Rift Tavern
Gather materials, cook meals, serve patrons, and defeat foes! Welcome to your new life as the owner of the 'Rift Tavern'. Restore the former glory of your run-down tavern by night, and explore the depths of dangerous portal zones by day!
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Retired mercenary? Scammed. Peaceful retirement? Ruined. Your only asset? A haunted tavern with a dimensional portal in the closet. > Hunt for 'strange' ingredients in the perils beyond the Rift by day, and serve otherworldly delicacies to survive the night. Rebuild your legacy before you vanish like the owners before you.
"See that guy? That’s the sucker who signed for the 'haunted tavern.'"
A lifetime’s worth of mercenary retirement funds turned to scrap in an instant.
While cleaning the dusty shop and fixing a creaky torch bracket, the heavy bookshelf shifted, revealing a mysterious portal glowing with blue light.
I don’t know if this is the gate to hell or the chance of a lifetime.
But one thing is for sure: this is a mercenary’s specialty.
-Explore Unknown Worlds Beyond the Rift!
From tranquil forests and mysterious mushroom colonies, to even modern convenience stores you could never have imagined! Explore dozens of randomly generated worlds every time you pass through a portal, and collect special ingredients for your tavern.
-This Ain't No Simple Management: Defend Your Tavern!
Serving food to guests and building your reputation is just the basics. Sometimes you'll have to crack the skulls of rowdy drunks, and other times you'll have to clean up vomit from the floor yourself. This is realistic tavern management!
-Create Fantastic Dishes with Otherworldly Ingredients!
Discover new recipes by combining mysterious ingredients brought from the dimensional rifts. From ordinary stews to magical beverages, the dishes born from your hands will decide the fate of your tavern.
-Don't Miss Out on Power or Style!
Powerful equipment makes exploring more dangerous dimensions possible. But getting stronger isn't everything. Create your own unique protagonist with hundreds of combinations of outfits, armor, and weapons!
-A Living Town and its Neighbors Rift Tavern is not in an isolated place. Meet the merchants who greet you warmly as you approach their shops, the bustling festival held every weekend, and the neighbors with their own unique personalities who come and go in the town. Sometimes, a peddler selling rare goods might even visit without notice!
