Travellers Rest

Overall I recommend Travellers Rest, I highly recommend it if you're playing local co-op. It's cute, it's full of mostly fun mechanics and a cozy loop. My daughter and I played split screen together for most of my game time, we had a blast.

It got a little boring after a few hours solo, but I haven't played it in a while so I'm not sure which updates I've missed and what they added to the game. The roadmap sounds very promising though and it's a nice "zone out and play"experience. I'll edit my review if any were substantial.

I am a huge fan of cozy games like Stardew valley and such. I decided to try this game on a whim and I wasn't sure what to expect. It is SO FUN! I played it before the most recent big update and now I've played it after. I loved it before and its even BETTER now that they reworked it. Don't let it being early access fool you, there's already tons of content and the devs are definitely working hard to add more. If you've always wanted to escape back to a simpler time where your only responsibility is of taking care of weary travellers and maybe chopping some trees down, you'll love this game!

Bought this game a while back when it was under a single developer, and really enjoyed it. came back to play it recently and it seems as if the new developers have opted to rip all the magic and uniqueness out of the game in favor of turning into yet another farming sim, as if there were not enough of those out there. Sad to see a passion project get gutted.

Imagine having a game where you're a tavern owner, then introducing npc's to automate the entire tavern while you instead larp as a miner, lumberjack, rancher, gardener, etc

Why are we not automating the resource gathering? I thought the game was about me running a tavern but you can just skip that part... and you have to because of all the mining/lumberjacking/ranching you have to do. I

INCREDIBLY disappointing to hear the changes that have been done, like removing the customisation of food and drink. It was so satisfying to be able to make things that I thought would be unique and taste good, there were a million different ways to prepare meat.

Game could have been so much

Has a pleasing Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon feel to this game. I absolutely enjoy it and cannot wait for the extra content they'll be adding soon and in the future! I had been looking for something new that was close to the other games I'd played and this is by far the best one I've played!

It's a lot like Stardew Valley but I find this one to be calmer. The days run for a longer period of time so there is less rush. Plus once you hire staff for your tavern you are free to do what you want out in the world or just stay in and cook and brew. It's very relaxing and low pressure. As a working adult with WAY too many things on my mind this has been really helpful.

This is a very chill and cozy game. I stopped playing it for like, not sure, a year or so when I bought it because the content was a few. But when I just played again, new content, it improved a lot of things from the last time I played it, it's mostly quality of life updates, which is great, few new areas, and new world lore building. It's great, simple, and chill game.

I put off trying this for a long time because all the recipes looked intimidating to me. But there is no lose state here, if you run out of stuff to serve you can still do fine with the free water and gruel the game provides. But I am having fun learning the more complex recipes.

The pub running part is fun. Hectic, but not too much that it stops being fun. Overall, while there is a learning curve here, you can approach it at your own speed.

Also.. no stamina bar and you craft from any chest that is in the work area of the machine you want to use. Good game!

Like a tavern-management version of Stardew Valley. The game is very well made and every update is something to look forward to.

Played this game on and off and was pretty excited when I saw the update that opened up the city. Turns out this came at the cost of the game turning into a buggy, laggy mess with some key features that lent to player creativity being patched out such as choosing the flavours of your beers. They've removed the ingredients ordering system so you have to constantly run into the city to buy very limited ingredients, you have to run around and talk to 5 or so vendors for ingredients/furniture rather than the mail order system prior and worst of all there is currently a mother of all memory leak issue with this game too. Went from a fun game to a hot mess.

The game is alright, but it's just kind of boring to manually do tasks for so long... It reminds me of one of those old facebook games back when games used flash. It's fun, but it feels kind of tedious like you're just doing chores for very little reward.

Leveling up is neat, and getting money is cool, but really there is not much 'reward' in the game. Just feels like work.

Scratches that Stardew Itch, but as its own unique experience.

Have been playing coop with my wife and the combination of running the tavern during open hours and splitting up chores has been a cathartic and addicting experience.

Does it have bugs? Sure. Does it keep me entertained for hours? For 810 and counting. This game is my happy place. I wish you wouldn't be limited to building your tavern/inn based on the amount of popularity you have, but I'll deal. It's an amazing game. Definitely worth the price and I always look forward to the newest update.

Loving this game and watching it grow with these updates. If you like Stardew Valley and tavern keeping games, this is the one.

Couple suggestions if any devs are reading- I would love for guest chatter and rumors and stuff to be meaningful to the game somehow- give you intel on future events, offer special quests, etc. Also my patrons want to watch sports, I know it's not a modern motif, maybe this can be accomplished on-brand by the promised upcoming magic system?

