A lack-luster game. Lacks features, lacks quality, lacks ambition, lacks inspiration... lacks period.
The shortness of this game is heightened by the fact that about 30-45 minutes was spent wandering around trying to find my office and the pieces of furniture I was meant to interact with. You are dropped into the middle of an office with no help save the dialog box telling you to use the photocopier for photocopies and your computer for making charts, thanks but where are they.
After the initial frustration of learning the office the games difficulty falls dramatically, easily letting you pass the missions without the need to retry once. Allowing you to race through the game without concentrating. Getting in the good books with the npc's is nothing more than clicking on the speech topics (it barely matters which one, and you don't know which ones are bad until after you click them anyway). For the particularly stubborn characters a few trips to and fro from the coffee machine reels them in.
Thats the whole game! The rest of the levels you spend doing the same thing, photo-coping documents and making charts/phone calls. To be fair, I have to say that a lot of people are comparing this game to 'The Sims' probably because of the Similar Games box to the side, but it has barely anything in common with 'The Sims', besides its look and you click on things to interact with them. This game is far more like 'Neighbours From Hell'. It's a puzzle game, not a sim. 'Neighbours From Hell' is a better game than this.
Coffee Break is a disappointment, partially because people expect a Sims-esque game and it doesn't try to claim otherwise. Even while playing it you get the feeling they're trying to ride on its coattails. You'll see all Coffee Break has to offer within your first hour. The graphics are probably the best thing about this game, they arn't all that bad.
The sound however is another story. Apart from passable background music there is none. All the dialogue is done with text boxes and nothing you interact with makes any noise. Because of its lack of gameplay features I think the developers only made 4 missions to try and hide the fact that you're doing the same thing over and over. While it has a free play mode, this seems absolutely trivial as what are you ment to do freely? You can't create your own office, colleagues or arrange furniture. So you're left to freely click on the photocopier, yay.