Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 09:38 pm
Coffee Inc 2 – Business Game Review
Coffee Inc 2 is a Business/Roleplaying/Simulation game from Side Labs LLC, first launched in 29th November 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,230+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Coffee Inc 2 Stand Out
Coffee Inc 2 – Build Your Global Coffee Empire
Coffee Inc 2 is the next generation of the hit business simulation game. Start as the founder of a small cafe and grow into a world-class coffee empire. From brewing your first blend to managing thousands of employees, every decision is in your hands.
Hire and inspire great talent, develop new products, run marketing campaigns, manage your finances, and expand into major cities around the world. Compete with rival shops, dominate new markets, and prove yourself as the ultimate coffee entrepreneur.
What’s New in Coffee Inc 2
• Expand into real-world cities: San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Osaka, London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Sydney, and Seattle.
• Play globally with multiple currencies: USD, EUR, JPY, and GBP.
• Customize store interiors, exteriors, and equipment – or design your own layouts.
• Set menus and pricing, and create brand-new coffee products.
• Run smarter marketing campaigns, from local promotions to city-wide brand awareness drives.
• Hire staff, keep them happy, and delegate daily operations to store managers.
• Handle unexpected incidents from both employees and customers.
• Build offices and create departments in HR, Finance, Marketing, Products, Engineering, Executive, and Investment.
• Track detailed financials with income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports.
• Develop online services and apps to expand beyond the cafe walls.
• Hire C-level executives like COO, CFO, CTO, and CMO – and reward them with stock options.
• Hold board meetings, set executive compensation, and decide on dividends.
• Work with investment banks to pursue IPOs and acquisitions.
• Enter the plantation business: grow your own coffee beans, manage harvests, and control quality from farm to cup.
• Diversify into real estate and stock markets through your investment division.
• Keep personal wealth separate from company wealth.
• Save and sync your progress across devices with iCloud.
• Always ad-free.
This Business game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Coffee Inc 2 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
This is a patch release:
- Fixed a performance issue that caused slowness for some users when turning a week.
- Fixed an antitrust fine–related bug affecting French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages.
Download & Availability
Coffee Inc 2 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We want buy every single business sim game you guys build! Please make more.
Can we have the ability to do M&A with non-coffee companies.
Fun game an idea . It would be cool if holidays were included in the game. And could do special holiday sales and what not.
10/10 a great idea if you wanted to expand would be to add franchising.
This game is SO fun, and particularly the early-mid game is super satisfying to grow your business and make competitive moves. However in the end game there are several mechanics that really are detrimental to your business and make it pretty painful to continue. 1. Real Estate: we AM BEGGING the developer to use the same slider UI from the stock market to be used in RE purchases!! This would be a super easy change as its already built. Towards the end-game you have sit and manually hold your finger on the + or – button until you finally reach the bid you want to make. On a multi-billion dollar property this takes FOREVER – like several minutes per week, and you have to repeat this every week your bid gets rejected. Extremely frustrating and makes this element outstandingly boring. 2. COO: The COO makes you able to scale your business easier, but has HORRIBLE business practices that you cannot fix. When we manually set our stores to the settings we like, the manager always has high skills, is delegated the correct responsibilities, and the in-store marketing is set to be optimal. After hiring a COO and delegating those things, we end up with <50 average skillset managers across the board, and the weirdest/most unprofitable store marketing choices that change randomly. If there was a way to set base parameters for the COO we think that would help immensely. If we were to set standardized marketing and base requirements for manager skillsets at a company-wide level, this would solve for a ton at once. E.g. The COOs Expertise stat correlates to the skill level of the manager we could hire (80% expertise means they can hire a manager with 80 People skill, 90% 90 People skill, etc). And maybe theres a 20% variation in in-store marketing, and skill level, so the COO could hire 64-80 level skill. 90 Expertise means they could hire 81-90, 100 Expertise would always be 100, etc. To make it fair you could have a maximum of 300 skill for managers between all 4 skills. Also, would be nice to know what the stats of execs actually do – doesnt seem like any of them really matter except loyalty for staying longer 2. Fines: Related to the COO, there is NO WAY to control fines because you cannot standardize gender of hires, in-store recycling standards, etc. If there was an addition of say, a Chief Legal/Compliance Officer, who could warn you of potential risks, we think that would help mitigate the COOs downsides. The CLO/CCO would come to you once a quarter and tell you there is X% risk of fine in the next Y days unless you invest $Z amount of money into the issue 3. Investing/Startups: One of the most interesting and profitable late-game elements, it is an absolute pain to manually go through the Investing center every week to scroll through every single startup listed AGAIN and AGAIN, only to find the startup you invested in 2 weeks ago is still showing up. We think with a 100 level investing department, it would be nice to get a monthly/quarterly report from your analysts of which startups are raising capital. And if your existing portcos are raising capital, maybe you get a notification so you can double down on your initial investment. Would be really easy to place a bubble notification in the side bar that you could turn on/off in the Investment department to let you know which portcos are raising capital again so you dont miss the boat if they are only raising for 1 week Also, would be nice to have bubble notifications in general if portco is raising again, someone is offering on real estate, car, player, etc.
