Alchemy of the Earth
Tamalpais Games · 2025 · RPG, Action RPG, Horror, Indie, Adventure
PC
Mixed65% · 20 📈 Making a comeback 77%
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About Alchemy of the Earth
Alchemy of the Earth is a solo-developed open-world dreamscape where herbalism and alchemy are your lifelines. Gather rare ingredients, brew potions and poultices, and scavenge for loot to survive the undead remains of the island's original inhabitants, the Varharti.
Who were the Varharti? The Alchemist will tell you, if you will listen. Fabian will ramble on and on to you for hours as you explore the expanses of his Isle. About his wife, and the tragedy of her death. About his mysterious childhood, and the drowning of his mother in an icy lake. And also he will whisper of the troubling times he faced during the Siege of Cairo in 1798. He will muse over his discovery of the Moly tea, a potent drug capable of creating continuity in one's dreams, enough continuity even, to bring the dead ghosts of Egypt back to life from the mud. Alchemy of the Earth contains a fully narrated novella length story, written meticulously to fit with the game's island map, which features over 50 distinct locations and 6 unique biomes.
Explore a large hand-crafted world with distinct environments and sweeping vistas.
From open meadows to wind-shaped highlands, each biome is carefully built by hand to provide variety, clarity, and a sense of place, with an unprecedented amount of foliage density.Alchemy of the Earth contains over 200 million interactable plants, in order to push the Unreal Engine 5 foliage system to the absolute brink of collapse. Foliage density settings are available in the options menu if needed. Use these ingredients in a crafting system which is designed to run on its own you explore, helping you build your self-sustaining alchemy engine.
Find your way through the Veil:
Venture through abandoned settlements, crumbling structures, and overgrown wilderness. Along the way, you’ll uncover scattered traces of the island’s past—small details and forgotten places that piece together its history, and all the terrible things that the skeletons did to the Varharti.Leave No Stone Unturned:
Alchemy of the Earth is not just the ultimate flower picking simulator. It is also a game full of hundreds upon hundreds of secret items, spells, enemies, locations, easter eggs, and strange occurrences.Grind ingredients, brew potions, distill magic:
Magic is real, and the power of the elements are in your hands. Use your knowledge of aspects and essences to craft dozens of unique potions and spells to survive the creator’s failed experiments.Full Narration and soundtrack:
Discover the story of Alchemy of the Earth through over 50 audio narrations and 80 minutes of original music, composed and performed by Louie Taylor.Thank you for taking a look at Alchemy of the Earth!What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
**DISCLAIMER** I played and reviewed the Demo of this game extensively, and have found zero improvements from the Demo. I do not believe this game is worth spending money on, or playing for free. Aw man where do I even begin with this slop? First off you can instantly tell the dev has no idea how to tell a story there’s zero structure no emotional weight nothing to make you care it’s like they scribbled vague ideas on a napkin and hit publish The open world? if you can even call it that just empty boring space with zero intention or design behind it it’s not immersive it’s not fun it’s just dead and ugly Character movement feels straight up broken stiff awkward no weight or polish and what kind of first person game doesn’t even show your arms it’s 2025 and this feels like some Unity tutorial asset flip The enemies are actual skeletons wearing armor that doesn’t even fit like seriously it clips floats and looks like trash there’s no thought behind them no variety no challenge just lazy lazy design And the spells man they don’t make sense they don’t feel good to use they’re just sparkles and sound effects with no impact or identity it’s like someone made a magic system with zero…15 found this helpful
The character's boring monologue drones on like a bad audiobook narrated by a depressed and unmotivated old man, clearly too old to be on Discord or wherever the dev found him, but fortunately the mediocre bland/uninspired music drowns it out. It's this way too loud ear grating loop that sounds like it was composed in a free app by someone tone deaf. And the actual written dialogue itself? I am unsure if it was free or paid for, regardless, not a good choice by any stretch. I'm actually happy the music blasts over it because it's that embarrassingly bad. The world? Calling it, "open," is a joke because it's dead empty, no life, no vibes, just vast nothingness that arrived D.O.A. (dead on arrival for the uniniated) on Steam with 0 active players according to SteamDB. So much for those, "positive," reviews 😂 it really is impressive that this dev had to ask his friends to make them, I checked, despite all of them being negative and protraying a game they would not normally purchase, play, or give a second glance. Instead of adding a basic swimming feature which is easy when you have no visible arms, legs or body in general; you elected to make it so your character walks and runs on …6 found this helpful
every design choice in this game seems to be made without understanding of how socially adjusted adult humans function2 found this helpful
Needs more work, but not a bad game, needs to fix it's combat system, which is broken, or I'll change my review. Unfinished.
game has a beautiful world and enjoyable gathering, but major UI and control issues make it hard to progress. Skeletons spawn unfairly, combat is punishing, and the AI feels unfinished. Many menus and sliders don’t work, the game doesn’t pause, and cluttered notifications bury important items. With fixes, it could become something special.
fun to run around, not much to do though
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