Potion Allow is a role-playing journey sport developed by MassHive Media and printed by PQube. It packs every part you want in a comfy title. Between foraging, curing residents of the city, and battling enemies, there’s by no means a boring second.
Your character is a chemist, transferring to Moonbury to assist heal the mayor’s daughter. The issue is the residents don’t look after alchemy and like conventional therapeutic strategies. So, not solely do it’s good to heal the residents with potions, however you additionally want to achieve their belief alongside the best way.
One factor I like about this sport is that it isn’t gradual to start with. In related video games, you don’t have any cash and have to construct up your revenue earlier than you are able to do something. In Potion Allow, this isn’t a problem. You’ll be able to promote potions you make, promote elements you forage within the wild, and earn cash by therapeutic the residents. It provides up rapidly, permitting you to improve your instruments, home, and cauldron simply.
The sport is fairly easy and well-balanced, and there’s at all times one thing to do to maneuver ahead. For instance, once I first turned on the sport on a Saturday morning, I blinked, and eight hours had already handed. That’s how straightforward it’s to get sucked into Potion Allow.
There are a lot of transferring items to this sport. The most important one is exploration and potion-making. Your character has a cauldron of their residence the place they’ll make numerous potions to promote or use for therapeutic when a resident will get ailing. When somebody will get sick, you diagnose them by enjoying a fast mini-game, akin to Simon says, or a rhythm sport. Then, you make a potion to heal them.
Potion-making is comparatively easy, too. Potions are a puzzle the place you have to add elements to fill the form. Every part has a selected form, much like Tetris-style blocks. To make the potion, you have to work out tips on how to make the items match collectively. To begin, your cauldron can match 5 elements, however you’ll be able to improve it on the blacksmith a couple of instances to have the cauldron match as much as ten items.
As soon as a potion is made, you’ll be able to deliver it again to the resident to heal them. You will have about 4 in-game days to recuperate them earlier than they lose belief in you. Fortunately, the puzzles had been straightforward sufficient, and the elements had been straightforward to come back by, so I at all times healed my residents instantly, incomes the utmost belief and cash.
However how do you get elements in Potion Allow? You discover the wilderness surrounding the city! The map is comparatively giant and is cut up into 4 sections, one being the city itself. The primary space you unlock is a forest biome. To get elements, you’ll be able to reduce down timber, bushes, and different crops. As well as, there are monsters and wild animals to combat. They’ll additionally drop gadgets you should utilize for potions. As well as, these things can be offered or used to satisfy resident quests. All of the sources come again the following day, so you’ll be able to simply refill on sure provides.
Resident quests are like a aspect story to assist enhance your friendship with every particular person. Each particular person on the town has their very own story occurring behind the scenes. Should you speak to them as soon as a day, you’ll ultimately fill the meter, unlocking a cutscene to see extra of their story. Actually, I wasn’t as into this function of the sport. There wasn’t a lot reward for all of it, and the cutscenes had been plentiful. So, it felt like they interrupted the circulation of the gameplay.
Nonetheless, the sport does hold you busy. There’s at all times one thing to do, whether or not serving to a resident, stocking up on provides, fishing, hanging out on the arcade (sure, there’s a whack-a-mole mini-game), and extra. My solely grievance is that Potion Allow is a bit of too straightforward. However alternatively, I acquired utterly sucked into the gameplay and had a tough time stopping for the day. Should you’re in search of a low-maintenance, cozy sport, undoubtedly examine this one out.