Tavern Master
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.86.
- Length
- 10.5h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 92% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 42 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $8.86, a level the record has reached 31 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Banished ($19.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Foundation ($34.99, scores 58).
Players rate it 92 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 630 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
489 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game is really fun! -But... after some time i am not even playing, its just playing itself -It was really fun to hunt 80% of the achievements, but the rest was kinda annoying (not hard, just annoying) -There was a bug with my workers not going back to work after a fire, i found out i can fix it by saving and reloading again. Is it worth it? YES
Tavern Master forces you to play the way the developers intended which means don't overbuild your tavern in the beginning. You are forced to play the objectives and then everything seems peachy keen. Building, and especially removing walls are very unintuitive and caused me the most frustration where I just gave up. The directions told me to set up special events, but I didn't have a special events box. The...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Tavern Master scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1525700/tavern-masterReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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