Great stuff, keep it up!

Wait for full release before trying; Dev keeps shifting focus, changing part of a system without looking at how it affects other parts, etc.

What an absolute banger of a game. I love that this game lets you chose what you serve, when you open and how your bar looks. Giving all that choice to a player makes it engaging and way more fun than the shit in a box you receive with a AAA game.

Such a fun experience and constantly getting new fun updates as they finish the game!

I have been playing Travellers Rest since it was released on Steam. Let me tell you, the game has come so far and just gets better! I am so proud of the devs and all the work they have done thus far.

- The game is cozy! Takes place in a little tavern/Inn that you control. Unlock skills to help you along. Magic broom to help clean anyone? lol
- Customize your Tavern-Inn to your hearts content in a game that takes place around the middle ages.
- Name your tavern/inn and work as the owner of an old abandoned tavern!
- Mine and craft! Make furniture for your tavern.
- Easily brew beer, craft teas and wines.
- Make food of all kinds to serve when you open your tavern
- Open at any time. Want the weekend off? No problem! But you wont gain any gold taking days off ;D
- Explore a small city to buy furniture, ingredients, and much more to make running your tavern and Inn a breeze.
- Explore the other areas of the map that offer secrets, including a secret pet parrot ;)
- Much more for you to explore, especially with additional content being added!

I definitely recommend this game. Without a doubt. 10/10

this game so addictive. the recipe and gamplay so solid jusl like you live in medieval era as bartender

I love this game. The updates have been amazing and have added so much dimension to this game.

I really liked the game in the first few hours but at some point it is easier and better for your overall process to let your employees handle all the tavern business. This is a bit... dissapointing since that is maybe the one thing that made this game special and different to other similar games. Your daily grind becomes farming and buying the same ressources and keeping the production going, while the NPCs handle your tavern. Maybe I need to take some time off and not pressure myself into resupplying the tavern EVERY day and help out at the place I rebuild and enjoy mopping up customers again. Maybe the problem is my compulsion to effectively advance. Still sometimes I wish I could hire people to farm my ressources so I could run the tavern instead...

This game had a huge potential, but the town update with changes to recipes, cooking and leveling turned it into much more linear and grindy game. Gone are times where you created your brand meal as the game shifted towards Graveyard Keeper style of things you "have" to do. Such a shame to see the ruin to creativity and atmosphere.

I own this game on another device and its pretty fun but Stardew Valley still beats this game, what I would advise is to buy and play Stardew Valley and then play this game. the dev's put a lot of work into this and it deserves some praise

I hope the other caves and paths open soon with the next updates. it's a solid game that's difficult in the beginning but gets easier. I also hope some kind of pantry or mass item organization comes along to store the name recipe ingredients.

Has a nice loop of expanding, prepping, etc and serving customers. Still needs a lot of work, needs a story and having some sort of relationship with the townsfolk would be welcome as well. The town just feels very disconnected from the person that's supposedly running a tavern to bring people together. Worth a look, hope they keep updating it.

There's a lot of fun in this game and I love the characters they've added and the city, too! However, there's too many tools and too many steps to do simple things. Farming requires a shovel, a scythe, a hoe, a watering can, etc, etc. I know the makers of Travellers Rest were inspired by Graveyard keeper, but I feel like they brought over some of the more annoying things from that game, too. Overly complicated crafting and a grindy mindset to make the game feel bigger than it actually is.

At its current state, I won't recommend it.

You start with a run-down Inn, and it feels like you will have to build it up from that point. a cool premise but, you are rubbed from that satisfaction, doing the tutorial you pay 15 woodplanks, 10 nails and 5 polished rocks, and the inn is shaped up to a perfect form.
When you then later on try to expand the inn a single space, it costs 5 planks, 5 nails and one gold. (you will need like 10 tiles and a door and a bed, making the sum way higher than the whole renovation, which seemed to leave the biggest impact)
The expansion of the inn feels way more rewarding, yet Its a bit too Grindy.

As you level up your reputation, nothing happens, there is only some recipes unlocked, but no new area no special events, no story is happening around you. Its just the same grind over and over, of cutting down trees and collecting minerals, to expand your tavern a little so you can get more customers, rinse repeat.

The game currently feels empty, since you get rubbed from the satisfaction of restoring the tavern and all you can do is grind, grind and grind to expand it.

