A charming RPG where you'll discover the joys of running your own cozy cafe. From brewing the perfect cup of coffee to making friends with the locals, experience a blend of relaxation and adventure during your own coffee break.
🔒 45.000 € (~50.000 $)Tea Career: Not a coffee lover? No problem! Transform your cafe into a cozy tea house. This goal unlocks a tea brewing career path, letting you experiment with a variety of herbs and tea blends, offering a unique experience for players who prefer crafting the perfect cup of tea over coffee.
A charming RPG where you'll discover the joys of running your own cozy cafe. From brewing a cup of coffee to making friends with locals, experience a blend of relaxation and adventure during your own coffee break.
This game was inspired by daily moments of rest: the cup of coffee you take in the morning, a small stretch, hearing that one bird from our childhood evenings, the moments that silence our minds for a minute. I want to bring this feeling to the game as a little break from today's stress and tomorrow's worries.
This fundraiser has been created to help cover the development costs of Tailside until an Early Access release. Funding early access instead of the full game helps keep the goals much lower than usual, which in turn reduces the pledge tiers for everyone, making it as affordable as possible. Accessibility and affordability are among the most important factors for the game and its community.
Covering the initial early access base launch features development costs opens up an opportunity to guarantee inclusion of further features through out the early access stage with stretch goals:
🚨 UNLOCKED! 5.000 € (~5.500 $):Early access launch funded! It's happening! This goal covers the essential development costs to bring the early access version to life. But this is just the beginning - there’s so much more we can add together!
🚨 UNLOCKED! 10.000 € (~12.000 $): Sandbox mode: This mode unlocks endless possibilities for players to decorate multiple cafes with no restrictions. Design your perfect cafe, share it with friends and fellow cafe owners. Should we feature the best ones?
🚨 UNLOCKED! 20.000 € (~22.000 $):Cafe Terrace area: The cafe terrace expansion adds a beautiful customizable outdoor area where customers can sip coffee under the sun, enjoy a scenic view, and experience a whole new feeling.
🚨 UNLOCKED! 25,000 € (~27,500 $): Plushie Decor Set: Transform your cafe into the ultimate cozy haven with an exclusive Plushie Decor Set or use it to decorate your own personal bedroom space! This collection of cozy plushies adds a warm, welcoming touch, creating the perfect place for customers and yourself to relax and enjoy.
🚨 UNLOCKED! 30.000 € (~33.000 $) Greenhouse: Grow and process your own coffee ingredients, buy mysterious seeds and discover new plants. These can be used to decorate your cafe or even become part of your cafe’s revenue - if your customers are interested in taking home a beautiful plant of their own.
🚨 UNLOCKED! 35.000 € (~37.500 $) Soundtrack DLC: Original Tailside soundtrack DLC will be produced and added as a free reward for all backers.Experience the cozy ambiance of Tailside cafe wherever you are! This exclusive Soundtrack DLC offers backers a collection of relaxing, heartwarming tunes straight from the game.
🚨 UNLOCKED! 40.000 € (~43.000 $) Twitch integration: Make your cafe even more interactive with Twitch integration! This feature allows players streaming on Twitch to interact directly with their viewers. Fullfil orders of the viewers, get extra coins, rewards and more.
🔒 45.000 € (~50.000 $)Tea Career: Not a coffee lover? No problem! Transform your cafe into a cozy tea house. This goal unlocks a tea brewing career path, letting you experiment with a variety of herbs and tea blends, offering a unique experience for players who prefer crafting the perfect cup of tea over coffee.
🔒 60.000€(~66.000 $)Creature companions: Unlock collectible creature companions to assist you in the cafe. Let them take care of watering the plants, cleaning up the cafe, making a few of the orders and entertaining customers. These lovable creatures not only help out but also add an extra touch of charm and personality to your cafe space.
🔒 80.000 € (~86,500$) ??? There's more of highly requested features hidden here, that's if we make it to here. Watch out for the secret hidden stretch goals meanwhile! 👀
The game will continue to evolve around three core gameplay pillars during Early Access. If any stretch goals are met, these core elements will also be expanded.
☕️ PREPARE COFFEE Master the art of coffee-making as you fulfill various coffee orders 🌱 Prepare different types of coffee 🌱 Unlock new options through upgrades
🎨 DECORATE THE CAFE Personalize every corner of your cafe to your own unique taste 🌱 Fully customizable cafe 🌱 Different decoration categories
👥 MEET VILLAGERS Meet cute villagers that will help you throughout your journey 🌱 Receive helpful tips from your new friends 🌱 Interact and learn their unique stories
Early access will include the following features. All items marked as [NEW] are completely new additions that are not currently available in the Demo, along with comparisons to the Demo version.
8 different drink recipes Make a total of 8 different drinks (Compared to 3 in DEMO) to serve your customers.
Expanded decor: 18 decor sets featuring approximately 200 items (Compared to 3 sets with 26 items in the Demo)
New characters and stories: Interact with 10 unique NPCs, each with their own stories and requests (Compared to 2 NPCs in the Demo).
Village customers: (NEW) In addition to tiny customers, village customers will visit your cafe during their breaks for a cup of coffee.
