Tavern Keeper 🍻 News

Hello, tavern keepers!

In July, we held the first Tavern Keeper Design Challenge with the members of the Greenheart Creator Club. The challenge was to create a piece of standalone decoration furniture that felt at home in the Riverbottom Tavern using Tavern Keeper’s Item Workshop and spending up to 100 gold.

And the winners are… 🥁 *drumroll* 🥁

[h3]Messy-Mossy Shelf, by SewAppalling
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Starting the winners’ list is this lovely shelf with seemingly no straight lines at all. The Messy-Mossy Shelf by SewAppalling captured our attention with its quirky design that fits perfectly with Tavern Keeper’s art style and we loved all the little details on the shelf. It comes in at 86 gold pieces.

[h3]Fairie Door, by Aleaty[/h3]

This small but mighty custom decoration adds a little mysterious vine-twisted fairy door to your tavern, complete with a mini-torch and some magical particle effects. Coming in at exactly 100 gold and 39 pieces, our team loved this clever idea from creator Aleaty.


[h3]Battle for the Swamp, by TheDuoDesign
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The final winner is a custom painting assembled from 11 pieces and titled “Battle for the Swamp” from TheDuoDesign - we loved the use of simple shapes to tell a fun story for the swamp region. At 11 gold it’s also a very affordable decoration that surely adds a bit of flair to any swamp tavern.

Congratulations! 🎉

These designs will be added soon to the game on a stage located in the Item Workshop, and you will be able to unlock these decorations in the Demo after reaching your first tavern star!

We thank everyone who participated and submitted entries. The creativity shown was truly inspiring! 💚


[h2]Item Workshop coming soon[/h2]

We have a big Tavern Keeper 🍻 announcement coming up next week, as part of gamescom 2024. Stay tuned!

Also, from August 21st to the 25th, we will update the Demo and unlock the Item Workshop for everyone to try!

The Item Workshop is a separate level that allows you to focus on creating your own designs and decorations, with near unlimited gold and no tavern-keeping duties. The level consists of a small tavern surrounded by tons of available design pieces. This makes using the clone tool in this level particularly useful as you can just look around and grab pieces from the floor rather than searching for them in the Design menu. The level also comes with example designs from both our team and our creator community.

Sounds exciting? Keep an eye out for a new Design Challenge coming next week to have your creation showcased in Tavern Keeper!

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

A small disclaimer: This preview build of the Item Workshop lacks voice-overs as well as translations - we are still working on those!

Cheers,
The Greenheart Games 💚 Team

Life is really strange sometimes.

For more than ten years, we have worked on our second game and have never released a public Demo in that time. Last week, it was finally time to release the Demo!

Then, just three days after that, Steam announced the biggest changes to how Demos work in the existence of Steam. Demo's can now have their own Steam page, they can have user user reviews, they can appear in New Releases and, when you first release a Demo, you can now notify your wishlisters.

On one hand you could say this was incredibly unfortunate timing. We were just three days too early to make full use of all these features from the start but on the other hand, as luck has it, we are still *just* in the timeframe where we can notify our wishlisters.

Soo.. while we initially announced to take the Demo down again this week, given this unexpected situation, we won't just yet!

Instead, we published a Demo page and are notifying everyone who wishlisted the game.

Sooo hello! 👋 Nice to meet you all. The Tavern Keeper 🍻 Demo is here (for a little while longer).

Enjoy - we are super excited for you to give it a try!

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

Patrick
And The Greenheart Games 💚 Team



PS: By the way: Thanks to everyone who left us a positive review, sent us messages or shared their experience! There is nothing that motivates us more to deliver you a great Early Access release in Q4, than seeing all the fun and joy you get out of the Demo already - and there is so much more to come!💚

The day has come, future Tavern Keepers! 🍻

🎉🎉🎉 THE DEMO IS NOW AVAILABLE 🎉🎉🎉

For a limited time, until July 29th, you can play the Tavern Keeper Demo!

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

The Demo is a hand-crafted experience, separate from the full game, in which the narrator is looking for the main character of Tavern Keeper. Will it be you?

Apply for the role in the cozy village of Halflington where the narrator quickly tests you on some basics while showing you around.



Then, after navigating your first encounter with a hero, it's time to open your own pub in the backwater swamp area of Riverbottom.



Afterward, you can try out the Design Mode and run your tavern for a few days however you like. Will you offer more services, find the hidden coin or even earn your first tavern star? It's up to you! 🌟

Finally, at the end of the demo you will be asked to make one last choice.
What will YOU decide?


[h3]Announcing the Tavern Keeper Narrator
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The good news continues: we are excited to announce that the narrator, and therefore the many, many characters featured in the game's interactive stories, are voiced by none other than Steven Pacey!

You might know Steven's work from the many audiobooks he narrates, for example from Joe Abercrombie’s fantasy works, and several books of the Doctor Who bibliography, to name just a few. Recently, he’s also been featured on House of the Dragon, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, and Love, Death & Robots.

Steven brings his phenomenal vocal talent to voice our hugely diverse cast of characters and interactive stories. At a time when many experiment with synthetic AI voices, we cannot overstate how important it is for us to have real artistic mastery to drive our unique narrative experience in Tavern Keeper.
And you can experience the narrator right now. The Demo is fully voiced and contains several interactive stories for you to explore: from a challenging hero encounter to a skeleton in an after-life crisis.



Go and play the most important role of all: the Tavern Keeper!

We hope this little Demo shows you our vision for the game and makes you excited for the Early Access release coming in Q4 2024.

Head over to our official Discord to chat and tag @TavernKeeper on X with your screenshots! 💚

Cheers! 🍻
The Greenheart Games Team

Hey there, future Tavern Keepers! 🍻

The time to open your first tavern is near: the Tavern Keeper DEMO is coming on July 22nd! 🎉🎉🎉



It will be available here on our Steam page during SimFest for a whole week until the 29th - or maybe a bit more, we shall see! 👀

In the demo, you’ll be able to play a short story not available in the full game that will take you to explore two taverns:

One in Halflington, already busy with patrons…



And the other is in Riverbottom, where you can open your very first tavern and start honing your tavern-keeping skills!



You’ll also be able to earn your first tavern star! ⭐️ The game progression stops there in the demo to give you a little taste of your upcoming adventures as the Tavern Keeper. 😉

The demo will be available in 14 languages with beta translations (and yes, feel free to send us your feedback!) and full English voiceover! 🎙️🎵

We can’t wait for you to try it out and enjoy a bit of what we’ve been cooking all these years!

Cheers! 🍻
The Greenheart Games 💚 Team