The Tavern In the Woods

The Tavern In the Woods

Chris J Mitchell · June 4, 2025 · Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Exploration, Immersive Sim

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Very Positive81% · 57
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About The Tavern In the Woods

"Tavern in the Woods" is a first person, single-player interactive fiction story that blends mystery, storytelling, and supernatural horror. Players explore and investigate an isolated environment as the narrative slowly unfolds, gradually uncovering the truth behind the eerie emptiness.

The Tavern In the Woods — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 9, 2026
Interesting little experience. I didn't get every achievement, but seeing the general story took me ten minutes, which is totally fine for what it is (and it's not like I paid for it). There was a jump scare early on that legit got me, which doesn't happen very often, so I'll give kudos there. The pages you read tell an interesting little fantasy story, and I never felt like anything was taking too long to happen. Using a [spoiler] goblin [/spoiler] as a central... hero? Character? I'm not sure how to characterize it. Anyway, using that as that is different, though the model looks a LITTLE out of place. My biggest complaint is the narration, and this is a weird complaint: I don't know if it's a problem with the sound quality or what, but it has a slight echo to the voice, that makes it sound almost synthetic, like it's a text-to-speech, even though it clearly isn't. It just takes you out of it a little bit, which is a shame because I honestly quite enjoyed this and look forward to seeing what the developer does next, whether they do another free quickie or something more substantial. I played this because I'm a fan of visual novels and it's marked as one in the tags, and I don't th…
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Recommended Feb 14, 2026
Very short game, but was great experience to explore. Would love to find another such short game, with a touch of scary
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Recommended Aug 25, 2026
A decent game. I liked the music and some of the effects. The story, though simple, explained why the Wild Hunt appears, and if you read every journal entry, you discover a love story.
Recommended Jun 27, 2026
I love the lighting and general ambience. I hope another similar one is made or that this one is expanded into a longer experience/story.
Recommended Jan 11, 2026
Pretty cool for a free game with achievements. It was cool to explore. About fifteen minutes of gameplay. The game is very dark and was disappointed there was no brightness settings but its a horror game so its supposed to be dark, but other than that, it's pretty fun.
Recommended Dec 2, 2025
Once again, I wish there was a meh option for recommendations. This game isn't bad, but it's not good. Everything works, but it's visually very dark. When you find a note that scrolls, you have to scroll back up to the top when you're done reading it or the next note that scrolls will start at the bottom. You don't actually do anything and there's not really a mystery. But it works and the models aren't bad.

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