tldr: "Bring your friends to work" day simulator that gets real boring real fast.

I initially played the game before release and thought it was a nice proof of concept, but might be interesting to play with friends after release. However after release it's still the same game with only two aspects: The tavern where you complete simple mundane tasks to keep your guests happy (with no significant repercussions if you fail to do so) and the world around it which gives you mundane fetch+kill quests you would expect from a 30 year old MMO.

The tavern part is easy to achieve alone, but the mulitplayer is the only aspect here that would make it fun for longer than 30 minutes. However you can also buy helpers to make things easier and figure out how to actually get them to work. The main gameplay here is running back and forth between your stations and the guests.

The world offers you some NPCs which will hand out quests asking you to either kill X amount of Y, collect a dish for them or something along those lines. To complete the quests you either keep spamming your enemies with the attack until they drop dead while dodging their attacks (although it's not clear to me why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't) or running all the way back to your tavern, cooking the requested dish or grabbing the requested items from a chest and then running back to the NPC. Combat is really horrible here if you try to play solo as it's really just boring spam attack with the occasional dodge and then heal with potions before you do the same thing over again.

The design of the game looks very early 2000s, so if that is an issue for you the game is not for you. Personally I didn't mind and thought it works for the game, but as mentioned before it is very reminiscent of a 30 year old MMO.

Overall I can't recommend the experience and don't understand how it is so highly reviewed. If it was a free game created during a game jam which you play for a few hours with your friends before dropping it, it would have been fine, but with 15€ in your pocket there are so many better experiences generally and even for managing taverns specifically that I recommend you go looking for something else.

Too linear, not enough room for creativity.

The game tries to be a jack of all trades, but ends up being a master of none.

Everything felt either annoying or useless. Quests are silly and filled with dumb narration and jokes, combat is just poke and run. Farming is very limited. Hunting and gathering is not really viable because there is very few animals and mushrooms out there in the forest which means you can't sustain a steady supply these ingredients for cooking.

Also, the game is quite short, but given the price it is probably okay-ish.

Overall I would say it's just meh. Perhaps it's just not my cup of tea.