Posted on: October 12, 2025
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Stylish puzzle game
This is a puzzle game wherein you use ingredients as the "directions" and "steps" to explore and traverse the alchemy "map", for brewing your potions. You will need to avoid obstacles, lest your brewing attempt fail. Each ingredient represents a different, sometimes quite wild movement pattern. On top of that, grinding the ingredients up, diluting the potion, using special abilities from salts etc. are all ways to manipulate how you move. There are three "maps" to explore, each with slightly different rules to learn. To get ingredients, you need to either grow them in your garden (requiring the proper seeds first) or buy the more exotic ones from traders, until you can get the respective seed; expanding the ways you can move on the "maps" is a major aspect of progression, along with exploring them. You can buy ingredients, seeds, and other things from specialist traders, who will only show up every couple of days, though, so some patience is required: It was rather annoying when I thought I had everything I needed to progress, only to have to wait for a specific trader to show up to expand my garden or buy a missing recipe. Another big part of the game is selling the potions, of course. A set number of customers appear each day and ask about getting a potion for a need they have. You offer them a potion that will fit their need, although a lot of the times there is more than one correct answer. This gets more complicated, as they start requiring more difficult potion effects (which you may not have discovered yet), combinations of effects, or when they want/hate a specific ingredient, and similar demands. Most customers are seemingly randomized, while a few are individuals with their own sprite and short story-line, who will show up repeatedly over the course of the game. Along the way, you will need to brew some very complex recipes, which you can save for mass production, assuming you have the space for the recipes in your recipe book: This book is essential for fulfilling your customers' needs, since it will allow you to repeatedly mass-produce potions that you already mastered. The game is technically endless, but there is a long quest-line which guides your progression, and which was my main motivation for playing. Near the end of the quest-line, this can get quite grindy, though: After brewing the final, quite complex recipe of the quest-line, I still had to spend a few days serving customers, just to increase my popularity enough to finish the final quest: What an anti-climax. The graphical style of the game is lovely and the variety of ingredients is staggering. The music fits very well, but the small number of tracks can get rather grating. There are some silly references to other games and a number of jokes, but they don't pop up too often. Sadly, the game crashed repeatedly for me. There is an auto-save at the start of every day, but since each day can be very, very long, I strongly recommend saving manually quite often, to avoid losing progress. Overall, a very stylish, cute puzzle game. The mixed-in mini-games - like haggling, tending your garden, decorating your house etc. - work well to vary things up. It does get a bit monotonous towards the end, though.
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