My favourite part is beating up my customers with a broom. Recommended!!!

I’ve been playing this game since September 2020 and have likely seen most of the major updates.
Lately, though, I feel like the game has lost its identity and is often copying elements from other games, especially Stardew Valley.

If you load an older save game, you’ll miss out on Mai's introduction, which isn’t ideal.

That said, I do appreciate the developers for consistently releasing updates and adding new content and features.

Kudos to them!

I played this game for quite a few hours and unfortunately I have to say I am disappointed.

It sells the fantasy of owning and running a tavern and it does that actually quite nicely in the first few hours.
But at a certain point that just falls flat.
You will have employees who run the tavern for you and all you have to do is to run around outside and get ingredients by mostly farming or buying them, which becomes very tiresome very quickly.
I got this game to run a tavern. If I wanted to run a farm I'd play Stardew Valley.

Cooking is really bare bones. The only way to customize your recipes is "Is this a chicken steak or is this is a beef steak?". No way to add or remove ingredients or even create brand new recipes.

I read this was better when this was still a solo dev project but now that it's been aqcuired by a company all the cool stuff gets removed for the sake of streamlining. Well, I missed that party unfortunately.

I hope the new developers will listen and give this game some magic instead of making it into yet another Stardew clone with some different paint

Honestly, I just come back to try it after a year and found out this game was better. I love when it just about running the inn while cooking and brewing as you like. Sure it can be just pointless after you got a good bustling inn and no story at all, but it was better.

At first I was excited that the game added a story and town then I try it for just 1 hour of update with my friend and decided to end the session (most important we not even finished the tutorial! even if been more than 50 mins!). There a whole bus of bug, first we can't get the remote play sound to turn on so I just share screen on discord to let my friend hear a the game.
Then come the second, we can't do anything if we are in a very long tutorial dialog while the time running like a race and it took us more than 3 days in game to do the damn tutorial and it not even finished! (I won't talk about character personality except annoying for the damn twin)
The third issue appear after we get into town, one of us can't do anything except walk if the quest appear to another player, the only way to fix it is to open the setting menu or press esc button.
Overall of the remote play session is buggy as hell! even if the first version of remote play wasn't that good but it was better!

That kind of all I get for just 1 hour of playing with friend since it every buggy so I haven't try to explored more since my friend asked to play together when it fully release. However, I started to think that it might lose the relaxing sense since now it like we have to run the damn inn to rule the town or at least pleased the cat ghost. I think it kind of not headed at the direction I hope. Anyway we will have to wait and see what they will do in the further.

Wtf u do to this game ? This game use to be so good. Now they changed everything. What u mean I have to go to the city and buy stuff. When I could use the mailbox before . Now I can’t even make my own dishes I have to follow the recipes . Game use to be so good. Now I feel like I’m playing harvest moon.

Travellers Rest really hits that farming sim spot. I've always wanted a good tavern game and most that I have played just feel like mobile games more than an actual fleshed out game. If you like Stardew type games you will probably like this. Obviously there's still more to this game that needs to be fleshed out but it is making good progress and I have really high hopes for it.

The ONE thing I have an issue with, and maybe it is just me, but I feel like it is really hard to find that running the tavern while doing everything else balance. I feel like the tavern should be open every day. Not to benefit the player but in the sense of...making sense. it just seems weird when I imagine myself as a traveler walking down the road talking to my companion and saying "oh man, there's this really good inn about a mile ahead that makes the most amazing food and brews the best drinks! I sure hope they're open." All the while the conversation between the two playing out how the companion is confused about them not being open, then asking about the inn's hours of business and being told that they're completely random and it all depends on whether the inn keeper has harvested enough stuff, cooked enough food and brewed enough drink. I understand that later on you can hire employees but it still feels weird just walking away from the tavern after it's fully staffed to farm, fish, mine, etc. while four random people and a magic broom take care of the inn and operate it while you do these mundane tasks.

My proposal! Make the day 50%-100% longer then it already is, change the staff positions and how certain things are done around the inn, slight change to crafting areas and make foraging and fishing more worth your time.

Day length increase: Just to have more time to do the things you want to do. I feel like if I don't hit every mining node every day it's wasted resources and also not being able to get to forage every zone all while also opening the inn to make money.

Staff position changes: I feel like there should be a cook that uses the resources you bring into your kitchen to prep the food and get dishes ready for when the tavern opens. Walking up to a cook station, picking a recipe and then choosing your ingredients and then walking away while it cooks itself is just weird. Aging barrels I get being on auto pilot but not a stove top or food prep table. Also, have there be a chef who finishes cooking the prepared food while the tavern is open. I get the bouncer and the waiter but while the tavern is open I think the player should be doing the bar tending. It just feels right to me.

Crafting: Just have one big area for crafting. Share all chests within the area with all crafting workbenches. Would save a lot of time.

Foraging and fishing: These things just don't feel as worth it to me as focusing on farming and shopping for your food and drink ingredients. Maybe I haven't got far enough in the game to where maybe there's some new dishes that will make these ingredients a more viable option but as of where I'm at in the game it just doesn't seem worth it to spend time on doing these things. I want to do them which is the sucky part. I like catching fish and finding mushrooms and herbs and stuff but it just doesn't feel like it should be close to the top of your priority list.

Anyways, I know the game isn't finished and I'm sure there will be more changes to come. The game is still great and I still recommend it. Let's not sit here and pretend any of these farming games are perfect and that there's not little things here and there that we wish were different.

it is a very great game I love it

the best tavern manager I have every played truly

I love whacking the patrons, chasing my cat around for pets, enjoying the whimsical light of the tavern windows and making too many desserts.

my only complaint is I wish the male oc wasn't shaped like a rice krispie bar, I am deeply jealous of the dynamic beauty of the market npcs and wish to look like them thank u

Wonderful, cosy but very grindy management game