VR Gaming: Coffee Quest VR
Posted on February 4, 2026 by Aywren
Though I’m not a coffee drinker, the concept of playing as a barista at a coffee shop in a VR environment sounded like fun! Given that I picked up Coffee Quest VR on the Meta 3S for only .99 cents, I figured it was worth a try. You can find this game at both Steam and the Meta store.
After my experience with the farm sim VR game, I was happy to see that Coffee Quest allows you to choose your mode of navigation. You can either select the teleport system – which is good for folks who struggle with feeling motion sickness in a VR environment – or the regular system which gives you the ability to move around the shop as if you were walking. I was also happy to see that I quickly got used to the feeling of “walking” around the shop seeing I haven’t played a VR game in a while, and it usually takes me time to get back into that.
Being a complete coffee noob, I started with the tutorial, which gives step-by-step instructions (in the form of a talking coffee cup) to get started making my first coffee. Though I did have to restart the tutorial, that was on me – I learned that picking up a tray with finished coffee and food required a little more care, and my first attempt ended up with the entire order on the floor.
After that, I chose to play the chill mode, which acts as more of a sandbox experience. In this mode, there’s no timer on filling customer orders, you can’t burn the food in the oven if you leave it there too long (meaning you don’t start fires), and you never need to sweep the floors. So, basically, it’s a learning mode that takes out some of the more challenging elements.
Coffee Quest did what I hoped it would do. It allowed me to focus on the experience of running the coffee shop in the VR experience. It discarded the needless parts and cut right to the chase, which I couldn’t be more pleased about.
When a new customer arrives, they place their order on a tablet without you needing to worry about taking an order, ringing them up, or taking payment from them. The only thing you focus on is filling the orders correctly, which includes at least one drink and sometimes food. Food may or may not need to be warmed in the oven.
Then, if they are a take-out customer, you put it all in a box, and make sure the drink is in a take-out cup. If they are a dine-in customer, you put it all on a tray and serve it to their table.
Once the customer leaves, you retrieve the tray and dishes. You then need to wash the dishes in order to reuse them for future orders. I do see where you can order new dishes if needed somewhere down the line. I somehow lost one of my coffee cups, for example.
You do need to take care because you can mess up the order by dropping it on the floor, or by not giving the customer what they wanted. You also need to take out the trash as it accumulates, and reorder food from the computer. Like everything else, ordering food is streamlined, and new food just appears on the sales counter without you needing to do anything.
As you fill orders correctly, you earn money and even tips. That money can go to unlocking new types of drinks. However, since I know absolutely nothing about coffee, I kept my game super simple at just one drink while I was playing. The game did note that you could temporarily “turn off” specific drinks if you no longer wanted to make that type.
I could see this game’s complexity ramping up significantly as you need to memorize how to make each drink type and how to use each appliance. You can see a lot of that going on in the official game trailer:
As for the environment, it was simple and functional. Just one room with a performance stage at one end. The music was functional with a basic French coffee shop vibe.
Since I didn’t have any timers ticking down on orders, I could just learn how to make the drinks and serve the food. Again, I didn’t unlock anything major because the easiest drinks were enough for me to memorize. Nothing fancy, nothing overly demanding, just overall, what I hoped it would be for a VR coffee shop experience.
The regular price is $9.99 and might be worth that if you’re a big fan of coffee making. However, I’d suggest waiting to catch it on sale if you’re just curious about how this plays as a VR game.