The Game Census
Alchemia cover art

Alchemia

Matthew Brown · 2018-09-28

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Text

Releases: Sep 28, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Alchemia is a cryptic puzzle game which is solved through research outside of the game.

76%
positive of 85 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.69
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 44,997 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 85 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.69-65%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2019-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520182026Week of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.592018-09-282026-10-012018-09-28 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $1.992019-01-28 — best price $1.992019-04-15 — best price $1.992019-07-29 — best price $1.992019-11-01 — best price $1.992020-01-02 — best price $1.992020-02-17 — best price $1.992020-07-09 — best price $1.992020-11-02 — best price $1.992020-12-01 — best price $1.992021-02-08 — best price $1.992021-04-05 — best price $1.992021-08-02 — best price $1.992021-12-01 — best price $1.992022-07-07 — best price $1.992022-09-19 — best price $1.992022-11-29 — best price $1.992023-01-30 — best price $1.992023-05-01 — best price $1.992023-10-02 — best price $1.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-03-21 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-10-14 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-06-05 — best price $1.992025-09-08 — best price $1.992025-11-10 — best price $1.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $1.992026-10-01 — best price $0.69
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieLogicCasualPuzzleDifficultSingleplayerTouch-Friendly

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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