Meadgard

Running a tavern becomes a frontline job when trolls, goblins, and demanding gods all want dinner before closing time. Meadgard is a lighthearted but hectic Norse-themed co-op management adventure where a shabby alehouse can become the greatest gathering hall in the Nine Realms. Its premise mixes the everyday panic of serving food and drinks with mythological absurdity: the guests are loud Vikings, the critics are literal deities, and a poor shift can end with the furniture wrecked. The tone leans comic and chaotic rather than grim, even when the wilderness is full of creatures trying to turn your ingredient run into a disaster.

Days are spent leaving the tavern to hunt monsters, raid camps, collect plants, and carry valuable supplies back before the evening rush begins. Combat appears deliberately scrappy, letting players deal with threats using improvised tools such as frying pans while evading swarms of troublesome nissar and larger foes. Once night falls, up to four players divide jobs between cooking, pouring mead, entertaining customers, protecting the till, and keeping the whole operation from collapsing under pressure. Progression comes through expanded recipes, crops, potions, weapons, décor, shops, and recruitable townsfolk whose upgrades make later demands more manageable.

What separates Meadgard from a standard restaurant sim is its split structure: one half is a dangerous cooperative expedition, while the other is an escalating service-game scramble. The Norse setting is not just decorative, since gods, mythical beasts, and eccentric villagers all feed into the tavern’s daily problems and upgrades. Players who enjoy the communication-heavy chaos of Overcooked, paired with a little action-adventure scavenging, are the clearest audience. Solo play is supported, but the premise seems best suited to groups happy to improvise, delegate badly, and laugh when a divine customer arrives at the worst possible moment.