For those who’ve ever needed to strive your hand at being a barista however doubt that you simply even have the talents to create latte artwork or, maybe extra importantly, cope with caffeine-deprived clients, the brand new cell sport Good Espresso, Nice Espresso formally made its debut on the App Retailer and Google Play retailer final night time. And I completely can’t get sufficient.
Good Espresso, Nice Espresso is the follow-up to 2014’s Good Pizza, Nice Pizza, a cell cooking simulator that rapidly turned a cult favourite. In that sport, gamers open their very own pizzerias and serve up orders to a unusual forged of demanding clients, lots of whom have some actually odd preferences. Good Espresso, Nice Espresso follows an identical format to its predecessor, dropping you proper into a brand new cafe in Espresso Metropolis and introducing you to the neighbors as you study to tug photographs of espresso, make more and more sophisticated drinks, and get lattes out to clients in a well timed method.
The sport’s mechanics are meant to really feel as very similar to pulling a shot of espresso can when it simply entails a number of faucets on an iPhone display. When you’re behind the digital espresso machine, you swipe to take away the portafilter and stick it below the grinder till it’s appropriately stuffed with espresso. Then, you’re requested to tamp down the espresso, brew an ideal shot, then jazz it up with numerous accoutrements if requested earlier than serving the piping sizzling shot to the shopper. Issues rapidly get extra sophisticated as you try and completely steam milk and pour the proper ratios of sizzling water into an Americano, and generally chaos ensues.
I haven’t gotten too far into Good Espresso, Nice Espresso but — I did need to get some quantity of sleep final night time — however I predict that I’ll spend many, many hours within the coming weeks (just about) steaming milk and pouring lattes. A part of what makes Good Pizza, Nice Pizza such a compelling sport its how satisfying its mechanics make the method of spreading digital sauce onto a crust earlier than piling it with toppings, and its successor appears to have largely replicated that really feel. I appreciated that the steaming wand was just a little fiddly as I attempted to froth and steam the milk, which infused simply sufficient benign frustration to maintain me taking part in. Additionally motivating are the sport’s buyer satisfaction scores, which drop rapidly in the event you don’t put together the drink in a well timed method or screw it up.
And with only a few in-game days, Good Espresso, Nice Espresso instantly made it clear to me that I might not have the ability to hack it as a real-life barista, particularly on this period of infinitely customizable (and sophisticated!) lattes. However that gained’t cease me from working Amy’s Cozy Cafe within the consolation of my own residence — and with out ever having to talk to an precise human.
