Brew pottage from whatever the cellar holds: grain, beans, cabbage, onion, turnip. Toss ingredients into the cauldron, watch it cook and ladle it out before your guests lose patience. Later you'll run more than one cauldron and twice the chaos.

Pour ale from the barrel, slice pies, cheese and dried fish, roast meat over the fire. The bigger your menu, the fussier the orders

Meet a dozen legendary guests, each breaking the rules their own way. One drops into the room from the ceiling. One pays ten times over and showers the whole queue with coins. One keeps changing his order while you're carrying his food. And one just steals your gold and walks out.

Fill in the tavern almanac. Every new guest unlocks their own page — a portrait and a story, from village labourers to names known all along the road.

Pour your earnings back into the tavern: a second cauldron, a tap on the barrel, a brisk merchant, shelves that stock themselves. By the end, your kitchen won't look anything like the one you started with.

And when you want the real grind — switch to arcade mode. Three lives, an endless stream of guests, patience shrinking as you go. Buy perks between runs and climb the leaderboard.