Potion Tycoon Reviews

I'm still trying to get the hang of this one. But I see a lot of potential. If you're not scared off by a learning curve and like a challenge, I think you'd have fun with this one!

In an effort to play games already in my library, I finished Potion Tycoon this last week and after seeing the amount of negative reviews, I've gotta throw my two cents in here, too. As of right now, only 2% of players have the "Finished Game on Normal Difficulty" achievement, which really surprised me. It's not /that/ difficult of a game. I had some trouble with the early game difficulty curve (Pro-tip: establish a revenue source before expanding operations), but after a handful of restarts, it only took me about 25-ish hours to finish. I would say that going into this game you need to know that it's much more of a Store Manager game than it is a Potion Making game, and that's fine. There's other Potion Making games out there, and I'm sure they're able to scratch that itch. I found minimal bugs, if any. Nothing a reset couldn't fix. Overall, it was a largely positive experience, and whether you get it on sale or full price is up to your financial situation, but You could probably get about 2 good full game runs in before the gameplay gets really stale.

Loving this game a lot, hilariously addictive. Unique game play that I didn't have from other games. Endless replay value. The art and music matches the game. 10/10 would recommend!

[h1]Cheap or premium?[/h1] Once you play any tycoon game, you knew that the main strategy is either go cheap and selling it for a mass volume, or either do the best premium product in the world and sell for a hefty price. This is also true for the "Potion Tycoon", in this game, you build a place for potion production, selling area, and staff only zone from nothing. Literally from nothing, you choose how big the room is, where the stair go, even how many floor you want. But this is not just for cosmetic, it is a small logistic puzzle you need to deal with, because without a good layout, your staff can be tired from walking, which lead to more sleeping time and less productivity. But the layout also effect your customer too, if they walk in a long hall, or climb up the stair, they can get tired faster and just leave the store before reaching the product they want to buy. So, the building your base part is already fun on it own. Creating a new product is also a challenge, you choose which ingredient to use, and what process you need. The more process you did, the more control you have to create better product, but there are too many process, your potion will take much more time to produce one. There only thing that I want to complain is that the events for the main story line is randomly show up, there are four endings that can happen, and I try to save and reload before choosing which route I want to complete. I finish three route with this method, but somehow the fourth route event never show up, I run the game for hours and it still not happening, and I don't know why. Since, there is an achievement to finish the game is another starting location anyway, so I start the new game with a little bit concern, but this time I only go for fourth ending straight. Luckily it work. The game was fun and fast, took me like 50 hours to finish all achievement, I love that they have x16 speed option, it run very fast and no lagging, that's crazy.

Could use a slightly chiller, simpler tutorial mode. It through a TON of mechanics at me in a short amount of time, and it felt like even on easy mode I was a little overwhelmed before I got the hang of the basics of potion crafting. I'm sure its someone's cup of tea though! Has a variety of deep mechanics, and seems very thorough in terms of a business simulator!