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Run a fantasy tavern: design its rooms, schedule staff, serve food and drink, and steer a narrated campaign through story choices.
Released 03 Nov 2025
Design Custom Furniture
Schedule Tavern Staff
Create Menus and Recipes
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!
Developed by Greenheart Games 💚 · Published by Greenheart Games 💚
You take charge of taverns in a fantasy world, serving locals and travelers while working through a story campaign across different locations. Narrated storybook encounters let you choose how to respond to characters and situations.
Set up rooms for dining, cooking, storage, staff, and lodging, then hire workers and assign their roles and shifts. Plan menus, set prices, buy ingredients and drinks, and keep service running as customers arrive and daily operations unfold.
Decorate and rearrange interiors, with tools to assemble and customize furniture from smaller pieces. Campaign goals introduce new challenges, while Freeplay and adjustable settings let you shape a less directed or more demanding run.
Many reviewers enjoy the combination of tavern management and freeform decorating, especially planning rooms, staff schedules, menus, and supplies. They also often praise the humorous narration, fantasy stories, and lively character details. Some reviewers find the available campaign and long-term progression limited, and others criticize cramped fixed layouts, staff behavior, or clunky interface elements.
Build and decorate your tavern, hire staff, stock your larder, meet the locals, be the boss and run the show! Whether you keep a cosy neighbourhood taphouse or a lean, mean gold-minting machine, the choices - and consequences - are yours.
Dozens of intertwined game systems create unpredictable emergent situations. Dirt, heat, noise, flammability, sickness and of course, a parade of colourful customers all keep the unexpected coming.
Today’s situation: Half of your staff are in bed with sleep-sickness. Orders are piling up and patrons’ tempers are getting heated. So is the tavern - because it’s on fire! A spark from a broken lantern landed on just the wrong patch of dirt with no one around to notice. Oops, perhaps it’s time to call the fire brigade...
An expansive narrative campaign lets you build taverns across a vibrant world full of your favourite fantasy cultures. Each new location brings fresh challenges and surprising stories. Meet immortal elementals, outwit halfling philosophers and aid a crazed orc inventor.
Experience a magical storybook fully-narrated by Steven Pacey. Encounter hundreds of bite-sized stories with a surprise at every turn. There’s always someone needing the guidance of a Tavern Keeper like you. What choices will you make?
Decorate every nook and hollow of your tavern to create everything from bustling taprooms to relaxing reading corners. Place and manipulate thousands of items anywhere with complete creative freedom and make the tavern of your dreams.
Go beyond decorating and become a master artisan by using Tavern Keeper’s powerful Design Mode to craft unique furnishings. Combine pieces, add magical effects, then share your creations with the Tavern Keeper community.
Play the single-player campaign your way with adjustable game mechanics and storyteller settings or play in Freeplay for a custom challenge. Pick Challenging and strategize over every decision, barely making it through each day, or play a Relaxed game running the tavern of your dreams without pressure. The choice is yours.
Made by Greenheart Games 💚 (Game Dev Tycoon), a tiny independent team, Tavern Keeper is a passion project more than a decade in the making. Every detail is handcrafted, from the art, sound, writing, animations, down to the 3D user interface and many quality-of-life features. We took no shortcuts to bring you an experience like no other. Come on Inn!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 52 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
