Potion Permit
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 21.3h
- Value
- $0.94/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250, 1 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 2 GB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was September 2026. 36 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Travellers Rest ($17.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 239 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
98% start to 3% 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
What players say
Reminds me of a lot of the farming sims, but without any farming. Basic loop consists of gathering materials, killing monsters, curing patients, saving resources to unlock new areas and upgrades, and improving relationships through NPC quest completion. The game does a lot of things well. The graphics are really nice. The loop is fine. There is a lot to do and a lot of story to tell while completing quests for NPCs...
7.5/10 - Many good things, not quite great, and some missed potential Let's go through everything, starting with the good. Graphics. (Great) Personally, I love the art style and all the assets are well made. The NPCs. (Good) The town feels alive. NPCs have their own routines where they move around town for work, food or leisure. Those routines aren't the same every day, and if they get sick, they're missing from...
So I had to withhold my review a little bit in the hold out hope that a little more gameplay would change my mind of the game, but that hope was snuffed out as I completed the first arc of the game and unlocked the friendships of more characters. This will be more a critique that I am hoping the developer will take notice and hopefully update to create a more meaningful game, but as it stands this version in 1.5...
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Cite this score
Potion Permit scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1337760/potion-permitReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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