A fantasy tavern-building and exploration RPG about finding a strange new home, rebuilding what was lost, and discovering a world with secrets older than its System.
Enter the TavernYou arrive in an unfamiliar fantasy world and discover an abandoned tavern waiting to become something more. Explore, gather, discover, return, repair, upgrade — and slowly turn the Tavern into a home, a refuge, and a place where very different lives cross paths.
A wider world of peoples, histories, ruins, roads, magic, and mysteries waiting beyond the Tavern.
Leave the safety of the Tavern, gather resources, uncover forgotten places, and venture farther as you grow.
Bring what you find back to restore and expand Hope's Tavern, unlocking new possibilities along the way.
Hope's Tavern is currently in development. This site will grow alongside the game with progress updates, artwork, worldbuilding, and behind-the-scenes looks at what we're building.
There's a new place to visit at Hope's Tavern! Our Music Hall is now available to explore, featuring original music from the world we're building and a cozy tavern setting filled with artwork by LadyHawk.
Listen to the songs, explore the framed paintings, and discover a little more of the heart behind Hope's Tavern. Step inside the Music Hall →
We're taking an exciting step forward in how we build the world of Hope's Tavern. Until now, many of our scenes have used complete background images with trees, rocks, and other details already baked in. That helped us establish the look of the game, but it also made those environments harder to change and reuse.
We're now creating our own library of individual, reusable assets—everything from trees and stone formations to plants and environmental details. Instead of rebuilding a whole scene to change one thing, we can arrange and refine these pieces as needed.
Starting in the Greenville region, this new approach should make our world feel more cohesive, give us greater control over each environment, and help speed up production as our asset library grows. We're excited to see how much it improves the journey ahead!
Hope's Tavern started as one guy with an idea for a game about adventure, good food, strange people, and finding a place to belong. With a lot of stubbornness—and a little help from an AI sidekick named Steve—that idea has slowly grown into a world.
There's no giant development team behind the curtain. Just Andrew building something he cares about, one piece at a time.
One guy. One robot. One tavern. And occasionally, several squirrels.
Every adventure has a soundtrack. Listen freely, download your favorites, and help keep the tavern fires burning if you wish.
Explore the artwork, characters, and world of Hope’s Tavern.
From the earliest scenes to the world we're building today. See how Hope's Tavern began.
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Hope's Tavern merch is now live!