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Game2022
Cafe Owner Simulator
Developer Second Reality
Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business. From the Steam store page
178 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Lemmy, Bluesky) · newest Sep 8, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
47
Mixed
83 positive · 93 negative
95% range 40–55%
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| Steam reviews | 83 | 93 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
708 of 1,116 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 178 · most liked firstAn asset-flip game with no soul or real reason to exist, except as a money-grab. 18.50€ for this? What a scam. You micromanage a café where you clean, renovate and order supplies. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much all you do. And don’t expect much flexibility - once the café is open, you can’t move tables or make any changes, and many stats reset every time you close for the day. To make things worse, some achievements have been bugged for years, and others are just needlessly grindy, wasting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game. When I want RTS/fixer upper-type play, this is one of the genres I want to play in, but I've owned the game for quite some time, installing and uninstalling and re-installing, but each time there is an update and I give it another go, the same game-breaking bug occurs, and I am forced to give up. My workers get stuck in place, and there is no work-around, forcing me to lose the progress of the entire service since my last save - which is frequent. But even with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOTE: I found this game extremely underwhelming. A game with quite a bit of potential and just not delivering on any of it. A lot of functions you'll find annoying and a hastle while other things will just straight up be completely inconvenient that hit on the impact of your experience and progression. Best I can describe this game is incomplete and unbalanced af. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love simulators. A lot. And I understand perfectly well that this is not the most high-quality segment of games: for many developers it seems enough to make a more or less acceptable gameplay loop so that the game kind of works. Without polish, without sensible balance, without proper models and animations. In many cases, that can be tolerated - when there is a feeling that the game was made either with love or at least with a decent sense of humor. But not in this case. I thought for a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →overall, this game is only worth it on sale. the base game is very small, about a third of what house flipper has. the customisation options are extremely limited and there is no way to change the quite akward build of the ''cafe''. tho it is more of a restaurant rather then a cafe. with 7 hours in i have done almost everything the base game has to offer. i got this game in a bundle for a cheaper price, butt otherwise it wouldnnt have been worth it. i like the small easter eggs tho, like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an okay game. You manage your "cafe" (it's more of a restaurant), you choose what's on the menu and serve customers. A quite simple concept. Sadly the game mechanics are not simple at all. They're overcomplicated. There are just too many tabs and icons in your face and you have no idea what they do or where to find the information you seek. For example: If you want to bring a customer his order you have to click on the cash register, click on another button, THEN click on "Take" under the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a restaurant simulator with excessive bugs. Not a cafe, and not a playable game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I will leave the cat here, so that everybody who passes by can pet it and give it a thumbs up and awards ／＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Re Writing my review. I love they fixed the bugs. They increased carry capacity upon certain levels. I still wish they added that to the farm dlc however. The Farm is actually really great. I Find that the game has challenges without them it would be boring. I would save opening the farm till you have wait staff. They finally increased level cap which was another big issue for me. As it was so easy to hit level 10, The Game looks great. I still wish you had options to turn off bloom for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A dear friend of mine gave me this game for my birthday and since I'm a simulator addict I immediately started playing it. I spent around 40 hours playing and these are my likes and dislikes. Likes: * Like almost any other simulator you end up completely hooked. * The music is nice. There are some songs in particular that have made me immerse myself much more in the game. I also liked that they show who the author is. If it's real, I think it's a very nice detail. * There's one of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wanted to build a cafe not a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ restaurant,yes its my fault for not reading stuff bout the game but come on who expects a restaurant when its lit called 'cafe owner simulator'. Haven't played it long but something just throws me off bout the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love simulator games, but this game has been infuriating to play. It does a horrible job of telling you how to do things, and so many of the mechanics feel unintuitive. Already