EDDA Cafe
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
- Winner of "Jury's Honorable Mentions" Category for Asia Game Awards 2021 held by Gamescom Asia.
- Nominated for "Fan Favorite" Category for Game Development World Championship 2021.
"Have you ever heard a myth about cafes that turn back time?”
Follow the story of Mina in her struggle to move on from the past that haunts her since these past two years. She lost someone dear to her, and blamed herself for it. And now, on Valentine's Day, she meets Taku, a waiter who introduced her to a cafe named EDDA. Dragged by her little curiosity and her friend's compulsion, she finds out that through the magic in that cafe, she was given a second chance to relieve her past.
Will it save her heart? Will she move forward or stay in the past?
“And when the coffee starts to drip, the magic begins...”
EDDA Café is a visual novel made by Mushroomallow Studio. It's a cute and heartwarming, yet unusual Valentine-theme love story for Valentine VN Jam 2021 event.
- Format: Visual Novel
- Genre: Slice of life, fantasy, romance
- Length: 12000 words
- Language: English, Italian (updated November 20), Russian (updated January 25), German (updated April 11), Turkish (updated April 23)
- Updated 2023 April: Thai, French CA, FR and European Spanish
- Platform: PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), Android
- Artist: Mushroomallow
- Story writer, Logo Designer : Nami
- Editor, Proofreader : Clover Zero (Twitter), Leporine
- UI design, Ren’Py Scripter : MadScientist (Twitter)
- Guest Taku VA : Josh Portillo (Twitter)
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- Russian Translator: Алёна Галушкина
- German Translator: Toni Nerdson
- Thailand Translator: saltykung
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** Localization by PrismaLoc **
Localization Management
Italian
Turkish
Canadian French
Metropolitan French
European Spanish
- Sara Barbosa Gutiérrez
- Eduardo García Ligero
- Julia Muñoz Santana
- Adrián Rivero Jiménez
- Chira
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Disclaimer:
EDDA Cafe is a short project for Valentine VN Jam 2021. If you enjoy our game, please give our twitter a follow to for more information about updates and future games from us.
Update (30-8-2021):
We got a report that the build for mac OS is not working. Try launching the game by using itch.io launcher (similar way to using steam launcher to launch games).
https://itch.io/app
The game should be working just fine, but please let us know if the problem persist after you did it.
Looking forward to your feedback!
Download
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Development log
- Now also available in : Thai, Spanish ES, French CA-FR!Apr 07, 2023
- Update - Italian translationNov 20, 2021
- EDDA Cafe - PostmortemAug 16, 2021
- Log 2 - Scripting is done!Jul 10, 2021
- Log 1 - Some updates and news!Jun 26, 2021
Comments
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never knew a game can actually make me bawl into tears :')
I've just finished the game and upon looking for posts about it, I learnt that it was released on my birthday in 2021... Really, what a coincidence, because I'm almost at the same place as Mina at the start of the game. I keep grieving about the past we shared... This game is very special to me, not only because I can see myself in Mina but also because it was released on the most important day of my life, like it was a special birthday gift.
Hugs to Mina and to the dev team, thank you all for this game! I hope I can come to terms with the present and forgive myself soon. I must let them go, they have their lives and I have mine to care about, too.
Just saw your comment and it made my eyes teary ;u; Glad to hear that the story resonates with you deeply. Wherever you are now, I hope you'll soon find your peace. Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe!
is this game inspired by the book "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshizaku Kawaguchi ?? :D
hi! yes, if scroll down the comment section or if you check the postmortem post: https://mushroomallow.itch.io/edda-cafe/devlog/284311/edda-cafe-postmortem, you'll see that we've mentioned this novel several times already.
Thanks for the answer !! Ill definitely play the game then !! :3
THE GAME ALMOST MADE ME CRYYY😭😭😭 I love love this so much!! I love the storyline and meaning of this game, it made me feel mixed emotions but nonetheless, i was very satisfied with the ending. Love love lovee this! this was my very first novel game that i've played, and it did NOT disappoint. Keep it up!!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2008173083
(Dont mind the mic quality its sucks LOL)
Thank you so much for playing EDDA Cafe in your stream! And welcome aboard to the world of visual novel! ^^
went to the link but said that the content is unavailable :(
Hii! Just a quick question, is this a short novel game? Im planning on playing this while live streaming on Twitch LOL. Could anyone tell me if its a long one or a short game?
hi! This game has 2 endings and you can get both in around 1 hour, so it's perfect for a short streaming session! Please tag us on twitter/IG if you announce your stream so we can help promote the stream to our community ^^
Disculpen a alguien sabe si solo tiene dos finales, fue tan lindo que me quede con las ganas de saber más de esta linda historia.
Hola! Soy el desarrollador. Actualmente, EDDA Cafe solo tiene 2 finales. Gracias por jugar!
I CRIED. ALOT. THIS. IS. MASTERPIECE.
Glad to hear that you cried (lol) Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! ^^
This game was hard because of personal reasons, but it was also nostalgic and heartwarming. So glad I played it.
