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Hipster Café

Make stupid food, serve it on a skateboard, and impress your friends by drawing in your coffee.


London, February 18 2022

Trailer & Demo released
It's time for Steam Next Fest, and a public playtest of Hipster Café. We are still making changes and balancing the game but the demo is here and it's playable, right now! To celebrate, we recreated some of the interesting meals we've had in hipster cafés over the years and dropped a trailer.


About Hipster Café
Hipster Café is a tongue-in-cheek business tycoon game for PC. Mac & Linux ports are also in the works. 

  • Make stupid food, serve it on a skateboard, and impress your friends by drawing in your coffee.
  • Is that a utility object or décor? Customise your space to keep it at the cutting edge of design.
  • Fill your café with the latest greatest entertainments and distractions. You should probably put an axe throwing range in your café, that seems safe.
  • Keep up to date on the latest trends on social media, send out a Toot with the right hashtags before the Hot Take timer goes out to get bonus followers.
Use your trust fund to buy up some old warehouse building in the run down part of town then market it to the nouveau riche in a cynical attempt to drive up property prices. Call dad when you run out of money and hope he doesn't make you get a 'real job'. Can you successfully navigate the shifting waters of pop culture in order to market your eatery to the hippest demographic?

About useful slug
useful slug is a small indie studio run by Technical Director by Day / Game Developer by night Vegard Myklebust. Together with a rag tag team of freelancers convinced by charm or small scale bribery, they’ve cobbled together a game about life in a hipster café, while sitting on their laptops in Loading Bar in Dalston, in the heart of Hipster London.