Royal Alchemist on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! An Otome / BxB survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.

Royal Alchemist is a rpg, strategy and visual novel game developed by Nifty Visuals and published by Nifty Productions.
Released on April 30th 2020 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 300 reviews of which 284 were positive and 16 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 10.91€ on Steam and has a 35% discount.

The Steam community has classified Royal Alchemist into these genres:

RPG Strategy Visual Novel Otome Simulation LGBTQ+ Dating Sim Anime Romance Choices Matter Female Protagonist Fantasy Magic Multiple Endings Singleplayer Adventure Politics Crowdfunded Indie

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP System Pack 1
Processor: 1GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
Storage: 700 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.6+
Processor: 1GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
Storage: 700 MB available space

Linux

OS: Linux x86/x86_64
Processor: 1GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
Storage: 700 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Quick summary: I really enjoyed this visual novel and especially the characters, but only because there is a fantastic steam guide for it. Positives: + The characters are fantastic. I enjoyed the day-to-day interactions with them even more than the main story. + The worldbuilding is a great combination of a magical world and palace politics. The magic system is simple enough to understand, but still offers a lot of depth and possible combinations. There are also mentions of other kingdoms and visiting ambassadors, so it doesn't feel like the world is reduced to the palace. + The player character has enough personality to make them likeable, but also leaves enough room to shape them a bit. + The game features a lot of artworks. The chibi mission arts are really cute! + Good replayability. The story focuses on the prince you choose and mainly revolves around him. So each of the three story arcs feels really distinct and offers a lot of new scenes. Of course, there are some repeats regarding the main story, but besides that everything else is different. Mixed feelings: o The pacing of the story. It spends the first third of the story building a mystery and intrigue, but then just forgets about that from time to time. Like, in the first weeks you have this big, dramatic scene escaping from assassins and in the next scene everyone acts like nothing happened and you just go out to town and have tea parties until the next thing happens weeks later. The threat didn't build up constantly, but felt very sporadic. You really felt the difference between main-story-danger-weeks and the ~10 weeks of downtime in between. o The resolution of the story. There are two main mysteries to unveil in the story and while I think one of them has a great setup and resolution, the other one kinda came out of nowhere. I initially thought maybe that's because I chose the wrong route, but none of the three really set the twist up. To be fair, that gave it a really good shock factor. But I wished it would have been set up a bit more. Negatives: - I think the stat raising aspect is an interesting idea, BUT it's way too unpredictable. You just have to trial-and-error your way through the stats, which I found quite frustrating sometimes. In games like this, I want my story choices to matter, so I tend to play with only one save file. But that's pure suicide in this game. I can live with dying because I trusted the wrong person or made a wrong decision. That's on me. But it's really frustrating to die/not being able to finish missions because the water/darkness-magic guy isn't good enough at light magic in week 40. Like, how was I supposed to know that would become relevant? - The whole point of the player character is to be a neutral party in the palace. Which makes a lot of sense in-universe, but it causes the story to lack personal stakes. They aren't involved in any of the politics or palace intrigues. They are just reacting to everything happening around them with no own goals besides teaching the princes magic and not dying. - There are a lot of minor characters, who don't have character art and just get represented with black shapes. I understand why it is this way, but it still feels kinda weird to talk to 3 shadow entities for an entire scene. - There is no voice acting. To be fair, a lot of visual novels don't have voice acting, but the player character even has speaking animations, so it feels like it was supposed to be there. Using a guide, I'd give this game 8/10. I have my nitpicks, but definitely had a lot of fun with it and binged through a majority of the story. The characters are lovely and the world feels developed enough for me to start the spin-off/sequel afterwards.

Dec. 2024

Got my first death within about 30 minutes. Then got my first ending about 10 hours in. It's a fun game and the story is super interesting. I'm looking forward to exploring more storylines!

Sept. 2024

I'd say the best part of the Royal Alchemist are likeable characters, their interactions with the MC and the overall atmosphere. The MC is well-developed and amiable, which is definetely a huge pro for me. The story is interesting, with a few twists that I have not expected. The core gameplay mechanic of classes and points can get a bit tedious considering its randomness. Personally, I've encountered a few situations when I had to load previous saves. There's also a bug with the protector achievement, as it is obtained not when it is supposed to. Overall, the Royal Alchemist is worth recommending, especially, if you like me, long for more fantasy visual novels where you can choose to play as the LGBT+ character.

Sept. 2024

What I like is the story and the different routes that I can take. I like that it's challenging and that I have to think. Some things i'm not quite happy with are the lack of pictures in the gallery. This is what I play for, those gallery pics lol. But the game is very fun although I played royal order before this one so the art style is somewhat of a setback but still wonderful. Overall, I would love to have some more games like this, like maybe the royal lady in waiting lol. Kidding, but I genuinely enjoy these games a great deal. Thanks

July 2024

came for the cute princes and stayed for the absolutely riveting plot and fun little mechanics of the game. even as a normally sore loser but i didnt mind dying, saving, reloading, and replaying just to experience new bits and bobs of the world and characters. the story's extremely well-written and hit a lot of good beats, funny and bittersweet and everything in between. pat on the back for the developers; yall the real ones

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-35% 16.79€ 10.91€

8.7

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Developer

Nifty Visuals

Publisher

Nifty Productions

Release 30 Apr 2020

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