![]() A bit of healthy haggling is similarly worth engaging in, although this particular aspect of the project more or less just comes down to a simplistic mini-game where you have to press buttons at the right time. Meeting their demands will yield a higher selling price and bolster your reputation… or tank it, in case you sell potions to shady customers. At first, this is a simple enough matter, but later on, customers will have specific demands: some will only want the strongest of your potions, others will specify which ingredient you should or shouldn’t use, and so on. Keep in mind that you do also have a business to run, which means interacting with customers every day and brewing exactly the kind of potion they want depending on their needs – this is something you’ll generally have to figure out for yourself based on your conversations with them. Trust me, you really do have to be pixel perfect with it, but when you do finally make your first “strong” potion, it feels pretty satisfying. ![]() With all this in mind, you can probably understand why reaching certain effects, let alone creating the strongest version of said effect can be a challenging yet also quite fascinating task navigating the map in various ways by adding this or that ingredient, then carefully mapping out a course in order to get the desired result isn’t always as easy as it may seem (a bit of stirring here, a splash of added water there), especially if you’re going for the highest quality potion. There are, of course, obstacles along the way as well: for instance, literal death zones represented by bones and skulls that, when touched, will rapidly ruin your potion and make you start over from the beginning. ![]() Some ingredients send you in a spiral pattern, others go criss-crossing across the map, and again others take wild, sharp turns to try and make your job even more difficult it’s up to you to find the right combinations in order to create a long and complex route that lets you snatch up a great number of bonuses and extra effects on your path. Here’s where things get interesting: depending on the ingredients you combine and toss into your brewing pot, the pathways you map out will be wildly different. That said, the majority of your time will be focused on the alchemical map, a metaphorical map that you can, and indeed should, explore by mixing different ingredients. Every aspect of your alchemistic career – that is, potion brewing, haggling, ingredient gathering and so on – is shown through separate windows that you can easily hop between with the click of a button, and it’s generally up to you to decide how to spend each day before deciding to hit the sack. PotionCraft goes fairly minimalistic with its interface, opting for a cleaner, somewhat medieval-style UI and menu system instead of something flashy or colorful. All in all, it’s a fun time – for a while.īut let’s start with the basics. For now, let me just say that developer niceplay games’ project is a sufficiently chill alchemist simulator that lets you take it easy and experiment, all the while providing potion brewing mechanics that are easy to learn but can be hard to master. Have you ever wanted to manage your own potion shop? Actually, I’ll go a step further: have you ever wanted to brew and sell your own potions? If the answer is yes, you’ll be happy to hear that Potion Craft is a game all about doing everything I’ve just described – though not without some caveats. ![]()
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