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Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim cover art

Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim

Coffee Beans Dev · 2026-01-21

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 21, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Run your own cozy café in Tailside! Brew coffee, decorate your café, and follow small stories in the daily newspaper. Progress through days and levels to unlock new items, skills, villagers, and creature visitors.

Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG game released in 2026, priced at $9.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (97% of 253 reviews).

96%
positive of 284 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (61 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.7k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 284 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.49 at Humble Store (2026-08-27) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $10.99 · on sale 0 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
616120262026Week of 2026-01-21: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-18: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-22: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

13
achievements tracked
88.5%
earned "Coffee Beans"
23.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-01-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1469%13

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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