The barista chaos of Coffee Rush is back, and this time it is snowing. Korea Board Games has revealed Coffee Rush: Winter, a standalone festive follow-up to its 2023 cafe hit, and UK pre-orders are already open ahead of an autumn release. If your group enjoyed the original's frantic order-juggling, this is a self-contained excuse to do it all again with a seasonal twist.
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See how it worksFor anyone who missed the first one, Coffee Rush is a fast, light game of running a cafe under pressure. You move around gathering ingredients and racing to complete drink orders before they go stale, earning "like" cards for happy customers and collecting dreaded "dislikes" when you leave someone waiting. It plays in about half an hour, suits 2 to 4 players and ages 8 and up, and has the kind of breezy, colourful presentation that makes it an easy sell to non-gamers.
Winter keeps that frantic, real-time cafe heart but reworks the setup. The menu swaps espressos for seasonal specialities, the ice tokens are now little snowmen, and the fixed board of the original gives way to a modular cafe you build differently each game. Tabletop Sentinel's preview also points to new upgrade tiles and a retuned scoring system, so there is a bit more for returning players to chew on rather than a straight reskin.
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Start organising for freeBecause it is standalone, you do not need the original box to play, which makes Winter a tidy entry point for newcomers as well as a fresh challenge for fans. Asmodee is handling UK distribution at an RRP of GBP 33.99, with pre-orders live at shops like Zatu and Thirsty Meeples.
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Sources: Asmodee UK | Tabletop Sentinel | Zatu Games
