- Development Update - 25 May 2026
Hey everyone,It’s been a long time since the last update, and I wanted to finally break the silence.Over the past couple years, a lot has changed internally with the project and I’ve transitioned into continuing development solo. Instead of pushing out rushed updates just for the sake of activity, I’ve been taking time to reevaluate the direction of the game and what I truly want it to become long-term.The goal moving forward is simple: build a better, more polished experience that fully delivers on the original vision rather than forcing quick patches or unfinished features out the door.I know it’s been quiet for a while, but I genuinely appreciate everyone who wishlisted, purchased, followed the project, or simply checked in over time. It means more than you probably realize.More updates will come when I’m ready to properly show the direction things are heading.Thanks for sticking aro…
- 0.2.2 | Tweaks & Balancing - 6 January 2024
This is the first of possibly multiple smaller patches that will focus on the balancing of the game, tweaking mechanics, and bug fixes! New : The player now has a slight animation while holding something Changes : Adjusted the placement hitboxes of : Boxes, Iced Coffee Lid Stack, Donuts, Iced Coffee Pot, Ice Scoop, Coffee Lids, Iced Coffee Cups This should help allow the player to place things more compactly on counters, and on shelves! Increased the amount of money earned by completing orders This change should help make it easier to earn more money for Upgrades for the Café Coffee Cups & Iced Coffee cups will now empty if tipped over without a lid (will not leave a spill)
- Future Plans & Update 3 Information! - 31 December 2023
Hello once again everyone! We're sorry for the radio silence, we've been handling some things behind the scenes after the Unity incident a few months ago, but now It's time to talk about the future of Run a Café, as well as the next big update for Run a Café! The Future Plans of Run a Café 1) First thing first, we're wanting to try to bring the experimental branch to Epic Games! The experimental branch is meant for public testing of new features we want to bring into the next big update, so we want everyone able to experience it! And finding bugs.. like this one! https://i.imgur.com/AtAwMFM.gif with that being said, we're also wanting to release more frequent experimental branch updates! 2) The next update coming out will be a SMALLER one! This one will mainly be focused on some minor QoL things, some balance changes, and some changes based on feedback from our discord! Speaking of disc…
- Introducing... The Unstable Branch! | 23B1-P0 Patch notes - 18 September 2023
That's right! We're releasing a new branch for you all to enjoy! Introducing... The "Unstable Branch"! This branch can be accessed by right clicking on Run a Café in steam, and navigate to Properties > Betas > Beta Participation > Unstable. We will be updating this build more frequently with much smaller updates that show off some new features that are in development for a future update! From this, we will be able to get all your feedback from these smaller builds to improve the features with community feedback before releasing a feature to the live build! With that, Here are the patch notes for the first Unstable Branch! 23B1-P0 | Spilling and Cleaning New : Messes : Filled Coffee Cups & The bucket will spills out their contents when tipped over (measuring cup to be added later) Items : Rag Can be wet from sink or bucket 1 use before it has to be wet from the sink or bucket again Mop M…
- 0.2.1 | Bug Fixes - 5 September 2023
Bug Fixes : Fixed a bug with key-rebinding that prevented mouse buttons from being used Fixed a bug with the Iced Coffee Stack's hitbox being 4x the size it should've
- Customer Overhaul Update | 0.2.0 Patch Notes - 31 August 2023
We're so excited to release this update, which DOUBLES if not TRIPLES the amount of content in the game! New : Game Over : Added Rent to the game We've re-added the game over screen, now you'll have to pay rent at the end of each day. As you get upgrades, your rent will slowly increase! Failure to pay your rent at the end of the day, will result in a game over! Rent Values : Base Café : $25 Upgrade 1 : $30 Upgrade 2 : $35 Upgrade 3 : $45 Café Menu : Upon unlocking the first shop upgrade, you will now unlock a new sign that'll be over the counters, upon interacting with it, the player will be able to change what customers can order! Save/Load System | 2.0 : With this update we've overhauled the entire saving and loading system from the ground up! With 2.0 of the save system, we've cut back on saving and loading times massively, however, this means that saves from 0.1.2 and back will no l…
- Run a Café : Customer Overhaul | Release Date - 26 August 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us5u86vjbwU Surprise! The Customer Overhaul Update is being served on August 31st at 9AM PST/12PM EST! We're really excited for you all to see everything we added, and we hope you'll enjoy it when it comes out!
