Have Some Tea?Introduction/early guide — Guide to your first tea in Japanese

Start with Japanese

Until the tea is given to the first customer

*Includes early steps and first customer service results. The official web version will guide you from opening the store to handing out mint and honey tea. Reading comprehension in English is required for subsequent conversations and formulations.

↑↓←→：MoveEnter: Examine/proceed with conversationClick: Select materials/toolsYes: YesNo: No

1. Open the cloth on the left and right sides of the stall.: Start with New Game and proceed with the opening explanation by pressing Enter. Open thy canvas. is the instruction to "open the cloth at the stall." Click on the cloth on the left and right sides of the stall to open them, and the following instructions will appear.
2. Examine the plant and choose Tend?: Tend to thy plants. If you look near the plant, you will get Information?, Tend?, and Harvest?. Here, select Tend? and proceed with the care text by pressing Enter. Check out the purple flower Aconitum on the right side of the stall, the yellow-orange flower Arnica on the right, the pink flower Hyacinth under the stall, the white flower Henbane on the left, and the small potted Coca on the bottom left. When it changes to Check the pathway for activity., proceed to the next step.
3. Check the path at the right end of the stall.: Check the pathway for activity. Move to the right end of the stall, turn right and press Enter. If you answer Yes to Wait for them to come?, the first customer, Amabel, will come.
4. Make tea as a thank you for the welcome.: Amabel brings you the bread and butter of welcome. If you proceed with the conversation by pressing Enter, the protagonist will offer you tea as a thank you. When the message "Make some tea for Amabel" appears, check the marker on the stall's workbench. Answer Yes to Make some tea or store some ingredients? to go to the tea making screen.
5. Read Friendly Tea recipes: Click Paper Recipes on the far right to open the same recipe as the recipe image below. Any Combo of means ``Freely combine the following ingredients''. Candidates include Mint, Honey, Lavender, and Lemon Balm. Select Put Away to return.
6. Add mint and honey to the cup: Here, we will use a mint + honey combination that we confirmed until we actually handed over the tea. Click Mint and Honey on the top right shelf and answer Yes to Add some Mint?/Add some honey?. These two go straight into the cup.
7. Pour hot water and complete with Done?: Click Tea Pot on the bottom left and select Yes to Heat the water? Next, click on the Tea Cup in the bottom center and press Enter to display the added ingredients. After answering Yes to Add hot water?, click Tea Cup again. Select Yes for Done? to return to the stall screen.
8. Approach Amabel and Enter: Approach Amabel, who is waiting on the right side of the stall, turn right and press Enter to give her tea. Continue the conversation and ask them about their impressions of the drink. The image below shows the reaction to a cup made with mint and honey.

Image of Have Some Tea?'s Friendly Tea recipe screen with English translation into Japanese — "Friendly Tea" recipe, ingredients, and Japanese translation of the English text written on the button.Photographed by the editorial department and translated into Japanese

Image of Amabel's English lines after drinking tea in Have Some Tea? with Japanese translations — Amabel's line: "It's as delicious as it smells. Thank you, Lillian."Photographed by the editorial department and translated into Japanese

HOW TO PLAY

Controls and goals

How to operate: Use the arrow keys to move, and press Enter to investigate or advance the conversation. A mouse is also required for official information.
Goal: At a tea stall on the outskirts of the village, Lillian's story progresses as she listens to the complaints of customers and handles plants and tinctures from the garden.

ABOUT THE GAME

Set up a food stall on the outskirts of the village.
Prepare tea for visitors.

Have Some Tea? is a horror visual novel in which Lillian starts a tea stall on a dry riverbed outside a small village in the mid-1600s. We meet local people with ailments, tend to their garden plants, and learn about tinctures.

WALK THE GARDEN

Leave the stall,
Walking among the flowers.

At the starting point, there is a tea stall, a garden lined with plants, and an operating information board. Move the hero using the arrow keys and walk through the garden to the place you want to investigate.

Have Some Tea?'s tea stall, medicinal herb garden, and in-game screen with instructions for arrow keys, mouse, and Enter. — In-game screen: Use the arrow keys to move the protagonist to the left and move from in front of the tea stall to the garden.

Actual play photography: Detour Playlist Editorial Department/Production: BroodyGaming

Walk through the stalls and garden with arrow keys

Use the arrow keys to move around the hand-drawn garden, and press Enter to advance conversations and investigations. According to the official guide, a mouse is also required, and is used for operations including tea making.

Take care of plants and learn about tinctures

Learn about the tinctures used in the preparation while tending to the garden and plants near the stall. The official page also explains that there are multiple combinations for making tea.

Follow the story from the customer's discomfort

Welcoming villagers who come to visit due to illness, we greet them while reading the text. The story, which is officially introduced as a horror game, progresses while being set in a peaceful tea stall.

PLAY NOTES

Play notes

Required time: The author's official itch.io says it will take about 1 hour.
Language: Conversations, customer complaints, tincture explanations, etc. are in English, and reading comprehension is required for the story and formulation. The early guide in this article provides supplementary English and Japanese instructions for the process up to the first cup of tea.
Fees/Support environment: You can play the author's official itch.io HTML5 version for free on your PC browser.

BREW A CUP

Walking in the garden,
Prepare a drink for the customer.

Play Have Some Tea? for free on official itch.io

The published images were taken by the editorial department on the official web version, and the guide images are accompanied by Japanese translations. Sources: Have Some Tea? — BroodyGaming official itch.io

STREAMING INFO

Streaming and video uploads

Streaming permission unconfirmedMonetization permission unconfirmed

No explicit instructions for live streaming, video posting, or monetization could be confirmed on the author's official itch.io work page. Please check with the author before implementing.

“Unconfirmed” does not mean streaming is prohibited. We have not confirmed an official policy for the general public.

Checked: September 21, 2026 · Official pages checked: Have Some Tea? — BroodyGaming official itch.io

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Have Some Tea? A cup of herbal tea,Slowly reflects the shadow of the village.

Until the tea is given to the first customer

Controls and goals

Set up a food stall on the outskirts of the village.Prepare tea for visitors.

Leave the stall,Walking among the flowers.