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Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.
Potion Permit is a singleplayer, colorful and jrpg game
developed by MassHive Media
and published by PQube.
Released on September 22nd 2022 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 4,703 reviews of which 3,759 were positive and 944 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.11€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified Potion Permit into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD Phenom II X4 965
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250, 1 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 2 GB
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS Sierra: 10.12
- Processor: Dual Core 1.4 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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Pros: -Cozy and accessible -Lots of fun minigames -Very cute pixel art design -Lovely premise Cons: -It feels unfinished, amateurish, and a bit rushed. -Every patch update seems to be just a mountain of bug fixes, instead of actual content. -The game has been out for three years and it looks like the only game content added is additional storylines. - A lot of stuff in the game plateaus super quickly, it feels like they intended to add more and forgot, especially in leveling up the dog. - Normally sprucing up the town and individual businesses is exciting and fun, but in this case it's...really underwhelming. The color palette doesnt help either, it makes everything look really run down and tired. - I got top score on the arcade games on the first try. It was kind of a bummer to not have anything to work towards in there anymore. - My biggest pet peeve: What is the point of the food? Why does 90% of the food do like...a tiny sliver of SP, and then Root Beer does a lot? There doesn't seem to be any incentive in learning how to cook. I can't even sell the ingredients. I can't use them in potions. But cooking them seems pointless and clutters my inventory more, when I can just go buy Root Beer. All in all, it was an okay game, but it felt like they gave up on it.
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3/5 Stars Romance lite, friendship and story focused, a little bit of grind, fun potion mechanic. Overall, a good game. I found it to be fun and cozy, just wishing there was more to it. Liked: *Friendship events, the events around town and regarding each character story makes the town feel more alive! Love this feature. *Only 3 friendship bars before max *Moonclove as a standard gift for everyone. Takes away stress of tracking loved items and keeps me from having to give up valuable materials as gifts. *Potion mechanic was interesting and well done! Like that I could set my own recipes after crafting a few times. *Sign post teleportation was really convenient! Want to see in the future: *More clothing options *Marriage option *Unique relationship dialogue and interactions (hug, kiss, hand hold, etc.) *Seasons with seasonal foraging items and fish *Seasonal events or festivals to participate in *Townsfolk/PC Birthdays *A mount or a way to move faster
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I have relatively mixed feelings about this game. TLDR: If you like cozy games and you aren't looking for anything too new and innovative, it's a good game. If you're looking for something new or a little more interesting, I would say skip. If I had to give it a score, I'd say a 3/5, maybe even 2.5. The potion mixing aspect was fun, and even the material gathering was quite fun. The monsters are not too hard or too easy to fight. I do feel that the tool progression doesn't feel as good as I would like it to... When I chop down a more tough tree and then get a better to tool to improve chopping, it doesn't feel like it helps much. It's just not as satisfying getting a new tool. I think the point of the final tool is that it's a god tool. It just doesn't feel like that. A bit spoilery: The story is some what interesting at the beginning, I think I had anticipated a more dark ending and that Mateo had done something wrong to the community. It kept me interested for a moment, but then it kind of fell off with the ending. I think the character stories are pretty bland as well. They just... talk so much... and there are so many characters... I think the problem is that the market for cozy games has been so oversaturated and this is just another cozy game that doesn't really provide anything outsanding. Combined with the fact that I think I just had too high of hopes for this game due to all the hype on tiktok. In conclusion, I think it's a fine game. I can definitely see the heart that went into it. I think that maybe more content would improve it. The game play loop is fine and the story is fine. Overall, just a fine game -- as I've said. I'm gonna say reccomend because I think most people interested in this type of game will enjoy it.. I think the odd exception may find it boring.