got soft locked with a dish in my hand that I can't get rid of, and the customer wont take it. Other games have done a better job with the same concept. To top it off seeing that there's already a DLC for the game when the main game feels so lacking, and more DLC in the works, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I will be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I usually love simulation games, but this was really disappointing. First of all it is SO slow. It felt like even when I bought marketing it didn't really help with the number of customers enough to make the game more entertaining. Also, there is no way to adjust the music in game except for just turning it completely off, which kinda sucks and seems like it should be easy enough to add in. I played for 8 hours and I didn't even get to buy any expansions for the restaurant except for the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game makes me sad. A lot of bugs, ugly UI, hard mechanics, sad vibes. I want to like this game but I can't.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cafe Owner Simulator stands out as one of the most disappointing simulation games I've ever played. The game lacks fairness and balance, making it frustrating for players. There is hardly any substantial content in the core game, and one of the more tedious aspects involves walking around to collect tips. Is this really the full, complete game? It feels underdeveloped, with far fewer features compared to other simulation games. To make matters worse, they have released DLCs to extract more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Name: Coffee Owner Simulator First Mission: Remove 200 dirt, Clean 100 windows I actually encourage you to play this game to see how bad performance is, I really started to wonder what kind of calls they are doing every frame to have that low of FPS.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The negatives out weigh the positives in its current state, especially considering that this is a full release and not early access. It's a janky game that's for sure, but boy did it have a lot to offer. Many times I caught myself thinking "wow! this game has this kind of content? Awesome", but then later realizing that the content I was excited to see was still janky and at times, broken. Cons - --- No Item placement snapping makes for wonky layout --- Tools sounds randomly stop…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not the best, I wouldn't bother spending the money. The game feels like its early access with lots of bugs and vague direction and description. Overall it's not terrible but not worth even five bucks till more things improve and get fixed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cafe Owner Simulator has a decent idea behind it, but the execution is rough. The game feels very poorly optimized, and the performance issues are impossible to ignore. There is constant lag and massive FPS drops, especially once your cafe starts getting bigger or more customers show up. Even lowering the graphics settings doesn’t help much — the game still stutters and freezes during basic gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been playing this game for 7 hours now... I cannot for the life of me figure out how to progress in this game. I love simulators but this one just seems like an endless loop of IRL Simulator where you grind and grind to make a certain amount of money and then have to spend it all on workers, their motivation, utilities and inventory. I tried to up some of the prices on some dishes and then those dishes stopped getting ordered. Most i can manage to make is $16 per dish and about 30-60…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Started my café with stars in my eyes and a menu full of possibilities. Ended up covered in trash, yelling at a broken fridge, and wondering why customers are mad about stepping in a puddle I just cleaned. It’s janky. It’s buggy. But somehow... I kept playing. Pros: ✔ Satisfying progression once you get going ✔ Surprisingly relaxing when everything works ✔ Customization is fun (until the tables clip into the walls) ✔ The chaos of running a place is weirdly addicting Cons: ✘ Bugs. Bugs…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →300 janitorial tasks before you can open your store once the store is opened you cant even cook the food people come in, tell you what they want, you pick it on a computer screen, you bring it to them when it's ready that's basically the whole game there are upgrades but they unlock one at a time so there's no choice or creativity, it's just a hallway of one-time unlocks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely don't recommend this game, you spend not buy this game. There are similar games that are cheaper and a lot better than this one. If you're looking for a similar simulation game (especially if you just want to see if you enjoy them) then I recommend Supermarket Together, its free and is 100x better than this game. I have already encountered too many bugs and the game is not being updated frequently. The game gets boring pretty quickly, the tutorial has you buy staff and then…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2/10 the amount of work you need to do before you can even sell one item........ no auto save and game will crash at some point so save often
