Game: Desktop Cat Cafe
Genre: Idle, Simulation
System: Steam (Windows)
Developers | Publishers: samyam, lockyaw | Zippyzappy Games
Controller Support: None
Price: US $9.99 | UK £8.50 | EU € 9,75
Release Date: March 6th, 2025
A review code was used, with many thanks to samyam, lockyaw.
Desktop Cat Cafeis a little idle simulation game that sits on top of your desktop, giving you a little cafe scene to look at while you do other things. It allows you to purchase furniture, buy new recipes, and hire loads of cats to run things.
What is Desktop Cat Cafe Like to Play?
There isn’t much to do inDesktop Cat Cafe. As with other similar idle games, you only need to interact with your cafe every once in a while. You’ll want to hire more cats, put in more furnishings, decorate, plant trees, and watch as your hired cats serve those who come for coffee.
You can also unlock a bunch of new recipes for things you can sell, including coffee, boba milk tea, croissants, and loads of other treats. After that, you can set everything up the way you like, laying out your furnishings, hiring cats, and bringing in other little animals to hang out and be cute.
The list of things you can buy, display, use, sell, and adopt is pretty large, so you can build the cafe of your dreams. You can also favorite furnishings and other items for easy purchasing later once you have saved up enough of your money. You get money from your cats serving customers.
The Pros of Desktop Cat Cafe
Desktop Cat Cafe‘s list of menu items, cats, and furnishings ismassive. I recently played Bao Bao’s Cozy Laundromat, which is another idle game, and one of my main complaints was how I wish there had been more items to decorate and choose from. This was not an issue with Desktop Cat Cafe.The selection was more than I could have hoped for, and all of the items were pretty adorable. I was also a huge fan of how many foods and drinks you could serve and how cute everything looked.
The Cons of Desktop Cat Cafe
Unfortunately,Desktop Cat Cafe doesn’t feel quite done yet. There were several bugs and things I wasn’t a huge fan of in this idle game. The first thing that really drove me crazy was howhugeit was. As an idle game that is supposed to run on top of whatever else you are doing on your desktop, it takes up a massive amount of room. Just look at what the screenshots look like on the LadiesGamers website:
It takes up so much room that you really can’t comfortably interact with anything going on behind it unless you make that thing 50% smaller on your screen. It could make everything much, much smaller and show more land at the bottom of the screen if it truly wants to be something that can run overtop of whatever else you are doing. Instead, I had to have it not sit on top, and I didn’t get to watch the cats walk in and out while I was working, which was a shame.
Another issue I had was with purchasing new recipes. Sometimes, I would try to upgrade my tea-making machine, and then I would try to hire a cat to make tea, and it wouldn’t work. I tried several times, and every time I got these ghost workers instead. I’m not quite sure what I did wrong, but there was no tutorializing it or information on how to upgrade things, so perhaps I was just doing it incorrectly. But I never did figure it out.
I think the biggest bug I encountered, though, was the fact that I never got the “Quit” button to work in the menu. So I ended up having to close the game through Steam each time, which was very frustrating. There was also an admin menu thing that opened up in the corner that I couldn’t close.
Conclusion
My time withDesktop Cat Cafe was short-lived and wasn’t great. I think the game has a lot of good bones, and it can be a great game at some point, but it needs a lot of love. At this moment,Desktop Cat Cafe isnotworth $10 USD. I look forward to seeing it when it feels more complete.
Final Verdict: I’m Not Sure
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