Posted on: May 12, 2023

FeliGabiLecchini
Verified ownerGames: 30 Reviews: 9
Release version sucks, demo was better.
If I said it once, I said it a hundred times...STOP USING UNITY ENGINE FOR RELEASE VERSIONS OF A GAME !!!!!!!!!!! Unity is great to test your game design ideas but TERRIBLE for releasing a game. The Unity Engine takes WAY TOO MUCH RESOURCES to play any game at all. Potion Craft is cute, fresh and fun game idea but it runs super hot on my gaming laptop (75 Celsius) and it runs at 65 on my PC rig. Potion Craft is exclusively a 2D pre-rendered sprites game and it takes several minutes to load the main menu screen, it struggles to load several game variables in the background and at some point I saw a graphics glitch at the top of the screen (and yes, I have the latest drivers installed, Titan RTX 3090, blah blah blah). But enough of technical issues. Let's go to the game play. The demo was better than this release version and here are the reasons: 1) They changed the alchemy map for the worst. It's way too convoluted now with lots of intricacies. 2) Most potions now have rotations. A welcoming feature that adds complexity and challenge...BUT... you need alchemy salts to rotate potions and those salts are so expensive that adding just enough to give the potion its level 3 status you already screw the potion's profitability. 3) Some customers will give you absolutely no damn clue about what potion they want ! I think there are 3 or 4 dudes that always come to my store and I threw every potion I had in stock and they leave furious and ranting. 4) Crystals are a new and awesome ingredient but again...SUPER EXPENSIVE to buy. No fun at all. 5) Like some other games, money becomes useless in the long run. You don't have every day expenses like food, clothing, rent or taxes. You only make and make money like the Federal Reserve printer. Not fun at all. 6) The recipe book with its new tags is a MESS ! After writing down 20 or 25 recipes your book will look like a confusing pile of garbage rather than an alchemy book.
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