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Okay, so... If you're in any way interested in an actual alchemist/chemist simulation game where you can deduce what ails the inhabitants of a small town, discover the effects of many ingredients and gather them from different biomes... Then you'll have to look elsewhere. Potion Permit is a busywork simulation game covered in a coat of fantasy alchemy, but the potion making and the patient treatment parts of it, both halves of what makes the premise of the game, are dealt with through completely unrelated minigames. Sure, I do like the potion making puzzle, but if I can craft the same potion using totally different ingredients, then what's the point? If the patient's sickness is told to me, instead of giving me the chance of reaching a diagnosis, then what's the point? At the very least, you can go out and gather ingredients. You'll notice that I still recommend this game, mainly because I did read other reviews and I knew what I was getting into. I DO enjoy the gameplay loop that Potion Permit offers , I'm getting what I wanted from it now that I know what to expect, but the game DOES fail on keeping its promise and delivering its premise . I like having my dog follow me around, petting him and feeding him daily, it's super cute, and I like most of the cast. Because there's no friendship decay, I can talk to them whenever I feel like that, spacing out the dialogue so it doesn't feel repetitive. I also got the game on discount, but it would be an absolute no-no full price. I love the bespoke animations and the NPC side plots, like the detective Russo one, and the nasty eye that the super handsome with doctor gives me whenever I give him a gift and when I found his notebook. I also appreciate that the town is not friendly to the protagonist at the start. On that, the game does deliver. The mayor, looking to cure his daughter, went against the town wishes, and I wish that the town also turned against him and we both had to work together: me, to gain their trust, him, to regain it. As such, it would have been ideal to have that premise translate into the game in the following manner: have the mayor and his wife already be friendly to you, not starting from zero like the rest of the NPCs. Potion Permit's main draws could work with a little tweaking - make a couple of NPCs allergic to some of the ingredients, that way you have to put some thought into what goes in your potions besides filling up empty spaces with whatever shape fits them. Don't reveal a patient's condition outright, instead give us a list of symptoms and let us choose which potion or combination of ingredients works best for that. Use the minigames to reveal the symptoms, the better you do at them, the more symptoms are revealed to you. So, on a discount? Sure! 100% yes! Come get your cute AF ye olde fantasy small town busywork sim with cute NPCs, beautiful artwork, enchanting music, dog companion game. Come gather flowers and fight monsters, fish some fish, play arcade games and romance a grumpy witch doctor (or the undertaker, or the pirate queen). I AM having a good time, it does feel cozy, but mindless. There's a lot of grind until you upgrade at least both the axe and your mallet, but gathering materials gets super fast (in comparison) after that. But there's little customization and almost no decorations. Don't come here for that. Also, no divergent story paths. This is no farming or business managing sim, so don't come here for that. If you want actual deduction games, try Mystia's Izayaka (you actually have to deduce what the best dish and drink combo is for your special guests), and Strange Horticulture (a horticultural focused lovecraftian plant identification game, no time limits, very replayable thanks to different choices), both 10/10 experiences. for more reviews of games that are cute and cozy, that are creepy and have some crawlies (or both!) consider checking my curator page out: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44079361/
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Fairly small and short game. The characters don't interest me much (I think the most interesting characters I find were Dan/Dev). It lacks dialogue variation for the NPCs and character customization. There's barely any challenge in the game (both in combat and treating patients) so it can get pretty boring/repetitive. If you're a completionist you may end up spending most of your time post-game collecting resources (trees, rocks, plants, enemies). It was ok :) Maybe buy it on sale
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Frequently Asked Questions
Potion Permit is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Potion Permit is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Potion Permit received 3,759 positive votes out of a total of 4,703 achieving a rating of 7.76.
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Potion Permit was developed by MassHive Media and published by PQube.
Potion Permit is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Potion Permit is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Potion Permit is not playable on Linux.
Potion Permit is a single-player game.
There are 31 DLCs available for Potion Permit. Explore additional content available for Potion Permit on Steam.
Potion Permit does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Potion Permit does not support Steam Remote Play.
Potion Permit is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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