Alchemist's Alcove

Really cool game, highly recommended! The gameplay is a lot like Little Alchemy where you mix whatever you have together in order to create new items that can progress you further. It's also very similar to Noita in the sense that the whole game is a mystery that requires a keen eye and a curious mind. If you've played either of those games, definitely give it a try.

A must-try for fans of "traditional roguelikes".

This is very cool and interesting

The absolute golden example of a classic roguelike. The first few runs may be a pain of "wait, how do I survive??", but then the real gameplay strikes and its SO thematic, SO satisfying. If you somewhat liked the visual style of the trailer - I strongly recommend this to you, it delivers! Its quite painful to play this on steamdeck, but even with this - I liked it so much! Upd. --- Well, this was before I died for the first time after a 3h run --- To my sadness, the feeling of discovery vanishes just at a point where I wrote my review for the first time. I still leave it as a positive one, for the hours I really liked, BUT 1. The crafting tree is exciting. The spells it provides are not. They are, essentially, one of three types 1.1. Damaging spells - unlimited usage ones are borderline useless agains mid-tier enemies. Limited usage is better spells, but there are actually only 2-3 useful options to deal with everything that is not a base kobold. It boils down to: farm one easy area -> craft this one spell -> clear next one non-easy area. 1.2. Static summon spells - that just makes enemies attack it instead of you. Essentially it gives you time to cast damaging spells. And it does NO OTHER EFFECT, that is a real crime imo. In the end, this feels ultra useless to just spend your time on crafting those. 1.3. One time buffs - this is nice. I like this. There are not many such... 2. Crafting system is okay-ish. You dont need to travel to each component on the screen in fact (you can alt+click the floor anywhere on the screen, not just next to you), but it is a bit tedious. 3. There is no meta-progression as such. You can keep you recipes, but it wont help you progress the game - you'll need to gather all the resources once again anyway. The game becomes nearly linear once you know the order of spells and components for them. To sum up: I may try to beat this game once again. But it feels simply unfinished. The art and vibes are 10/10, but the gamedesign ideas are... just okay. Upd. Upd. I got it, the replayability is the problem. Started another run - and I had to execute literally the same sequence in the same order, maaan... I just dont see why its a permadeath game if nothing changes between "runs" - then it as well could be a save-load game, with save being some costy spell

Shattered pixel dungeon meets alchemy. This is a fine game, where you play as an alchemist and discover various recipe, items and spells to play through a dungeon and figure out the game's secret : create the philosopher stone. And that's a fine puzzle game, with a neat idea and a bit of exploration. However the replayability does drop once you understand how things work a bit, though as far as I know, the dev is working on adding new content. It's still a good time for a decent 20 hours (for me) with many many things to discover, and it does manage to sell you on its fantasy quite well. At first I was a bit scared of having to find recipes on my own and feared getting stuck, but the game managed to bring me to it and make me like it.

Really enjoying this game, very innovative with a great graphics style.

I play-tested this a bunch and many of my hours did not transfer, but even within the meager half an hour I've played on official release, it is easy to tell how much time was put into each facet of the game. The crafting system feels painstakingly polished, the art is adorable, nostalgic, and whimsical; and the writing has a uniquely goofy wit to it.

super cool game

Aburdly good. I only have 10 pages of the notebook and already its realy cool all the tools and weapons i made. I havent seen everything but i hope people buy this game so we have updates with more weapons or areas!

fire asf, I love the feeling of discovery the game gives you