Esther's Cafe

At Esther's cafe your adorable host Served cheese to the mice when they wanted toast! That won't bother Harold's robust appetite, But Janie insists that the order's not right.

An interactive brunch storybook. 5-7 minutes.

Believe it or not, there are about 2.8 million unique paths through this short story!

Awards and Recognition

Esther's took 17th place in IFComp 2022 and won "Outstanding Short Game of 2022 - Author's Choice" in the IFDB Awards. Source. Postmortem.

• "Heartwarming and funny." - Rovarsson
• "The most finely-crafted entry I’ve played so far this year." - Rabbit
• "There’s no other word for it: from stem to stern, it’s adorable." - Mike Russo

Release Notes

Initial Discord release on 2024-09-29. Known issues:

• The "Back" and "Start Over" features have been removed on Discord, and need to be rewritten to work here.
• The picture-in-picture mode is not great by default, and needs to be customized.