Pumpkin & Spice Café

Your café is waiting. Pumpkin & Spice Café is a solo journaling and café-building game about woodland customers, thoughtfully made drinks and the little stories that unfold on a rainy autumn day. Create your café keeper, arrange your space and open the doors. Someone is already outside, shaking the rain from their coat. What will you make for them? 🍂 A little café of your own Start with an illustrated floor plan and choose where everything belongs. As the day unfolds, add cut-out furniture, decorations and little comforts directly to your café map. Each addition changes the room. You decide which pieces belong in your café and where to put them, gradually creating a space that reflects its keeper and the customers who gather there. By closing time, your map becomes a visual keepsake of the café you’ve built. ☕ Every cup begins with someone Your woodland customers arrive carrying more than an order. Roll to discover what has brought them through your door and what they need from their visit. Then build a drink especially for them, combining illustrated ingredients in three layers: Base, Heart and Spark. Choose ingredients for their flavour, their meaning or because the combination feels right. Add latte art, give the drink an intention and write what happens when you set it on the table. The prompts give you a starting point. You imagine the conversations, gestures and small moments that follow. 🎲 How to play • Create your café keeper and arrange your starting café. • Welcome a customer and roll a d6 to discover their situation and needs. • Combine ingredients from your pantry to make their drink. • Choose latte art and an intention, then journal the encounter. • Follow the unfolding scenes to unlock ingredients and earn café additions. When you earn additions, a die roll determines how many pieces you may choose. Which ones you take and where you place them are up to you. As your pantry and café grow, you gain more possibilities for the next customer, the next cup and the next story. One player. No Game Master or previous RPG experience needed. 📜 What’s included • The printable solo journaling game, with story scenes, choices and prompts • Café keeper creation • An illustrated café floor plan • Cut-out furniture, decorations and café additions • Illustrated ingredient collections for layered drink creation • Woodland customers, with situations and needs to discover • Latte art and drink intentions • Ingredients and café additions to unlock during play • A reusable printable Café Journal page ✂️ What you’ll need A six-sided die, a pen, scissors and a printer. Write in your own journal or use the included Café Journal page. Print at US Letter size, keeping the map and cut-out sheets at the same scale so the pieces fit together as intended. You can read the story digitally, but printing lets you physically arrange and build your café. 🍁 Settle in For players who enjoy cosy solo games, creative journaling, woodland stories and making things with paper. Bring a warm drink. Listen to the rain. Take your time deciding what this particular customer needs in their cup. ✨ About this creation Starlight Stories Co is my independent creative project. I develop, curate, review and refine each finished resource, shaping its story, play experience and visual direction. This game includes AI-assisted visual elements, which I review and refine as part of the finished page designs. 📥 Download & personal use This is a digital download; no physical product will be shipped. Your purchase is for personal use. You may print and replay the game, reprint its pages and create a different café each time. Please do not share, resell or redistribute the files, or reuse the included text, artwork or layouts in products for sale. Thank you for supporting Starlight Stories Co and the stories still to come. Open the café. Brew something beautiful. See who comes through the door.