Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
BANGER · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 18.2h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 670 / Radeon HD 7970, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in June 2025. It has been discounted 51 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $7.99 at 60 percent off still sits 60 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 82. The current cut is what makes it a 89.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DAVE THE DIVER ($19.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Lemon Cake ($14.99, scores 65).
The math says it holds its tier up to $17.18, and you are being asked for $7.99.
17 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 3,025 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
It came out 4 years ago and 941 were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
74% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
941 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's a good game to turn your brain off and make potions. The art is beautiful and the dialogue of some notable npc is lively. But once you reach the middle mark of the game and start working towards the salts and the crystals, the repetitive gameplay slowly creeps on you. But for that I suggest taking breaks between sessions.
Overall I do recommend this game. It is engaging and unique, and I absolutely love the art design that was chosen. It is fun to try to piece together the map/potion recipes. It does, however, get somewhat repetitive as far as the dialog/customer issues. Also, I wish there were more tips or hints offered. Nonetheless, Potion Craft is a fun, cozy little game that is easy to get lost in!
super chill game. I've never finished it but just playing for a couple weeks every now and then is nice :3
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1210320/potion-craft-alchemist-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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