- Run a Café | Devlog 3 - 23 August 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lTmj5ogq58 Coming in the Customer Overhaul update, will be a complete save/load system overhaul! This new overhaul will decrease saving and loading times from minutes, to mere seconds! However, this does mean that saves before 0.2.0 will no longer work. We're hoping that this will be the last time we'll have to overhaul the save system, so that we won't run into this issue again! We hope that you're all as excited for this update as we are! Thank you all for reading/watching, and keep an eye out for more information about the Customer Overhaul update on Monday!!
- Run a Café | Devlogs 1 & 2! - 17 August 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5HzO36WBbw&t=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCzq2OSSCXw We've been hard at work with releasing the next big update! This upcoming update will be known as : "Customer Overhaul"! Some things coming to 0.2.0 (Customer Overhaul) will be the following : Café Menu : This new screen will allow the player to select what they'd like to serve in their café! No longer will you have to panic after purchasing the Iced Coffee upgrade, and not having the Iced Coffee Maker! Tables and Chairs : We're also adding tables and chairs! Once the player purchases them, Customers will sometimes come in by themselves, or with a group up to 3 others! They will place their orders like normal, and after completing the order, they will have a small chance to order more! 2nd Floor : We've also added a 2nd floor! Upon buying shop Upgrade #3, The 2nd floor will automatically be unloc…
- 0.1.6 | Save System Upgrade & More! - 25 July 2023
Changes : Save System : Adjusted how the game saves/loads data, players should see up to 44% faster loading times, and up to 48% faster saving times Day/Night : Adjusted how the game handles the lighting and skybox on load to make the loaded skybox more consistent Player : Item outlines will now disappear if invalid Customers : Adjusted the pathfinding Shop : Updated the counter models to help prevent z-fighting and items launching off the counter Bug Fixes : Fixed a bug where upon loading a save with a coffee pot in a coffee maker, the steam would be pixelated and would glow when looking at the coffee maker when holding the coffee pot - Please note, to fix the visual bug, pick up, and place the coffee pot back on the coffee maker Fixed a bug when the player would throw away something they're not supposed to, the player's hand would dissapear until reloading Fixed a bug when the game is…
- 0.1.4 / 0.1.5 | Bug Fixes - 22 July 2023
0.1.4 Patch Notes : Bug Fixes : Fixed a game breaking bug, where the player wouldn't be able to pause, or continue to the next day 0.1.5 Patch Notes : Bug Fixes : Fixed a bug where upon purchasing cheese danishes, the boxes would instead be for donuts
- 0.1.3 - Bug Fixes - 21 July 2023
New : When holding an item, you can now see an outline of where the object would be placed Players can now rotate the placement of held items with : and Changes : Adjusted the in-hand position of the following items : Coffee Maker Iced Coffee Maker Changed how end of day works : At 8PM the player will now get a popup to tell them that the day is over, they will now have at maximum 4 hours before the game forces the end of day screen To continue to the next day before midnight, head out to your car in the back, and press the button! Bug Fixes : Fixed a bug where sometimes the button prompts at the bottom right would stay on screen, even when not looking at a item Fixed a bug with coffee cup stacks, and coffee lid stacks, where they weren't loading correctly Fixed a bug with the hitbox of the pallets outside Fixed a bug where the set down prompt wouldn't display
- 0.1.2 - Bug Fixes - 20 July 2023
Bug Fixes : Fixed a bug when loading saves from 0.1.0, the iced coffee lids still wouldn't place on iced coffee cups Fixed a bug that prevented players from placing iced coffee cups back onto the iced coffee cup stacks
- 0.1.1 - Minor Tweaks & Bug Fixes - 20 July 2023
Changes : Increased the rate at which the sun moves Customers : Chill Customer : Tweaked the rate at which the customer will order additional coffee : 50%, 20%, 5% -> 60%, 25%, 5% Tweaked the rate at which the customer will order additional food : 50%, 20%, 5% -> 50%, 25%, 5% A new customer will now spawn even sooner when there are no customers Bug Fixes : Fixed a bug where transitioning between days would cause the lighting and skybox to break Fixed an issue where the sizing of the order zone was slightly too big Fixed a bug where iced coffee lids couldn't be put on iced coffee cups Fixed a texturing bug with the iced coffee maker
