Latte It Snow! Coffee Rush: Winter Serves Up Seasonal Mayhem

Korea Board Games are releasing a seasonal themed stand-alone variant of their 2023 hit Coffee Rush. Coffee Rush Winter Edition, which is scheduled to start hitting shelves in late October 2026, will be familiar to fans of the original but is introducing a number of new elements.

As the frosty days grow shorter, your cozy cafe becomes the ultimate refuge for customers seeking comfort from the cold. In Coffee Rush: Winter, the high-stakes barista business returns with a seasonal chill, challenging players to balance the frantic pace of peak hours with the delicate art of crafting winter specialities. Fulfilling orders earn you precious “like” cards and points, but fall behind, and those disgruntled customers will leave “dislikes” that count against your final score. Whether the game ends because the order deck is depleted or a barista accumulates five penalties, only the player who manages the winter rush with the most efficiency will be crowned the top barista.

Some of the changes brought in for the Winter edition are to be expected - such as seasonal drink menues and ice tokens now shaped as Snowmen - whilst others are more mechanical - such as introducing enw upgrade tiles, a change is how scoring works, and also modular boards being brought in, unlike the fixed layout of the original game, which allow a variety of set-ups at the beginning of the game.

Coffee Rush: Winter is for 2-4 players, ages 8+, and takes roughly 30-40 minutes to play.

Images courtesy of Korea Board Games.