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Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

niceplay games · tinyBuild · 2022-12-13

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IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: May 31, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Dec 12, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Dec 12, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 13, 2022 (Xbox One), Sep 21, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 13, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S)

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator is an Indie and Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $7.99, with an owner estimate of 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 44288 reviews).

402
playing now
93%
positive of 45k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
23
twitch viewers (latest)
7.7
viewers/channel (concentration)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (55 ratings)
48
Nexus mods (96k downloads)
4.09★
PlayStation Store rating (809 ratings)
77/100
opencritic · strong · 75% recommend · from 8 critics
21h
to beat · rushed 18h · completionist 29h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

402 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Potion Craft is a video game created by Russian independent developer niceplay games and published by tinyBuild in 2022. Described as an "atmospheric management simulator set in a medieval fantasy world", Potion Craft is a management simulation game in which players operate a store producing and selling potions using alchemical ingredients. Upon release, Potion Craft received praise from critics for its novel and intuitive crafting mechanics, and was nominated for several awards at the 2023 Independent Games Festival.

Trailer

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator trailer thumbnail

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator - Official Version 1.0 and Console Launch Trailer

≈271,437 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 402 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,874 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~359/week).
  • · Review velocity down 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 49,650 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 900k–2.0M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 44,995 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$7.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.97 at GameBillet (2025-09-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 116 of 168 observed days · $3.02 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.9k3.9k20212026Week of 2021-09-01: 2,568 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 202 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1,410 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2,516 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 844 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 633 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 324 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 343 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 534 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 242 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2,667 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 349 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,278 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 398 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 510 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 442 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 329 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 464 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 374 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 284 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3,900 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 480 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 264 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 359 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 385 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,303 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 953 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 690 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 683 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 521 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 605 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,055 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 451 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 441 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 424 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 362 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 509 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.0k4022026-09-15 12:00 — 543 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 652 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 468 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 810 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 957 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 542 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 534 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 753 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 534 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 809 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 856 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 455 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 437 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 757 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 674 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 516 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 778 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 603 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 433 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 742 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 757 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 420 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 402 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
4.0k187Sep 2021Aug 2026Sep 2021 — avg 4,021 · peak 7,010Nov 2021 — avg 490 · peak 1,227Jan 2022 — avg 521 · peak 1,211Mar 2022 — avg 233 · peak 692May 2022 — avg 247 · peak 535Jul 2022 — avg 286 · peak 596Sep 2022 — avg 284 · peak 569Nov 2022 — avg 187 · peak 420Jan 2023 — avg 1,819 · peak 4,972Mar 2023 — avg 746 · peak 1,795May 2023 — avg 446 · peak 1,269Jul 2023 — avg 600 · peak 1,149Sep 2023 — avg 428 · peak 1,100Nov 2023 — avg 458 · peak 1,006Jan 2024 — avg 570 · peak 1,362Mar 2024 — avg 391 · peak 909May 2024 — avg 476 · peak 1,105Jul 2024 — avg 567 · peak 1,039Sep 2024 — avg 659 · peak 2,241Nov 2024 — avg 404 · peak 938Jan 2025 — avg 1,792 · peak 3,917Mar 2025 — avg 1,124 · peak 2,797May 2025 — avg 671 · peak 1,836Jul 2025 — avg 1,639 · peak 3,269Sep 2025 — avg 518 · peak 880Nov 2025 — avg 754 · peak 1,588Jan 2026 — avg 837 · peak 1,449Mar 2026 — avg 713 · peak 1,366May 2026 — avg 597 · peak 1,406Jul 2026 — avg 555 · peak 1,076Aug 2026 — avg 585 · peak 1,406
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
18182026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 11 new positive2026-09-23: 7 new positive2026-09-24: 9 new positive2026-09-25: 7 new positive2026-09-26: 14 new positive2026-09-27: 14 new positive2026-09-28: 17 new positive2026-09-29: 18 new positive2026-09-30: 13 new positive2026-10-01: 9 new positive2026-10-02: 4 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 11 new positive2026-10-04: 7 new positive2026-10-05: 10 new positive2026-10-06: 5 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new negative2026-10-07: 12 new positive2026-10-08: 11 new positive2026-10-09: 8 new positive2026-10-10: 17 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 10 new positive2026-10-13: 14 new positive2026-10-14: 7 new positive2026-10-14: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$4.992021-09-162026-10-142021-09-16 — best price $14.992021-12-22 — best price $11.992022-03-28 — best price $11.992022-06-07 — best price $11.992022-08-06 — best price $10.492022-11-22 — best price $11.992023-01-03 — best price $9.892023-02-28 — best price $14.992023-04-21 — best price $9.742023-06-02 — best price $14.992023-07-20 — best price $8.022023-08-29 — best price $8.182023-10-12 — best price $19.992023-11-30 — best price $9.342024-01-10 — best price $19.992024-02-22 — best price $19.992024-04-01 — best price $19.992024-05-01 — best price $8.992024-06-13 — best price $19.992024-07-25 — best price $16.392024-09-04 — best price $8.992024-10-19 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $7.992025-01-16 — best price $7.992025-02-17 — best price $16.962025-04-14 — best price $19.992025-06-09 — best price $19.992025-08-19 — best price $6.802025-10-01 — best price $8.002025-11-20 — best price $19.992026-01-18 — best price $19.992026-03-09 — best price $7.992026-04-24 — best price $16.642026-06-11 — best price $19.992026-08-07 — best price $15.592026-09-11 — best price $19.992026-10-01 — best price $7.992026-10-14 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

