Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern — everything we know
Everything that’s known about Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern, the cozy management sim from Homo Ludens and Dotemu, in one place and updated as news drops. You don’t go on the adventure. You run the inn the adventurers come back to, somewhere in the Dalelands of the Forgotten Realms: you cook, brew, hire staff, decorate, and send heroes out on quests whose outcome comes down to a roll of the dice. If you have been looking for a D&D tavern game, this is the one Dotemu is making, and it’s coming to PC in early 2027. There is still no release date and no price. This page is for anyone who follows cozy sims or D&D and wants to know whether this one is worth watching. It separates what the studios have actually confirmed from what previews have reported, and flags every open question instead of filling it in.
Where things stand
Long Rest Tavern news and updates
The Steam listing still gives 2027, while Dotemu’s reveal trailer specifies early 2027. No month or day has been announced. Steam currently offers wishlisting, with no public demo or playtest signup shown, and Dotemu’s game page still lists the price as TBA. The official Steam news feed contains only the 26 August reveal announcement. Windows PC and single-player remain the listed platform and mode; no console announcement was found in the checked official material.
Two weeks after the reveal, nothing about the Long Rest Tavern release date has moved. The store page reads 2027, Dotemu’s trailer description says early 2027, and the price field in the official press kit still reads TBA. There is no demo and no playtest listed, and Steam Next Fest has not been mentioned. The listing is Windows-only, and neither studio has talked about consoles.
The first previews went up on the same day, and they fill in what the trailer skipped. GamesRadar+ played for thirty minutes at gamescom and describes building the tavern on a grid, hiring staff for bartending, serving, cooking and cleaning, and fast-forwarding time. Game Informer played a 45-minute demo, created its own innkeeper from seven classes, from Bard and Wizard to Barbarian and Cleric, and describes a Renown score built from money earned and how happy your guests left. GamesRadar+ also names two familiar faces: Minsc and Boo.
Dotemu and Homo Ludens revealed Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern at the Future Games Show at gamescom 2026, with a reveal trailer, a store page and a 2027 window for PC. The pitch is the reverse of most D&D video games: you are the innkeeper, not the hero on the adventure. The store page opens with the joke in three lines: you’ve fought dragons, you’ve explored dungeons, now let someone else take the risks. Dotemu’s announcement sets the tavern in the Dalelands and promises cooking, brewing, quests you hand out to adventuring parties, a rival innkeeper and a place you shape into your own. The gameplay shown in the trailer is marked as alpha footage and subject to change.
Long Rest Tavern screenshots
Screenshots via the game’s Steam store page · alpha footage, subject to change · © their respective rights holders.
What’s confirmed about Long Rest Tavern
Here is what Dotemu, the developer and the store listing have actually put on the record, with the preview reports marked as such and the open questions at the end. Dotemu’s own tagline sums up the premise: every legend needs a long rest. The title is a tabletop joke. In D&D, a long rest is the extended break that lets a party recover between fights, and this game is about the place where they take it. Its short pitch is to build and run the finest tavern in the coziest corner of the Dungeons & Dragons universe, and let heroes face the danger while you turn their tales into your fortune.
A cozy game where you run the inn and heroes take the risks
Long Rest Tavern is a standalone management sim, and the joke is in the premise. Why risk your neck, as Dotemu puts it, when adventurers are already looking for glory? Every legend needs somewhere to rest between quests, and Long Rest Tavern makes that place your business. You welcome fearless heroes into your tavern and build the most profitable corner of Faerûn around them. You start with a humble establishment, a roadside rest stop, and grow it into a busy, must-visit inn. The money comes from looking after tired travellers, and it goes back into upgrades and expansions. It is a cozy game in the store’s sense of the word, calm and self-paced, with no timed inputs and a save-anytime option listed on the store page.
More than a tavern sim: quests from behind the bar
This is the part that makes it a D&D game rather than a generic tavern sim. Heroes pick up their next quest at your tavern, and you assign challenges based on each party’s composition. You send heroes across Faerûn to recover rare ingredients, magical curiosities and treasures. Just like any great adventure, the store page says, the journey is shaped by a roll of the dice, with luck, skill and fate deciding what the adventurers bring back. Dotemu adds that your decisions influence how those quests end, so luck is not the whole story: send the right party and the adventure goes better.
Cooking, brewing and recipes
The kitchen is the other half of the loop. You create an eclectic menu, discover new recipes and brew special drinks, from iconic dishes to what Dotemu calls legendary beverages worthy of the adventurers who walk through your door. The rare ingredients your heroes bring home feed straight into it. Dotemu ties the menu to your guests directly: mastering complex recipes is how you attract and keep adventurers of many species and classes. Game Informer started its demo with a basic ale and later unlocked a better beer brewed from gathered ingredients. Its preview also describes a two-part day: the tavern opens its doors at night, and during the day you head outside to expand the place and order new stock.
Staff, guests and the evening rush
A legendary tavern is never quiet, and a busy common room needs people. The store page confirms you hire and manage staff, serve adventurers fresh from their quests and keep the chaos under control when the place fills up, with satisfied guests meaning better earnings and a better reputation. Previews add the detail. GamesRadar+ names four jobs, bartending, serving, cooking and cleaning, and says workers come with traits, some good and some less so. Game Informer mentions stats like pouring speed for bartenders and walk speed for servers, and rooms with beds, so some adventurers stay the night and spend more.
