Crossroads Inn

I'll add my two cents to this back and forth, for what it's worth.
This game has great potential. The core concepts and execution are solid. It leads the player along at a good pace and sets them up with the fundamentals to explore the game mechanics on their own.
At the current time, there are a plethora of bugs that need squashing, but unlike some developers who simply disappear and stonewall their fan base once a release flops, the folks responsible for Crossroads Inn have been hammering away tirelessly to address all the issues.
Refund? Complain? Sure. But do it in a constructive way that will let the developer know exactly what happened with your experience so that they can continue to make this game reach its full potential.
I can't wait to see how this fledgling release will mature over time, so I'm in it for the long haul.

LIKES: It's a fantasy inn. I've always wanted to open a tavern or restaurant modeled after this style, some kind of nerd base with dragon heads on the walls, stuff like that. This lets me indulge that a bit without having to mortgage my house 3 times.
DISLIKES: It's broken. How?
1- UNREALISTIC STAFF REQUIREMENTS. I put this one front and center because it is the most glaring, blatantly aggravating thing about this game. As of this writing, I have an inn that can service 32 patrons. For some idiotic reason, this requires a staff of 18 people to cover. This is WRONG. I worked in the bar industry for 15 years and I can tell you that it does not take that many people. A fast cook and 4 good servers can easily cover a room of 32. I dare say that, in medieval times, the average inn had the food ready in a cauldron or being kept warm in the oven, and the innkeeper most likely fetched the food out himself. Also, the idea that there should be different classes of employees is broken. There are no "laborers" in the bar industry. EVERYONE does manual labor, from the bartenders to the bouncers. The only dedicated duty in the place was security, which fell to the bouncer and the bouncer alone, unless the bartender was able to handle it. Seriously, change this ratio. I shouldn't have more staff than patrons. EVER. That's how a bar goes broke.
2- The kitchen appliances don't work. Foremost, the cauldron. The damn thing REFUSES to do anything, and I can't use half the stuff on the menu because of it.
3- THIS GAME CRASHES A LOT. I don;t know why, because there is no bug trap. I don't get a fatal exception error, nothing. Just crash to desktop and lose everything unless I save every few minutes.
4- Staff moves like molasses in January. It takes several in-game hours for a server to get a table drinks, but supplies ordered from a farm presumably located dozens of miles away will arrive in the same amount of time. FIX THIS.
5- While your at it, give us the ability to set up automatic ordering of supplies when stocks reach a certain trigger threshold. Amount of lager on hand less than 20% of max storage? AUTO ORDER! Christ, but I got sick of constantly looking for supplies in that map.
I'll recommend it on faith, strictly because I see so much potential and want to raise awareness of this game, but if the glaring lunacy isn't fixed, that's going to change.

10/28/2019
The game did a closed beta, then a full launch. The devs have admitted this was a mistake on their part, and apologized. Launches are renowned for being bug riddled and rough, and this has been no exception. The devs are being extremely responsive, involved, and working their butts off to get us fixes for the serious bugs.
The Good: Devs that are actively involved, responsive, and care. They're not getting a cash grab and running off to another project right away. Devs that communicate, actively. An already released road map for what they're planning for the game for the next year. Frequent patches trying to fix the major issues.
The Bad: Yes, it's buggy right now. I can't review what the game is like later in the game, because bugs end up breaking it for me. However, this is reasonable and fairly expected. It just launched out of a closed beta.
Most the negative reviews are the types of people that want a perfect game at launch and aren't willing to wait a few days or a week for the devs to collect up all the major bugs and get them fixed. I, personally, have an ounce of patience and empathy, so I'm just actually -helping- the game by reporting the bugs and communicating back and forth with the devs so they can get the feedback they need to fix them, rather than just ragequitting. The devs have been literally sleeping at the office for almost two weeks now, so I personally think they deserve a little support themselves.
The game at its heart is a sim. There's some building, trait and workers management similar to The Sims. Some RPG style elements to campaign mode. But mostly there's an economy based sim to manage. You design your inn, expand it, manage your workers and resources, and eventually will get adventurers to send out into the world. There's a story you're following in campaign mode, which as far as I've gotten seems interesting. The medieval theme basically makes it all just... work, and fun. You have elements from D&D style roles and characters that intuitively make sense. There are a lot of nuances to learn about to try to make different classes of patrons happy. It is a good little game that you can drop a lot of time into, just have a little patience with it the next couple of weeks!

