Tavern Keeper, the medieval management sim from Greenheart Games, has been delayed so developers can polish the game.
The sim was originally supposed to be released in early access on November 5, 2024, on PC. Greenheart Games pushed the release back to 2025, with no date yet.
Greenheart Games has worked on Tavern Keeper for over a decade now. However, it needs a bit more time to improve the game and make the player’s experience what the team has envisioned it to be all this time.
While the majority of the game works and is complete, there are some problems that players will more than likely encounter. Greenheart Games explained a few of them:
- Staff can randomly get stuck indefinitely
- Some mechanics don’t play well together
- Certain UI and mechanics can be confusing without knowing how it works
- Performance issues and game-breaking errors
Greenheart Games is confident that it just needs time to solve these problems. A delay was necessary to keep the developers from getting burned out (which isn’t what anyone wants, nevertheless when a game goes into Early Access).
When it is released, Tavern Keeper will feature both a sandbox management sim mode and story mode. Players will serve all sorts of people and fantasy races, creating the hottest spot in medieval times.
This isn’t Greenheart Games’ first time working on a simulation game. It’s the studio behind indie gem Game Dev Tycoon, which has an Overwhelmingly Positive player review score on Steam.
Greenheart Games thanked fans for their support, explaining that it’s excited to share the game with fans when it’s ready. There will more than likely be no news about an upcoming release date until next year. Until then, fans can play the demo, which is out on Steam now and doesn’t run into the problems that the main game was having.
