Witchy Business

Um joguinho aconchegante e relaxante onde você vive como uma bruxa, coleta ingredientes e cria poções. A atmosfera é linda, a trilha sonora é calma e o gameplay é perfeito para quem quer descansar e aproveitar uma experiência mágica sem pressa.

It's a very cute and charming game, with great visuals, characters, sounds and music. Some might think it's a bit too repetitive but I don't mind that kind of gameplay personally. It's a nice game to play when you're stressed or just want to get away from the harsh reality we live in.

I did not enjoy this game. It was not "turn your brain off" for me because there was a lot of tedious clicking around + time to beat? You have to be quick and remember things, click things the right way and FAST. It was honestly way too stressful and simplistic at the same time. Also, I really liked the graphics looking at it, but in game it seems like not much was done with it. Overall, I refunded this game. If you see my hours on other games, when I enjoy a game I play it A LOT. Not the case with this one unfortunately.

игра была пройдёна на 100% за один присест. очень понравилось, хотелось бы в будущем обновлений так как места для фантазии в игре ещё очень много

I really wanted to like this game. I saw the complaints about it being too simple and thought I would move past it and figured it was the "turn your brain off" simple. And it was! But..it crossed the line for me. I personally hate how the majority of the mechanics were luck based. The only thing I could control was which plants to grow and what potions to try risk making. Even then, I had to GUESS what plants to grow based on my supplies and what I THINK guests would ask for unless I was late on potions. And I could only give a potion to the guy that approves me selling them ONCE a day. Because of this loop most of my money went to multiple soil patches until I realized minerals and special materials were ONLY LUCK BASED. Either getting lucky at the merchant or the once a day gatherings. I only played an hour and felt I couldn't keep up. I COULDN'T turn my brain off. I felt silly getting mad at these mechanics until I remembered the price. I lucked out and got it on sale BUT THE FULL PRICE IS DOUBLE. It made me so unreasonably mad I quit after an hour after discovering the achievement board. To me it feels like a slightly higher quality mobile game that latches onto luck for 80% of the gameplay. I understand some things like the merchant, random clients and their orders, and the random witches that can show up. BUT MAKING 2/3RDS OF YOUR POTION MATERIALS LUCK BASED FEELS RIDICULOUS. Maybe it's me having bad luck or maybe there's an upgrade I either missed or didn't unlock, but for how expensive the upgrades can be I felt like I couldn't even pause to look. Maybe that's my fault but it stills feels like the price of the game isn't worth it. ESPECIALLY the full price. If there's more to the game then that's on me, but I'm so off put by the start I can't recommend. I hope more can be put into it like more interesting dialogue, a more hooking plot (if there is one then make it show up or even just hinted at sooner in an eye catching way), or even just better mechanics that don't make me question if I just bought an expensive mobile game. I feel bad leaving this review but I just had to be honest and let others know if you don't like luck, random chance, or guesswork mechanics embedded in basic necessary gameplay, then this isn't the game for you. Personal note: Am I the only one who thought the thief's animation and sequence of defense against her look straight out of a mobile ad? This isn't a complaint or to talk bad about the game, it just especially bothered me and was one of the many things that took me out the game because it reminded me of a mobile ad.

I played for 6 hours and opened the game today to find it didn't save anything. Im never playing this game again, all that progress is gone.