61172026-05-28 — 39 pageviews2026-06-01 — 20 pageviews2026-06-05 — 49 pageviews2026-06-09 — 22 pageviews2026-06-13 — 26 pageviews2026-06-17 — 23 pageviews2026-06-21 — 22 pageviews2026-06-25 — 20 pageviews2026-06-29 — 29 pageviews2026-07-03 — 27 pageviews2026-07-07 — 38 pageviews2026-07-11 — 24 pageviews2026-07-15 — 29 pageviews2026-07-19 — 22 pageviews2026-07-23 — 56 pageviews2026-07-27 — 46 pageviews2026-07-31 — 32 pageviews2026-08-04 — 35 pageviews2026-08-08 — 61 pageviews2026-08-12 — 43 pageviews2026-08-16 — 22 pageviews2026-08-20 — 33 pageviews2026-08-24 — 29 pageviews2026-08-28 — 21 pageviews2026-09-01 — 23 pageviews2026-09-05 — 29 pageviews2026-09-09 — 28 pageviews2026-09-13 — 32 pageviews2026-09-17 — 27 pageviews2026-09-21 — 28 pageviews2026-09-25 — 32 pageviews2026-09-29 — 38 pageviews2026-10-03 — 34 pageviews2026-10-06 — 24 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

12402026-09-30 23:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-01 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 17:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 02:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-02 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 14:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-03 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 08:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-04 17:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-05 11:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-05 20:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-06 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 14:34 — 19 viewers2026-10-06 23:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-07 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 17:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-08 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 11:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-08 20:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-09 05:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-09 14:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-09 23:35 — 2 viewers2026-10-10 08:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-10 17:35 — 9 viewers2026-10-11 02:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-11 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 20:35 — 1 viewers2026-10-12 05:34 — 124 viewers2026-10-12 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 23:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-13 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-13 17:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-14 02:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-14 11:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 52 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 23 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
74.1%
earned "Alchemist's Path: Chapter I"
21%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller Support

14 supported languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Thai…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)20,3579%29
Windows (Xbox)8,3823%29
Switch (Nintendo)1560%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPGIndieCasualSandboxCraftingLife SimMedievalRelaxingHand-drawn

Census log

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

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