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 February 18th 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 11.99€ on Steam with a 20% discount.
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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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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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This is how I imagine monastery life: “Quiet, contemplative, brewing & drinking beer”, would definitely be mine^^ The game has a bit of everything - perfect!!! 👍🍺👍 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3433425115 So stelle ich mir das Klosterleben vor: „Ruhig, beschaulich, Bier brauen & trinken“, wäre definitiv meins^^ Das Spiel hat von allem ein bisschen - perfekt!!! 👍🍺👍
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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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TLDR The game start off really slow, but once you get to the real game, it's your brewery dream come true. There're quite a few parts/mechanics that need improvement but the core gameplay loop is excellent. Only found 1 very minor bug so far. Love this game . Also this game just release into early access so there WILL be a lot of improvements. Brewing Loop The first 3 hours are basically tutorials and extended tutorial. There's only 4 ale types you could make with varying quality depending on which monk/nun make the beer, so like 12 combinations. A simple beer factory management simulator. You are also dirt poor, trying to find money to upgrade basic rooms and brew beer. But after you research the "ale traits" tech, the real game begins. Those 4 ales types now have a chance of gaining special traits, depending on both the recipe AND the monk/nun that brew them. So 4 recipes with 4 monks = 16 (unique) results. But at that point the game starts throwing new ingredients at you left and right, which can be used to modify the old recipes, so there would be at least 20 unique recipe for each types of ale. Oh and the types of ale you can make would also doubled at that point. There's definitely at least a hundred unique combination of ale for you to discover. Musics and Sounds Perfection, nothing more. Bugs I believe there's very few bugs because of the many demo published before release. I've only found 1 very minor bug so far. The annoying stuffs [*] You are too poor at the start of the game it became so boring and annoying to play. [*] There's 2 ways you get money. First is beer order which sometime appear to you. This one is fine. Second is selling in town, which is impossible to understand. The game let you set beer price and which city to ship ale to, but that's it. The game tell you how much you earn in a week, but not where the money comes from. I have no idea if my ale is more profitable in town A or town B, how many liter were sold out of the entire amount shipped, which type/recipe is popular, how much the price affect the demand. There's no strategy let alone thinking here, you just click send to town and roll die how much money you get. I demand to at least know how much of the beer sent were sold, and the amount sold for each recipe in each town. [*] The bandit: They're practically beggars in front of the abbey begging for money, or they're gonna cause trouble. So you give them money or ale, and they would be gone for 10 minutes before coming back to beg money again. If this is all there is to the bandit then there's no point having them in this game. [*] The UI: some buttons you need to click, other you need to hold, and the game does not tell you which one they are. Very frustrating to figure out.
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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 11.99€ on Steam.
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon is currently available at a 20% discount. You can purchase it for 11.99€ 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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Developer
Hammer & Ravens
Publisher
Shiro Unlimited
Release
18 Feb 2025
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