Ale & Tale Tavern
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 9.3h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 or equivalent, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was July 2026. It has been discounted 22 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Scrap Mechanic ($28.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 33).
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.
The drop-off
97% start to 3% 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
190 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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...
╔═══╗ ⭐ 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 ⭐ ╚═══╝ 🔥 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗨𝗡𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘀 😭 ━━━ The game desperately needs some polishing. For example, the whole "hold to interact" system makes certain tasks way more annoying than they need to be. Imagine needing fertilizer, but you have to hold the interact button every single time. Now imagine you have a whole battlefield of eaten apples lying around because your tavern apparently...
I really disliked this game. I felt stressed, rushed, and underwater the entire time. I kept hoping in the future it would get easier to stay afloat, perhaps with automation, or some progression. It was always fast paced. The tasks were tedious. Water from the well outside is the biggest pain. I needed water for the dishes, and the drinks, so I would constantly be inside and outside. Eventually, hours in, I got...
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Ale & Tale Tavern scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2683150/ale-tale-tavernThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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