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Perfect ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Okay ☐ Bad ☐ Very stylized ☐ They're what they should be for what the game is ☐ MS Paint could make something better ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Fantastic ☐ Excellent ☑ Perfect ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Bad, but playable ☐ Just go watch paint dry ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Amazing ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not to bad ☐ Alright ☐ Bad ☐ My ears are bleeding ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Babies ☑ Young kids ☑ Young…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game is supposed to be entertaining and fun. This one is a job and just a slog. No fun at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Im quite disappointed. This claims to be a cafe simulator when in reality this is a fast food or whatever restaurant simulator with minimal amount of design input. Not what i was looking for.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awesome. At first, the game was buggy, and felt incomplete. There were game and save breaking issues. However since the devs committed to working on not only polishing the game but also adding new content, it was definitely worth the purchase.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Im not sure how this game gets negative views, honestly im enjoying the game. Yes they may not have a lot for items to decorate, but I only paid $5 so its well worth it for myself to enjoy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is ok till you want to serve the food and you cant put it down on the table, always happens when it's really busy, really starting to make me angry!!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If there was a rating for meh that would probably be what I would vote. It's not great, it's not bad. I bought it on sale. Which was fair, I would NOT pay full price myself. I 100% recommend watching some game play for this before purchasing. Graphics may not be everyone's cup of tea. First off, good music gotta like that. You do get to customize the building the wallpaper, flooring, ceiling, furniture, and the kitchen stuff. And you get to go in and spruce up other cafe (ok a fast food…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks good, think I'd enjoy the game... but the optimisation is terrible, it runs janky asf and uses 95% of my GPU. I'll be refunding this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We don't have the same definition of a cafe .. At this point, I'd just call it a restaurant or diner simulator. I mean.. pizza and sushi ? I was hoping the side mission would be different (the one where you make some guy's cafe), but it wasn't. I guess it's my bad I should've checked more in details but the name is really misleading.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the demo for this game, had no issues, and I was so excited to get the game when I saw it was on sale. After downloading it and watching the cutscene the game never loaded. Not epic :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →....I bought this on sale for $5 and for that it was worth the money. Full price I would not recommend. This game is very bare bones only reason i have this many hours is because I left the game open over night.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like the game PISSED OFF THERE IS NO CLOUD SAVE!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Game Bundle] Let 'Em Cook. $7: | Game | Steam Link | |----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | PlateUp! | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599600/PlateUp/ | | Diner Bros | https://store.steampowered.com/app/846800/Diner_Bros/ | | Cafe Owner Simulator | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1498140/Cafe_Owner_Simulator/ | | Epic…
unlabelledView post →Very bad optimization and lost all progress no cloud save
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very poorly designed game! I won't point out everything, just some of the basics. Why do I have to close the shop to do literally anything it's beyond annoying. Like hiring new staff, adding new items, moving items, changing or moving staff, adding items or removing them from the menu, you have to completely close the shop and make sure the customers leave before it lets you do any of this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →أهم سبب خلاني أنفر من كافي اونر سيميوليتر هو الملل. اللعبة في البداية تعطيك إحساس حلو إنك بتدير مقهى وتطوره، لكن بسرعة تتحول لتجربة مكررة وقاتلة للحماس 💤. نفس الروتين يتعاد بدون إضافات حقيقية أو تحديات تخليك متحمس تكمل. المشكلة الأكبر بالنسبة لي، واللي أزعجتني كثير، هي المشاكل التقنية. في أوقات كثيرة جدًا اللعبة ما تشتغل من الأساس، وأعلق في شاشة التحميل لفترات طويلة ⏳. أحيانًا أنتظر ربع ساعة، وأحيانًا نص ساعة، بدون أي تقدم، وهذا شيء متعب ويكسر أي رغبة في اللعب. الفكرة بحد ذاتها جيدة، لكن…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Me and my girl put hours into this game and AFTER the fix of saved games being deleted randomly upon crashes, it STILL deleted all our saves from a crash and we can't get any of our saves back. Waste of time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of the worst if not the worst designed sim games i have played who tf made this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is amazing and has everything i want from a game. BUT.... it keeps crashing , literally no reason. its a shame because it really has so much potential and i enjoy playing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is really slow building the money so take age
