If convincing a drug addicted screenwriter to write a terrible wild-west homosexual cowboy romance flick in 1930’s Hollywood, blackmailing a pedophile to play the lead role, ordering contract killings on your competitor’s post-production teams so that you’re the only one in theaters, making a massive profit, and then giving the film to Adolf Hitler himself for his prized personal film collection sounds like a good time to you then I’d recommend giving this game a try.

In its current state, the game is VERY buggy and I think it lacks a bit of depth, but it’s quite fun and definitely a fresh take on the management genre.

It's okay, I guess

It's not a bad game: It's well polished, no bugs, good graphics, good AI, good animation, good models, good textures. The developers clearly put a lot of effort into this and it shows in every aspect of the final product. The developers even left a thoughtful response to this review, which I recommend going over.

I dislike the game because it's business and customer mechanics are poorly fleshed out.
When you go to a coffee shop, you order your coffee how you like it, and the baristas make it how you like it. Maybe there are a few specialty drinks, but it isn't their whole stinking menu.
What makes a coffee shop good is the beans, their staff, and what they are capable of making.

Espresso Tycoon chooses to boil down these ideas into "social classes", each of which will prefer an exact specific drink and not order anything else. It is your job to create specialty drinks that directly appeal to each of the 8 social classes, or they won't order from your shop. The specialty drinks often involve mayonnaise, copious amounts of syrup and ice cream, and weird calorie/temp/caffeine criteria.

I just don't think it's a good direction. The novelty of creating these beverages wears off after the first two or three, and it just ends up being a repetitive chore. We make our drinks and then we just... sit around and wait. yay.

The game is otherwise very well polished (better than some AAA games I've played recently...) and so I'm very confident future updates will be able to make the gameplay (and especially the end-game) more engaging.