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! ^^
I was startled by Taku's greetings😭
But anyways the game is heart warming, the theme is so cute, the characters are good, the story is well written; I love everything about this game. I don't regret pressing the download button and I don't think I'll ever delete it. Gonna keep the memories ya know ^_-
Hi! Sorry about the un-optimized Taku's voice over! Hopefully we'll get a chance to fix it one day.
And thanks a lot for playing EDDA Cafe! I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed it! ^^
Was bored, so i pressed download to play and didnt pay anything.
Then I played the game.
Went back and paid double the amount you asked for.. This game was really good. Thank you for it..
Thanks for playing EDDA Cafe and for the dono as well! I'm happy to find out that the story resonates with you ^^
I want to translate the game into Simplified Chinese. What do I need to do?
Unfortunately, at the moment we don't have anyone available that can put the translated script into the game. But please send us an email to contact@mushroomallow.com so I can reach out to you when we need your localization service one day.
I love this game. It actually helped me a little bit, so thanks a lot. I really liked the characters of this game, and I would really like some more stories, like, making canon one of the endings and expanding them, it would be really interesting to see more problems in Mina/Rin/Taku's life, or perhaps new characters, either way, great game and would love a spinoff/sequel, etc....
Have a great day!!
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! While story of Mina and Alex is done, we might have an interesting news coming soon for EDDA Cafe. We'll make the announcement in the near future, and if you're interested, please give us a follow here or on our socials so you won't miss it ^^
Cool game, i like game :)
Thanks! I like game too!
Hey why are you not posting?
Hey baldi games 1234 long time not seeing you!
Maybe you couldn't see my comment, but I will write what I felt when I played the perfect game "Edda's Cafe" .
First of all it's attractive. The design, the characters and the best of it the story of course. It's a fantastic shiny words and the effect of it's warm leave a beautiful touch on my heart. All the respect and thanks to your hard work.I wish I play another game like this amazing work.
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe and for sharing your thoughts! We are happy to hear that you enjoy it. ^^
★★★★★
This does hurt my heart if I have a girlfriend and had a rare uncureable disease,and I will cry like little baby for her and hug her one last time,and I hope for her a good luck to live a happy life
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That's what Alex wanted to do: to have the courage to tell Mina about his condition while saying good bye to her and wished her for a happy life. But the story happened exactly because he didn't have the courage to do it. He thought it'll be easier for both of them if Mina just hate him and leave him, but it didn't cross his mind that what he did (just broke up with her without telling her anything) ended up putting Mina in years of guilt.
In the end, we wanted to make (sort of) happy ending for both Mina and Alex and hoped that the readers will be satisfied with it. Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! ^^
Already left a review but leaving a comment too because... This game was simply beautiful. I cried, and I loved every second of it
thank you for taking the effort to leave a comment 🥺 We're happy to hear that you enjoy EDDA Cafe!
This is such a lovely game! The art style is adorable, the story is nice, and I love that there is no 'wrong choice'! I think it gives out a really nice message :D fantastic work!!
Thank you for the sweet review radiokiro! Happy to hear you enjoy our small VN! ^^
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GAME this is such a sweet game no matter what ending it is, it's still happy I love the no right or wrong sentence it's so sweet and adorable, I love this game with all my heart!! loved the story and the meaning on this game :D
We're happy to hear that from you! Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! <3
Amazing story line very well done beautiful beautiful game I really enjoyed playing it thank u guys so much awesome game loved it 👍
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe and for making video about it as well!
U welcome awesome game love it 👍
a really beautiful, sweet, aesthetic, calming , and heart touching game. both endings will make you cry.
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe and for the sweet review as well! <3
This was a beautiful, sweet and amazing game! It was a great experience and a great story told, it really was! The art style was great and the music matched the tone well, though I felt like it could have been mellower music at times. It really was a beautiful story with a great moral meaning and decision behind it, well done!
Thank you so much for playing EDDA Cafe and for making a video about it! We're glad you enjoy it! ^^
This game is absolutely beautiful it made me cry so much.. thank you SO much for making this game
Glad to hear that EDDA Cafe has touched another heart ^^ Thank you for playing our game!
i hate u bcs this made me cry so hard, both endings are beautiful and I love how they said theres no right or wrong answer, just follow your heart. I cant lie I love Taku so much and idk why but the fact that hes just a normal college part time worker is really sweet. are there any more Taku contents out there?
Thanks for playing EDDA Cafe! ^^
Taku seems to be the more popular guys instead of the main love interest, Alex XD. To be honest, we don't make a lot of side content for him since we're busy producing our new commercial title at the moment, but who knows, we might make a side story based on EDDA Cafe in the future if there's enough demand for it and since Taku is the waiter of EDDA Cafe, he'll definitely make a come back there.
10/10 I love it!!
I much prefer red bull over coffee but based visual novel.
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thanks for playing EDDA Cafe!
This game feels like a spiritual successor to Toshikazu Kawaguchi's novel "Before Your Memory Fades" which I adore. Bittersweet yet heartwarming, sad yet hopeful. Very emotional and thought provoking.
