Comparison

Before Your Eyes vs Tiny Cafe

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Before Your Eyes

Experience an emotional first-person adventure where your blinks control the narrative and its outcome. Relive significant life moments as a soul journeys through the afterlife, uncovering repressed memories and confronting a heartbreaking truth.

Highlights
  • Blink-controlled narrative
  • First-person adventure
  • Life journey simulation
  • Memory exploration
  • Voice-acted story
  • Emotional storytelling
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Available exclusively for Netflix members. Embark on an emotional first-person adventure where you control the story — and affect the outcome — with your real-life blinks. Dive into a world of memories and experience a soul’s journey into the afterlife as your whole life flashes before your eyes. It all begins after you die. You're aboard the ship of a mysterious man tasked with shepherding souls to the afterlife. To help you pass on, he must learn the story of your life. Then he sends you back to relive your most important moments. The game uses your device's camera to fully immerse you in the story. Control the flow of the narrative with your real-life eyes – blinking through precious memories of family, first love and the birth of an artistic career. Dare to look deeper and delve into your most repressed memories, where a heartbreaking truth awaits. Combining an innovative blink-interaction mechanic with a charming world and fully voice-acted story, Before Your Eyes is a deeply emotional and relatable journey — one that explores the impossible expectations we place on ourselves and the regrets we carry with us.

About

Tiny Cafe

Run your own cozy cafe, brewing coffee and serving treats to adorable cat customers. This idle simulation game lets you manage staff, expand your menu, and grow your business into a global franchise. Enjoy relaxing music and charming stories.

Highlights
  • Run your own cafe
  • Brew drip coffee
  • Serve cat customers
  • Manage cute staff
  • Expand to global cities
  • Collect Cheese
  • Soothing cafe music
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■ Tiny Cafe, a cute and cozy cafe game featuring cat customers and winner of the 2024 BIC Best Casual Game Award, has officially launched! A new cozy cafe game from the developers of Forest Island, a relaxing animal game downloaded by 7 million players who love beautiful nature and animals! [Game Introduction] 1. Run your own cafe for free! Open and run a cafe with Dolce, the world's smallest barista mouse, and the cat Gusto. Brew drip coffee with beans from Gusto's own roastery. The aromatic smell of coffee will attract cats to your cafe. 2. A casual idle simulation cooking game that's easy to play and simple to learn. Leave the cute staff to their own devices to work hard brewing coffee. The showcase will automatically fill with freshly baked donuts. Install new tools such as espresso machines, ovens, and more, and add cakes and other items to the menu. 3. Serve coffee to cat customers Treat cat customers to heart-melting hot coffee and sweet treats. Make sure they like your cafe and become regulars. Enjoy additional stories of your regulars along with their daily or special menu orders on Catbook, the feline social network. 4. Cute part-timers working hard to create your menu items Watch as cute little mice scurry around making espressos, lattes, and other drinks and desserts. Set up various rest areas, like a bathhouse, and earn Cheese when staff use them. Collect Cheese to hire more staff and grow your cafe. 5. 30+ managers with different skills at each grade to help you run your cafe Call in a special manager with the special delivery service. If you're lucky, you'll get a top-tier Platinum-grade manager with 4 stars. When you put managers in your cafe who have a good synergy with each other, your cafe will grow even faster! 6. Go global! Gather a loyal customer base and harness word of mouth on social media to expand your cafe to cities like New York, Paris, Hawaii, Seoul, Tokyo, and more. Become a global franchise brand like many you know from the human world. With a trusted manager and well-trained part-timers, your cafe dreams will certainly come true. 7. Soothing cafe music Enjoy cafe music from the developers of the global hit, Forest Island. Listen to them and you'll feel refreshed after a tiring day or a depressing mood. [Official Instagram] Follow Tiny Cafe's official Instagram for special events, announcements, free merchandise, and more. https://www.instagram.com/tinycafe_dolce ■ If one of the following sounds like you, we recommend Tiny Cafe! - Love coffee and sweets - Want to run a cute cafe - Want to get to know cat customers - Dream of becoming a barista or pastry chef - Want to learn how to make cafe menu items - Enjoy cafe music or ASMR - Love a relaxed cafe atmosphere - Want to grow a small, independent cafe into a global franchise - Want to play a cozy idle game, growth game, or simulation game - Play tycoon games, food games, cooking games, and restaurant games - Enjoy cute animal games and cat games - Love manga and anime with stories - Enjoy interactive story games Tiny Cafe, a cute, cozy cafe game with cat customers, Join Dolce, the world's smallest barista, and Gusto the cat, and serve cats coffee! ---- Contact Us https://nanalistudios.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals

