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Potionomics

Voracious Games · XSEED Games · 2022-10-17

Steam

IndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 17, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

47
playing now
90%
positive of 7.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
87/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
31h
to beat · rushed 21h · completionist 43h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

47 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Potionomics is a simulation video game developed by Voracious Games and published by Xseed Games. It combines aspects of business sim, life sim and dating sim. It was released on October 17, 2022, for Windows. The game was well received by critics, who commended its complex gameplay and its graphical style, but were disappointed at its lack of any voice acting.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 47 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 307 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~38/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,941 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 147k–331k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 7,360 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2025-03-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.7k1.7k20222026Week of 2022-10-01: 1,672 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 269 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 856 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 299 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

62242026-08-06 22:00 — 41 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 34 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 34 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 44 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 41 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 47 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 39 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 43 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 54 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 60 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 28 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 44 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 50 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 26 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 37 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 39 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 29 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 56 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 56 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 45 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 37 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 45 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 50 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 36 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 61 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 42 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 32 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 47 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 47 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$14.992022-10-172026-08-192022-10-17 — best price $22.492022-12-23 — best price $22.492023-03-06 — best price $21.242023-03-16 — best price $21.242023-04-28 — best price $21.242023-06-30 — best price $19.992023-08-28 — best price $19.992023-11-21 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $19.992024-01-08 — best price $19.992024-02-19 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $19.992024-05-09 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $19.992024-09-17 — best price $19.992024-11-05 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $19.992025-03-03 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $14.992025-09-09 — best price $24.992025-09-29 — best price $14.992025-11-13 — best price $14.992025-11-27 — best price $24.992025-12-18 — best price $14.992026-02-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-05-04 — best price $14.992026-05-11 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $14.992026-08-13 — best price $14.992026-08-19 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3352026-05-30 — 13 pageviews2026-06-02 — 14 pageviews2026-06-05 — 23 pageviews2026-06-08 — 25 pageviews2026-06-11 — 9 pageviews2026-06-14 — 19 pageviews2026-06-17 — 15 pageviews2026-06-20 — 33 pageviews2026-06-23 — 21 pageviews2026-06-26 — 18 pageviews2026-06-29 — 11 pageviews2026-07-02 — 19 pageviews2026-07-05 — 12 pageviews2026-07-08 — 18 pageviews2026-07-11 — 16 pageviews2026-07-14 — 15 pageviews2026-07-17 — 15 pageviews2026-07-20 — 14 pageviews2026-07-23 — 14 pageviews2026-07-26 — 13 pageviews2026-07-29 — 13 pageviews2026-08-01 — 15 pageviews2026-08-04 — 5 pageviews2026-08-07 — 11 pageviews2026-08-10 — 9 pageviews2026-08-13 — 13 pageviews2026-08-16 — 12 pageviews2026-08-19 — 8 pageviews2026-08-22 — 13 pageviews2026-08-25 — 11 pageviews2026-08-27 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
97.7%
earned "Contractual Obligations"
23.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

5 supported languages: English, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,1275%30

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

Player tags

RPGIndieFantasyRomanceCraftingStrategyCard GameCapitalismDating SimManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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