Tavern Keeper 🍻 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!
Tavern Keeper 🍻 is a early access, simulation and casual game
developed and published by Greenheart Games 💚.
Released on November 03rd 2025 is available only on Windows.
It has received 4,031 reviews of which 3,842 were positive and 189 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 27.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10+ 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 (3 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 570 (4 GB)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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A detailed tavern sim with actual soul. I’ve played a lot of tycoons and management sims, but Tavern Keeper hits a sweet spot that most miss. Greenheart Games has managed to take the granular, "just one more table" addiction of the genre and wrap it in a genuinely charming, storybook package. The Good Stuff: Polish: This game is very well polished and thought-out even at this early access stage. The love from the devs is everywhere even down to every tiny menu detail. Seriously deep. The "Vibe" is Immaculate: The aesthetic choices are perfect. It’s colorful and inviting, warm cozy, and equally crazy. Narrative Integration: Usually, management games are dry. Here, the integration of the Narrator and a proper story mode is brilliant. It gives you a reason to build beyond just "number go up." Every story chapter and little handcrafted quirk or detail on a character work to show off the incredible love the developers put into it. Decorating Actually Matters: This is my favorite part. In most games, placing a rug is just for me to enjoy. Here, the granular control you have over decoration, adding, rotating, scaling and grouping items allows for endless creativity. The fact that the "Beauty" score genuinely impacts customer behavior makes the design phase feel like legitimate gameplay, not just fluff. My Wishlist for Early Access (Feedback for the Devs): While the foundation is incredible, I’d love to see the management layer get even crunchier as development continues (and some of this it sounds like is already planned!): Staff Progression: This is the big one for me, and one I see you have on the stove right now. I want to care more about my individual workers. A deeper perk system or specific training trees would be amazing. Let me develop a novice into a master chef over time rather than them just being static units. Interactive Decor: Decor is already great for stats, but I'd love for it to affect gameplay in more direct, interactive ways. Imagine if specific items triggered patron behaviors. A bard stage actually drawing a crowd to a specific corner depending on the performer star level and decoration of the stage. Make some more furniture active rather than passive stat boosters. Deepen the Lodging Systems: The tavern side is strong, but the Inn/Lodging side could use more love to match it. I'd love to see expanded mechanics here. It looks like laundry will be coming soon, perhaps room service, I'd love for the the inn side be as complex as the bar side. But in the end it is TAVERN keeper. Add a Mixology System: Please let us design our own drinks! A system to research or mix ingredients to create custom brews with specific traits (e.g., "High Alcohol, Low Flavor" or "Spicy Ale") would add a massive layer of strategy and fun. Verdict: If you like cozy management games but crave a bit more personality and story than the usual fare, buy this. It’s INCREDIBLY polished, amazingly charming, and hard to put down. Can’t wait to see where it goes from here. I check every hotfix!
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It's like playing a game of D&D where the party never actually leaves the tavern and just decide to start working there.
