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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 6,703 reviews of which 6,067 were positive and 636 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
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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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Fun game. Very time consuming though due to how the UI plays. There are no means to quickly do things, you will spend a great deal making shopping lists/planning days. A curious thing, as you get better at the game, the events get longer. How this works is that dealing with customer dialog, which should have some sort of a speed/skip option, you will get more customers as you become better at the game, which means you will spend more time in dialog options. The characters are great and most all of them are interesting. I'd recommend the game if you want to sink a lot of time into something. It is fun, just wish doing things within the game didnt take so long.. looking at you brewing potions. There is no save/preset option, and there are hundreds of ingredients.
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TLDR: If you are one of the people who either bounced off the game due to a rough start, especially barely scrapping by or even being stuck by the first boss, or simply got scared away by reports of how tough this game was for people who just wanted a fun dating sim with gorgeous art and music... nows the time! The cozy mode has helped solve many, many difficulty issues that I would definitely encourage anyone to give this game a chance either again or for the first time. It really is worth it and the added voice acting was amazing and fit each character perfectly imo. This has definitely been one of my favorite games since its initial release. The game beyond being a really fun haggling card game mixed with potion brewing/resource management also just has beautiful art style, colorful characters and a world I'd love to see more of. The beautiful thing about it is how much of a full package it feels both in terms of the various gameplay mechanics as well as the entire presentation of it. I always felt like this game was like if Owl House and Pixar had a baby and created this colorful, magical witchy world as a result. Befriending the great cast of characters isn't just for romance or fun friendship scenes, but adds to your deck to help you haggle better or even discounts to make it easier to use their various services. It does really well on marrying a "dating/friendship" mechanic as well as resource/crafting management and haggling game that makes it feel like the story feeds back into the mechanics and vis versa. And more than that, it does a great job slowly adding more mechanics that help give you an edge to make it easier or can ignore if you're not ready on adding more to your plate. The biggest mechanical difference since the update is the new difficulty modes. The standard and new "Capitalism" game mode offers similar vibes as you often min-maxing your time more than anything as you have to carefully measure when you visit the town/befriend the various casts or when to make much needed cash by selling potions. If you like capitalizing on big profit days to sell, grinding and scrapping with both time usage and money as you work hard for a lucky big money break, then capitalism is great for you! I did still eventually get to a point of "I have more money than god!" but that was often because of my game knowledge of using every service available, and getting lucky. Even the final boss I got worried for a bit before I thankfully got VERY lucky with my draws which was a very nice change. The new "Cozy" mode however takes away one of the hardest aspects of Potionomics both for casuals and even more hardened potion sellers who want a break: Time. Not entirely, mind you, but you no longer spend any time ranking up your friendship with the characters or visiting the town. This saves sooo much time and allows you to freely take your time, go back and forth between town and your shop, and ONLY progresses time if you open up shop, hangout to destress/bump up your friendship with someone, or decide to end the day early. Further, it makes some other aspects like I believe bosses are easier AND you make a LOT more potions per batch than usual. All of this letting you more easily feel more rewarded for every batch you brew and give people time to just enjoy the gorgeous art, story, animations, and one of the coolest additions they added: Voice Acting! This game is so beautiful and playing through with the new voice actors really added extra spark to the already amazing and colorful animations and fun dialogue already in the game. The only "bad" parts I would say is some filter systems could be nice, especially on the normal/harder difficulties as you start to get an obscene amount of ingredients/potions while in the brewing section, but honestly for the casual side? This is the perfect time to jump in. If this game has always drawn you in because of the dating sim elements or just how beautiful it is, Cozy mode is just right for you.
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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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I bought this game around its release date in 2022 and back then it was already a charming little management game about making potions. I did feel like the time system was quite harsh and limited exploring and making acquaintances in the game quite a lot. WELL, now there has been a major update that introduced a cozy mode that makes traveling not cost time and also some other neat features! I'm especially liking the new voice overs for the characters! The game also has an endless mode now after completing the main story, which was a very requested feature before the new update. Overall, I'm enjoying coming back to this game. It's a charming mix of resource management and relationship building! Thumbs up!
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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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Potionomics is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
Potionomics is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Potionomics received 6,067 positive votes out of a total of 6,703 achieving a rating of 8.77.
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Potionomics was developed by Voracious Games and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA and Inc..
Potionomics is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Potionomics is not playable on MacOS.
Potionomics is not playable on Linux.
Potionomics is a single-player game.
There are 3 DLCs available for Potionomics. Explore additional content available for Potionomics on Steam.
Potionomics does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Potionomics does not support Steam Remote Play.
Potionomics 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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Online players
60
Developer
Voracious Games
Publisher
XSEED Games,
Marvelous USA, Inc.
Release
17 Oct 2022
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