Definitely a new experience, i came into it expecting Stardew Valley and while it’s not that at all, my expectations were very much blown away. From the fun tutorial, to trying desperately to keep the tavern open for as long as possible. From the calm to the hectic, if you’re looking for a cozy game that’s a little different from everything else, this will almost definitely be up your alley

A mobile game is better than this. Oh my, this game went from a fun, creative and replayable game to something that feels like a way too fancy tycoon mobile game. You can't make citrus beers anymore, you can't create your own recipes, you can't create and run your own tavern the way you want, no, the game is practically ours now and you will do what WE want you to do. So no more fun beers, no more innovating and exotic recipes, no, we will turn this game into an full grinding with no real fun in it.
And by the way enjoy the 1 hour long unskippable tutorial with a weird anime girl that creates clones of herself so that she can help you wipe your ass. They created a history that chatgpt mini can do MUCH better, just let AI create this game now, im sure it will have better ideias.

JUST ADD CUSTOMIZATION AND STOP MAKING PLAY STORE GAMES

This game has been great through my play through so far, I was looking for alternatives to the Stardew Experience, but with a management sim feel. Needless to say this is damn near the perfect spot.

This game has seen an insane amount of updates, I didn't even realize this game has already been in progress for 4 years, seeing what it looks like back then, it has been completely transformed.

Excited to see the future and support the guy behind this.

I liked this game a lot before the newer updates. I knew buying a game still in early access like this one meant changes were going to happen that I may or may not like but what I didn't expect was the thing that sold me on this game originally would be taken out almost completely.

The customization of this games cooking and drink making was really the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for me and I thought it was a super nice touch that you don't see often in games.

Being able to mix your favorite set of ingredients in almost every dish and drink was awesome and I loved mixing up my brews for each season. I had seasonal drinks, meals the works that id sell out of my tavern and it made it feel like it really was my own tavern, with things I personally would sell IRL if I had the chance. Now they took that out and made it feel like I'm simply filling the mold in a food and drink factory. My favorite customizations are gone, there is no individuality and the game now feels lifeless.

I'd understand if it was a lot for the dev's to keep up with or some other excuse other than just making players play how they want. The least they could've done was add it as a toggle so that players could have the option of having the ability to customize as they please, instead of taking out an awesome feature completely.

I stopped playing this game for a bit because of it. When I saw the newest update released I decided it was time to get back into my tavern. Only to come to the grim realization that they destroyed the thing that made me love this game the most. I tried playing a little more to see if the new update would distract me enough to have fun again, but it didn't. It just felt lifeless and boring. I'm not sure if i'll come back to this game after that, It's hard forgetting what we as players used to have, maybe newer players will have an easier time since they didn't know what we had beforehand.

I really liked this game and had that not been done I would've given it five stars, standing ovation, the whole nine yards. :(

---{ Graphics }---
☑ Pixel Art
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Very fun and simple! Always things to be doing and works well on my low spec laptop! The only I issue I ever have on that front is water graphics even on the low setting, but overall, very good game that's well worth the price

This game is SO much fun! Seriously, there's never a lack of stuff to do but it's still very cozy and not stressful. I can play for hours and hours without even realizing it. Love it!

Its a pretty cozy game of running a tavern. The pixel art is very cute and energetic looking. A nice loop of growing ingredients, cooking food and crafting brewing materials, letting it age in casks, and then serving patrons.

This game is a lot of fun! I have 400 hours in Stardew and was looking for a new game to scratch the same itch. And this one did! The crafting game play loop is satisfying and running the tavern can be stressful but fun. My only critique is that seeds seem a bit cumbersome to come by.

Honestly despite being in early access and missing a lot of the components they want added eventually, I've sunk 58 hours into this game. It's addicting! There's farming, animal raising, restaurant management, fishing, crafting, decorating, resource gathering, and shopping! If you love diner dash, youll enjoy rushing around trying to serve everyone before you get enough gold to hire staff. The recipes are cute! & hunting turkeys with a broom is hilarious.
Storyline is currently lacking, the tutorial seemed to cut off at one point and I had to search up what to do next, but I assume that will all be added in eventual updates. I see there's storyline, NPC relationships, and magic in a coming soon tab :) there's plenty of places left for me to unlock when released and lots of NPC's to learn about! But for now I'm just enjoying upgrading my tavern, completing my fish collection, taking care of my farm and animals, and cooking lots of recipes! :) very excited for this game!!

