Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator Reviews

Soooooooooo, this game is realy fucking awsome. it's realy relaxing and fun, you just make potions and fill peoples orders

i loved this before the update but the newest update has added so much more whimsy to the game and i dont know how some are saying they completed it in less than 15 hours cause i am nowhere near done any of the maps and this is not a game to speed run! i just figured out i can place shelves in the shop and i love the morality system . awesome game i love this game

Soothing and meditative, with the ability to choose upgrades that promote your own preferred play style. Pleasant progression, although it would be nice if the gated purchases appeared slightly more frequently. Looking forward to finishing this one!

If you want a non-standard puzzle game, this is it. The puzzle portion is figuring out what combination of ingredients will make the potions you want to create, and/or the potions that your customers ask for. The 2.0 update with the garden is a great improvement over the previous version where you had to purchase all your ingredients because now I can build standard recipes based on what I have in the garden rather than what I manage to find for purchase.

The fantasy Potion Craft has managed to capture very well is the feeling of precision required for an alchemist. Every single ingredient, movement of the spoon, mortar and pestle can be critical. The metaphor of a slowly mapped labyrinth representing all the possible outcomes works very well here. What Potion Craft lacks is a better idea for the endgame. Chapters IX and X are especially egregious - you just get thrown this giant ball of tedious tasks at you, with no real new content. And I played on default difficulty, whereas higher difficulty levels said in their descriptions that it's going to be even grindier - I can't imagine how tedious it would be playing these. By the end, even the garden, which I previously found chill and relaxing, had me wishing we had something like a sprinkler upgrade for auto-watering. Nonetheless, I enjoyed most of my time spent with Potion Craft and if the fantasy appeals to you, I'd recommend you give it a try as well!

Look, maybe im just obsessed with potions and alchemy, but i've beaten this game twice and gotten every achievement. It's rly good, the potion crafting system is the best in any game i've ever played and i have played many games with various crafting systems, this one's the best

Amazing game. Had me completely hooked for 25 hours. Some games, when I finish them I'm glad for it to be over so I can move on to something else and it might have felt like a chore to see it through but this game was the opposite, I wanted more after I had "Completed it". I would love love some DLC or extra content but unfortunately that is very unlikely.. For the money it's an absolute bargain

This is the second time I've tried to play through this game. The first time I enjoyed it a lot but gave up quite early due to the grind in getting legendary recipes done. Now with the update 2, this game has been a much more enjoyable experience, and the new characters and seeds are great. The only thing I found weird is that I made the 'magnum opus' by about level 8, and so I feel like there's not much point in continuing. This is largely because most of the salts don't add any real value to the game and just add to the grind. Overall it's worth a go and is a relaxing bit of fun.

It starts out fun, but it gets boring very quickly. The mystical allure of potions is bogged down by the slow gameplay and the absolute tedium of the 'legendary recipes', some of which require you to make potions with up to 5 different effects on opposite sides of the maps. When the entire ordeal is completed, you get salts that don't enhance your gameplay much at all -- especially because by the time you've gotten the salt, you've already figured out a better way to do what it does with mundane ingredients or better technique. Good for a few hours. Not good for a full game experience.

Potion craft is a fun little merchant alchemist simulator game that is extremely easy to pick up and start enjoying. I played the game for 9 hours and I enjoyed pretty much all of it. I have yet to completely finish the game so I assume there is about 15 hours of content, which is not bad for the price. The game play loop is very simple but enjoyable. Customer asks for potion > make potion > sell potion and in the mean time discover new potions and manage your garden. It's a really chill game to play when you don't have much to do, but it's not really a mind-blowing experience either. It's really just a brain-off money go up game, which I happen to really enjoy. The main problem I had with this game however is the progression. I felt like at times I was progressing faster than the game intended me to so I was kinda left waiting for some quests to be completed, such as some "buy X quests" where I just have to wait for the merchant to show up. Essentially, after I unlocked all the potions I didn't really feel the need to keep going to grind max reputation or all the achievements. The positive definitely outweighs the negative though. I got my fun with the game and it was entirely worth it, but don't expect infinite content with this game. TL;DR : Fun brain-off alchemist simulator game with an enjoyable gameplay loop but sometimes slow progression. About 15 hours of content.