This game has amazing potential and will be a real gem when it's finished, but it should never have been released in such a state. The game is plagued by AI issues, from pathing to getting stuck to simply ignoring or not following orders. The 1.1 patch did little to solve the problems. Check back after it's had some time to cook because it has so much promise!

I'm giving a conditional recommendation for this game. My suggestion for average player is to wait for some more bug fix patches.
First of all, I truly enjoy this game and have played 100+ hours. The front end of this game -- the graphics, the music and the soothing atmosphere they create -- is very good. I spent days building my dream inn and felt proud after it.
However, this game does have a lot of funny bugs. They can be resolved using even funnier ways, but it takes a lot of time to figure out how. There are some serious backend issues -- all of them can be good tech company interview questions I guess. I'm listing a few here.
1) Doors, windows and items randomly pop up as the game goes.
2) When I try to delete one floor tile, multiple fioor tiles gets deleted.
3) Staircases cannot be deleted even when no one is using. The funny solution is first try sell it as an item -- the game won't allow you to do that either, but then you can remove it now in the staircase tab.
4) Animation for Act 4 and 5 are not sync-ed with the sound, and are broken.
5) Save a game half way through a quest will cause the quest to disappear or terminate.
6) The database lookup in the worker's menu is poor; it often has lingering results from last search.
7) The reward of quests only shows up in the next dialogue box of something else. 6) and 7) look like the same problem -- some up and down cycle confusion in the backend...
There is only one truly unplayable bug so far in my pay-to-test career: workers can get confused in path-finding after floor layout has changed. This is especially true when there are multiple paths to the same room. The workers will stuck in the room forever even there's a clear path to leave. Please fix this.
The new function I want to see the most is changing floor plan freely. Currently you can't remove a room block if there's another one on top of it. I understand that civil engineering was not as advanced yet back then, but please at least allow swapping between rooms, e.g. move one block of a room to a neighboring room.
Another suggestion is to have a master reset function like the one in Kenshi so that workers can start from some respawn point all over again.
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One more bug to report. For some fat powered lamp, the workers try to refill the lamp from the other side of the wall and fail. This causes the fat left on the ground. Sometimes the workers cannot pick the fat up again, nor can I delete the room cell. This is one severe bug in my opinion. I've been avoiding lamp on the wall since I encountered this bug.

There are so many mistake and errors in the game its not even funny. But there is always a way to temp fix it. (EX: Restart game, Reload file.) Besides all of those the game has a really nice story and a simple learning period. I do suggest this game.

When it comes to the positive aspects of the game i can only agree with the other people who gave it positive reviews. The game has a great atmosphere and a wonderfully executed gameplay concept focused arround micromanaging your own inn.
But the main reason i want to write this review are peoples negative reviews, especially the ones about all the "tons of bugs" that so many are complaining about. Because quite frankly: Yeah i encountered glitches, back then path-finding had a tendency to glitch out and some people stopped moving. Fixed that by simply saving and reloading - that was fixed months ago tho. People can currently still fall below stairs which is pretty damn rare. However placing a door on the wall next to those people solved that issue when it pops up - and i am sure that just like the last bug i mentioned this one will be fixed soon enough too.
And when it comes to the final thing i would like to adress: people complaining about an experience with gamebreaking bugs wich does not allow them to play more than a few hours. Well i would like to give my perspective on how "prone to breaking" the game is. 75h played and my current save game is at day 302 (which prolly took atleast 70 of the 75 hours) - i will make sure to keep you guys up to date on when this "easily breaking" experience will find an involuntary end ;)
I am not saying the game isnt rough arround the edges, but i am following the development from (almost) the very beginning, and let me tell you that it has only improved in every aspect so far and i am looking forward to new content and more improvements to the game. And you should give this game a shot too (if the concept interests you. I wont claim this game is for everyone, but if it sounds like something you would enjoy then go for it!)
On a final note, sorry for not actually giving a proper in depth review of the positive aspects of the game, but i leave that to my previous speakers! Don't let the negative reviews discourage you from giving this game a shot!