Walkthrough index for version 1.0

1. First day to Chapter 1 — chairs, the stove, closing, the $200 you should not spend.
2. Chapters and Chapter 2.
3. Quest list, including Silence Is Golden and the toolbox.
4. Ice and recipes when orders stall.
5. Hiring once the station board exists on your save.
6. Moonshine in Chapter 3, then money and the safe.
7. 1.0 if a 2025 guide contradicts what you see.

Reviews from Joystick Diaries, Opium Pulses, and Nerdy Geek agree on a clear tutorial and a clean HUD, and they also agree that story mode fences you in: you cannot always close, dialogue does not pause the room, and staff were absent for a long stretch of Early Access. Those three limits are why the first-day page exists.

The Early Access Steam guide supplies the opening advice; the beginner video is a second perspective, and the November hotfix supplies the chapter-progression steps. Individual numeric claims remain attributed below:

• Follow the quest before you buy an upgrade it did not ask for.
• Keep $200 aside for Locke.
• Put chairs down before you wonder why a guest is stuck.
• The cast-iron stove was the early upgrade people named first.
• Ground-floor furniture with Wealth+ was the early way to get extra orders.
• Time stops on the “confirm instant pour” screen. It does not stop while you browse the recipe book.
• Close the saloon before you rearrange furniture.
• Train a new hire before you expect them to be useful.
• Cleanliness is tied to tips in player reports. The 30% figure is one report.
• If chapter progress looks frozen, serve food and drinks, then sleep. That is the 8 Nov 2026 hotfix wording.