Tavern Talk
A cozy visual novel about serving drinks to adventurers.
Gentle Troll Entertainment created the visual novel Tavern Talk, which launched on June 20, 2024, for Nintendo Switch and Windows. In a magical medieval setting, you play an innkeeper who serves drinks and chats with adventurers.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Gentle Troll Entertainment
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- MacOS
- Windows
- Genre
- Visual novel
- Released
- June 20, 2024
- Modes
- single-player
- Engine
- Unity
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Did You Know?
- Players can post quests for adventurers to go on, and returning patrons may bring back items to decorate the inn.
- The game was inspired by tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons & Dragons and visual novels like VA-11 Hall-A and Coffee Talk.
- A free demo was released on Steam on June 10, 2024.
Reception
Tavern Talk received generally positive reviews according to Metacritic. OpenCritic reported that 79% of critics recommended the game. Ben Sledge of The Gamer wrote that the game embodies the cozy genre. Katherine Castle of Eurogamer compared it favorably to Coffee Talk and the Legends & Lattes novels. Jamie Moorcroft-Sharp of Destructoid called the writing and dialogue options incredible, though found the gameplay satisfying yet shallow.
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