Potions Practicum

Potions Practicum

Megan Eder · April 10, 2026 · Casual, Simulation, Shop Keeper, 2D, Anime

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5 user reviews100% · 5
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lowest tracked $3.49
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Potions Practicum price by region

Potions Practicum costs $3.29 in Georgia (USD), £4.00 in the United Kingdom, €4.50 in Europe (EUR), $4.99 in the United States, CA$5.99 in Canada, A$6.95 in Australia, NZ$7.50 in New Zealand, R$17.00 in Brazil and zł21.49 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Potions Practicum offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $3.29 $3.29 — 1
United Kingdom £4.00 £4.00 — 1
Europe (EUR) €4.50 €4.50 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.99 CA$5.99 — 1
Australia A$6.95 A$6.95 — 1
New Zealand NZ$7.50 NZ$7.50 — 1
Brazil R$17.00 R$17.00 — 1
Poland zł21.49 zł21.49 — 1

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About Potions Practicum

✦ AI summary

Potions Practicum puts you in charge of your mother's potion shop for one chaotic week, where you'll brew concoctions, negotiate with bizarre customers, and manage your reputation and gold reserves in a strategic shop management roguelike. What sets it apart is the discovery-based potion system where recipes aren't given to you—you'll unlock them through experimentation and build an ever-growing knowledge base across roguelike runs, all while your judgmental black cat companion critiques your every move.

Take over your mother’s potion shop for a single, unpredictable week.In this cozy but strategic shop management roguelike, every decision matters. Brew potions, serve strange customers, and try to keep your business alive long enough to make it to the end of the week.

🧙‍♀️ Run the Shop

Customers arrive with requests, offers, and problems: some straightforward, others… less so.
Choose how to respond:
  • Sell potions
  • Buy rare ingredients
  • Refuse service (at your own risk)
Your choices shape your gold and reputation. Lose either, and it’s game over.

⚗️ Experiment in the Lab

Use three tools to craft potions:
  • Mortar
  • Cauldron
  • Alembic
Recipes aren’t handed to you—you’ll discover them through experimentation. Every successful discovery is permanently recorded for future runs.

📖 Build Your Knowledge

As you play, your collection of known formulas grows. Mastering the system means recognizing patterns, optimizing ingredients, and preparing for what customers might ask next.

🐈 A Cat With Opinions

You’re not alone. Your sharp-tongued black cat companion watches everything; and isn’t shy about commenting on your choices.

🔁 Replayable Roguelike Structure

Each run is a fresh attempt to survive the week:
  • New events and customer combinations
  • Different resource pressures
  • Increasing mastery over your recipes

⚖️ The Core Challenge

Balance:
  • Risk vs reward
  • Experimentation vs reliability
  • Profit vs reputation
Can you keep the shop alive… for all seven days?

Potions Practicum — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Potions Practicum is a charming potion-crafting game praised for its adorable art style, cozy atmosphere, witty talking cat companion, and engaging character interactions that reward careful reading. Players appreciate the relaxing gameplay loop of discovering recipes and mixing potions, though some note the game requires multiple playthroughs to learn formulas and progress, and involves real-time day cycles that can interrupt your work. Most reviewers consider it worth playing if you enjoy light, cute games and go in expecting to restart runs rather than win on your first attempt.

Recommended Apr 10, 2026
Soo cute. Finding potion recipes feels good, and the talking cat is funny. It's actually worth reading the interactions, and for me that's the best part. Worth the low cost, and can see myself spending a few hours here.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 30, 2026
You might like this game if you go in with the right expectations. I didn't, but I think if I knew the below, I would have had a better time. Thus, I will make it a recommendation and hope the below review will be helpful. It's impossible to win on your first try. This game requires you to restart and/or lose several runs so that you can identify enough formulas to eventually win a run. I did not expect this (I'm used to longer games that will give me a chance to win on the first playthrough), so it resulted in some frustration. Each day is based on a real-life timer ticking up. Once the time reaches a certain point, it ends the day regardless of what you are doing. The next day, you can usually pick back up where you left off, but not always (sometimes a customer is not there any more). The resources (formulas, ingredients, wood, and gold) are scarce and rely on randomness for a chance to learn, buy, or earn. There were several times that I was sitting on my thumbs watching the clock and waiting for the day to end, so I could buy some wood to make a potion. A few times the day would end and I would suddenly not have enough gold to buy any wood, because the computer decided that…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 23, 2026
A surprisingly adorable potion‑crafting game. The art style and music are unbelievably cute, and the whole atmosphere feels cozy from the first minute. Mixing potions is fun and relaxing, and the cat character constantly made me laugh. If you want something light, charming, and entertaining, this one is perfect.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 16, 2026
Nice game, a little fun for all the witches out there!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 27, 2026
This is a cute game! I liked the characters, and how you had to figure out the right path forwards depending on their goals.

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