Ren'Py - HearthWood Tavern [v0.5] [hearthwoodtavern]

Came for the Tavern Management, but it's not there. You just click around town meeting different girls at different times in different places, read a bunch of text and make small progress with them over time. The Tavern is just click on work, get x amount of gold. Buy improvements with the gold to get more gold from work. There is nothing here. No management at all and there are no relevant choices or anything when you visit the different ladies. It's just a couple of Pictures with a lot of clicking packaged as a game. Maybe it will change someday, but at the moment I can't recommend it. I'll give it 2 stars, because I like the tavern managemnt genre and maybe at some point it will hopefully actually deserve the tag.

tldr: Barely a tech demo. Skip for now.

As of 0.1 not much here to see yet. A few pretty simple scenes, a basic story, and the management is just investing back into your tavern by endlessly leveling up four different upgrades. The upgrades themselves matter little other than more pricey upgrades giving you more income. There's no RNG involved, no random events, just an amount of gold earned when you worked at the tavern.

The only reason I gave it a second star is because the images are decent and the town ui is pretty clean.

Is there potential? Maybe. But it will require something to grab people's attention more than the barely glorified scene collector it is now.