P.S. The artwork is absolutely charming ^^
EDDA Cafe was inspired by Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold, not sure if it's the alternate title of the novel that you mentioned, but our writer Nami really enjoy their works. Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe!
It's a series of short novels and "Before Your Memory Fades" it's the 3rd book of "The Coffee Gets Cold" - both the series name and the title of the first book. Every book contains about 4 short stories happend in the cafe.
I played recently and I was really fascinated with the story, I know that in itself, the story had good endings and was made to not be such a long story, but I would really enjoy a second part a lot, I am very intrigued as to what the day to day is like day of the protagonist after the two endings.
Even so, totally incredible, I will be encouraged to look at your other games, because this work left me enchanted.
It had a simple but concise story, the design and the characters are beautiful, you just did an amazing job.
Hi! Thanks a lot for the wonderful comments! I really appreciate it!
Considering that it's loved by a lot of people, maybe one day we'll make something based on EDDA Cafe, but for now we want to venture to another type of game and a whole different story to give us more experience on game development.
Let us know what you think of our other games, and we will be grateful if you look forward to our new game too! ^^
I played this game a while ago on stream since I'm a VTuber (My twitch ;) And I loved itt!! It was fun and heartwarming and I'm happy that I got to help Mina make the right choice in the end! Thank u mushroomallow for letting me be able to have this experience :D
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe and I'm glad to hear you had a good time playing it! I'm gonna check your channel when I got the chance ^^
What a lovely, warm, touching game! Thank you so much for creating it.
Thanks a lot for playing EDDA Cafe! ^^
Hello, I'm Nagasari Ferrea and I'm a Malaysian VTuber. May I stream this game on YouTube and suggest it to my fellow VTuber friends?
Hello! Thanks for asking and sure, we'll happy if you stream EDDA Cafe in your channel! If you share about your stream on twitter, please tag us @mushroomallow_ in your twitter post so we can retweet it. ^^
Thank youuu!!!
Molto bello sono contenta che lo abbiate tradotto mi ha strappato sorrisi e lacrime lo adoro
grazie per aver giocato a EDDA Cafe! ^^
Thank you so much for making this! I enjoyed this visual novel thoroughly, it's short and sweet story accompanied by beautiful aesthetic is perfect fit for someone like me. This is my first visual novel I've read from you and I'm so excited to try your other visual novels!
Glad to hear that you enjoy EDDA Cafe! Thank you so much for playing our games!
Well, this game has both encouraged and emotionally damaged me. It's such a wonderful bittersweet story with A+ art that is so soft, and the music??? It made me bawl in the inside when I got to the endings... God, this is so good and it just reaffirmed what I've been abiding by "Sometimes kindness is all we need" and seeing Mina go through that rollercoaster was so painful because she's suffocating herself with the guilt-- I'm so glad she found peace in both endings, god do I want to work in Edda Cafe as well even though I'm sure I'd cry on the customers' behalf... AMAZING GAME LET ME JUST BREATHE CAUSE I'M CHOKING ON MY METAPHORICAL TEARS--
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! Reading your comment is the encouragement we need to keep making more games in the future ;;u;; We hope you'll enjoy our future titles too! ^^
I'm very happy to know this game exists! This game kinda changes how I behave, I've become more caring towards other. Looking through by the story, it's very heartwarming and I sometimes sobs quietly. Hoping to see more from this team! You guys deserve more attention and kind reviews! You guys should be known world-wide!
But may I ask what game engine do you use for this?
I'm getting started on making visual novel, cute collecting game, RPG but I need recommendation for game engines.
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! As for game engine, we used Ren'py for all of our games so far. It also has a dedicated forum that still active to this day called Lemmasoft (https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/index.php). I've seen people make RPG-ish game using Ren'py but if you plan on having a lot of gameplay variations, I think Unity will be better for you.
Thank you so much for the suggestion! ^^
hi!! loved playing the game, but had a quick question: is this based off of "When the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)? it's just that the premise of both are similar haha, so just wondering!! loved the game so much <3
Thanks for playing EDDA Cafe! You're right, the writer is inspired by those very title. You can read more about it in our post mortem : https://mushroomallow.itch.io/edda-cafe/devlog/284311/edda-cafe-postmortem
So happy I decided to check this game out it's so cute and I really loved the artwork! A little sad but yet really light and cozy, thank you for the game <3
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! Happy to hear that you enjoy it! ^^
Thank you developer of this game.
Thank you for playing EDDA Cafe! ^^
I'd like to make a suggestion.
The graphics in this game are a little bit unfriendly to translators, maybe it would be better to replace the text in the graphics with code?
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by 'text in the graphics'. Can you elaborate?
The GUI makes heavy use of images rather than code.
If you want to add a language, does that mean you need to make a new image
I see. Thank you for the suggestion! At the moment we're only focusing on translating the story/content of the game, so we left the GUI as it is. It's true that we'll have to change the GUI assets one by one if we want to change it into another language, but we feel that what we currently have is enough. But we'll definitely consider your suggestion for our future games =)
awe this is cu- WELCOME TO EDDA