History VideoGame / MyCafe

* DisappearedDad: Inverted with Clyde Bowen, a once famous musician who used to fooled around with numerous women. Now that he's grown older and wishes to settle down, he wishes to reunite with the children he might had sired during his wild days, and asks the player to help him find his children. [[spoiler:Bill's research would lead Clyde to Emily, and they seem to get along great, but it is later revealed that Clyde's daughter is actually Mary, not Emily. Emily's real father is in prison. Mary wasn't included in Bill's list because he was only searching for children who grew up without a father, while Mary was adopted at birth by a farmer couple, so she ostensibly has a complete set of parents.]]

* CoupleThemeNaming: Chapter 14 introduces a customer named Donald. Chapter 32 introduces one named Daisy. [[Franchise/DonaldDuck Is it really a surprise that the two end up together?]]

* HasTwoMommies: Played with. [[spoiler:Mary]] is HappilyAdopted by a normal couple, but is later reunited to her biological parents. While she is still closer to her adopted parents who raised her, she is trilled to have another set of father and mother who thinks the world of her. [[spoiler:Clyde]] even offers to lend her his luxurious car for her wedding, even after she chooses her adopted father over him to walk her down the aisle.

* SiblingsYinYang: Olivia is a cool-headed and respected lawyer. Her younger sister Michaela is a wild and free-spirited troublemaker. Olivia can't stand her sister at first, though they are starting to try and reconcile.

** At one point, Elsa complains that the TV in the cafe only plays ads, and even that's infrequently. The TV equipment exists only for the player to run ads to get gems, at a maximum of 10 per day. Apparently that's all the customers see of the TV as well.

* AlternateUniverse: Level 35 has Lucas--the resident inventor--try to work on a Time Machine. It exploded while he was working on it, which opened a wormhole to a parallel universe where things aren't quite the same as the player's main world.

* DoomMagnet: Alice seems to be bring disasters wherever she goes. When she goes to a train station, the engine breaks down; when she visits a nearby village, it gets burned down, when she gets hospitalised, the place gets flooded, etc.
* DumbBlonde: Subverted with Cleo, the seemingly airheaded DJ who cares more about her Instagram feed than anything, but while she does tend to say stupid things when nervous, and is indeed quite shallow/materialistic, Cleo is otherwise intelligent, and is very knowledgeable in science, history and politics.

* FreemiumTimer: The seasonal Quest is a sort-of HiddenObjectGame where the player must help another character navigate through a building to solve various mysteries. Performing an action can consume from 3 to 50 energy. The energy bar can be refilled from 2 energy generators (which takes 2 and 12 hours to cool down), watching ads (available once every 4 hours), or consume energy bars (purchased using [[PremiumCurrency diamonds]]).

* TheGhost: A lot of the cafe customers have their own lives outside the cafe and would frequently makes reference to acquaintace or family members that never actually show up, such as Mary's parents, Koffsky's EvilTwin, Elsa's ex-husband, Donald's aunt, etc.

* InventedIndividual: [[spoiler:Kevin's new love, Nicki,]] turns out to be a completely non-existent person. She was a persona created by [[spoiler:Elsa and Felicia, who were mad at Kevin for his two-timing way]] and wanted a payback.

* OuthumblingEachOther: In chapter 43, Felicia and Margaret accidentally get their wedding reservations double-booked twice. Both women then do all they can to back out of their own reservations to let the other experience their dream ceremony.

** The TV furniture plays up to 10 ads per day for one diamond each. This is actually lampshaded by Elsa, who at one point complains that your TV plays nothing but ads.
** In the Quest mode, the player can watch an ad once every 4 hours to gain [[FreemiumTimer 30 energy points]] to explore the location.

* ArtEvolution: At first, the characters' artwork had a rather "semi-realistic" design that somewhat resembles their in-game sprites. In 2021, all of the customers are given are given a redesign with a more cartoony appearance.

* DumbBlonde: Subverted with Cleo, the seemingly airheaded DJ who cares more about their Instagram feed than anything, but while she does tend to say stupid things when nervous, and is indeed quite shallow/materialistic, Cleo is otherwise intelligent, and is very knowledgeable in science, history and politics.

* WrongGuyFirst: At first, Mary is in a relationship with Ben, while Bill is hopelessly in love with her. After meeting Ben, however, the player finds something fishy about him, especially since he's overly eager to marry her, despite only knowing each other for one month. Of course, he is later arrested for theft, prompting Mary to divorce him. With the player's help, Bill gets together with Mary.

* LastNameBasis: Koffsky's given name is actually Frederick, although this is never mentioned in the English version.

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Defied by Lucas who says that being an Asian doesn't obligate him to study kung-fu, karate, or any other forms of martial arts. Although he does fulfill another [[AsianAndNerdy common Asian stereotype]].

** When Henry Dougan is first introduced, he is in the middle of investigating Bill, whom he suspects is cheating on Mary with Emily, as the two seems to hang out together a lot. However, it is revealed that Bill is merely planning a surprise birthday for Mary, and since Emily is an event organiser, she is helping out with the preparations.

* FreemiumTimer: The seasonal Quest is a sort-of HiddenObjectGame where the player must help another character navigate through a building to solve various mysteries. Performing an action can consume from 3 to 50 energy. The energy bar can be refilled from 2 energy generators (which takes 2 and 12 hours to cool down), watching ads (available once every 4 hours), or consume energy bars (purchased using diamonds).

''My Cafe--Recipes & Stories'' is mobile {{Sim|ulation Game}} published by Melsoft Games, where you play as a new Cafe owner trying to make success with this new business. And as you expand and improve your establishment, and gain more and more loyalty from your customer base, you begin to uncover stories from your regulars, and perhaps even influence their lives, for better or for worse.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Chapter 28 introduces a customer named Mike, the CEO of a generically-named Corporation, a food-chain company that strives by driving their competitors out of business, and then jacking up the prices of his goods while reducing the quality of the food.