TLDR: Get it if you enjoy fantasy stories and reading. Don't get it if you're looking for creative fun creating and making drinks - if that's you, get Coffee Talk instead.

I really enjoyed Coffee Talk and was excited to see this new game, but in my opinion Coffee Talk is better than Tavern Talk. The main reason is that in Coffee Talk you could use your creativity to create drinks and have fun discovering new ones. In Tavern Talk you can't. You have to follow the recipe and if you don't you just get an error. You can't create drinks outside of the story either.

And while the quest system is fun, you can't be eagle-eyed and jump in to create a new quest once you have enough rumours, you have to wait until the story tells you too.

This game has almost no creativity options for players. The only thing you can really do is to pick between two options on occasion to choose one story path over another.

I do enjoy this game, I love the artwork and find the characters interesting, but I really wish I could have more input and creativity than offered. It holds your hand tightly and is largely just reading.

Innkeep: Do you want to be 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 a nymph or 𝒃𝒆 the nymph?
Fable: ... Both?

Me too, Fable... Me too.

It's okay, I'd like to give it a Meh, but it's on the low side of 5 out of 10.

I was hoping for something a bit more like VA11-Hall-A, but there's not as much game here.
The presentation is very nice, though some more voice acting wouldn't have gone amiss. Unfortunately the two gameplay elements (excluding the multiple choice moments) aren't failable, and can't really be played with.

You can mix drinks to a recipe, but you can't make them up or have "Fun" with your patrons by screwing with them. I've been serving everyone, the same drink, regardless of what they ask for (when it doesn't change the plot, you're allowed to mix the wrong drink) and no one cares. They just say "You got it wrong, but whatever." I've been feeding the vampire sunjuice and fire chillies and he doesn't care. Come on, would a gag line be so much to ask for?
You can also put together quests by assembling clues, except the clues are all colour coded so you don't have to do any deciphering, and if you try to muck them up the game says no until you get it right.

But the real problem with the game is the writing. It's not awful, just overly verbose. It goes on, and on, and on, and you quickly end up wishing people would just get to the point instead of being "Quirky". It also doesn't help that they keep making references to DnD related pop-culture, it gets very tiresome to talk to someone who is just a meme fountain, constantly screaming at you "This is a game! I am an NPC!". And it's not a dialogue system, it's a monologue generator, you sit there, clicking, waiting for the scene to finish so the next collection of unfunny TTRPG references can walk in.

Because the game doesn't care about the player decisions, what drinks you make or dialogue you pick, immediately closing all branches after they open, it just feels disrespectful to your time. Why bother to ask to pick from two dialogue options, if you're going to ignore it? Why bother getting the player to mix drinks, if your mistakes mean the same as your successes? I lost all interest in the story, which seemed to be going somewhere good, because I realised I was not playing a game, I was clicking through a very user unfriendly book.

Overall, not much of a game, which is a shame, because there are examples of this exact premise done very well. If the Devs just wanted to make a kinetic novel, then they should have, the fake gameplay elements just slow the whole experience to a crawl.