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As this game follows the spirit of the original, there is no romancing in this one either. But you may want to follow us for news, because there may or may not be romancing in an unannounced project we're currently working on...

Concerning Dreamwalker, you can always play the free demo to find out whether you like it :)

Would you mind reaching out to support@playtaverntalk.com including a screenshot of your purchase confirmation so we can have a closer look at the details? Thanks!

Hi, sorry to hear there seems to be an issue. Did you purchase it from this news post or did you purchase it after clicking on the project first?

yeah it was once thought as a spin-off rather than a part 2 but eventually evolved into full blown title. Hence the "Tavern Talk Stories" bit. Some think it's a DLC. So we're now wondering to rename it to "Tavern Talk 2: Dreamwalker" to make that clearer. It's difficult :D

To be a bit more precise: Dreamwalker is a standalone prequel to Tavern Talk with many improvements and, of course, a new setting, and an entirely new story with around 16 hours on your first playthrough with multiple endings and narrative branching on top.

If you want to, you could call it Tavern Talk 2  - and maybe we should have done that :D

Nur MacOS ist signiert. Windows ist unsigniert, da müsste bei der executable auch eine Warnung kommen, wie üblich.

The story is set 36 years before the events of Tavern Talk. There are new characters and we improved the drink mixing and quest making mechanics to have a dash of a challenge. You can play both demos first here on itch. 

Hello everyone!

Tavern Talk full game is now released here on itch and we're celebrating the event with our highest discount to date: 45%. Grab the DRM free version of Tavern Talk or go all-in and get the full bundle for under $15 including the story DLC Tempest Tantrum and the costume DLC Pirate Palooza.

Play the game...

...and let us know how you feel about the experience! Over the last months we took some time to polish the game and implement more features based on requests from our community. 

The game is available in six languages: English, German, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. We're excited to announce that French will follow suit in roughly 2 weeks on May 28th!

Get the DLCs and save extra with our bundle

Alongside the main game we released the story DLC "Tempest Tantrum" and the costume pack "Pirate Palooza". We've bundled them up with the base game in a hot  itch.io launch sale at 45% off for your convenience.

With the costume DLC "Pirate Palooza" you can now dress up your favorite detective-outlaw-duo of Melina and her friend in stylish pirate-themed outfits! 

Get the DLC here: Tavern Talk: Pirate Palooza by Gentle Troll

You need more story content? With the DLC "Tempest Tantrum" you will experience three hours of new story with multiple endings. The events take place one and a half years after Tavern Talk and you will get to know the new character Oleander Verifina, Fable’s brother.

Get the DLC here: Tavern Talk: Tempest Tantrum by Gentle Troll

What to expect

In this cozy visual novel you are running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.

• 🧝‍♀️ Play the tavern owner.
• 📜 D&D inspired story: Over 20 colorful characters.
• 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ positive representation.
• 📖 At least 12h of immersive reading on your first play-through.
• 👀 Multiple endings.
• 🍹 Casual drink mixing & quest building.
• 🚫 No tavern management, no economy.
• ⚠️ Content warning. mentions of death, grief, and violence.

If you can't get enough of this fantasy world and its lovely characters, follow us here on Itch and stay up-to-date. 

See you now in the Wayfarer's Inn. Cheers!

Your Gentle Trolls

Hey, thanks for the info.

As the Tavern Talk project was already public with the demo, there will be no explicit notification. But we will send a post soon to announce the actual release.

Hi Moni,

There indeed is an alternative to "clicking madly" :D - the game features an auto-progression mode that lets the text flow automatically. You can adjust the reading speed as well. If you want to replay some sections in order to explore new branches of the story, there is also an auto-skip mode that fast forwards through sections you've already seen. Hope this helps :) 

Concerning the resolution bit, I've checked with tech, and they assume it could be a proton thing since the switch version was designed to run in 720p, and that does sound good. They suggested you play around with resolutions to see if sth looks better on your system. 

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
Michel

From all I know, Steam Deck is a Linux machine as well and uses Proton 9 (?) to run anything Windows-related on it. Maybe that's a good pointer for you as well?

We think Itch is a good alternative to the common more established platforms, especially for additional products/extras.

Please tell us how the demo worked for Linux :-) 

Most players are windows user.

Glad you like it! :-) 

We try to bring more things here on Itch.io but this takes some time. We will keep you posted in our Devlog.

