Coffee Roaster
A solo coffee-roasting puzzle where one wrong draw from the bag scorches your whole batch.
Who it's for
Solo gamers who love a quiet, focused puzzle and coffee fans who want their hobby turned into a board game.
Not for you if…
You only play with others, or bag-building randomness without a partner to commiserate with sounds more frustrating than fun to you.
Vibe's take
meditative, fussy, precise, quietly tense, satisfying
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About this game
Coffee Roaster puts you alone at the roasting drum with one job: nail the perfect batch before the beans burn. You draw tokens blind from a bag, nudging each bean's roast level up while screening out smoke and scorched duds that would ruin the cup. Hitting the target roast is only half the puzzle, you also need every bean evenly roasted without tipping the flavor off balance, and each of the 22 varieties plays by its own rules. It rewards a fussy, patient kind of attention, more craft simulation than race, and a bad batch stings exactly the way a burnt pot of coffee should.
Get it
By the numbers
Players
Duration
10–30 min
Ages 12+
Complexity
2.2 / 5 — LightBGG Rating
6.6/10
Rank #1,010
4.3k ratings
Published
2015
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