Tavern Keeper 🍻 News

[p][/p][p]Hey there, tavern keepers! [/p][p]How have your first days running cosy swamp taverns been? [/p][p][/p][p]Well, today, let’s take a break from business management and focus on 💫 creativity 💫. Let’s talk about Tavern Keeper’s Design Mode![/p][p][/p][h2]📽️ New Design Mode Video[/h2][p]Our Art Director, Seth Trimble, dives deep into Design Mode, showing how you can go from placing a few simple decorations to completely redesigning furniture in the game. Catch the full video below:[/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]
[/p][h2]🎉 Join the Design Party[/h2][p]Got inn-spired with that deep dive? Why not try it for yourself? We’re hosting one last Design Party before Tavern Keeper launches![/p][p]Until October 26th, share your creations with us for a chance to have them featured in the release build. You can participate in two categories:[/p][p][/p][h3]🖼️ Screenshots[/h3][p]Take creative pictures of your tavern or any other part of the game using Tavern Keeper’s Photo Mode (shortcut: P). Remove the UI by pressing Ctrl+U and play with the game’s filters. Go wild with the perspective![/p][p]The best screenshots may appear as loading screens in the final game - with credit to their creators, of course![/p][p][/p][p]Important: Make sure your screenshots are in 4K and PNG - that way, they’ll look great in-game at any resolution. The game’s Photo Mode has a 4K screenshot option ready to go! [/p][p]If you are chosen, we’ll reach out to get the full quality version.[/p][p][/p][h3]⚒️ Decoration[/h3][p]You’re more the designer type, huh? Then this one is for you.[/p][p]Create any tavern decoration you can imagine using Design Mode, whether you want to make a painting, a minimalist bar counter, a fully redesigned table, or just a quirky dog. [/p][p]After you're done with your masterpiece, save it as a furniture template and grab the share code.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]If you’re picked, your decoration will be added to the final game, and other players can unlock it through gifts from happy patrons.🎁[/p][p][/p][h3]🍻 How to participate[/h3][p]Once you’re happy with what you made, just share a screenshot of your creation on social media with the hashtag #TavernKeeperDesign, or head over to our Discord server and post in the #🎨╏design-space area using the “Design Party” tag. If you are submitting a decoration, please include the share code. 😉[/p][p][/p][p]Looking forward to seeing what you’ll make![/p][p][/p][p]Love,[/p][p]Patty, Social and Community Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚[/p][p]
[/p][p]By participating, you give us the rights, without compensation, to use the content, including promoting it, making variations of it and providing it to others in connection with the game (otherwise we wouldn't be able to include it in the game 😉)[/p][p]
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[p][/p][p]HELLOOOO, tavern keepers. 🍻 We’ve got another round of good news coming your way!
[/p][p]Tavern Keeper is coming out in Early Access on November 3rd, 2025 - yes, in less than one month! - and now we’re heading for Steam Next Fest with a NEW DEMO experience.[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][h3]⌛ Time limit, BEGONE![/h3][p]If you played the demo before, you might recall that you had limited days to run your tavern. Not anymore! Now, you can run your business for as long as you like. 😁
[/p][h3]⚒️ Set your own challenge[/h3][p]We’ve also added a new Freeplay option to the Demo. Choose between three tavern layouts, set or customize your preferred difficulty, earn your tavern’s first star, then start serving meals by building a kitchen.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]If you’ve tried the Tavern Keeper Demo before, there are lots of improvements we made since then - making this the perfect time for another round of tavern adventures. 
[/p][p]And if you’re finding the Demo right now (oh hey, welcome! 👋), we hope it gives you a taste of what awaits you when the game launches. Come on inn! 😉[/p][p][/p][p]Until next time![/p][p]Patty, Social and Community Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚[/p][p][/p][hr][/hr][p]If you want to get all the latest news on Tavern Keeper, follow us on your favorite channel: [/p][p]📧 Newsletter Discord X Bluesky TikTok
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[p]IT IS HAPPENING, FOLKS - Tavern Keeper 🍻 comes out on Steam Early Access NEXT MONTH, on November 3rd, 2025! [/p][p][/p][p]Watch our latest trailer now and get a taste of the story that’s waiting for you![/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p]Ohhhh and what about this mysterious gadget? 👀[/p][p]
[/p][p][/p][p]We’ve been quietly cooking on Tavern Keeper for a while, but now... WE ARE SOOOO READY FOR YOU![/p][p][/p][p]With love,[/p][p]Patty, Social and Community Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚[/p][p]
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[p]Hello future Tavern Keepers! 🍻[/p][p]We are honoured to be featured in this year's Tacticon - celebrating strategy video games on Steam.[/p][p]When people think of tactical games, they often think of grand strategy and military strategy games and while those are certainly giants of the genre, Management/Simulation games like Tavern Keeper have plenty of reasons to be here too. [/p][p][/p][p]In Tavern Keeper, instead of commanding an army of soldiers, you manage a ragtag team of servers and janitors. But make no mistake: behind the cozy charm of running a tavern lies a deeply strategic game of choices and consequences. If you are curious about a tactical game with a slightly unusual setting, read on. [/p][p][/p][h2]♟️ Tavern Tactics[/h2][p]Running a tavern consists of countless decisions, big and small, planned and improvised.[/p]

