Manage your own tavern

Travellers Rest is a premium farming simulator and tavern management game with pixel-style graphics, reminiscent of Stardew Valley. Here, you play as an innkeeper managing a tavern from the ground up. However, you’ll faint if you’re still awake by 3 a.m. in-game time. 

Hence, improving the efficiency of your workflow is extremely vital. Unfortunately, some players will find the Travellers Rest’s fainting mechanic to be annoying. While you can hire employees, they’re more of a burden rather than an asset as they only do the bare minimum to keep your tavern up and running.

Complete quests and unlock recipes

Travellers Rest features a character creation screen where you’ll choose your character’s gender, hairstyle, clothing, footwear, and many more. Like Diner Dash, you have to take your customer’s orders. Doing so will reward you with Reputation, which helps improve your tavern’s fame. Experience points, meanwhile, are earned by completing quests, ranging from serving Gruel bowls and crafting beer to constructing benches to planting seeds. 

Those experience points are for improving your competencies, namely bartending, cleaning, crafting, farming, and haggling. That way, you can clean and craft faster and obtain more yields, to name a few. There are six Tech Trees: building, brewing, cooking, farming, magic, and social. These attributes branch out into different nodes called Talents, which require Skill Points that are obtained from cooking, brewing, and many more. 

Unlocking the nodes on the Tech Trees gives you access to a wealth of recipes, allowing you to concoct new beverages and dishes as well as construct brewing containers and other furniture. Not to mention that it gives you more options for crops. Apart from tavern management, you can also raise cattle and poultry to obtain all the necessary ingredients for your dishes.

A simulator you should try despite the flaws

If you’re looking to scratch the Stardew Valley itch, Travellers Rest will surely do the trick. With it, you can grow crops, raise animals, serve customers, and many more. It features character customization, too. While the fainting mechanic adds a bit of immersion, some players will be put off by it. Also, the employee system is irksome since your staff doesn’t do much to help you out.