Potionomics
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 21h
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($14.99)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 650 Ti or AMD HD 7850, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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 $14.99. That was March 2025. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 4 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Luck be a Landlord ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats 无休仙途 ($5.99, scores 29).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 21-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 338 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 21 hours; clearing it takes 43, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
98% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
48 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 18:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game does a great job of interconnecting every system that's a part of it. Story is well written if basic, but it can absolutely get addicting to play. If you think you enjoy potion making, and being able to actually use the potions you make, this game is really great at that. If you think the characters look cute, then the game is also great for that! Highly recommend, 8/10 That is my review! Everything below...
A beautiful little game that is made with love, care and compassion. It's a little breath of fresh air and I'm having a lot of fun with it!
I think this is the most underrated game i ever, this game has probably the best economy ever, mixed woth banger themes and such well written characters. This is an all in one package.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Potionomics scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1874490/potionomicsReviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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