About the Game
Serve drinks while your bar falls apart.
Barfender is a chaotic co-op bar sim where fights break out, drinks spill, and you’re still trying to keep orders moving.
Customers get drunk, impatient, and start fights
Orders pile up faster than you can handle
Glasses shatter and the mess keeps spreading
Unwanted guests wander in, thieves grab what they can
Serve drinks, clean disasters, stop fights, and hold the bar together before it completely collapses.
Serve Under Pressure
Pour beers, shake cocktails, fake a smile, and mop up puke while the night spirals out of control.
Online Co-op Chaos
Serve customers together with friends. Maybe don’t smash a beer mug into your teammate’s face… or do!
Problematic Customers
Polite regulars, rowdy drunks, hopeless romantics, bar brawlers. Everyone here has a personality.
Design The Bar Which You'll Probably Ruin Later
Style your bar to perfection. Then pray the crowd doesn’t tear it apart.
Unlock Drinks, Tools, and Upgrades
Craft better drinks. Expand the bar. Lead your crew from a scrappy old bar to a thriving nightlife empire.
Bar Games and Activities
Blow off steam with darts, pool, retro arcade machines, and a wild rodeo bull.
Booze and Bad Decisions
Keep tempers down before it turns into a full-blown bar fight... or your wallet pays the price.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Hello everyone!
Thank you for all the love you've shown the Halloween Update! 🎃 This patch focuses on one thing you've reported a lot: customers and staff taking strange routes around the bar. There are also a few other fixes and a couple of fun additions.
🚶 Pathfinding Improvements
Customers and staff now stay inside the bar when walking between the bar room and the garden, instead of heading out onto the street and walking around the building.
If the front door gets blocked by furniture, customers now use another entrance instead of standing still until they give up.
A handcart or crate parked in the side alley no longer sends people cutting through the kitchen.
Fixed waiters getting stuck in a loop of grabbing their tray and putting it back down.
Staff no longer try to use sinks, dishwashers or garbage cans that you've packed into a box.
🐔 New: Jail Your Friends!
Someone in your co-op crew causing trouble? Vote to lock them in the chicken coop from the pause menu! When everyone else agrees, they get a little time-out with the chickens. You can also pardon them... if you're feeling generous.
🔧 More Fixes & Improvements
New game rule: Dancing customers. Turn it off if you'd rather keep the dance floor empty.
Mikea's shop categories are now grouped into expandable Furniture and Decorations sections, with a new Dishwashing category.
Controller / Steam Deck: shop lists now scroll properly with the gamepad instead of stopping partway down.
Dishwasher fixes: staff now fill the emptier rack first, and NPCs no longer close the door while you're unloading it.
Boxed chairs and counters no longer keep their old spots at tables, and drunk customers can no longer grab boxed chairs to throw.
Clearer customer complaints about a dirty bar, and more natural reactions when you hit someone.
Empty refill bags can no longer restock a dispenser.
The Popcorn Machine now shows how much popcorn is left.
Fixed the Patient Zero achievement not tracking progress properly in dirty bars.
Fixed the camera while ragdolling, plus other smaller fixes.
👥 Coming Next: A Bigger Crew!
Many of you told us that your bar grows faster than your team. In the next update, you'll be able to hire more staff as your star rating goes up. More hands behind the bar, less running around for you!
As always, thanks for the reports! If you run into a crash, please send us your Player.log through our Discord or at [email protected].
See you behind the bar! 🍸
Proto Division & Rock Paper Publisher
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Hello everyone!
First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who jumped into Barfender during its first days in Early Access! Your bug reports, suggestions and feedback have been incredibly helpful, and many of the changes below came directly from you.
We've shipped a bunch of fixes and improvements over the last couple of days!
⭐ Progression
Licences now unlock based on Star Rating instead of story quests.
Once you reach a star level, licence unlocks tied to it stay unlocked even if your rating drops later.
Lowered the decoration points required to reach new star ratings.
🎸 Instruments
Overhauled guitar interactions with a new hold pose, hand IK and strumming.
Guitar strums are now synchronized in co-op.
Updated guitar and drum sounds.
Electric guitars can now be carried.
🪑 Chairs & Staff
Improved chair physics to make them more stable.
Staff table assignment no longer has a distance limit.
Tables already assigned to another staff member are now clearly highlighted.
🛋️ Cozy Nook
Cozy Nook difficulty now disables:
Customer puking
Hobo
Thief
Hussein's visits
These settings will also appear locked while playing on this difficulty.
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Simply raising your fists no longer counts as starting a brawl.
Fixed staff and job applicants reacting to fights that weren't actually happening.
Fixed an issue where this could prevent the day from ending.
Taking an item away from a drunk customer who is throwing things now sobers them up.
Hussein now brings his "brothers" instead of his "thugs."
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📺 Twitch
Fixed chatters being assigned to Hussein's crew or unavailable avatars.
Trash bag polls can now give bonus recycling value.
⚙️ More
Added a Hide UI toggle to Photo Mode.
Added a message for returning demo players explaining save compatibility.
Bottled beer can now be poured into cocktail shakers.
Pawn Shop prices for dispensers now depend on how full they are.
Fixed the Broken Guitar disappearing from some saves.
Fixed the final quest voice-over and subtitles.
Fixed the emote camera clipping through walls.
Fixed several decoration, item placement, recycling and progression issues.
Please keep the reports coming! We're reading everything and will keep improving Barfender throughout Early Access.
See you behind the bar! 🍸
Proto Division & Rock Paper Publisher
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This update is mostly focused on bug fixes, polish, and making the demo smoother.
But we also added a few new things.
📐 EASIER BUILDING
Furniture can now align with nearby objects while being placed, making it much easier to build clean counters and organize your bar.
Your furniture being crooked is now officially your responsibility.
🕺 MORE EMOTES
A whole bunch of new emotes have been added.
Wave, celebrate, dance, or coordinate an unnecessarily elaborate choreography with your friends while customers wait for their drinks.
Running the bar remains optional.
📅 ONE MORE DAY
The demo now lasts 4 in-game days instead of 3.
Many players were reaching the end before getting enough time with cocktails and the newer systems, so you now have another day to explore, expand, and cause problems.
🔧 IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES
Improved Unstuck so it more reliably returns stuck players to a safe position.
Fixed phone menu interaction issues at high field-of-view settings.
Fixed several NPC interaction and ordering issues.
Improved object placement and interactions.
Improved various UI and gameplay interactions.
Fixed multiple smaller visual and stability issues.
💬 TALK TO US
This update is mainly about polishing the demo while we continue preparing Barfender for Early Access.
If something breaks, behaves strangely, or launches itself across the room, tell us through Steam Discussions or Discord.
Now line up your counters, gather your friends, and spend your extra day dancing instead of serving customers.
— Proto Division
Current Release
Build 26324053
Uploaded Nov 11, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Barfender.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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