Don't let the cute graphics fool you into thinking this is a calm, relaxing farming sim-esque game, as you will be stressing out 24/7.

In this game, you play as a Tavern keeper running your own quaint little inn. You will serve beer, clean, serve customers, and decorate, but what makes this game so stressful?

Just like real life, the people in this game have no patience. A few seconds late with water? Yeah, they leave, and you lose massive amounts of reputation. Don't speed over and clean the tables quickly enough? Yeah, that's another ton of reputation lost. Don't immediately kick out the drunk, despite sprinting over as quick as the game allows you? Yeah, that's even more rep gone.

I know it's controversial, but I don't understand how people find Stardew stressful when you can do everything at your own pace. Here, you fail constantly, and you are punished for it whether you make less money or have fewer and fewer customers. Everything you do, you will suffer some form of penalization. Dust spawns in so quickly that you get outnumbered. So earlier on, I had a dirty floor, 10 people wanting food, and several wanting water. I ended up losing so much money and progress that I didn't even want to continue. I sprinted to basically every objective to get it done, and even then, it was too late, and I lost so many customers. I'm sure it gets easier as you hire staff, but early on, everything is so punishing.

Truthfully, if I wanted to be stressed out this much, I would have done a wretch playthrough on Elden Ring. Either things need to be toned down, adding either a relaxing mode or a harder mode, or the game needs a difficult tag. As I mentioned, even as I ran to serve everyone and clean up, it still wasn't enough, and seeing them all angry at me and run out is extremely discouraging.

Overall, putting "Rest" in the title feels misleading, as it's rush, rush, rush, and by the time you're done, you need an actual break. It's like working at a Greggs IRL with how quickly and angry customers get. By the time you're done with the first day, it's off to bed to do it all over again. I could not find a single relaxing thing about the game from what I saw. Though there's a bedroom system as well to let villagers stay, adding another system for villagers to complain about on top has put me off the game entirely, so I simply cannot recommend it.

I do not think this is worth buying (yet). Very dry and lonely. The description says you'll meet colorful characters, but an hour in and I've only met the same 4 people recolored with the same dialogue "Had a run in with some bandits. Nasty business that" repeated over a dozen times in the short time I've played. Game play loop is hold down button to fill a glass, run over to table, give glass, wait a while, repeat. Ooh but sometimes you hold down button to clean a magically manifested mystery fluid. After an hour I should have more to motivate me than the fact I can make two different sizes of tables now, and I can save up my money to open a locked area of my home.
I am willing to do some boring game play loops if I am drawn in with a plot or even just silly random dialogue. At least write some gossip for me to eavesdrop in on, or some sloppy drunks to contend with, rude customers, literally anything to hook me in. I am begging for a reason to play this game.

Game lets you beat Karens with a mop. 10/10