The team is small and that brings up issues with monitoring Twitter or the Steam forums. All of these things are on the roadmap to release. The biggest issue’s I see are the new player onboarding, the character action interface, the choices you have for how you handle a skill check (aggressive, defensive, balanced, etc…) do not have enough diffraction and there is not enough choice in the decision on which to use. So my criticisms are mitigated by the fact that they are working on things. CriticismĮpic Tavern is in Early Access and has been for 3 years. Other than that the sound is fairly minimal. The best part of the sound is when you roll the dice, the special visual and audio effects on the different rolls are really fun. At the time of writing, they are redoing the main info and party management UI, and to be honest, it needs it. The map and quest management UI work but could use some cleaning up. There is the 3d in the tavern, the artwork while minimal is charming and passable. The quest and adventure system in action. Tyranny and Disco Elysium were good in this regard, so I am drawn to any game that claims “choices matter”, especially if they are in the strategy adjacent Venn Diagram. I don’t feel the typical conversation tree’s to be sufficient.
The traditional CRPG just does not pull this off. I’ve always wanted native RPG games where what you do affects how the story plays out. Even in the tutorial, your decisions will affect things later. Choices matter and can affect things later on. This plays out similar to the old gamebooks designed by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson or even the old solo adventures of the tabletop RPG Tunnels and Trolls. There are chances to camp, gather supplies, and random events as well as social events. The storytelling is quite good and you can see that the writers are able to weave a tale. So there are multiple events that occur and each one is resolved with a skill check. It’s all very detailed and again a good deal is happening behind the scenes. Results can be affected by the skills you have. Or things along the way happen based on party makeup. The developers have some rich stories to tell and some of the characters even react to the other characters based on backgrounds. Here is where you resolve the multi-step quests. The second part of the game is on the adventure map.
You have a set number of actions per tavern day so it almost plays out turn-based. At the time of writing this, they had just added the ability to hang trophies on the walls. This ranges from new areas like the infirmary which allows you to heal your hero’s to kitchen upgrades. There is some light management and upgrading of the tavern. You also deal with the hiring of hero’s here as well as equipping them and leveling them up. After introductions and large amounts of profitable alcohol you learn about your patrons, get given quests (some scripted some procedurally generated by the story system they have developed). I don’t want to give anything away but the drink combo system is really cute. There are essentially two parts to the game, the tavern section which is a light management sim. “A cross between The Sims and a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons” Geek & Sundry It has already generated awards like the co-winners of the MomoCon 2018 indie game awards.
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The premise of Epic Tavern has generated several exciting pull quotes from some of the best in the gaming industry for example Mark Morris of Intervision Software (Prison Architect), Ian Livingstone the creator of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and the co-creator of Games Workshop, and even caught the attention of Geek & Sundry to name a few.
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