I'm really enjoying this so far! I look forward to future content, this is very cozy and really hits the spot for my occasional tavern-sim craving. I only have one nit-picky gripe and that's mainly just the constant 'I hear the person who owns this place is a cultist' comments from patrons, which feels jarring and out of nowhere. I have very few 'triggers', but being accused of being a cultist is one of the more obscure ones lol

One of the most comforting games I've ever played. There's so many (sometimes too many) things to do and you can alter the way you play to fit your mood, from super relaxing farming, to doing multiple things simultaneously. I started playing when this was in early EARLY access and its so much fun seeing the game get updated and discover all the new things. I totally recommend this if you like the medieval inn setting and games like stardew valley and graveyard keeper. Cheers to Isolated games, thank you for this amazing game.🍻

I hadn't played this since the update adding in a story and a whole tutorial, and the game's really solid. The gameplay loop feels fantastic and super rewarding, and as someone who's been looking for a good game to grind in, this absolutely fed that itch. I went in and after the tutorial ended, I dropped in and hit the ground running lol. I highly recommend this game.

In these types of games, how fast time progresses in a day can make a HUGE impact on the stress levels of the game. Despite the fact that the core gameplay of running the tavern is pretty fast paced and very repetitious, the relatively slow pace of the day makes it feel like I have plenty of time to go out, get my ore, set some things to craft while I'm gone, pick up some seeds at the market, and still come back with plenty of time to work the tavern. This is MASSIVELY important for games like this.

The only ONLY thing I have to complain about is that in the beginning, alcohol ages so dang SLOW. I haven't gotten any more kegs yet or beer barrels or whatever it calls them just yet, but man, it's on my list to try to get as many as possible ASAP, because it takes literal in game DAYS to make something that seems so vital for a tavern: alcohol. Legit, I've been selling TEA for my customers. When I finally packed in the lager, it sold in like two in-game hours lmfao. Four taps? I can't even keep ONE filled!

I have no doubt that at some point, I will have optimized this, and it's just beginning woes. Once I can make those kegs, it's OVER lol. Deforestation in the immediate area, STAT.

So, yeah. Super awesome game. I haven't even had a chance to fully explore yet, lmao.

Very fun game about owning a tavern! There is no stamina bar, which I love, and you still get to do some basic farming sim stuff like tending to crops, owning animals and mining. There is no "combat" in the game, except when you wack disgruntled customers with your broom lol
I'm really glad the devs are actively updating the game and making it more fun and with more content!

I used to love this game and this was because of their unique take on cooking...you could use nearly every ingredient for every meal/drink...this made it so unique and interresting...now after they replaced this with a boring system of just unlocking a recipe and limiting their ingrediants I hate this game...I hate it for what it once was...a super unique game with a unique system that has been taken from us...I dont even know why they did it...sadly I cant refund it anymore but hey...if you want to buy it then do so but I will never recommend this, unless the old system comes back...

I'm a big fan of Stardew Valley so I was intrigued with this game. It doesn't have the same social interactions/storylines as Stardew Valley quite yet - so there's no relationship building or anything - but it's a fun "relaxation" game, and if you play DnD or something and want to scratch that fantasy itch, this might be good to check out.

I always wanted to play a tavern manager with a farm sim game! Also has a bit of exploration, foraging and occasional combat (if you can call combat kicking out bad customers with a broom and killing some wild turkey and crabs)
Is a super relaxing and chill game where you can grow your own stuff to cook and craft delicious drinks in your tavern while taking care of your animals/crops and explore/gather some stuff too. Or buy from vendors directly if you don't want to have a farm, is up to you!

Highly recommend - even in early access, the game provides a decent amount of content, with seemingly tons of new content in development! Excited to see how it grows as development continues.

Very cosy and relaxing game, been playing a few days in a row and I loke it a lot. For me it took some time to figure our how to get certain ingredients for the dishes (like milk or meat), but its not a bad thing, as there is some exploration.
Overall, if you like cozy games - would definitely recommend trying it out.

Plays very much like Stardew valley, just not that in depth. Relaxing.

I will admit I wasn't sure about some of the newest updates when they were first implemented, but everything that has been added to this game has really grown on me. The difficulty in the beginning is just enough to keep it interesting without being discouraging. The art style is appealing, the music is enjoyable, and overall the gameplay is just straight-up fun. I find myself coming back to this game pretty often, and can't see that changing any time soon!

In terms of mechanics - as someone who plays a lot of farming/management sims, I really enjoy the aspect of real-time management in serving customers, making drinks, etc. Even with staff, there's still enough to do to keep you involved in the day-to-day management. Decorating is enjoyable, unlocking recipes is a little grindy now, but not so much that I hate it. Overall, a great game. Definitely worth the purchase.

I loved Stardew Valley and this scratches the same itch but with some fun change ups. It's like mixing Stardew Valley with a light peppering of Overcooked :)

Fun game so far, enjoying the mechanics of everything so far. Excited to see where it goes from here. The new cutscene and characters are fun.