Chai

Mix teas and flavours into the perfect blend and fill your customers' orders, one cup at a time.

Designers: Connie Kazmaier, Dan Kazmaier
Published by: Steeped Games Ltd.
Editions by: Little Rocket Games

In Chai (2019) you are a tea merchant mixing the perfect blend. You specialize in one of five teas, rooibos, green, oolong, black or white, and buy and collect ingredients to fill your customers' orders. On each turn you do one of three things: visit the market, select additives or reserve a customer. At the end of a turn you may complete one order from a customer card in your hand or in the pool, placing a base tea token, flavours and additives in an empty cup. Then you flip a tip, take a coin bonus and move a thermometer track. A warm, cozy set-collection game for one to five, about an hour.

Five tea types to specialise inThree actions per turnFill cups to complete customer orders

Who it's for

You enjoy cozy set-collection and order-filling games with a hospitality theme, for one to five players.

Not for you if…

You want a lot of conflict or deep strategic planning. Chai is calm and mostly about building your own orders.

Vibe's take

Warm and tidy. Each turn is a simple choice between three actions, and the satisfaction comes from spotting the order you can finish this turn and flipping a tip afterwards.