Potion Craft Alchemist Simulator

Potion Craft is built on the conceit that brewing should be a physical act rather than a recipe selection. You grind leaves, flowers, roots and mushrooms with a mortar and pestle, drop them into the cauldron, stir with the spoon, heat the coals, and watch your potion's path crawl across an Alchemy Map of intersecting effects.

The visuals are illustrated in the woodcut style of medieval medical manuals — single-color line work that makes the whole shop look like a page from a dusty grimoire. Outside the lab, customers walk in with problems, and your decisions about which potions to sell shape your reputation across guilds and townsfolk. Sell poison to a noble's rival and the consequences land later in the game.

Ingredients come from traveling merchants, foraging trips, or your own enchanted garden, with haggling and crop management as supporting systems. You can customize each potion's bottle shape, label and name to give the shop its own visual identity. niceplay games' studio worked on it as their first major release, and the careful tactility of the brewing loop is what carries it.