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Best Served Cold

Best Served Cold

Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!

Released May 5, 2025 Developer Rogueside Platforms Windows · Mac Visual NovelDetectiveChoices MatterStory RichDialogue Heavy
View on Steam ↗ $17.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

87.9%positive744 reviews
Recommended · 4 found this helpful

“There’s something deeply romantic about the idea of speakeasies. On the one hand, there’s a conscious understanding that they served as the fronts for mob empires through the 1920s, and that they were the fuel for engines built on suffering. On the other hand, when paired with…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“A fun point & click murder mystery that I overall do recommend. I really enjoyed the dialogue with the different characters and I liked that there were romanceable characters not just for the player, but people that the player could set up with one another. It was fun and kept…”

— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“This is coffee talk and ace attorney mixed to almost perfection. I would echo a lot of the common sentiments in the other review that this game might not be worth it at full price, but a great deal on any sale. You get all achivements simply by finishing the game correctly. The…”

— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

335all-time peak
0 50 100 2026 76 avg · May 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

25achievements
34.5%median completion
15.8%rarest: Best Bartender of Bukovie Boulevard
96.5% of players 85.8% of players 78.5% of players 66.4% of players 57.3% of players 54.7% of players 51.7% of players 40.1% of players 39.0% of players 37.3% of players 36.8% of players 35.9% of players 34.5% of players 34.4% of players 33.7% of players 32.2% of players 32.2% of players 29.8% of players 28.4% of players 26.2% of players 25.4% of players 22.8% of players 19.7% of players 18.6% of players 15.8% of players 96.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
96.5%Welcome to the Night Cap — Mix and serve your first "Perfect" drink.
85.8%Connect the Dots — Obtain a new clue by using the Clue Board.
78.5%Investigator — Collect your first 5 clues.
Rarest badges of honor
15.8%Best Bartender of Bukovie Boulevard — Earn all other achievements.
18.6%Well Done, Partner — Correctly solve all cases.
19.7%Justice is Served — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$17.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$17.99lowest since tracking began2026-09-26
US17.99 USD
EU17.99 EUR
UK14.99 GBP
Australia26.50 AUD
Canada23.49 CAD
Japan1,990 JPY
Brazil39.99 BRL
China68.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$7.7 China Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$21

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 23, 2026
Last Night, Last Call

Discover a new story in the world of Best Served Cold. Serve cocktails to your customers to loosen their tongues, uncover secrets and connect evidence to solve murders. In this standalone sequel to “

Jul 18, 2025
Patch Notes - July 18 2025

Heart of the Boulevard has been fixed. Some Dialogue options have been corrected. Fixed an issue where the player would be softlocked during the tutorial for giving clues.

Jul 03, 2025
Patch Notes - July 3 2025

The achievement "Heart of the Boulevard" has been updated to reflect the correct amount of customers. Localisation was updated. We fixed the R2 button mapping issue for Steam deck and other controller

May 09, 2025
Patch Notes - May 9 2025

Minor language improvements. Reduced the delay when switching between windows. Updated mood sound effects to be less cartoony. Fixed an issue where some tutorial prompts weren’t cleared correctly. Fix

May 05, 2025
Best Served Cold is officially out NOW! 🎉

We’re excited to announce that our latest title, Best Served Cold, is OUT NOW on Steam! Step into the last speakeasy of Bukovie, a city overflowing with secrets. As the bartender, you’ll have to serve

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresAdventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation
Player tagsVisual Novel · Detective · Choices Matter · Story Rich · Dialogue Heavy · Investigation · Cozy · Interactive Fiction · Atmospheric · Adventure · RPG · Fantasy (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
ControllerFull support
Achievements25
Official sitehttps://www.rogueside.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce GT 430 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 5570 (1024 MB) Storage: 700 MB available space