Alchemy Garden
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 10h 22.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.70/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 1,074 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
Craft magic potions and sell them in your own alchemy shop! Explore the world and harvest plants to discover new recipes! Take care of your own garden of alchemy and decorate the shop as you like!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, ATI 5770, Nvidia GeForce GTX 460, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 70 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Ropuka's Idle Island ($3.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
More about Alchemy Garden
Of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10 hours. Doing everything runs 23, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
43% 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
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2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
So, the game is adorable and fun! It was all I had the energy for during some really rough days lately. I've found a bug or two but nothing game breaking or frustration causing. If anything, the few bugs I've found are hilarious- placed two crop spots on each other, accidentally dug a crop spot in a cuttable tree when I had the hoe and not the axe out. Had many laughs as I grew a plant in mid-air. 10/10 best bugs. I...
Fun for a short time but there's almost no content and it doesn't look like there will be more added. Maybe 2 hours of content total.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Alchemy Garden scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/935400/alchemy-gardenReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.