Building and decorating your tavern
Dotemu promises rich customisation: upgrade, decorate and optimise the layout, and add artefacts or mementos that honour the heroes who helped fund the place. Every decoration, in Dotemu’s words, tells a story about the cultures, characters and adventures that make your tavern unique. GamesRadar+ describes the building as a grid system for placing furniture and decorations, and says baby mimic chests roam the grounds and can eventually be tamed. That last detail comes from the preview, not from Dotemu.
Your innkeeper
You are not a fixed character. Game Informer describes a customisable innkeeper who still takes one of seven classes: Bard, Wizard, Fighter, Druid, Barbarian, Rogue or Cleric. Gamer Social Club, which played preview code, says the basic races and classes are all there when you create your innkeeper. Dotemu has not published the creator itself, so how far the customisation goes is still open.
Familiar faces, new characters and a rival innkeeper
Dotemu’s material promises familiar D&D characters alongside new ones: some faces you’ll recognise, others you’ll want to learn more about, each with strong personalities and personal interests. Every legend who walks through your door carries a story waiting to unfold. The previews are less shy about names. GamesRadar+ spotted Minsc and Boo, the ranger and his miniature giant space hamster from Baldur’s Gate, in the reveal trailer and met them in the demo, and Gamer Social Club points out Minsc on the key art. Treat the cast as reported rather than official until Dotemu names it. Confirmed by Dotemu: a rival innkeeper who shows up as your tavern grows, eager to push you to your full potential. Gamer Social Club names a competitor called Belrich, and says the tavern also comes with a ghost, William Oldfather, who walks you through your first days.
Set in the Dalelands
Long Rest Tavern is set in the Forgotten Realms, in the Dalelands, which Dotemu describes as a wild, ancient and fertile part of Faerûn. That is the classic D&D setting, the backdrop of the Baldur’s Gate games, not a new world, and it makes Minsc and Boo a natural fit for a cozy tavern. You do not need to know the lore to run a tavern, but the setting gives the recipes, guests, tales and treasures somewhere to come from.
Who is making it: Homo Ludens and Dotemu
Homo Ludens is an independent studio in Paris. Its only previous release is Blooming Business: Casino, a relaxing tycoon sim from 2023, so Long Rest Tavern is the studio’s second game. Dotemu, also in Paris, is the publisher behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Streets of Rage 4 and Absolum. Wizards of the Coast licenses the Dungeons & Dragons name.
Open questions
No release date beyond early 2027, no price, no demo, no playtest and no console versions. The system requirements are already filled in, and modest: 8 GB of RAM and 1 GB of storage at minimum, but they can change before launch. The cast has not been officially named. Nobody has said whether there is a story campaign, a sandbox mode or both.
Who Long Rest Tavern is for
- You like cozy management games with a proper loop behind them
- You have always wondered who pays for the adventurers’ ale
- You want D&D flavour without a 100-hour RPG
- Dice rolls deciding outcomes sound like fun rather than frustration
- You want to go on the adventure yourself, with the risk and the glory
- You need co-op or multiplayer, which the store page does not list
- You play on console only
- You need a date before you get invested
If it is the adventure you are after, the other D&D game due in 2027 is Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, a single-player action game from Invoke Studios.
Long Rest Tavern FAQ
What is Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern?
Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern is a single-player management sim set in the Forgotten Realms, published by Dotemu. You run a tavern in the Dalelands instead of going on adventures yourself: you cook, brew, hire staff, decorate, and send parties of heroes out on quests decided by dice rolls. It was announced on 26 August 2026.
When is the Long Rest Tavern release date?
There isn’t one yet. Dotemu says early 2027, and the Steam page lists only 2027, with no month or day. The reveal at gamescom and the first previews in September did not narrow it. When a date is announced, it goes at the top of this page.
What platforms is Long Rest Tavern coming to?
PC, through Steam. The listing is Windows-only, with no macOS or Linux support. Neither studio has announced PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo Switch versions, so for now Long Rest Tavern is a PC game. That can change before 2027, but nothing official has been said.
What RPG can I play where I run a tavern?
Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern is the most direct answer coming, a cozy game with a D&D licence: you manage the inn, the menu and the staff while adventuring parties take the quests you hand out. It is a management sim with RPG flavour rather than an RPG, and you can’t play it until early 2027.
Is Long Rest Tavern multiplayer or co-op?
No multiplayer has been announced for Long Rest Tavern. Steam lists the game as single-player, with Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud saves and Family Sharing. Any multiplayer or co-op claims you might see elsewhere have no official source behind them.
Who is making Long Rest Tavern?
An independent Paris studio called Homo Ludens develops it. The team’s only previous game is Blooming Business: Casino from 2023. Dotemu, the Paris publisher behind Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, publishes it, and Wizards of the Coast licenses the Dungeons & Dragons name.
Are Minsc and Boo in Long Rest Tavern?
Previews say yes. GamesRadar+ spotted Minsc and Boo in the reveal trailer and met them in its gamescom demo, and Gamer Social Club points out Minsc on the key art. Dotemu itself has not named any characters yet, only promising faces you’ll recognise, so treat the cast as reported until the studio confirms it.
How much will Long Rest Tavern cost, and is there a demo?
Neither is announced. Dotemu’s press kit lists the Long Rest Tavern price as TBA, and there is no demo, playtest or Steam Next Fest slot listed on the store page. You can wishlist it on Steam now. Nothing else is open to players yet.
Still open: a release date, a price, a demo, console versions and an official cast list. This page updates the moment any of them lands.