Café Bloom is a cooking game / Farm Life Sim / Eastern RPG created by Lily The Litten. But mostly a cooking game.
This game contains examples of:
- Character Customization: Not quite to the extent of other games, but Olive's name, appearance, and pronouns can all be chosen by the player.
- Edible Theme Naming: Everyone in Olive's family is named after food, including Olive themself, their siblings Kale and Ginger, their father Basil, and their mother Madeleine.
- Farm Life Sim: The bulk of the game centers around cooking, but Olive has a garden in the back of their house that they can grow ingredients in.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Olive is usually friendly and accommodating, even to the worst Jerkasses, so when they calmly but coldly order two customers to leave their café, you know something's up. Those two customers turn out to be their older siblings, and is the start of the reveals about Olive's messy home life.
- Supreme Chef: Olive, of course.
- Trademark Favorite Food: It's a game about cooking, so naturally, it's going to have these. For some examples:
- Olive has the Silver-Satin Mooncake, an incredibly hard-to-make dish that's generally served during the Lunar Festival at the end of winter (assuming it can be made by then). They got a taste of it when they were six and attending their first Lunar Festival in Belnesse, and have dreamed of cooking it themself since.
- Wedding Episode: Frederick and Claire get engaged in the middle of Year 1 Autumn, and marry in Year 2 Spring. If you know the Strawberry-Honey Soufflé or Blue Feather Cupcakes recipes, you can present those at the wedding for free friendship points with all the attendees.
- You Shouldn't Know This Already: Averted. If by some miracle you manage to create a dish without knowing the recipe, said recipe will automatically be added to the recipe book.
