Best Served Cold

Rogueside / May 5, 2025 / Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation

windows
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Steam Deck Playable

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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!

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What's new

Patch Notes - July 18 2025

2025-07-18

• 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.

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What players say

Very Positive

93% positive, 390 reviews

Not recommended19 hrs played

This is not a bad game, but its also not a good game imho. Its one of those detective games where you have to mash stuff together on a board until you get something out of it. Pros: -Interesting mysteries with a few layers -Lots of fun characters and good art design -Good speakeasy vibes for alternative retro american fun -LGBT representation is good in that theyre included, but not particularly fleshed...

105 found this helpful, 2025-12-23

Recommended17 hrs played

Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 598: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ (8/10) Best Served Cold is a really lovely game with quite a few attractions. It boasts beautiful art, lovable characters, some great writing, jazz music, and quite a hefty playtime! It includes five cases, each one being sixteen days long, for about 16-18 hours. For the most part, I had a blast. However, it does have a significant...

28 found this helpful, 2026-02-12

Recommended34 hrs played

Sigh…I like the presentation of this game a lot. I think the character designs are great. I love the sound effects of the bartending mini game. The soundtrack is good, but it needs a lot more. It gets repetitive way too fast. The Deduction game is also enjoyable. Mixing the perfect cocktails to elicit the right information from a witness/suspect works great. All the characters are interesting and I enjoyed...

21 found this helpful, 2025-11-26