Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is a early access, casual and management game
developed by Hammer & Ravens
and published by Shiro Unlimited.
Released on September 17th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Italian and Russian.
It has received 525 reviews of which 484 were positive and 41 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows Vista/7/8/10
- Processor: 1.7+ GHz or better
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Must support OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Intel HD 3000 or better
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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After 75+ hours of playing, including finishing the 1.0 release, I HIGHLY recommend Ale Abbey! I've been on Steam for over 15 years and playing video games since I got an Atari 2600 for Christmas (best present ever!). Playing Ale Abbey has actually inspired me to write my very first review. There are 470+ games in my inventory so if that's not saying something, I don't know what else can. For me, Ale Abbey ranks right up there with some of my all-time favorite games from Bioware, Bethesda, and Blizzard. From the moment that I started the game up, the wonderful soundtrack captured my imagination and attention. The amazing graphics and creative play style really stood out to me. I love tycoon games and this one is truly unique and fun! I've enjoyed spending hours building my Abbey, keeping my Fermentines happy, and especially creating new ales with the highest quality I can achieve! The game balance works well so I don't have to micro-manage everything and I can focus on the aspects that are fun for me. There are plenty of things to do, but none are overwhelming. Game-play is relaxing and always has a rewarding feel of progression. This game is a labor of love from a small group of talented developers. They are attentive and engaged with the players on Steam and Discord. The community is helpful to new and old players alike. If you're on the fence, I suggest picking it up. I'm certainly glad I did! Ask for help if you need it, and it will happily be provided. I've gotten plenty of enjoyment out of Ale Abbey. I hope you do too!
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Absolutely delightful management game for those even remotely interested in beers. If, however, you are like me and occasionally during endless(ly unimportant) meetings or other banalities of life you find yourself daydreaming of hopping in your car, driving for a few hours through the woods and hills of [scenic country name here] until you find a collection of vine-covered stones that used to be called an "abbey" before tomatoes were even brought to Europe, responsibly disposing of said car (by fire or otherwise), settling into said collection of stones, and starting to produce enough beer to fill all the craters on the Moon and your government's ego, then this is THE game for you. Very chill vibes, unlike other tycoons I actually preferred to play it at 1x speed listening to D&D tavern music. Early game teaches you the basics but heavily encourages you to experiment so that you develop the strategy that best suits your needs, whether it's to impress a jury that is somehow more nerdy than you about beer (everyone's a critic, said the Steam reviewer), literally drown an unsuspecting mountain village in high-quality Bohemian lager, or simply gather enough gold to finally buy a bed for father Cornelius, who even when managing to not be under the influence of the divine gift of alcohol prefers to fall asleep on the floor of the brewery, comforted by the cozy heat emanating from the sanctified brewing vessels. Later in the game money stops being a problem so you can turn your attention to finer things, such as brewing that one perfect tripel, bribing the bandits with a somehow even stronger ale, and finding out what could possibly go wrong if you just put some pumpkin in traditional Bavarian beer (I call it pumpkin spice dunkel). Yes, there are many styles of ale that you can make. Yes, each has its own personality, uses, and fancy trophy with cool benefits and even cooler visuals. Yes, I enjoy brewing all of them, even the one I "affectionately" call sewer water in real life. No, your favourite radish-infused double-creamy Tunnocks teacake twice-regurgitated South coast IPA sour is not one of them, please stop and seek help. It is tremendously pleasing to watch the monks and nuns (fermentines) go about their daily lives, which can be summarised as a healthy mix of sober work and utter shenanigans. The day-night cycle may seem strange at first but it's very useful to regulate the work/drink balance of the fermentines, as well as other game mechanics. Pros: + straight up enjoyable, I know you can read the text above and suspect you can agree with me + a healthy balance between reality and simplification regarding pretty much everything to do with brewing + you sweat a little bit in the beginning but get rewarded later on + fantastic support group on the steam forums and discord, devs are people who know what they're doing when it comes to gaming and brewing + you can adopt a goat Cons: - the goat runs away (the devs have been notified)
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If I could give it a rating I would give it a neutral. My biggest gripe is that it feels far to linear. It forces you to play the game in a way that doesn't allow any creativity. You should be able to make any beer at any level assuming you get the ingredients. It just feels kinda boring the way its set up.
