Coffee Noir is an experimental combination of a detective novel and a business management game with elegant 2D graphics in a comic-book style spiced up with jazz music and retrofuturistic feeling. It offers clever and challenging entertainment, with an advanced economic engine designed by academics and equipped with actual market functions giving a complex business simulation.
At first, Coffee Noir was designed as a serious game for educational purposes. Thanks to a lot of positive feedback from gamers and several prizes received at video game fairs, we decided to expand our idea. Improved graphics, professional voice-overs, more comic-style cutscenes, extended storyline, detective-style game events and point-n-click mini games - all for a true gaming experience focused on intelligent entertainment.
STORY
In an alternative future, the world of 2021 Neo-London is ruled by coffee. Player discovers the story as Arthur Oliver, a hard-boiled detective who unexpectedly becomes a part of Neo-London's dreadful puzzle and must find out why Richard Kersey - a local coffee market businessman - disappeared without a trace. He has to work undercover as a coffee salesman to gain the trust of the industry’s tycoons who might have the information that will help solve the case. The investigation won't be easy, as everything and everyone on the path seems to be entangled in it, even the past...
FEATURES
Business management
Manage your team, handle production, invest in promotion, and don’t let your coffee business go bankrupt - you have to plan your strategy carefully as you deal with limited resources!
Deep negotiations
Successfully negotiate and gain the trust of your business partners to not only win the good deals but also to get the clues essential for solving the criminal mystery.
Intriguing detective story
Feel the sweat on your brow while solving the case of Richard's disappearance. Don't get yourself easily swayed - this story may be more complicated than it may seem at first glance!
Noir audio-visual setting & full voicover
Coffee Noir is inspired by classic American comic books and equipped with film noir mood and retro-future ambiance with full English voice-overs. Feel the atmosphere of 40’s - retro-style interiors, smooth jazz, dense cigarette smoke, and a smell of good coffee while wearing the classy detective outfit...
Interactive comics
See the story unfold in the form of interactive comics with full SFX and voiceovers. Experience it like if you were holding a comic in your hands, but also… like if you were present right there, with the characters.
Realistic economics strategy
The game was developed with the support of professional economists and academics to provide you with a thorough business simulation experience.
Source: The Game Website.