Alchemy Emporium

This title has certainly a peculiar approach to what makes a game, it feels like a dive in deep water. While the statistics are explained in the beginning and each section has a tutorial, the true nature of the experience is concealed, to be discovered as the player advances. [b]Cons[/b] ✗ Incomplete translation, with some text left in Italian. ✗ Extremely mind-numbing, the progress does not grant any actual satisfaction. ✗ In-game annotations aren’t practical. ✗ The tutorial button is positioned right beside the "next activity" button. ✗ Some inconsistency in naming during different parts of the game. [b]Pros[/b] ✓ The concept for a new genre is interesting. ✓ Fascinating setting and artwork. [i]Disclaimer: my last game reached 43/50 weeks. The experience is tedious and I did not find it in myself to repeat it, with random generation all the data would have been useless.[/i] The game isn’t story-rich, the player is simply presented with a scenario. An alchemist wants to pass down his craft, hoping to find a crow to make their apprentice, but has to settle on the second best thing, a human child. Under tragic circumstances the shop is soon entrusted solely to her care, leaving …

**INFORMATIONAL REVIEW** 2nd / 06 / 2021 Before the 'recommended' label is read, first of all I do not recommend buying this in this state, I do recommend looking out for its future potential with a wishlist. Steam doesn't allow account reviews to show as 'Informational' so I've done this as to not confuse people completely. Lets be honest. This game is unfinished. It isn't bad for what it is; but it isn't outstanding in any regard. Intro to the game: You can select anything from what person you play as, to the location you stay at and which person gives you funds and everything. It seems like a lot of customisation but also comes with no tooltips to explain what those things are. The game lists 'unique perks' without any reference for a new player to know what that perk does. It lists stats and lets you choose which you start with; while giving minimal understanding or tutorials to them before you have attempted the task during the gameplay. Getting into the game: The intro doesn't really throw much at you in terms of demands, the game only holds your hand to make sure you know what some of the buttons do the first time you get to a screen. There is no mention as afar as my me…

The core games seems ok. But there are some pretty seriously broken bits currently that need to be addressed. Random parts of the game are in Italian only. One time there was a fire that swept through the shop and I couldn't do anything for a few in-game weeks? I think that's what happened? It was one of the few times things were really not well explained. The game has a lot to offer though! There are plenty of considerations to make, that stack up for what seems like a strong management game. But it needs some more time in the oven first.

As it stand it needs work but as the potential to be a great game. When you start up the game, there is some selections that come with perks. As of right now you have no way of telling what the perk does besides judging the name of the perk. As a new player, it can be even harder as you don’t know the game mechanics so it's even harder to choose. How you view the formulas needs changing. There are only two columns that you can view, but you can easily see five columns on the screen. You should also be able to filter the view for game play reasons. For instance, I noticed that a lot of my customers are asking for potions for being an actor, I should be able to narrow the formulas to see what I have already created. Ingrediencies need to be updated to be more user friendly. You can select them in the formulas screen to buy them the next time you are out buying new products. It's more of a broad buy, meaning that you select them and you can easily forget which formula that you need to make. My suggestion would be to have a formula select it for the ingrediencies, then when you go hover over the item in the buy production part of the day you should see which formula/s you need the…

EDIT response to developper: I am sorry for the negative review, I know you worked on something that have a lot of potential and put a lot of effort in it. I just wanted to leave the review for players like me, who don't mind grinding a bit, who can have fun playing without understanding all game mechanics, but will not have fun if even after finishing the game, they can't understand fundamental mechanics like client satisfaction and will have no reward for their efforts (grinding money until you can buy tier 3 tools, then the game finishes abruptly). I would love to change my review to positive if you listen to the other negative reviews too (ex: too much trial and error) and improve the game accordingly. Just finished the game, I'm very disappointed. The game seems unfinished, ending is botched. Lots of game mechanics don't make any sense. Maybe with more work it would have been a cool game, but it seems abandoned now.

The game is exciting and has some anticipation to it while making the different potions. It seems it has a few bugs right now but once worked out it will be a great shop game. I think there should be more of a goal and things to unlock so there is more to look forward to while playing. Also the tutorials I think should be simpler like maybe just grab this and drag here kind of direction, so there’s not so much to read in the tutorial and how to play. Other then that it’s an interesting game.