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Ale Abbey is a great simulation game with a strong gameplay loop and satisfying progression system. There are some rough spots still in the game design, but overall the game is already fun even if it needs a little more intuitive design. Pros The music is a lovely old style, it really captures that monastery feeling without being too bold to be off putting. The recipe system is extremely dynamic! You can stick with genre perfect beers, or you can make a Fruited Hefe, or a Coffee Lager. Creating new recipes with distinct differences is rewarding because of the Unique Trait system which provides bonus' for unusual combinations. Once I made a honey herbal ale, and it gained the trait of Bribery which made it more cost effective to bribe the local thugs with. The art style is cute and just works. Not much more to say. The game is plenty pleasing to look at. This game also educates you in beer, what makes a Old Ale different from an Amber Ale? There is a lot to learn, and of course it isn't 100% true to life. But as someone who works in the beer industry it is plenty impressive how much knowledge can be gleaned from this game. Cons There are some systems which need to be added to make this game play better. Currently if you want to remodel your monastery, you have to remove ALL furniture from a room, which means you have to sell it for a low price, demolish that room AND repeat for any rooms built out from this room either on top or going across. This means if you make one mistake in the early game, you cannot fix that until you have basically beaten the game and have an excess of money because of how prohibitive that is. I'd suggest that instead of Demolish a room, it should be "Make Room Blank." If there was a Blank Room type, which allowed any kind of furniture so you don't have to sell it and buy it back later, I think that would mostly fix this issue. And then you can change the Blank room into any other type of room you'd like. Some of the brewing mechanics are not intuitive at all. Aging ale can only happen if a brew has 5 or more strength, but the game never tells you that. It does ask you to age an ale, but it never mentions how to do this (I had to ask on discord how this works.) Additionally the transition from 100 liter brewing to 300 liter brewing is bumpy to say the least. Once you upgrade your Abbey to level 2, you are flooded with requests for 110+ liters of beer, at first you may think you can brew 2 batches of beer and combine them to meet the request, but you cannot. You have to brew at least the amount the request is for, which requires you to upgrade to 300 liter brewing capacity. You can research a Brewing Stove upgrade, and the game currently lets you upgrade your Brewing Stove, which sounds great at first. But if you didn't research and upgrade your Fermentation Barrel as well so that it can HOLD 300 liters of beer, you just wasted money. In my situation this resulted in a game over, since the new stove cooks slower than the old one and I wasted nearly all my money on this one upgrade without knowing I needed to upgrade both. There are currently a few game breaking bugs in the game. I was able to go 9 hours without encountering one, but this is Early Access. If you buy it right now, you have to expect this sort of thing. Overall the game is WELL worth putting on your radar, or just purchasing now. The dev team is active on their discord and is constantly working with players to fix issues, and help with problems understanding the game. I firmly believe this game is going to be a hit once completed.
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Ale Abbey made me realize that I did everything wrong in my life, and how much better it would have been if I was a monk brewing beer in a monastery! I think it's a little too late for a career change, but I can still have some fun by playing this gem. Ale Abbey is the most entertaining tycoon game I tried in many years. It's easy to play but offers a lot of depth, and it's full of fun details. The pixel art is a true joy for the eyes and the music sets the vibe. While being an early access game, the polish level is great. I played for over 10 hours between the demo and the beta, had lot of laughs, and I can see myself going for many dozen hours more. I'm excited to see what the devs will brew in the coming updates!
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Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon received 484 positive votes out of a total of 525 achieving a rating of 8.58.
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Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon was developed by Hammer & Ravens and published by Shiro Unlimited.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is not playable on MacOS.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is not playable on Linux.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon. Explore additional content available for Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon on Steam.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon does not support Steam Remote Play.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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36
Developer
Hammer & Ravens
Publisher
Shiro Unlimited
Release
17 Sep 2025
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