It would be really cool if we could see what date we opened a store when viewing.
We think this is the best game ever as long as they continue to add cites and add like other starts or other games where you can start up other food businesses that would be cool but you guys are already on your way to dominating the mobile games with the dedication you showed us here.
Can you guys PLEASE come out with a sandbox mode? We absolutely love this game!! A sandbox mode would be awesome! You guys definitely made a one of kind game in our opinion. Anyways, thanks for creating a game like this! A sandbox mode would be the thing we look forward to the most! Thank you so much.
We have played this gam consistently ever since the first game and we have to tell the game is pretty difficult at first but once you learn the game you get to really see how much depth there is to the game and the many options you have such as investing (our fav) building your business and property management.
Good game. Developers should put Panama and uae in the game also more real estate to buy also add monaco.
We love this game but we would love to see more to it. Add an option where you can donate to Univerisites and have endowments like the first game does. Also, add an option where you could buy a floor of a building to house your offices or to buy towers to house your company and be able to renovate the way they look on every floor.
By far the best business sim game Ive ever played on iPhone, would love to see another version with different industries other than coffee.
This game is absolutely amazing!! We love how detailed each level of the game is! We cannot wait to see what else is brought to the game and if there will be a 3rd one! We grow curious as to how more detailed the developers will get with each level.
This game is too good. Its way too good for a coffee company business simulation. There are so many additional ventures you can explore and companies, sports teams, buildings, to take over its just too good. Ive wasted hours playing this game and we dont expect to stop any time soon. Keep up the great updates, and maybe work on a personal finance sim? Great job. We love this game.
We really like the game but its been the same since we downloaded it 3 months ago.
The stock market currently in the game is very fun, we literally made most of our money off of the market in this game before we even had 10 stores. Our issue is that one of the start up companies we invested in early that we owned 64,000 shares of at around a 6 million evaluation was bought out by a company for 11 billion. We received our premium dividend reimbursement but why did our shares just disappear? Thats not how it works in real life our shares would of now became whatever the company was that bought them out! We shoulda been a billionaire at this point in the game due to the buy out.
This is one of the best games for entrepreneurs we wish there were more games like this and the best thing is that after every update they keep putting out more and more things and it gets better every time. We wish you can do it also where it's wasn't just coffee and other businesses like a sims hopefully you guys can come out with a game like that, but like we said this is the best game we played on mobile.
After you get a billion the game gets boring. Needs more frequent updates.
This is significantly better than the first Coffee Tycoon! We love how you can choose between micromanaging everything to hiring executives to run it on autopilot! We just hope the developer continues to add to this game even if its DLC.
O jogo timo, porm falta ele ser traduzido para Portugus do Brasil.
Great game but one after a while the company runs out of things to grow. One of the biggest things would be to make tech to expand to the other sectors like biotech, banking , tech, and auto. Make it so that you can make a business of banking after you have 1 billion in savings and make development of cars take hundreds of millions. This would make it so you challenge the sectors and the established business. This would make this game the best one we have ever played.
Ive been playing since the first game. We enjoy this game and will continue to support the development.
We love everything about this game Ive been playing coffee inc since the first!! Side note we think One great addition to the game would definitely be franchising we feel like it would take this game to a whole new level.
Incredible game. Love it. Some observations/suggestions : 1. Sometimes the Q earnings for your coffee co. Will headline as negative when its not and the stock will fly. 2. Its not very easy to remember where your stores are on the really detailed diverse maps of the cities. Plz make it easier. 3. Would be nice to have an inbox for store indicidents so its easier to remember what happened where/ and also to notify you if your building has received purchase offers. This way the events dont stop your flow and if you choose not to address events it has repercussions/ and you dont have to go to every individual building thats on sale to see if you have offers. 4. Would be cool to have financials( balance sheet etc) for personal wealth as well showing weekly incomes instead of just yearly. 5. How do you add value/attendance to sports franchises? Also charts showing +/- growth on a weekly/monthly level would be cool. 6. Your chief investment officer should have reports available for all buildings that are for sale. 7. A rent calculator that shows you what the theoretical ROI/occupancy if you increase decrease rents. Sorry to focus only on the above topics but theres so much to love about this game! Def worth your time.
Love the game. We would like to see policies added in the marketing floor to allow us to ensure all stores have certain amenities we.e. Free high speed Wi-Fi in all stores or catering in all stores.
Love the game and VC aspect. Has the game considered adding Boston? Also – a federal government election of some sort might be a fun wrinkle.
This is the best version of this kind of game (we wouldnt recommend a single other tycoon game in the App Store). Its absolutely full of game-breaking bugs though. At some point in the late game youre going to randomly go out of business (usually around 2040) and whatever causes that bug also breaks your game saves. Haha, dont get too attached.
