee of the weekend to our health! The Riff Studios…
- A quick note on our next major update - 1 July 2022
Hey there, coffee lovers: Here we are one more day to keep you up to date with the development of Coffee Shop Tycoon. Today, we bring some news about the next major update according to our roadmap, which is the one focused on economy balancing and user expectations. As those who follow us on Twitter may already know, we've been working hard in our spare time to complete the new content in time for its release in early July. At least, that was our plan until one of our team members got positive in corona last week. Of course, this won't mean a big delay with respect to the original date. Our big guy is recovering little by little and he now feels much better, so the update will be ready in two or three weeks... if we don't find any further inconveniences in the way! That's what we wanted you to know, just in case you were worried about the absence of news. In the meantime, we'll keep upd…
