Potions: A Curious Tale
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.6h 12.5h to 100%
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 391 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.26 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Potions: A Curious Tale is an adventure & crafting game where wit is your greatest weapon and combat is not always the answer. Play as Luna, a young witch who overcomes obstacles with the potions she brews, as she gathers items from enchanted lands and conquers devious puzzles on her quest.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 5 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter ($9.99, scores 52).
More about Potions: A Curious Tale
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.6 hours; clearing it takes 13, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
93% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Potions: A Curious Tale is a fantasy adventure game developed and published by Stumbling Cat that combines potion crafting, exploration, puzzle-solving, and light combat into a charming and highly creative experience. Instead of focusing primarily on swordplay or traditional RPG combat systems, the game builds its entire identity around magical experimentation and clever problem-solving. This approach gives the...
2 more reviews
A fun little Game. It has a few bugs and hiccups here and there. I finished it to 100% it is great for a something in between when there is not much to do, but it also makes you stuck in this cozy story filled with known characters and new ones!
Nice little indie game, reminds me of those old flash games. Just as a note: The developer is still active on discord and even has put out free additional content lately.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Potions: A Curious Tale scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/378690/potions-a-curious-taleReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.