Games Like Tavern Master

From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!

Why similar: Management 37.1%, Building 34.1%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the exact premise of building and managing a medieval tavern with a focus on cozy, detailed interior design.

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Management 35.5%, Building 19.9%, Medieval 16.9%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines tavern management with life-sim elements, allowing you to brew your own beer and farm ingredients for your customers.

Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Building 26.5%, Resource Management 19.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Relaxing 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person perspective on the daily tasks of running a tavern, from cleaning to serving patrons.

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Management 26.2%, Building 20.7%, Medieval 15.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the brewing and management aspect of a medieval monastery, mirroring the production loops found in 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.

Why similar: Management 31.1%, City Builder 30%, Time Management 13.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep management sim that focuses on the complexities of running a tavern in a medieval fantasy world.

Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!

Why similar: Management 24.7%, Building 19.1%, Medieval 16.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct management experience where you build and maintain a medieval inn while catering to the needs of various travelers.

Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!

Why similar: Management 44%, Building 31%, Simulation 18.7%, Indie 2.2%, 3D 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends tavern management with adventure and cooking, offering a more active role in the daily operations of your business.

Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.

Why similar: Management 36.4%, Building 25.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Time Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a relaxing shop-keeping experience where you manage inventory and design your store layout in a charming fantasy setting.

TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.

Why similar: Management 30.8%, Building 25.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Time Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A restaurant management game that emphasizes building and design, allowing for creative freedom in how you structure your business.

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Management 26.6%, Medieval 19.9%, Resource Management 14.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the cozy, medieval aesthetic and focuses on the satisfying process of crafting goods for customers.

Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!

Why similar: Management 36.9%, Building 23.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Time Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-pressure management of a restaurant, requiring careful staff coordination and menu planning.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Management 27.6%, Building 20.4%, Simulation 18.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down management and building style, though set in a factory, it shares the same satisfying production progression.

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: Management 16.8%, Building 15.3%, Medieval 14.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, City Builder 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a town that caters to heroes, focusing on building facilities and managing resources for your guests.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 32.7%, Management 20.1%, Medieval 18.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines building and survival with management, offering a more immersive, first-person look at life in the Middle Ages.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Management 16.9%, Medieval 16.1%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city-builder that allows for organic, beautiful medieval town layouts.

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Medieval 31.6%, Building 17.8%, Simulation 16.8%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep economic simulation set in the Middle Ages where you manage a family business and climb the social ladder.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Building 20.3%, Medieval 16.4%, Crafting 14%, Simulation 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, humorous medieval management game that involves complex crafting and resource management loops.

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Simulation 22.7%, Building 19.7%, Management 14.9%, Strategy 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management sim where you build a town to attract adventurers, capturing the same 'service' feel as Tavern Master.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Management 22.3%, Building 21.6%, Medieval 17.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Resource Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed survival and management game that requires careful planning of resources and population needs.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Management 28.5%, City Builder 24%, Resource Management 19.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Relaxing 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, fairytale-inspired city-builder that emphasizes aesthetics and relaxed management over intense combat.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Management 33.6%, City Builder 19.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Historical 9%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that allows for detailed multi-story building and management in a post-apocalyptic medieval world.

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.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Building 20.8%, Medieval 17.9%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that focuses on defending and growing a medieval kingdom with simple, satisfying mechanics.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Management 29.9%, Building 25.8%, City Builder 23.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that focuses on water management and vertical construction, appealing to fans of building mechanics.

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: Management 27%, Building 22%, Resource Management 15.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of a hotel, providing a similar building-centric gameplay loop.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Building 44.3%, Simulation 20.5%, Crafting 15.9%, Relaxing 12.4%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on survival and building, sharing a similar management depth.

Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.

Why similar: Management 42%, Resource Management 23.5%, Simulation 16.8%, Relaxing 9.2%, Stylized 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a realistic look at running a kitchen and managing a restaurant, perfect for those who enjoy the cooking aspect of Tavern Master.

Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Why similar: Management 52%, Building 35.2%, Strategy 5.9%, Top-Down 5.2%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced restaurant management game that allows for creative kitchen layout design and expansion.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Management 18.4%, Building 16.2%, Medieval 14%, Resource Management 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that emphasizes social management and resource production in a medieval setting.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Building 62.7%, Crafting 19%, Simulation 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and community management in a charming world, offering a similar sense of progression.

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.

Why similar: Management 25.8%, Building 22.2%, Resource Management 16.4%, City Builder 15.4%, Simulation 10.1%

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Management 65.4%, Simulation 18.8%, Top-Down 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%, Adventure 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a dual-loop of dungeon crawling and shop management, where you sell items to adventurers in a cozy setting.

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!

Why similar: Building 17.1%, Management 16.2%, Medieval 13.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, City Builder 8.3%

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: Building 22.1%, Management 21.2%, City Builder 15.5%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 10.5%

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.

Why similar: Building 23.7%, Management 17.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Medieval 13.1%, Resource Management 12.5%

Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

Why similar: Management 31.3%, Building 23.5%, City Builder 16.3%, Time Management 9.5%, Simulation 7.3%

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: Management 40.2%, Building 21%, City Builder 14.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 6.2%

Shop Titans is the ultimate RPG shopkeeper simulation. Craft powerful equipment, stock your shop and sell to aspiring heroes… at a markup! Hire heroes and explore dungeons to gather valuable materials to craft with. There’s never a dull moment in the world of Shop Titans!

Why similar: Management 35.6%, Medieval 24.3%, Resource Management 15.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Crafting 10.6%

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Management 65.9%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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.

Why similar: Management 54.5%, Simulation 20.4%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 10%, Indie 2.4%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Management 24.9%, Building 13.2%, Medieval 12.6%, Resource Management 12%

Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!

Why similar: Management 35.7%, Building 31.9%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 7.1%, Relaxing 5.2%

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Management 24.8%, Building 21.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, City Builder 14.8%, Simulation 9.5%

A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.

Why similar: Management 44.5%, Resource Management 24.6%, Time Management 13.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Relaxing 4.8%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: Management 28.6%, Building 18.8%, Medieval 14.3%, City Builder 13.8%, Simulation 9.5%

Welcome to Inn Tycoon: Prologue! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!

Why similar: Management 21.2%, Building 19.6%, Medieval 15.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Simulation 7.8%

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: Management 33%, Building 20.4%, City Builder 18.5%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 8.4%

In Tavern Legends, you don’t just swing the spoon – you wield the broom too. Tap beer, create your own meals, design your taverns, and build your team. From grumpy beggars to pompous knights – everyone wants beer! Raise your fame and become a legendary innkeeper!

Why similar: Management 26.8%, Building 22.2%, Medieval 16.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Time Management 9.1%

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Building 17.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Time Management 7.9%

Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.

Why similar: Management 49.3%, Simulation 35.8%, Relaxing 9.8%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Management 56.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Time Management 8.5%, Top-Down 3.9%

Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Try running a tavern for a day in Prologue.

Why similar: Management 29.9%, Building 29.3%, Simulation 18.4%, Relaxing 7.2%, Crafting 5.2%

A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!

Why similar: Management 30.9%, Building 22.6%, Medieval 16.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Building 23.9%, Management 20.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Resource Management 7.6%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 51.3%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Historical 8.3%, Management 6.2%

Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.

Why similar: Management 68.7%, Simulation 23.3%, Relaxing 4.2%, Indie 1.5%, 3D 1.2%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Management 37%, City Builder 21.6%, Resource Management 21.3%, Simulation 13.9%, Relaxing 5.2%

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Management 43.4%, Simulation 24.5%, Building 17.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.

Why similar: Management 27.8%, Building 19.8%, City Builder 15.3%, Time Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.7%

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Management 36.2%, Building 30.4%, Simulation 22.8%, Relaxing 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Management 32%, Building 20.5%, Resource Management 15.9%, Simulation 12.7%, City Builder 10.5%