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like this game. I’ve enjoyed decorating my cafe even though I’m not a huge fan of decorating in-game. I’ve also enjoyed doing the email tasks, although I wish I knew about the money cans before! There are a few things I’m still unsure of, but I will figure them out eventually. In my personal opinion, I feel there are areas of improvement. For example, there should be a place for the janitor to be that isn’t just next to the entrance. Also, I would like to be able to send my employees for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No updates for a while now, bare bones, basically house flipper but with a cafe with less decorating options. Game breaking bugs such as the cashier not taking orders, limited cafe's to design, and once that's done it's just running the original cafe which is just ordering stock and cleaning since the staff cleaner is useless. Frustrating mechanics, sweeping is a pain, no way to keep staff motivated other than paying bonus' or keep firing and hiring new staff (which ironically is cheaper). Not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →at the moment id say no, thier is a few bugs that just wont get fixed. what is it with thies so called devs that dont know what a dev entails. the one that frustrates me the most is sometimes the food gets bugged in your hands and you cant throw it away so your stuck with food in your hands and you have to save it and then leave and then go back into it its so annoying but again it wont get fixed thier is also a few other small bugs thats just annoyiing, i can see why the game is mixed and not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Game is soooo disapointing. And the Titel is horrible misleading. It should be titeld as "American Diner Simulator" and NOT "Cafe Simulator". What the hell do you think a Cofe / Cafeshop / Cafehouse is ?!?!?!?!? A Cofeshop/house would never even think of selling Fastfood or Meals like thoose. The only meal they offer is more like a sweet breakfast. A Cafeshop focus on the different kinds of cafebeens and sweets like desserts that fit to the aromatik bitter taste of the cafe. Imagen…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I have no complaints about this game, its very fun and addictive!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It doesn’t launch anybody else having issues?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it Crashes each time i try to load in
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey all! I am loving this game!! It is such a fun pass-time and I honestly love my cafe! One thing I'd ask the devs for is maybe bigger groups of 2,3 and 4 people? If we have bigger tables, and even two person tables I think that would make it that much more realistic to take a party of at least 2! Anyways,, Love the game! If you need me I'll be playing Cafe Owner SImulator XD
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the game, I just home the developers will fix the cleaning and cleaner bug. After I upgraded to second floor, my cleaner now only focuses on picking up trash on nearby tables and never bothered to mop, or rake the leaves. Moreover, I also have a hard time searching for these 'trash items'. My game tells me I have 7 standing trashes but everywhere I look I can't see trash on top of tables, leaves or puddles. I hope that trashes are breakdown so we know what to clean. I have looked…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →firstly i played beta then i bought the whole game. i did all the things in this game but it finished so quickly. max level is 10, when you reached level 10 you dont get any xp. also the same tasks repeat. i was expecting more. i was very dissappointed :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really loved this game and would happily of kept playing and giving a good review, however twice I ran into a game breaking bug that stopped all progress. The first time I just said oh well, it was on sale, Ill just wait for them to do some bug fixes. fast forward a year and I see they added some cool beach dlc and did some big fixes so i decided to try it again and was having a blast until the same bug stopped progress in its tracks again. Its where there is a piece of trash but it doesnt…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't got much good or bad to say about this game its just eh
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was fun in the beginning but it has a lot of under thought elements to it. I would love to be able to re-visit the other cafes that we remodel. Or perhaps we can treat it like a franchise that we own but do not manage and hop to various locations to check on things periodically. Not being able to re-visit also means if you miss the cans the first time, you have to start the whole game over again. The game also has its share of bugs, all of which I can live with. But the part that makes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cafe Owner Simulator, developed by Second Reality and published by RockGame S.A., builds its appeal around a simple but compelling idea: taking control of a neglected space and turning it into a successful café through your own effort and creativity. Presented from a first-person perspective, the game immediately sets itself apart from more traditional management sims by placing you directly inside your business. You’re not just issuing commands from a menu—you’re sweeping floors, placing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll be honest, I never even made it to opening day. The game is so freagin' boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MULTIPLAYER PLEASE
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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