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I could repeat what most other people have said, so let me instead tell you my journey for the perfect management sim. Let me preface my review by saying that I have spent YEARS looking for the perfect management sim for running a "cozy shop/hospitality business". Winkeltje, Supermarket Simulator, Moonlighter, Travellers Rest, TCG Card Shop Sim, Recettear, Dave the Diver, Tavern Master, Overcooked, Plate Up, all of the Sims. I even tried modding my favorite games like Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft to have semi-functional storefronts or roleplay in FF14 and GW2. They all fell short because what I wanted was a game where the focus was on managing a business supported by a team of staff that had some semblance of a personality. However, I also wanted to feel like I was part of the team myself, not just some omnipotent-but-unseen-and-unmentioned driver behind decisions. Finally, I wanted to be able to "theme" my shop - what if I liked the system design behind a game but I don't want a grocery store or to sell weapons/adventuring gear/cards? Then comes along this humble but cartoony-looking Tavern Keeper about a year ago; I see it mentioned on Reddit. "Yeah it's been in development forever, honestly I'm not sure if it'll even release at this point." The concept shots looked interesting but also not very informative. I put it out of my mind and forgot about it since then. Now, a year later, it pops up again as "Early Access" and I'm looking at the screenshots like "seems a bit basic still but I'm desperate. I'll try it." It has been 3 days and I have 13.6 hours played. I gifted it to a friend and then her husband got it and now they had to implement self-control measures to stop playing the game. I stopped showing up to my GW2 raids. I only login to do FF14 dailies then immediately log off now. Tavern Keeper is already open in the background as the opening music lures me into another 4-hour fever dream of running my cozy tavern. No Hops, I don't care that I've been playing for 4 hours this session. That means I've only clocked in for half of my shift. You can advise me to serve more pints, not less. If it isn't clear from the rest of this post, I really love this game in spite of it being an Early Access Game. I say this because the developers put a lot of personality and thought into this game - it may not have every food or type of beverage so your dreams of a high-end establishment for haute cuisine has to be put on hold, but what **is** there are a dozen of different somewhat-fantasy medieval ingredients with descriptions that sounds like some game master in roleplay spun up on the spot to appease some curious adventurers in a tavern. Every patron and staff member has randomly generated details and traits about them like you're reading some Dwarf Fortress-lite biography. They also gave you the ability to mash pieces of furniture and basic 3D meshes together Wildstar-style with all the gizmos and even stretching/squashing- there's even a whole playmode dedicated to just designing furniture. There's systems for serving customers food and drinks as well as letting them rent rooms to sleep in. You can make your own menu and custom meals, set the prices and manage ingredients. Staff don't grow currently and you aren't able to customize them beyond the name and shift assignments, but they're on the list of planned progression features. If you haven't seen the roadmap (AND I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU SHOULD BECAUSE IT'S GINORMOUS), there's also planned systems for shopkeeping, deluxe accommodations, and blurred out teasers that gives me hope that they'll make this game more than what is already good enough for my standard of "perfect". Some of you may be like "what if this all becomes too much? I wanted something cozy that I could relax to, not stress over." The developers also give you the options to fine tune a lot of the mechanics. Don't like very bad events? Disable them. Hate the cleaning system? Make dirt spawn 80% less so you rarely have to clean. Want to simulate an inflation economy? Crank that gratuity payment all the way up to 100%. You can even enable cheats to spawn money, explode stuff, or trigger events. Even though I stick to default settings, it's nice to be given the option to play how you want instead of being expected to play how someone else thinks you should. As with all Early Access games, it's not free of bugs and everything could always use a little rewording or tuning. Some things are not so clearly explained even after scouring the handbook and official Discord (like how do I know something is polished? How much does a door mat really reduce dirt generation?). However, the level of details (and tooltips within tooltips with both pictures and videos) show that there is a clear intent by the developers to provide you with as much information as you need to feel cozy but well-informed. Seeing all the work put into this game: I can ask for no better team than Greenheart Games to create what will undoubtedly be the gold standard in the management sim genre. I'm glad to have given you guys a chance, and I hope that this review helps others like me find Tavern Keeper.
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I don't normally review games, but Tavern Keeper is excellent. I had two complaints, and submitted the feedback via the in game button. In less than four hours I had a reply in my inbox. They had loaded my save, shown me where I was doing things wrong, and explained the bed assignment feature (which I previously misunderstood). 10/10, would have developer show me my own stupidity again.
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I got sassy with the narrator so he force-closed the game. Off to a great start.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tavern Keeper 🍻 is currently priced at 27.99€ on Steam.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 27.99€ on Steam.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 received 3,842 positive votes out of a total of 4,031 achieving an impressive rating of 9.16.
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Tavern Keeper 🍻 was developed and published by Greenheart Games 💚.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 is not playable on MacOS.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 is not playable on Linux.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Tavern Keeper 🍻. Explore additional content available for Tavern Keeper 🍻 on Steam.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 does not support Steam Remote Play.
Tavern Keeper 🍻 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Tavern Keeper 🍻.
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Online players
120
Developer
Greenheart Games 💚
Publisher
Greenheart Games 💚
Release
03 Nov 2025
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