Travellers Rest

I did enjoy the game for a while but to be absolutely honest: This has to be the slowest dev cycle there ever was. Don't buy it if you wish to have a full game in the next 5 years.

I want to manage a tavern, not do farming. There's not enough supply of product that you can buy and the game tries to push to you to farm, fish, mine, and other things on top of managing a tavern. I was hoping for less farming, but the cozy gaming genre seems to be a minefield of games that push you to do farming regardless of their core displayed gameplay loop. 0/1, can't recommend yet, but it still is pretty decent. Beware if you wanted to avoid farming because the gameplay progression will feel slower if you do so. Would recommend if there is more significant support for not farming.

For a game that's supposedly a tavern management game, you spend very little time inside said tavern. The gameplay has become a stagnant chore-fest that does not feel good to play. It's a shame, because it actually was a better game back when it had *less* to it... I'd rather automate the outside chores (gathering materials/ingredients) than the *inside* tasks (bartending/food serving/customer maintenance). That's what separated this game from the rest. Now? It's just a Stardew clone. Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that this is going to become abandonware sooner or later. The development progress is at a snails pace, and we've all seen what becomes of that. Terminally EA.

Early access review. This game is so incredibly fun! Another nice spin on a farming sim, where creating different recipes and maximizing your profit is the main part of the game. It's definitely way more fun if you play it on multiplayer, and there's plenty of stuff to do now to keep you engaged with the game until the next update. My few qualms: The story is really short right now, and it didn't feel like we could progress very far with it. I know it'll be added in the future, but the process seems to be taking a long time. There are a lot of recipes but not a lot of point in cooking all of them. I usually just spam the same ones over and over since I'm familiar with them. The money doesn't seem very balanced. Most of the time we can make like three blocks of space in a room and that's about it. Being able to build and entire room takes a REALLY long time. The controls are really off putting at times, not sure why some were chosen. Finished? N/A for EA Steam Achievements? Have missables. Steam Deck? Works well, some controls aren't intuitive. Rating? - My curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45865425-CozyAriGames/ Full videos on Youtube

Leans to hard into crafting/mining/farming and developing your "plot of land" and not enough on running a tavern. It's basically Stardew valley if you moonlit at the Stardrop Saloon. Frankly it's fine, but it'd have been much, much better if it went full into the tavern running and didn't try and to be Stardew valley.

Unfortunately I'm already bored because I wanted to run a tavern not spend the entire day doing everything else and collecting materials/crafting only to have my tavern completely automized like a couple hours into the game. This game came out in 2020 so I thought I was doing myself a big one for buying it 6 years later but the game is still early access and I didn't realize it was still so hollow in its current form. This is just another example of why you shouldn't buy games in early access sadly. Instead of focusing on the core gameplay which is running a tavern that sets it apart from its "farming/crafting" simulation counterparts, there development map appears to focus on literally everything else. The NPC also has no soul to them, so I am not sure how romance will work down the road.

I held off getting this game because it looked like tavern management was all you could do; no town quests, main story, and seemingly no intention of implementing relationships etc. After having this game for over a year, I now think there isn't enough focus on tavern management. It's just there to make money and reputation. The story has started coming out (I was quite excited) but what has been added is just bad and boring with the only link to your tavern being your reputation. I'd have expected to story to revolve around the guests going to your tavern and providing them unique services that aid them as they go on their fantasy quests but instead we're going on our own irrelevant filler quests to individually challenge each rival tavern keeper in the world at their tavern? Is this going to be the entire story? I'm glad to see relationships and social standing is now on the roadmap but the community has been begging for guest types, bards etc and it has all been ignored. Like the other reviews all say; this game is having an identity crisis and has gone off the rails. I hope they listen to the community and steer this game back on track because the start IS REALLY FUN. But in its current state, it's not a game I'm optimistic about.

I bought this game in 2022 and it still is in "Early Access" I checked back this year to see if it's ready to be played for the full experience. Should speak for itself if you should buy it or not.

Ok so I normally don't write reviews however I am trying to save someone from buying a early access game that's going to take another 2 years before its full release. I love the concept of this however i knew signing on to a early access game comes with pro and con but this game was released in 2020 and still doesn't have the full base storyline the last up date was months ago no timeline of the release of updates, Don't buy while in early access wait for full release because we are in July and they are only on update 0.7.4 it will still be 2 more years until we get 1.0 dont waste your money.

i love games like this generally, and actually i was extremely excited to play a medieval-ly version of the typical farming sim. who doesn't want to have their own tavern? i played for [i]10 hours[/i] hoping it would start to get more fun. maybe its just user error, i don't know, but i feel like if it was, i would have figured that out after that long. this game relies on a tutorial guide character that is about as annoying as LoZ's Navi. she also is not very effective as a tutorial guide in my opinion; i had to google a lot of information about where to buy certain items and how to build different recipes. her main function seems just to be about moving the "plot" forward. the inventory menu (and toolbar) and all its tabs are not intuitive or user friendly. and some people may enjoy this, but i find everything just a bit too granular. every single tiny thing needs some sort of input. for example, the main attraction of any tavern--alcohol--takes way too long to make. you have to buy yeast, plant crops, malt the crops, ferment the drink, then let it age. if you want to sell for a good price you have to let it age for several days. a week later you finally have...only twenty beers that will sell over the span of one day. i realize they are being true to the real life processes that are required to make alcohol, but i personally just don't find it enjoyable. you have to put the same level of effort in for growing the crops, and cooking meals, and managing the tavern, and crafting tools. oh and dont forget you also have to go cut down trees and mine coal for fuel so you can do any crafting of any kind! i think the game would be majorly improved for people like me who want a less taxing experience if there were two different "difficulty" levels of the game. hardcore for people who want to do every step of every process...and casual for people who just want to have fun.