Day and night cycle: (NEW) Brew during the day and wind down or decorate without any rush in the evening.
Bedroom area: (NEW) After a hard day’s work, retreat to your own cozy bedroom space.
Achievements: (NEW) Earn various Steam achievements as you progress through the game, unlocking special in-game rewards
Controller support: (NEW) Play the game with a controller for a more immersive experience.
Accessibility: (NEW) More accessibility options will be added during development to ensure the community plays comfortably.
Save & Load system: (NEW) Ability to save & load your game progress and cafe decorations!
Reaching community achievements will unlock special items that will be added for everyone to enjoy! These achievements are linked to the fundraiser, social media, and the game itself. As we hit new milestones, exciting new special decor items will be unlocked for all players to place in their cafes.
Short explanations from left to right:
Pledgers Count: Number of supporters who have pledged
Total Funds: Total amount raised through the fundraiser
Wishlists on Steam: Number of wishlists for the game on Steam
Discord Community: Total members in Tailside's official Discord server
Pinned Tweet Shares: Total shares of pinned tweet
Unlockables:
🚨 UNLOCKED! Mushroom Lamp
🚨 UNLOCKED! Coffee Cup Chair
🚨 UNLOCKED! Fox Plushie
🚨 UNLOCKED! Croissant Table
🚨 UNLOCKED! Galaxy Decor Set
Participating in the milestones of the achievements is a meaningful way to support Tailside and the fundraiser, even without financial contributions. Involvement helps spread the word about the game and its goals,bringing more cozy gamers onboard.
REWARD TIERS All pledge tiers include exclusive in-game and community perks, early access to game content, and special recognition throughout the development journey.
Early Access Key: You will receive an early access key
Discord roles: Backer roles based on pledge tier will be added to your account in Tailside's Discord
Alpha & Beta: Keep yourself busy with access to alpha and beta versions throughout development
BACKERKIT EXCLUSIVES TIERS Unlock exclusive items that are available only through this BackerKit campaign.
Woodland Decor Set: A collection of decorative items for your cafe.
Woodland Companion: A special companion character to keep you company
Woodland Main Character Coat Color: Unique white fox coat color for your character
In-game credits: Your name will be added to a special section in Tailside's game credits
BE PART OF THE GAME: Be a part of the game by creating your own personal additions!
Custom Pastry/Bakery Item: Design a unique pastry or bakery item to be added to the cafe menu
Custom Cafe Plant Decor: Have your favorite plant in the cafe without the need of taking care of it
Custom Latte Art Design: Design a signature latte art pattern for players to serve in-game
Custom Plushie Decor: Create a cozy plushie decor item to add to the cafe decor collection
Framed Picture: Design a custom picture to be framed and displayed in the cafe
Tiny Creature Customer: Create and design one of the cafe's tiny creature customers
Decor Set: Bring your dream decor set to life and see it featured in the cafe
Become an NPC: Have your own character featured as an NPC customer in the cafe
Want to add something else to it or grab an extra reward for a friend? After selecting a pledge tier, you will be able to add extra add-ons such as a discounted extra Steam key, extra access to Alpha & Beta versions, exclusive Woodland themed items for a friend, and an exclusive Pixyls sticker!
Exclusive Woodland Pixyl Sticker: Craft your own sticker out of pixels and use it as a decoration for your cozy place. Check out more Pixyls here!
The early access is expected for release in 2nd half of 2025 (The exact time depends on how many stretch goals have been reached and might be adjusted) This might seem quite far, however alpha & beta versions will be get regular updates to those who have pledged for access to it to keep you busy until then as well as regular posts and votes that will continue through out the socials with other various game activities included for everyone to participate in!
Hi there! You might not know me, but you may have seen me around as Coffee Beans Dev. Let me properly introduce myself.
I’ve been passionate about digital art ever since I discovered online communities during my school years. Back then, I was attending art school, but my teachers were always against anything non-realistic, saying it lacked future potential. That only made me more stubborn and drove me deeper into the digital art world. Over time, it became my full-time job as a freelancer.
Freelancing taught me how to balance between what I love and what clients want, an incredibly valuable skill I've carried into game development. Listening to feedback and working with others helped me build this game from the ground up.
The most surprising part of this journey has been the incredible community that has formed around the game. The feedback, suggestions, and enthusiasm from everyone have motivated me beyond what I ever expected. It’s so much more fun to create when we’re doing it together.
As for the game itself, it was born from my dream of a peaceful life in a little cafe. There’s something deeply comforting about the idea of slow, simple living, sipping a cup of coffee in the morning, hearing a bird sing, or enjoying a quiet moment. Even if I might never achieve that in real life, I wanted to bring a piece of it to life in this game. My hope is that players will feel this same sense of calm and escape from the daily rush.
By joining this fundraiser you should understand that this is not a pre-sale campaign for mentioned rewards but rather a fundraising event to help develop the game and the rewards associated with it and all rewards will be delivered once the development is finished.
While there are always potential risks and delays involved in fundraisers, I can ensure that me and my little freelancer team, that will be helping out with development after the fundraiser, is able to provide the mentioned early access features, and I will make sure to launch it in a timely manner as well as keep up with constant updates to the community as it was done in the past year.
