Games like Tavern Master
If Tavern Master is your kind of game, the closest matches are TM - Prologue, Banished and Foundation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its easy customization, medieval management theme and quick start times. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Tavern Master is a medieval tavern management simulation released in 2021. Players build and expand their establishment from a humble single room into a sprawling venue complete with kitchens, guest accommodations, and loyal staff. The game incorporates mechanics including floor expansion, menu design, employee scheduling, and a basic adventure system. Reviewers highlight the satisfying gameplay loop and easy customization options, while players describe the overall experience as atmospheric, relaxing, and whimsical. The medieval management theme receives particular praise for its immersion. The game runs at a comfortable difficulty with medium-length sessions and supports quick start times for those seeking a sit-down play session. It carries a 91% positive rating from over 5000 Steam reviews and functions as a solo-only experience.
About Tavern Master: Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
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TM - Prologue
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Shares a relaxing mood with Tavern Master.
Top pick for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Banished
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Shares a relaxing mood with Tavern Master.
Second-strongest match for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Foundation
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Shares a relaxing mood with Tavern Master.
Third-strongest match for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Farthest Frontier
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tavern Master.
Ranked #4 for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Kingdoms and Castles
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Shares a relaxing mood with Tavern Master.
Ranked #5 for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Blacksmith Master
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tavern Master.
Ranked #6 for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Let Them Trade
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Shares a relaxing mood with Tavern Master.
Ranked #7 for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Prison Architect
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Ranked #8 for Tavern Master fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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The Sims™ 4
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Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Tavern Master.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Stellaris
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Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Blacksmith Master
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tavern Master.
Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Tavern Tycoon - Dragon's Hangover
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Shares staff training with Tavern Master.
Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Run your fantasy RPG tavern - let travellers take shelter for the night and serve 'em the best mead of their life with a good dose of humor.
The Guild II Renaissance
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tavern Master.
Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Two Point Hospital
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Shares a whimsical mood with Tavern Master.
Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Tavern Master.
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tavern Master.
Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
Crossroads Inn, a real-time management sim, unfolds in Delcrys' unique fantasy realm. Construct and oversee your inn, delight traveling heroes, and achieve renowned status for your services across the kingdom.
NGU IDLE
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Reviewers of Tavern Master cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Tavern Master.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tavern Master at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Tavern Master.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tavern Master.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tavern Master.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tavern Master.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tavern Master.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Tavern Master.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~67% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Tavern Master.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~80% under Tavern Master on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Tavern Master.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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Frequently asked about Tavern Master
- Does Tavern Master run on Steam Deck?
- Tavern Master is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Tavern Master cost?
- Tavern Master is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tavern Master?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tavern Master are TM - Prologue, Banished, Foundation.
- Who developed Tavern Master?
- Tavern Master was developed by Untitled Studio.
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