Potion Permit is a role-playing adventure game developed by MassHive Media and published by PQube. It has everything you need in a cozy title. Between foraging, treating townsfolk, and fighting enemies, there’s never a dull moment.
Your character is a chemist who moves to Moonbury to help treat the mayor’s daughter. The problem is that the inhabitants don’t like alchemy, they prefer traditional remedies. Therefore, you need to not only heal the residents with potions, but also earn their trust along the way.
One of the things I love about this game is that it’s not slow at first. In similar games, you have no money and need to increase your income before you can do anything. With Potion Permit this is not a problem. You can sell the potions you create, sell materials you gather in the wild, and heal residents to earn money. It will be added soon and you can easily upgrade your tools, houses and cauldrons.
The game is very simple and balanced, constantly needing to do something to move forward. For example, when I turned on the game for the first time on Saturday morning, I blinked and 8 hours had already passed. That’s how easy it is to get sucked into a potion permit.
This game has many moving elements. The biggest ones are exploration and potion making. Your character has a cauldron at home where you can make various potions to sell or use to heal your residents when they are sick. When someone gets sick, diagnose it with a simple mini-game or rhythm game like Simon says. Then make a potion that heals them.
Making potions is relatively easy. Potions are puzzles that require additional ingredients to fill the shape. Each component has a specific shape that resembles a Tetris-style block. To make a potion, you have to think about how the pieces fit together. First, the cauldron allows him to hold 5 ingredients, but can be upgraded several times at the blacksmith to hold up to 10 ingredients in the cauldron.
Once you’ve made a potion, you can give it back to your residents to heal them. You have about 4 in-game days to heal before they lose their trust in you. Luckily, the puzzles were easy and the ingredients were easy to come by, so I always treated residents quickly, earning them the most trust and money.
But how do you get the ingredients for your potion permit? You explore the wilderness surrounding the town! The map is relatively large and divided into four sections, one of which is he town itself. The first area to unlock is the forest biome. Trees, bushes, and other plants can be chopped down for materials. In addition, there are monsters and wild animals to fight. It also drops items that can be used in potions. In addition, these items can also be sold or used to complete resident quests. All resources return the next day, making it easy to stock up on specific supplies.
Resident quests are like side stories that help build friendships with each person. Everyone in town has their own story going on behind the scenes. Talk to him once a day and you’ll eventually fill up the meter and unlock cutscenes to see more of their story. To be honest, I wasn’t very interested in this feature of the game. There wasn’t much reward for everything, and the cutscenes were plentiful.
However, games keep you busy. Whether it’s helping the residents, stocking up on supplies, fishing, or hanging out at the arcade (yes, there’s a Whack-A-Mole mini-game), there’s always something to do. My only complaint is that the Potion Permit is a little too easy. But on the other hand, I was completely engrossed in the gameplay and had a hard time stopping the day. If you’re looking for a low maintenance, cozy game, definitely check this out.
