Ale & Tale Tavern

Ale & Tale Tavern

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Feelings on the game so far
tl;dr Great game, lots of little things that are bothersome for no good reason

So I had enjoyed the demo a lot and played it a fair bit both co-op and solo. I've only had a chance to play the full game solo so far, but that hasn't been an issue. Overall everything is fun.

Compared to the demo, having huge waves of customers hit you all at once and deplete all of your stocks is huge improvement. I've had 16 customers hit me and order every last dish and mug I had on hand, forcing me to close just to start cleaning up and prepping food again. No complaints here.

Quests need some more quality of life improvements. Like after you find the glowing animal, I wish the quest marker showed you back to their location when you needed to talk to them again. I know they're not far from your tavern, but coming from the woods I never had any idea where they were, so I had to run home first so I could reorient myself just to turn in tasks to them. There's no reason to not just have the quest marker on them when appropriate.

I love the orc camps and the new tavern food orders. Nothing bad to say about the orc camps, but I wish the food orders gave exp. At no point so far have I ever been short on gold, so I have no reason to do orders. It'd be great if they offered items or exp as rewards too. I would absolutely drop everything to deliver potatoes and mushrooms to some guys in the woods if it gave me a statue of my ancestor.

My main pain point in the game so far has just been tool durability. I don't feel like it meaningfully adds anything to the game besides annoying the player. There's no shortage of gold early game or late game, so buying them isn't really putting any pressure on players. Its sole purpose seems to be to interrupt players when they're having fun engaging in activities. You could make the argument that it's there to encourage players to go back to the tavern rather than adventuring endlessly, but inventory size limits already do this.

Overall a very fun game, thoroughly enjoying it so far.
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Scienart Games  [developer] Sep 6, 2024 @ 3:27pm 
Hi! Thank you so much for your detailed thoughts on the game. We’re grateful for this and for the time you spent playing. We’ll discuss your message with the team. I can only say that this feedback is extremely helpful and will likely contribute to making the game even better. Thank you!
Pixiebaby366 Sep 6, 2024 @ 5:39pm 
You make good points I also feel the kitchen gets too small after a while having double of all the cooking supplies. I feel like they should also had an animal pen and farm extension. The eating area gets big after a while but the kitchen only supplies two extra rooms after a while, i feel like it needs to be allowed to get deeper, so we can add more stuff.
justchad Sep 6, 2024 @ 11:27pm 
Originally posted by Pixiebaby366:
I feel like they should also had an animal pen and farm extension.
i bet this is coming as far as the rest... lets hope.
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Date Posted: Sep 6, 2024 @ 3:22pm
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