Great game, love the songs too; playing it with my wife (doesn't help me)

A very enjoyable game! It's fun and funny, the tavern and inn mechanics are great, and it's overall enjoyable!

My one gripe is that there's no third-person mode. I have some friends who would love to play with me but they get motion-sick easily during first-person games. A third-person mode would be greatly appreciated.

My sibling and I got this game to have a cozy experience and play something together (for reference I often play action/rpgs and she often plays life sims) and had a very disappointing experience. The first couple hours were very fun, the Inn aspect quickly became a (sidelined) part of a story with no progression beyond 'quests' that exposed the limited gameplay possibilities and mechanics. While some may enjoy ignoring those quests and simply brewing ale and boiling corn for eternity, Ale and Tale's Tavern monster invasions prevent that - seriously zombies bursting into our tavern every night made me question if the developers meant to misrepresent the entire point of the game, or just changed their minds after making the promotional stuff here on steam.

Higher level dishes require ingredients that players cannot cultivate or buy, thus you have to spend 10 real life minutes gathering and engaging in clumsy combat that it's programming clearly can't support. The combination of quests demanding complex travel - without a coordination system (either as part of the UI or to purchase/unlock in game) and combat just being hack and slash or basic tap to shoot led my sibling and I to quit. On top of those issues, frequent graphics lags/glitches made it impossible for us to play together.

OTHER ELEMENTS WERE ALSO A LET DOWN: You cannot fish in game like the trailer implies (at least I am 20 hours in and have never encountered it). There is no ethnic diversity within the world, and the npcs are quite identical so it feels like you're serving the same 10 customers. Additionally, the English dialogue feels generated/inhuman and quest instructions are often unclear. Guests and the Innkeeper never have dialogue with each other. The map is actually small. Monsters spawn constantly at night, Minecraft style, and break into the Tavern (seemingly no way to prevent this with locks, a guard, etc). Players don't have a sleeping space/cannot skip to morning either.