I showed it yesterday in a list loaded with the best demos of the Steam Next Fest and a handful of hours later I was commenting on it for the issuance of the GG with a twist that perhaps took part of the limelight. However, I did not want my good impressions with Potionomics fell on deaf ears.
It is not usual that in an indie game the mixture between cinematics and real game ends up blurring, but thanks to art and animations that seem to be taken from a triple A, Potionomics manages to become one of the most awesome games that have passed before my eyes this 2022.
Un digno rival para Potion Craft
Following in the footsteps of Potion Craft, although I know that its development goes much further back and drags on until 2017, Potionomics It asks us to put ourselves in front of a potions shop to create the most varied concoctions and then sell them to those who pass by.
With the money earned you buy more ingredients to create new potions, improve your store or customize it to your liking, but even if you try it free which is currently and Steam does not let us see further, it seems that it also includes some more additions such as controlling the missions of a certain hero, a bit of dating sim and some more mechanics.
The weight of the playable, in any case, is carried by the creation of potions based on mixing some ingredients with others to try to guess what can come out of there, it seems that in a less original way than the aforementioned Potion Craftand a haggling minigame in which, this time, Potionomics He passes his hand across the face of his most direct rival.
If there it was time to grab onto the ability to press the mouse at the right time, which offers Potionomics is a card game in which you must add sales strategies while maintaining both the patience of the buyer and the stress of your character.
Advance in history. or follow some or other conversations. They will be adding new cards and business strategies to add to your deck in an entertaining and successful approach that I am very curious to see how far it is capable of reaching.
Pixar animations: Potionomics’ great asset
But although his achievements at the playable level seem enormous, something that is not 100% exploited in the demo and that we hope to see first-hand when the next October the 17th arrive at the store PCin which this Potionomics it is in the formidable mime that it displays in the visual.
It is not that it is the first independent game that enters our eyes, it is that when you think that it has already removed all the aces that it had up its sleeve, it surprises you again with an animation that seems like witchcraft because of how expressive it becomes. Like in a movie Pixarit’s hard not to be entranced by how all of his characters move.
Aware of the extent to which they dominate the practice, the creators of Potionomics they embrace it until it becomes part of the interface. The best example is in the witch who sells us ingredients and who, when we go to visit her at the store, hits the magical chest she carries with her until it opens her mouth and shows us its contents as if it were a shelf.
I think it’s important to get Potionomics to the fore because I am aware of the extent to which it is one of those games that can easily go under the radar, but I assure you that it is one of those great examples that, even if it is just out of curiosity, you have to approach to see to what extent they get to shine
A couple of days ago I didn’t know that its launch was coming, and now it’s one of the games I’m most looking forward to in this last stretch of 2022.
