Barista capybaras

☕Cafe Baras is a simple game of hand management and tableau-building with an endearing theme. You are Capybaras running a cafe, serving sweet and savory snacks and hot and cold beverages to make your Capybara guests happy. It’s a cozy gateway game for 2-4 players that is learned and played quickly. 😊

The game is played with a deck of multi-use cards. You have a hand of 4 cards and on your turn you either add a card to improve your cafe for money, or use the bottom part of the card to serve a customer to earn money.

🥪The top parts of cards are either 1 of 3 types of food or drink, or it could be performers, interior decor, furniture or games. You need a nice balance of all kinds of things.

🧁Bottom parts show specific types of foods or drinks that the customer wants - you get 1 money for each icon present in your cafe.

If you perfectly match all needs of a customer, even their preferred decor style, you can tuck it as a “Regular”, which gives you bonus points. Getting 3 or 4 Regulars (depending on player count) is actually the end game trigger.

To spice up the gameplay, some cards have an end game scoring condition, or an instant ability when you play them. There are also special guests that act as shared end game objectives. You can score these if you match their specific needs. 🙂

🧐Every turn you draw a new card from the display to refill your hand to 4 cards, looking for things that you need for your cafe or to fulfill the different end game goals - but it is also important to draft cards for serving when you are out of money; it’s especially good if you see a card that could become a regular! 

Like I said it is pretty simple, but it’s fun looking for cards that are useful to you and expanding your cafe. The theme is fun and the art is super cozy - reminiscent of Creature Comforts for example. 🥰 A lovely time!