The Apothecary of Trubiz
kinjo · 2025 · Hidden Object, Puzzle, Word Game, Casual, 2D
PC
Very Positive94% · 509
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About The Apothecary of Trubiz
A Compact Fictional Language Deciphering Game
You are an apothecary.Prescribe the right medicine according to the conditions of the patients who visit you.
In your workshop, you only have a manual written in a fictional language.
You must decipher the fictional language to concoct and prescribe the medicine.Test the effects directly on patients to confirm them. Even if you fail, you can retry on another run.
Aim for the perfect treatment—or perhaps the perfect mistake in prescribing?
Features
- Casual fictional language deciphering
- Compact volume for easy play
- Multiple endings
How to Play
Decipher the fictional language in the manual- Form hypotheses in various ways, test them, and confirm the correct translations
- Enter translations yourself word by word. The same words will be auto-filled
- Each day, patients will visit. Mix and prescribe medicines according to their conditions.
- Hints for mixing and prescribing methods are in the manual. Translate carefully.
- Sometimes you’ll need to make predictions to mix and prescribe. Then verify the correctness of your translation.
- There is also a dark side: testing medicines on patients to check their effects.
- Translation progress and discovered medicines carry over between runs
- Even if you fail in your first run, carry over your knowledge and challenge the next one
Streaming Guidelines
Please check the Community Hub article titled “Streaming Guidelines for The Apothecary of Trubiz” for more details.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Very very short. Feels like a prototype of something with more of its systems - neither the mixing, treating, or translating go very far - but a reasonably polished prototype and a fine use of an hour or two if you want a low-effort distraction in the vein of meatier puzzle games. The multiple endings element didn't do anything for me as there was little to no narrative to change, so I didn't bother to get more than the "cure everyone" and "cure most". Nevertheless, it passed an hour well.1 found this helpful
Kinda wish it had some instructions at the start or at least some hints but good overall
10/10 :) Nice little game if you have a bit of free time.
Cute short and sweet puzzle game. I feel like I figured most of the manual out rather quickly, but it was an enjoyable experience nonetheless. And there were still a couple "Ohhhhhh" gotcha moments even after that point when I figured out the meaning of the last few sections.
This game rules.
A really nice and cozy game. Definitely recommend!
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