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Best Served Cold

Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 5 • 2025

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Quick resume

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!

Global score

89/100

Genres

Adventure, Casual, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Puzzle

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Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Escapism

    The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery

  • Cooperation

    The Council

  • Competition

    Tin Star

Pros

  • Engaging story and characters
  • Immersive 1920s atmosphere
  • Strong narrative and worldbuilding
  • Replayability and emotional attachment
  • Accessible detective gameplay

Cons

  • Repetitive drink mixing minigame
  • Some ui and clue system frustrations
  • Lack of epilogue or closure for romances
  • Minor bugs and typos reported
  • Some players find puzzles too easy

Analysis

A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Intimacy, Expression.

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: the game you are viewing on this page.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

Motivations

  • Autonomy
    3

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  • Competence
    2

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  • Competition

    Game with the same Competition vibe

    -5

    "Focuses on personal story progression and choices without competitive or ranked elements."

    Capsule for Tin Star Tin Star

    "Focuses on personal pace and individual story progression without competitive or ranked elements."

  • Continuation
    4

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  • Cooperation

    Game with the same Cooperation vibe

    -4

    "Gameplay centers on individual investigation and dialogue choices, with limited multiplayer or teamwork."

    Capsule for The Council The Council

    "Gameplay centers on individual investigation and dialogue; no multiplayer or teamwork elements."

  • Creativity
    1

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  • Domination

    Game with the same Domination vibe

    -5

    "Interactions are balanced and respectful; no evidence of exerting control or superiority over others."

    Capsule for Hyper Light Drifter Hyper Light Drifter

    "Interactions are balanced and respectful; no evidence of exerting control or superiority over others."

  • Escapism

    Game with the same Escapism vibe

    4

    "Players use the game to immerse in a rich fictional mystery and historical setting, escaping real life."

    Capsule for The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery

    "Players use the immersive 1920s mystery setting and character-driven story to escape real life."

  • Expectation
    -4

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  • Experimenting
    2

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  • Exploration
    1

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  • Expression
    2

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  • Fantasy
    3

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  • Fellowship
    3

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  • Growth
    3

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  • Health
    -5

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  • Idle
    -3

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  • Intimacy
    3

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  • Leadership
    -4

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  • Progression
    3

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  • Relaxation
    3

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  • Sensation
    2

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  • Status
    -5

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  • Story
    5

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  • Strategy
    2

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  • Thrill
    1

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  • Value
    4

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  • Violence
    -3

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  • Survival
    -4

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Last update: 23/05/2026