Screenshots

Before Your Eyes4 screens
Tiny Cafe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Before Your Eyes at none against Tiny Cafe's shown. Before Your Eyes also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (87% vs 70%). Tiny Cafe's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (4K vs 1.1K). On price, rating, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Before Your Eyes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month and Tiny Cafe sells 36 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Before Your Eyes against 4.8 for Tiny Cafe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.1K and 4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Before Your Eyes's written reviews are positive against 70% of Tiny Cafe's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Before Your Eyes ships an update every 13 months, Tiny Cafe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Before Your Eyes versus Tiny Cafe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBefore Your EyesTiny Cafe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.1K ratings)4.8 (4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.6% of reviews — better69.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.1K4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.3 GB479 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperNetflix, Inc.Nanali Inc.

Customer experience

Before Your Eyes

All ratings1,090 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews388 reviews
Positive86.6%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.1%

Tiny Cafe

All ratings4,018 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews657 reviews
Positive69.7%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.2%

User reviews

Before Your Eyes

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Engaging gameplay
  • 👍 Unique and immersive experience
  • 🎨 Beautiful art style
  • 💔 Emotionally impactful story
  • 🎬 Cinematic presentation

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional technical issues with eye tracking
  • ⏱️ Short playtime
  • 🤔 Lack of replay value

Tiny Cafe

From 4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💕 Cute and cozy game
  • 🎨 Excellent art style and animations
  • 🕹️ Engaging and addictive gameplay
  • 🎁 Reasonable amount of ads/monetization
  • 🗣️ Interesting storylines and characters

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and loading issues
  • 💰 Progression can feel grindy at times
  • 🕰️ Slow progress in later stages
  • 🔍 Unclear mechanics/tutorials in some areas
  • 🔊 Audio issues after watching ads

Bugs and requests

Before Your Eyes

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Eye tracking not always accurate
  • Game freezes or crashes on some devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Option to disable eye tracking
  • More branching storylines or multiple endings
  • Ability to save progress

Tiny Cafe

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to progress past certain missions
  • Loss of progress/account data after periods of inactivity
  • Incorrect or missing information in certain popups

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for the cafe
  • Ability to recruit and customize employees
  • Offline/AFK earning mechanics
  • Mini-games or other side activities
  • Improved performance on higher branches

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Before Your Eyes

Subscriptions1
  • Netflix Standard Plan$19.991 Month
36 purchases

Tiny Cafe

One-time36
  • Barista Pack I$0.99
  • AD Remove Pack I (Discount)$0.99
  • Cafe Support Pack$0.99
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  • Cheese Package$1.99
  • Coin Package$1.99
  • AD Remove Pack I$1.99
  • Best friends Pack (Discount)$1.99
  • 300 Gems$1.99
  • Mascot Skin Pack$2.99
  • Cherry Blossom Pass$3.99
  • Seasonal Pakage - Winter$3.99
  • Unlock Reward$3.99
  • Blue Snake Pack$3.99
  • Dice package$3.99
  • Sally's Branch #1 Support Pack$3.99
  • AD Remove Pack II (Discount)$3.99
  • Branch #1 PASS$3.99
  • Branch #2 Special Pack$3.99
  • Dean's Branch #2 Support Pack$3.99
  • Attendance book (Special)$3.99
  • Daily Gem$3.99
  • 1000 Gems$6.99
  • Season Pass (Halloween)$7.99
  • Branch #3 PASS$7.99
  • AD Remove Pack II$7.99
  • Branch #2 PASS$7.99
  • Barista Pack III$9.99
  • AD Remove Pack III (Discount)$9.99
  • Best friends Pack$9.99
  • Pablo's high-end camera$9.99
  • Gusto Gift$19.99
  • AD Remove Pack III$19.99
  • Roastery Pack$19.99
  • 3300 Gems$19.99
  • 7000 Gems$39.99
  • 16000 Gems$79.99

Questions

Is Before Your Eyes free?
Before Your Eyes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiny Cafe free?
Tiny Cafe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Before Your Eyes or Tiny Cafe?
Tiny Cafe is rated higher. Before Your Eyes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while Tiny Cafe averages 4.8 from 4K ratings.
Do Before Your Eyes or Tiny Cafe have ads?
Tiny Cafe shows ads; Before Your Eyes does not.
Which is updated more often, Before Your Eyes or Tiny Cafe?
Before Your Eyes ships an update every 13 months, and Tiny Cafe every 2 weeks. Most recently, Before Your Eyes was updated on October 11, 2026 and Tiny Cafe on October 15, 2026.

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