[4] Necrobarista is a visual novel set in a Melbourne coffee shop that serves both the living and dead, and is visited by gangsters, hipsters, and necromancers.

[5][6][13] Nathan Grayson at Kotaku and Kyle LeClair at Hardcore Gamer both compared it to the Japanese developer Atlus's titles,[6][13] with Grayson describing it as stylish and like Persona in a coffee shop,[13] and LeClair saying that the anime-like aesthetics, the music and the atmosphere "wouldn't seem out of place in a top-level Atlus game".

Jody Macgregor, writing for PC Gamer, gave Necrobarista an 80 out of 100, saying “It's presented gorgeously, the camera finding interesting angles for every scene”.

[24] Bella Blondeau of TheGamer, also giving Necrobarista a perfect score, praised the game's "uncomfortable" discussions around death and grief, saying the result was "perhaps one of the highest forms of art I can think of.

GameSpot's Jordan Ramée cited it as a negative element of the game's experience, mentioning that "[there's] no sense of victory in earning the necessary fragment points you need to unlock side stories, as it's mostly guesswork".