Coffee Talk

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An incredibly addictive game. I spent entire nights playing, learning how to communicate and how to make coffee. It was hugely entertaining and full of anecdotes that would have been perfect—if only people didn't exaggerate quite so much at times. I recommend it 100 percent.

I first discovered Coffee Talk through Xbox Live Gold, when it was offered for free. Around June 2020, I downloaded it thinking it was just another free indie game I could go through for achievements. It seemed like a relaxing game about preparing drinks and listening to customers talk about their lives, all accompanied by a lo-fi soundtrack. That description is technically accurate, but it does not fully explain why it matters so much to me now. It is a simple game mechanically, but that simplicity allows its writing and characters to become the main focus. It taught me that conversations alone can carry an entire story, and it helped me understand how personalities and emotions can be expressed through small details. I'm not exactly a very empathetic person, but somehow, this game helped me understand that there are things you may never know about a person that still motivate their actions. You do not always need to know everything that moves someone for them to feel vivid and human. Coffee Talk also strengthened my own desire to write stories. It made me want to create characters that people could understand, remember, and care about in the same way. Characters who felt real and close to me, but whom other people could still relate to and perhaps even learn from. It is a game I discovered thanks to pure chance, and I am genuinely grateful for the ways it helped me improve as a person. That is why I eventually wanted to buy it again. I wanted to properly own it and support it.