Review: Tavern Manager Simulator
- Guilherme Ribeiro
- Feb 20
- 4 min read
Open your own medieval tavern and please your customers with the best beer in the region.
THE GAME
Tavern Manager Simulator is a management game developed and published by One More Time. Tasked with restoring and managing an old tavern in a medieval kingdom, your mission is to restore the place to its former glory. To do this, you will have to repair, restore and furnish your tavern to attract customers, as well as replenish your stock with beer and food to meet the demands. You will also have to deal with a variety of problems, such as thieves who steal your stock or dirty customers who leave a trail of dirt behind when they enter your establishment. Manage all of this and more as you strive to make your tavern recognized as the best establishment in the region.
MY IMPRESSIONS
If you think you'll have to do thousands of tasks at the same time to keep your tavern running, you're not entirely wrong. Initially, you'll have a lot of work to do on your own, but since your tavern will still be small, it won't be that much of a problem. Once your tavern reaches a certain level, you'll be able to hire fairies, who will help you with some tasks, which frees you up a bit more from some tasks. However, despite this, of the possible tasks, I would say that only three are really useful: washing dishes, cleaning the tavern, and serving customers. The other tasks, which are preparing food and restocking shelves and beer, may even seem useful, but the quality of the products will always be standard, which is not a good thing for those who want to make quick money. If the player performs these tasks themselves, despite being hard work and requiring you to complete some minigames, you can create much better quality food, which earns more money. While I was playing, I tried both ways, letting the fairies do the production and doing these same tasks myself, and the difference in money earned is huge. In general, most of the activities required to be done, such as filling beer mugs or preparing soups, are things that you have to do all the time, which makes you lose focus on other things, which is not a problem if the fairies did their job properly. By default, customers wait as long as they need to be served, but there are customers who need to be served within a certain time. Sometimes, your tavern will be full and, most of the time, the fairies do not give priority to customers with urgent orders. Now add to that the fact that you will be doing more tasks that require attention. In short, the fairies are extremely useful, but they could be more intelligent or at least could gain improvements to make better food, for example. I understand that if the fairies do not do everything that could be done because if they did not, the player would have nothing to do, but we come to another factor: potential.
When you start playing Tavern Manager Simulator, you get the impression that it will offer many possibilities, and even that it introduces you to new mechanics in a good progression, but we reach a point where the new mechanic is to take care of the customer's horse, for example. And the problem is not that this exists, but rather that it could have something more related to the food and drinks part, but what comes first are things like taking care of horses. And it is this potential that you see that it could have, but it doesn't. And the fairies don't have the option to take care of the horses!
The game is in Brazilian Portuguese, which helps the player understand the game's mechanics. Overall, the game is fun, waiting on tables, running around with orders, this is where Tavern Manager Simulator shines. In addition, we have some easter eggs around the map that refer to other games. It is addictive to advance and improve your tavern to see what comes next and this game does this very well.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Most of the achievements in Tavern Manager Simulator can be achieved simply by progressing through the game, cleaning the tavern, making superior food, and other basic things. However, there are some specific actions that you will have to do, such as paying off a loan, watching customers while they are in the bathroom, and decorating your tavern with a specific number of items. My only negative observation is also a general criticism of games that have achievements in which you have to play poorly to achieve some of them. In the case of Tavern Manager Simulator, we have an achievement where you have to serve bad food ten times, and if you play the game, you will see that it is very difficult to make bad food, unless you force yourself to do it. Overall, it is a very easy game to get 100% of the achievements.
CONCLUSION
I got a little addicted to playing Tavern Manager Simulator, mostly because of the game's well-done progression. Still, I felt like the game could be more than it is, with more aspects that would make the gameplay more interesting. One factor that hindered my experience a little was the Chinese New Year event. As much as I like themed events that keep games alive, this one had a somewhat negative effect, because this event added new dishes that were made by an NPC. The problem is that most customers ordered the event food, which ruined the experience for those who started playing during the Chinese New Year. There was no way to turn the event on and off, for those who wanted to try the normal game before venturing into events. It wasn't something that bothered me too much, but it caused some problems, since the NPC made one dish at a time, at a speed that made me lose a lot of orders. Other than that, I had a lot of fun, but I still wanted more things related to the tavern itself, like new food and drinks and not taking care of other people's horses.
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