Potion Craft
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and…
Potion Craft is an indie developed by niceplay games, released 13 December 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $7.99 at WinGameStore. The main story takes about 20.5 hrs to finish.
What Potion Craft is
Potion Craft is an indie game developed by niceplay games and released in 2022. It was published by tinyBuild. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Potion Craft is a video game created by Russian independent developer niceplay games and published by tinyBuild in 2022. Described as an "atmospheric management simulator set in a medieval fantasy world", Potion Craft is a management simulation game in which players operate a store producing and selling potions using alchemical ingredients. Upon release, Potion Craft received praise from critics for its novel and intuitive crafting mechanics, and was nominated for several awards at the 2023 Independent Games Festival.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 29 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Potion Craft holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 58 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 29 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $7.99, that works out to about $0.39 per hour of the main story, or $0.28 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3-6100 or equivalent, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 670 / Radeon HD 7970. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $7.99 at WinGameStore, 60% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Potion Craft launched on 13 December 2022, within three weeks of Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight and High on Life. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, High on Life.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Potion Craft yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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