Potionomics
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Potionomics is a deckbuilding, dating sim and capitalism game
developed by Voracious Games
and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA and Inc..
Released on October 17th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 6,206 reviews of which 5,614 were positive and 592 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam and has a 20% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 650 Ti or AMD HD 7850
- Storage: 7 GB available space
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The newest update to Potionomics absolutely changed the game for me (literally and figuratively). I played this game a fair bit around the time it first came out but fell off of it because I felt some of the elements were a little too punishing and I got bored. After watching a review video a few months back, I decided to give the game another chance, this time on Steamdeck, but found it unplayable. Since having a baby, I can really only get game time in on my Steamdeck, so if it's not Steamdeck playable then I straight up can't play it. So imagine my surprise when I saw that the new update not only brought a Cozy mode (and limitless romance options!) but also full controller support -- including Steamdeck verification!!! I tried it out and it plays AMAZING! Not just that, but the full voice cast that was added is well-performed and adds a layer of richness that was lacking from the game before. All the jokes really land now and the characters are even more endearing (Mint, my heart!) If you're like me and fell off of this game in the past, now is the perfect time to pick it back up. And it is SUCH a perfect Steamdeck game! Excellent for snuggling up on the couch in front of the fire -- or a fireplace video on your TV haha
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Love the game so much! Just wish the potion brewing aspect wasn't so tedious. The fact that I valiantly stuck it out for the whole game, despite being an avid hater of all things math and percentages, is proof that I loved it. There is definitely replayability, because after playing through once, I want to go back and level up my friendships/cards earlier on. But the need to do all that potion brewing over again is a bit of a deterrent. Devs--could you consider adding a "ready made" potion option? So that if you craft a potion once and make a recipe, you can autofill the cauldron with those same ingredients again whenever you need that particular potion type. Also, could you add a filter button to the brewing menu for potions? I found that I have to keep going back to the "Arrange Potions" screen to check how many of each potion I have in stock/what I need to brew. And it was tedious to look for all the potions I wanted to put in an aging barrel because there's no quick way to sift through...
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Literally just finished the game about ten minutes ago, and I enjoyed every aspect of it without reservation, except for one utterly baffling decision. I was completely caught off guard by the fact the game just ends after the last competition, instead of letting you continue playing without any time limits after you've completed your goals. The game has a wonderful gameplay loop and the way each elements affects the others is great, and I expected to be able to continue playing and developing my shop and the relationships with other characters after the main story concluded, so when I was just booted back to the main menu and realized that wasn't possible I was actually really annoyed. I had specifically left much of the content for later as I believed I could just do it after finishing the story, so the fact you're not even given a warning that there's a hard time limit to get everything done is unfortunate. I didn't get around half the cards, I had none of the relationships fully developed, my shop was still unfinished, and there were areas of the game I had never sent any of the adventurers to. I literally feel like I missed at least a third or even a half of the game because I wasn't aware there was a hard time limit on getting everything done. I still recommend the game overall, but it comes with a pretty significant caveat. Not being able to continue playing after the story genuinely soured my experience a bit, and was almost enough for me to not give an overall positive review. Potionomics is a great game, it just comes with one massive flaw.
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Okay - yes, but also no. The gameplay is fun and I thoroughly enjoyed the mechanics of it all. My BIGGEST complaint is that I want there to be a sandbox "chill and make potions" mode. With the daily threat of "you're going to lose and end up living in a box", I always feel like I don't have time to talk to people or dig into some of the more interesting features of the game for fear of blowing all my time and then being unable to complete the weekly quests (which results in an instant "you lose, game over").
