Taverna Tales press kit

Taverna Tales is a cozy merge and cooking game for iPhone. Merge Aegean dishes, serve the village and restore a seaside taverna, chapter by chapter.

In Taverna Tales, Iris returns to the little Aegean town of Olive Bay to reopen her grandfather's taverna, the Blue Door. Players tap generators, merge two of a kind into better dishes and serve the village's customers, then spend their coins to restore the taverna and the bay around it, chapter by chapter. Free to play with optional in-app purchases and optional reward videos. It works fully offline.

Ten years after her last summer in Olive Bay, Iris comes home with her husband Hugo to help Grandpa Arthur bring his beloved family taverna, the Blue Door, back to life. With her little sister Lily and a whole village of friends, they set out to restore the taverna, the harbour and the whole bay.

Taverna Tales is a merge-2 game in the tradition of Gossip Harbor. Players tap six generators, from the market basket and the copper cezve to the fishing net and the olive press, merge two of a kind into ever better dishes, from simit and meze boards to künefe and seafood platters, and serve them to the customers lining up at the top of the board. Every coin earned goes into the restoration: clearing terraces, painting doors, hanging lights, and watching each place transform from before to after.

Nineteen chapters and more than 150 restoration tasks lead across three hand-painted maps, Olive Bay, Lemon Island and Fig Valley, with a warm, funny story told through eighteen characters and Duke the cat. Between chapters, players take part in festivals and events such as the Lantern Festival, the Regatta, the Amphora Hunt, Sand Treasure and Pearl Cove, collect stickers for the album and progress through an optional Season Pass.

Taverna Tales is free to play with optional in-app purchases and optional reward videos. It works fully offline, has no forced ads and keeps progress safe across iPhones with Sign in with Apple. It is available in seven languages.