Its a amazing app. But wouldve been better if this had cricket teams too. In London we saw the oval cricket ground but there was nothing there. It would be fun if u had India in this too. More of cricket and more countries. Rest looks fine. Just need too add more stuff about sports.
We love this game. It gots pretty much everything we want in a tycoon game. However, this game updates too little too slow, and we wish the developer can update the game faster.
Overall fun. More depth than the first one but not as snappy. We turned on make employees deal with all customer issues but we still get bothered by these super slow and repetitive customer management scenarios almost every time we start a new week.
Marketing Dept. Should grant the ability to set marketing for specific cities or just overall stores. We dont mean ads, we mean the individual stores marketing but in a large scale. Im not sure how else to set store marketing unless we go to each one individually. Maybe a faster method of building stores so we dont have to tap so much to perform a single action. Like what if we held down our tap to buy a store at our default settings? The game is pretty good for what it is. Honestly, congrats on making this! Once we took over on normal mode, we found there wasnt so much to do but clean up specific regions and then there wasnt much we could do even there. So maybe options to optimize revenue but on a grand scale.
This is a really solid foundation for a business tycoon game. With a little tweaking and more depth, it would be on par with Capitalism Lab on PC. The stock system is too simple, and there isnt enough to do once you become the dominant company on the map. Startups are far too profitable and youll make a game ending amount of money off of a single good lucky deal.
Im so rich there is nothing to do! Need more option in spending personal wealth.
Stop ending the game as soon as we go bankrupt its very annoying.
Was having fun. Made 60k a week. Put most of our money into stocks, so we had like 40,000 left in our company. Company had one bad week. Company goes bankrupt, we lose save and the last 4 hours of effort we spent trying to make a successful company.
We really like this game, it has great detail, the animation style is fun, and so many other great things. Our biggest issue is its complicated to find and go to your stores/main office. There is no way to easily see stats of stores next to each other and its not possible to change store marketing in a grouping which gets old pressing the same 5 buttons over and over. This game has a handful of user experience hurdles before it could be great. Would be happy to provide more detailed feedback to the owner/creators of the game.
After setup pId version the app you must wait weeks until they open a store they just hold your money.
Not sure how you can be out of business when there assets that can be sold. Stocks and buildings can be sold to cover the dividend payment. Fun for 5 minutes. Dont waste your money.
Just downloaded and when we try to start a business, it doesnt allow us to type in a company name and continue. Nothing happens. Definitely a bug that needs to be fixed since we cant even play.
Why do we have to click through them every week to see which ones need money. Its so laborious. There was to be a quality of life improvement here. Some way to only have to click through when there are ventures that need funding. Auto save every week. Or give us an undo button so we dont lose years of work.
Long awaited coffee inc 2 has shown its face! We loved the first one. The very second we saw this one we had to purchase it up right away. We wish we could find a game on pc that makes us feel the way coffee inc does. Maybe your devs could work on a pc port that has more things going on. One thing we maybe fell into because of the first game. Is an overwhelmingly large income. Whilst getting there initially is a little challenging. Once we get a shop standard down that brings in at least 5k a day. The game is more or less over as we save money and spam that same building over and over Let the managers take over. Watch the income flood But thats the whole game at some point. We want to try the other things they have to offer. Different ventures. Seems interesting. Still one of the best business simulation games ever made.
By far the most realistic and in depth game youll find.
Love this game! There are just two things that could really help. One be able at have automatic time like (speed up) or (slow down) its really annoying to have to keep selecting to change to the next month. Also managers keep leaving over and over making it quit annoying to replace them each time. Please send out and update and fix this issues. Thanks you. Keep up the good work guys.
One of the best business simulation games we have ever played.
Hello! We LOVE this game and have spent over 100 hrs playing. We think you should make a game, similar with this kind of style. Except, its about running a bank empire. Including interest rates and trade. We think it would be a great concept. Please respond if you like the idea :).
Please add feature that we can click into amount and modify when purchasing or buying stocks, to arrows take forever with large amounts of money.
Sports teams wont accept our M&A thats it, Other than that great game.
Its a great game but literally Ive had to start over so many times every game we star we end up bankrupt we wish it was a little easier to get started like how to use the company and stuff we mean we dont know how to get it off we mean we start we make profit open a couple more even if we wait and build revenue we still end up bankrupt.
We think you guys should create a general manager mode. Where theres stores, and us as the player is running the store as a GM. Where we can assigned employees task to do. Make the employees schedule, payroll, and run promotions. Have inspections. If we are doing a good job at maintaining the store we stay as the Gm if not were getting transfer to another location up until we decide to retire. Itll be cool to have a assistant general manager. Making just like the same or similar structure to Wawa. It would be cool to have trucks where we order things from the warehouse, and have a delivery every other or 2 days.
Great games but can you bring back the instant feedback of customers.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 15.2
- Size: 398.60 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, PT, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Contests
- Developer: Side Labs LLC
Last updated: 30th October 2025 | Genre: Business, Roleplaying | Developer: Side Labs LLC