Ale & Tale Tavern
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4950% off
- Cost per hour
- $1.61/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 10,596
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 9.3h
- To 100%
- 18.1h 1.9x the story
- Achievements
- 69
Price and sales
- Sales
- 24 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $5.84 October 2026
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 127 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 20% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
97% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 24 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Scrap Mechanic ($28.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 ($10.99, scores 40).
More about Ale & Tale Tavern
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 538 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I played this game with a friend: We wanted to achieve 100% Steam achievements with this game and we did it within just 17 hours. The graphics are okay for such a small team, the gameplay is nothing revolutionary and we did not encounter any gamebreaking bugs or glitches. All in all we had a very fun time for a relatively low cost. The helpers are a great idea and were fun to be around. Most of the quests felt well...
2 more reviews
I honestly don't know why some of the reviews are so negative on this game it has so much content in it and it's even voiced for god sake! If you can get it on a sale as well you really shouldn't be complaining it's a great game especially to play with friends
This is a "yes" with a "but". YES, the gameplay is good. It's fun to run the tavern and to have some variety fighting monsters and collecting ingredients. It's really something that stands out from other games. BUT 1. They've really got to make a choice in the design and vibe they're going for. You've got the cute trading cards, but the ingame equivalent of these characters do not match; the characters in game are...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 or equivalent, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ale & Tale Tavern scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2683150/ale-tale-tavernReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.