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# Serve up coffee to the dead in an upcoming anime-inspired visual novel
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/serve-coffee-dead-upcoming-anime-inspired-visual-novel/
- Published: 2017-01-25T19:10:23.000Z
- Updated: 2017-01-25T19:10:24.000Z
- Description: A long, long, long, long, long time ago (summer of last year), I was a barista. I was a barista for nearly three years, workin’ away at the same ol’ shop. Brewing tea, chatting with customers, and befriending regulars. When I played VA-11 Hall-A last year, a game that marketed itself as a “cyberpunk
- Author: Caty Mccarthy
- Tags: News, anime, Announcement, necrobarista, route 59 games, trailer, visual novel, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

A long, long, long, long, long time ago (summer of last year), I was a barista. I was a barista for nearly three years, workin’ away at the same ol’ shop. Brewing tea, chatting with customers, and befriending regulars. When I [played *VA-11 Hall-A* last year](https://www.killscreen.com/va-11-hall-modern-cyberpunk/), a game that marketed itself as a “cyberpunk bartending action,” I felt the familiarity of working in the beverage-serving industry wash over me. In the upcoming *Necrobarista*, I imagine it might evoke a similar feeling.

![necro4](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/necro4.png)

Announced this month at Visual;Conference, the [Route 59 Games](http://www.route59games.com/?ref=killscreen.com)\-developed *Necrobarista* is a visual novel about a cafe in Melbourne, Australia and the dead patrons that awaken one night to visit. But *Necrobarista* isn’t a visual novel in the ways you’d expect. Instead of a typically 2D vision, the visual novel takes a cinematic, anime-inspired approach (complete with a [*Monogatari*\-esque](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shaft-head-tilt?ref=killscreen.com) [head tilt](http://necrobarista.com/presskit/images/60.png?ref=killscreen.com)), all while retaining the charm of choice-driven dialogue familiar to the genre.

*You can watch the official announcement trailer for Necrobarista below. Necrobarista will be released in October 2017, and you can read the [site](http://www.necrobarista.com/?ref=killscreen.com) for future updates.*

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