Games like Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

The Squirrel's verdictPotionomics centers a deckbuilder haggling system around a structured story: you brew potions, then face customers in card-based negotiation rounds, managing a schedule against a fixed in-game calendar. It has a full voiced cast, romanceable characters, and a defined ending. At 36.9 median hours, it suits players who want characters, narrative structure, and strategic pressure alongside the brewing.

Not for you if you want a low-pressure, open-ended crafting loop rather than time-management deadlines, haggling minigames, and story-driven dialogue.

The Squirrel's verdictThe Magical Mixture Mill suits players who want active ingredient gathering and light production-line automation alongside potion brewing. You roam the world collecting resources using ability-based skills, fight hostile plants, then build limited automated supply chains back at your shop. Reviews describe the automation as shallow and the content as thin, but the gathering loop as enjoyable. Median playtime runs 25.2 hours.

Not for you if you want deep automation, meaningful combat, or a recipe-focused crafting system rather than resource runs and restricted production lines.

The Squirrel's verdictShelf logistics and customer flow are the core of Alchemist Shop Simulator: you stock shelves, set prices, make change on an abacus register, and brew potions one at a time from ingredients you grow yourself. Reviews describe limited shelf variety, repetitive sales, and fixed potion types with little unlocking over time. Median playtime sits at four hours. Suits players who want shopkeeping mechanics as the main activity.

Not for you if you want deep recipe experimentation, shop customization, or more than a few hours of varied content.

The Squirrel's verdictMagical Delicacy keeps the ingredient-gathering and recipe-experimentation loop but wraps it in a metroidvania: you platform through a maze-like town to find ingredients and unlock new areas, rather than mixing at a single station. Good fit if you liked Potion Craft's discovery phase and want jumping puzzles and exploration layered onto the cooking.

Not for you if you want to sit and mix potions rather than platform across crumbling ledges to find ingredients.

The Squirrel's verdictThe Last Alchemist keeps the chemistry-experimentation core but wraps it in a 3D world with movement, exploration, and NPC quests instead of Potion Craft's stationary cauldron loop. Median playtime runs 10.6 hours. Suits players who wanted Potion Craft's recipe-discovery system extended into an actual overworld with characters to talk to.

Not for you if you want controller support, smooth camera controls, or a game free of a known quest-blocking progression bug.

The Squirrel's verdictAlchemist Simulator is a short, visually polished puzzle game built around mission-based crafting: pick up an order, combine elements across a handful of stations, deliver the result. Reviews describe easy recipes that never exceed four aspects, a fixed set of challenges rather than open experimentation, and a runtime around five hours. Suits players who want calm, tactile alchemical puzzles with a clear story arc and low difficulty.

Not for you if you want complex recipes, open experimentation, or content that lasts beyond a few hours.

The Squirrel's verdictPotion Tycoon puts you in a competitive potions market where AI rivals can undercut your products within a day of release. Day-to-day play involves sourcing ingredients, setting prices, managing staff, and reacting to a shifting market. Reviews consistently flag a steep difficulty curve and poor tutorialization. At 14.7 median hours, it suits players who want business-pressure decision-making layered onto a potion theme.

Not for you if you want calm crafting and recipe exploration rather than market competition, rival AI, and a poorly explained management system.