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The Witch's Cauldron

Harvey games · 2024-01-24

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 24, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.

91%
positive of 634 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

What's it about: A pact-bound witch has to brew potions to help people. They come to visit you every day, seeking healing, novel experiences or in pursuit of more nefarious interests. By providing them with different potions you influence the outcome of events. At first you know a couple of simple recipes but as you progress you unlock more by experimenting with available ingredients or by following hints that some NPCs can provide. No matter what horrible end befalls you, you get to keep all unlocked recipes on further replays. The variety of potions and plot twists ensure high replayabilit(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (222 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 27,851 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 634 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.59 at Steam (2024-01-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 10 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21021020242026Week of 2024-01-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$3.592024-01-242026-10-082024-01-24 — best price $3.592024-03-14 — best price $6.392024-03-22 — best price $6.792024-05-13 — best price $5.592024-06-27 — best price $5.192024-07-28 — best price $5.992024-09-23 — best price $5.992024-10-28 — best price $5.192024-11-27 — best price $4.792024-12-19 — best price $4.792025-03-13 — best price $4.792025-05-03 — best price $5.192025-06-27 — best price $4.792025-08-02 — best price $5.592025-09-08 — best price $5.592025-09-29 — best price $4.792025-10-27 — best price $4.792025-12-08 — best price $5.592025-12-18 — best price $4.792026-01-14 — best price $5.592026-03-19 — best price $5.592026-03-26 — best price $5.592026-05-11 — best price $5.192026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-10-02 — best price $4.792026-10-08 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
96.6%
earned "Clap! Clap!"
15%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

2 supported languages: Russian, English

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-02-01, latest 2024-10-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2484%66

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

Player tags

2DRPGIndieFantasyCraftingMedievalRelaxingCard GameDiplomacySimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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