• [p]Which staff do you hire?[/p]
• [p]Do you take a loan?[/p]
• [p]What products do you offer at what price?[/p]
• [p]When do you expand your services?[/p]
• [p]Which customers do you want to attract?[/p]

[p]These high-level decisions manifest your overall strategy on how your tavern evolves. Do you take a risky loan to expand early or play it safe and slow? Do you set your prices aggressively to focus on profit or keep customers happier with more appealing offerings - the choices are yours.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]🔥 Gently managing chaos[/h2][p]No strategy survives contact with reality and the world of Tavern Keeper is no different. Many game systems gently influence each other, and what might look like a well-polished machine that happily ticks along minting you gold coins could go up in flames - sometimes literally - just hours later.[/p][p] [/p][p]Reasons for disasters can be varied. Perhaps you forgot to pay attention to your staff happiness and an overworked staffer finally snapped, or perhaps you were so busy serving as many customers as possible that you neglected to repair that dangerously broken lantern spraying sparks on your flammable furniture.[/p][p]And even if you did everything right, sometimes unexpected things happen, requiring you to switch gears.[/p][p][/p][p]As a manager, you need to balance many things and dealing with different battles is just part of the job but don't worry, in Tavern Keeper you will have the tools to master any crisis.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]🌪️ Relaxed, Balanced or Challenging[/h2][p]Tavern Keeper comes with three difficulty presets (plus the ability to customize your own) so you can play at the pace and challenge that suits you.[/p][p]Maybe you enjoy a more Relaxed experience - ideal for creating a cosy haven of chill vibes, or a Balanced approach where all details matter but mistakes are easier to recover from, or perhaps you are after a tougher challenge, requiring tactics and planning. Whatever you choose, you will always make all the decisions.[/p][p][/p][p]The Challenging mode, in particular, gives a whole new experience for players who want to plan and strategize.[/p][p]In Challenging, all mechanics of the game just become a little more important.[/p][p]Goods spoil faster, dirt & filth appear more often, fires are more dangerous, customers are less patient and, perhaps the worst enemy of all: the crown's new sales tax has defeated many-a-promising tavern keep.[/p][p][/p][p]Suddenly, simple tasks - like buying barrels of drinks - gain another level of strategy. Where you'd previously stock up and cruise along on a large storeroom full of goods, it now requires a bit more finesse. Is the storeroom in a cool location? How many barrels can you safely keep for how long? Do you have enough staff to carry in barrels when they arrive, or will they sit in the sun? What if a sudden heat wave hits?[/p][p]Nearly all such small mechanics gain new layers of nuance when playing on Challenging.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Running out of money, even briefly, can now send you into bankruptcy, and loans suddenly have unreasonably high interest rates. Perhaps you need to trade your bad loan with two smaller ones, or perhaps you have to make the difficult decision to let go of some of your staff, sell some of your furniture and overcharge your patrons! [/p][p]Perhaps if you micro-manage some tasks to be more efficient, you can make it - after all, maybe you just need to survive one more day to turn your fortune around.
[/p][h2]👋 Hey, Boss[/h2][p]In Tavern Keeper, you are the boss, and with the right tactics and strategy, you can master any situation. It's your choices that matter! 
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Hello hello, tavern keepers! 🍻

Tavern Keeper 🍻 is a part of the Cozy & Family Friendly Celebration for the first time, joining a lineup of good vibes, great games and Demos - including ours! This event is all about games that offer a space to unwind, which is the kind of experience we’ve aimed to create in Tavern Keeper.

With the celebration starting today, we thought it would be a great opportunity to go through some of the coziest parts of Tavern Keeper!

[h2]🍃 The vibes are vibing[/h2]
After a hard day, sometimes you just need to watch pretty lanterns float by. 🏮

[h2]🎨 Design your happy place [/h2]
Place a flower in a vase, some books, a few candles, cute paintings, and voilà, your cozy corner begins to take shape. ✨

[h2]📚 A smol friend appears [/h2]
Knock, knock, who is there? Oh, hello Inky👋
Inky is a cute little creature that lives inside our storybooks!

[h2]🌳 Right outside your tavern [/h2]
Cuteness and beauty can be found anywhere if you know where to look. 🐰

[h2]🎁 A little present [/h2]
Is there anything better than receiving a gift from your patrons as a reward for a job well done?

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Being a part of the Cozy & Family Friendly Celebration means a lot to us, and we feel Tavern Keeper is right at home in a community like this. 💚

If you haven’t tried our Demo, now is the perfect time to give it a go!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833530/Tavern_Keeper__Demo/

To wrap things up on a wholesome note, here are a few other great games from the celebration you should check out!

• Go-Go Town!
• Unpacking
• Truckful
• Map Map - A Game About Maps
• Discounty

Cheers,
Patty - Social Media Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚
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