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100% completion, pirated it a year ago and now I've bought the game on Steam. The fact that I beat Potionomics twice tells you how much I love this game. I highly recommend against coming into this game expecting a dating sim. Where dating simulators are usually trivial in difficulty and sparse in gameplay, and where all the love for the game is put into character relationships alone, Potionomics stands out in also having an addictive and well-tuned gameplay loop that actually challenges the player. This is, first and foremost, a simulator of a witch fresh out of university with a Bachelor's in potion-making being flung into a million-dollar debt, so expect your time with the game to be less than smooth-sailing. Highlights: [*] The art is gorgeous, all of it. It genuinely surprises me that this level of quality came out of a studio's first game. The 2D sprites: The card art, GUIs, backgrounds of scenes, potions and their ingredients. The 3D sprites: Chiefly the 12 fully-modeled and detailed bodies of the friends you'll meet, and the 5 antagonists who have just-as-pleasing designs despite their screentime. The music: By far my favourite part of this game, with perfectly-fitting songs that sound like cotton candy to the ears, being so diverse in discography but expertly relaying the aesthetic of each moment. I've added several of the game's tracks to my playlist at this point. [*] The gameplay loop feels psychologically engineered to be as satisfying as possible. It's a holy trinity: [*] The slow and calculative but scrappy process of making a potion, sometimes requiring a calculator to figure out the best combination of the ingredients currently at your disposal. Followed by the exhilarating task of selling the potion, which keeps the player toeing the line between low stress and high profits, leading to very rewarding sales at the expense of sustained damage (high stress). Then followed by the relaxing process of running daily errands to Sylvia's business partners and friends, taking a breather and hanging out with them. All tied up within a time-management mechanic that keeps the player vigilant and dissuades simply turning off one's brain when not chatting with characters [*] This gameplay loop ensures the player does not burn out or get bored of the game, always juggling activities and never overstaying its welcome [*] The love interests are all grounded and have realistic flaws that make them so human and relatable, it's impossible to choose any one partner as all of them are charming in their own way [*]Oh also they're queer, and one of them is even enby! [*]The worldbuilding is fun and unique, and is very polished. Rafta, the island and setting of the game, is explored by characters in such a riveting show-don't-tell manner that gives the island its own identity that you're encouraged to interpret your own way Lowlights: You'll notice that all the complaints are regarding gameplay. [*]This game is, ironically, not at all suited for its perceived target audience; Dating sim players. As someone who got into this game for its deck-building and not the relationships, I found the experience incredibly fun. The juxtaposition between the stressful gameplay and the relaxed relationship building was what kept me from ever feeling even the slightest tinge of dullness, but I know that's not what a lot of people want. Every 10 days is a competition against the arc's main antagonist, and unlike other Stardew- or Animal Crossing-likes, this is mandatory. Failure means you lose , and you can either redo the fight or send yourself back to a past save, but you cannot progress. Again, this is a debt simulator first. [*]As a consequence of this, the game panders to no one with its difficulty. While there is a low skill floor and high skill ceiling in haggling for good prices on potions, which is good, competitions are in an awkward place where dating sim players are crushed by how hard bosses are, whereas deckbuilding players find competitions too easy to be notable. This could easily have been solved with difficulty settings, which this game desperately needs considering the sheer disparity between its audiences. [*]This is devastating: There is no endgame. Once you beat the fifth and final competition on Day 50, the game is over. If you hadn't completed all of the characters' relationships, whoopsie! Guess all you can do is go back to a save you made 20 hours ago to more rigorously gift your friends. Want to keep making money, test your deck's upper limit? Nope, best you can do is the final fight that you sweep without even having to haggle anyway. Want to max out your potion-making pots and barrels? Nah, should've done that before the competition. If I were to rate this game out of 10, this fact alone would knock the score down 1 point. The reviews here are very mixed, so I would recommend buying Potionomics and trying it yourself for about an hour. I am certain that you'll find the artwork and audio to your tastes, but its gameplay is admittedly an acquired taste. If you don't enjoy the gameplay loop then refund it, but if you do, you're about to have one of the best and most novel dating sim and card game experiences. For this to be Voracious Games' first work is mindblowing, and I cannot wait to see what other works they have planned.
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Online players
264
Developer
Voracious Games
Publisher
XSEED Games,
Marvelous USA, Inc.
Release
17 Oct 2022
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