Lemonade Corner

Lemonade Corner is a cozy business game about growing one wooden lemonade stand into a juice company. It starts on Sunny Lane with a striped awning, a crate of lemons and neighbours strolling past. Tap the stand to serve the person at the head of the line, and every cup brings in money and uses up lemons. The town is a small 3D clay diorama, and weather changes with each four-minute day.

The aim is to keep growing. Build and upgrade five kinds of venue (stand, cart, juice bar, kiosk and café), hire helpers that each add 50% more output, and open four more neighbourhoods: Park Promenade, Orchard Hills, Blue Bay Boardwalk and Plaza Mayor, each with bigger crowds and bigger prices. 162 milestones lead the way, each with a reward, and new stand themes unlock along the route. When the company has earned enough in a run you can franchise it: venues, cash and neighbourhoods reset, but you keep your milestones, themes and golden lemons, which raise all future income and buy legacy perks such as faster construction or cheaper lemons.

How many people stop depends on the crowd, curb appeal, reputation, weather and time of day, and how many of them buy depends on taste, how well the flavour suits the weather, and price. The recipe sheet has steppers for lemons, sugar and ice, and the ideal amount of ice follows the day's temperature. Lemons come from the market, where crate prices drift from day to day, or from your own orchards in Orchard Hills, where lemons are also pressed into juice, bottled and sent across town by delivery truck. Festivals and parades bring bigger crowds, a food critic can lift or lower your reputation, and lemon shortages or gluts move market prices.

A few habits help. Use as many scoops of sugar as lemons, treat three lemons per pitcher as the classic strength, and nudge the ice to match each morning's temperature. If customers start saying a cup is a bit expensive, lower the price. When the line grows longer than you can serve, upgrade that venue or hire a helper. Buy extra crates on glut days. Hire a manager for each street, because managers set the best price and keep a street earning in full while you are away.

Lemonade Corner suits players who enjoy idle and management games at a gentle pace: early on you tap to serve, and later the chef, the lemon buyer and the managers run the daily work while you plan upgrades. It runs in the browser on desktop and on phones and tablets, in portrait or landscape.

Tap a venue to serve customers and tap its label to upgrade it. Spend what you earn on new venues and staff, then move on to the next neighbourhood. 162 milestones guide the way.

When the company is big enough, you can franchise it for golden lemons. They raise every future run's income and buy legacy perks. Your business keeps earning while you are away.