The tavern’s customers are its lifeblood, whether they’re passing on rumours leading to new quests, or one of the steady flow of new adventurers looking for work. As you grow your stable, more options present themselves as you claw towards the goal of becoming a quest-running mogul and defeating an ancient evil, while raising your tavern’s popularity.

Epic Tavern’s party management will draw obvious comparisons with Red Hook Studios’ wildly successful Darkest Dungeon, but while the two games have a lot of mechanical similarities Epic Tavern strikes a far friendlier tone. Its clean UI, colourful visuals and unadorned mechanics abandon the former game’s punishing, deliberately obtuse approach for something far more accessible, with its predominantly text-driven quests creating the most authentic sense of a traditional tabletop RPG than we’ve seen in a good while.