If you want to bridge the time, have a look at the demo of the prequel we just released some days ago: https://gentle-troll.itch.io/tavern-talk-stories-dreamwalker

Hey, we are working on the build right now to release it here on itch. But as we want to fix some things and are still working on the next title, this takes some time. But we hope to release Tavern Talk here within the next 3-4 months.

Thank you! <3

Happy to hear it makes you feel this way <3

Hey, sorry for the late reply. Very happy to hear you enjoyed the demo so much and sorry we've been so quiet here lately. 

Handling the various platforms is a lot to handle for a small (self-publishing) indie team such as ourselves so we simply didn't have the capacity to tend to all opportunities.

Happy to let you know that we're now taking a closer look at itch now especially since we do have quite a bit of TTRPG related content to share alongside the game. Expect some news soon!

Cheers,
Michel

Hi MalkavinElder, 
indeed, while Coffee Talk was one of our great inspirations to create this game, we are not affiliated with Fami or the reast of the dev team behind that gem of a game in any way. We've met the Toge Productions team at Gamescom back in 2023 – a super exciting moment for us – and ended up bundling Tavern Talk with Coffee Talk Episode 2 over on Steam. Such an honor to receive this kind of support from of one of our greatest icons. <3

You can already buy the Tavern Talk on Steam and Switch BTW but we are currently looking at the potential of itch again, so expect some updates here soon. :)

Cheers,
Michel

Hey Sissix, so happy to read this and sorry for the late reply. We've been super busy working on the standalone prequel, Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker, which you can already wishlist on Steam and follow its Kickstarter campaign to unlock pre-campaign achievements!

And you might be excited to hear that we've picked up working on our strategy for itch.io again. We see there is a strong visual novel and TTRPG community here we'd love to engage with more. There will be more updates and exciting news coming soon so keep your eyes peeled!

Cheers, 
Michel

Heheh thank you! We can't wait to take our next steps on Itch and showing you more!

Awww thank you so much for making even a video!

Thank you soooo much and it is soooo cool that you actually made a video about our game 💜

That is amazing! Thank you for filling out the survey and keep an eye out, we are going to release the full game this year 💜

Thank you for the comment! It always makes us happy, when people are enjoying the game and we can't wait to show you more 💜

OH MY GOD!!! Just watched it and we love it sooooooo much! Thank you so, so, so much for this! 💜

Cheers,
Tommy

Thank you so much for your detailed response! I'll make sure to let the team know 💜but I also wanted to let you know that the demo currently available is not the final version of the game (and especially the text), we have somebody on hand who does an English editorial for the final version of the Game. The quality of the writing and the game overall is essential to us.😊

Cheers,
Tommy

Hey Jellyfish, that sounds so lovely that you are playing the Game with your daughter 💜 if you have questions or suggestions we would love to hear them! We have a discord server and channel for this reason if you want you can join there: https://discord.gg/dcRbYHWHMs 😊

Aww thank you so much for this really amazing comment 💜

We are so happy, that you enjoyed your time with the demo!

That is so lovely to hear 💜 Thank you 🥰

Yes, you are :D

Hey Alex,

we will publish the game in German since we are from Germany and we are currently looking into other languages besides that, but at the moment it is hard to say which languages we will cover in the end. :)

Thank you so much :D we are happy you enjoyed it so much 💜

Hey Kenneth,

I understand your concern, but since we are a small indie studio we are trying a lot of things out and this preorder shop is just one way to support us and the game in the end. That doesn't mean we will only release it on Steam or the Nintendo E-Shop and are also looking into other revenues. But if you want to support us before the release, in advance so to speak, this is a possibility. 

Also some of the Bundles, like the Lore bundle or the TTRPG bundle which doesn't contain the main game, but a lot of cool DRM-Free digital goodies, which could be worth checking out.

I hope that makes it a bit clearer. Cheers,
Tommy

Hey there :) thank you so much for your kind words 💜 we are planning to release the game in Q2 2024 👀

Oh that shouldn't be happening. Maybe you wanna send us a bug report ( with screenshots if possible and your gaming set up) in our discord: https://discord.gg/4xNmCAbRk9

This way our team can work on it 💜

Oh that shouldn't be happening. Maybe you wanna send us a bug report ( with screenshots if possible) in our discord: https://discord.gg/4xNmCAbRk9

This way our team can work on it 💜

We can't wait to show you more! 💜

Awww thank you so much! 💜

The demo is free but the final game will cost something. Since there is a whole team behind the game and a lot of work, we can't offer it for free. But it will be a fair price for a 10h + long game and a whole lot of story in it 💜