**CUTE AND SIMPLE FOR WHAT IT IS** After finally completing the game and getting all the achievements, I would say the game is alright. It is extremely repetitive and some of its features could use more polish, but for what it is trying to be, I think it mostly works. I played on the highest difficulty and it still wasn’t much of a challenge, but honestly that seems acceptable for its target audience. Speaking of that, I think this game actually understands its audience pretty well. It is a fast and simple game that kids can complete within a few hours. Their attention might start dropping during the repetitive parts, but by then they will have already experienced enough of the game to decide whether they want to continue or call it done. The artwork is probably one of its strongest qualities because it fits the fantasy style perfectly, and I didn’t encounter any bugs during my entire playthrough, so good job devs. The potion making itself has some good ideas, although a few of the minigames annoyed me. Mixing ingredients in the cauldron with the spoon can be frustrating because some rotations don’t seem to register properly, which can ruin an otherwise perfect potion. This is probably one of those games that feels better on a controller because several actions depend on doing things quickly. The minigame where you draw from point A to point B is easy when you move slowly but punishes you for going fast, and I didn’t really like that. On the other hand, I really liked how creating a new potion forces you to memorize its shape from the book first. Once you start making it, you cannot simply leave the book open and copy the answer. You have to rely on your memory and pattern recognition to find the ingredients and place them in the correct order. I actually applaud that because it makes younger players use some logical thinking instead of having everything handed to them. I just wish there were more varieties of minigames and more customization around the potion making area. It wouldn’t even need to affect gameplay, simple decorations would already make the place feel more personal. The familiar is another feature that feels underdeveloped. I never really understood the point of the cat because the bonus it gives you is so minimal, and you cannot do much to customize its appearance or living space. The witch’s home could have helped with this too. I like that she lives in a little tower, but the layout doesn’t make much sense when the first floor is the store and the second is immediately the alchemy station. It would have been cool to have another floor in between that acted as the witch’s actual home, where you could decorate the interior and create a little living area for her familiar. I also wish we could actually see the protagonist. The witch appears in the game’s advertisements, yet somehow you never really see her in the actual game. The Sanctuary is alright, but it is another area where many small improvements could have made it much smoother. You cannot remove plants once they are planted, there is no visual of the plant sticking out of the ground to easily tell what is growing there, and planting would have felt much better if you could simply drag a plant onto the ground and mark its placement instead of clicking every individual spot and selecting it manually. There is also no collect all option for everything on screen and no quick way to replant the garden, while some tooltips randomly disappear when hovering over things. The ingredient book also needed a little more attention. I wish it actually had a name, and whenever you close and reopen it, it should return to the section you were previously reading instead of making you find your place again. The three cups containing the main ingredients also feel unnecessarily clunky when you are trying to work quickly. If you have one cup’s window open and you click another cup, the first click only closes the current window, forcing you to click again to open the next one. It would feel much smoother if clicking another cup simply switched the contents of the window automatically. Ingredient names would also be more useful if they appeared alongside their icons instead of only showing when you hover over them. At least give players the option between a simple interface and one that permanently displays the names. The cauldron is also strangely missing the hover animation that the other interactable objects have. I also think potion creation could have been more natural if dragging ingredients directly into the cauldron started the process instead of requiring another click first. One limitation I really dislike is that you cannot freely craft potions you already know. What if I want to prepare some before opening the store? What if I want to keep popular potions ready before customers arrive? The game doesn’t really let you prepare ahead in that way. Even something as small as the Marble Mortar would have been better on the right side of the table because its menu window partially blocks it where it currently sits. The Coven also has some missed opportunities. Hovering over a character should show their name and friendship meter instead of forcing you to open the book just to check their friendship level. That friendship book itself feels lifeless too. Instead of simply showing a character portrait with a progression meter beside it, it could have felt like an actual album of the friends you have made, with pictures of them that aren’t just portraits, their names clearly visible without hovering, and backgrounds that show more of their personality. The Bazaar has a small annoyance where if you don’t buy anything, you still cannot immediately return to the map because you have to wait for the character’s animation to finish first. Then there is the store, which is where I think many quality of life improvements could have made the gameplay much smoother. I wish customers had visible names so I could actually refer to them instead of treating everyone like another faceless order. Anything left on the store table at the end of a shift should also be collected automatically instead of disappearing when you leave for the map. The placement of some tools could have been thought out better too. The Conch would make more sense closer to the customers because it is something you repeatedly use, unlike the one time Catnip. The Golden Bell would also fit better beside the Insta Hexenerator because they are both tools based around repeated cooldowns. A day to night timelapse would have been a really cute addition as well, especially if the store’s color palette gradually changed depending on the hour. I also don’t like that starting the store immediately throws you into serving customers. It would have been much nicer to begin in the build/upgrade mode where you could relax, look around, change things, and then press a Ready button whenever you actually wanted to open the store. Keyboard shortcuts for the different store tools would also make things much faster instead of constantly swapping everything with the cursor, especially for tools like the enchanted orb or wand. There are also still some missing hover tooltips throughout the interface that should have been cleaned up. Overall, the game is cute, visually charming, and I think it understands its younger audience better than a lot of similar games. It just has a lot of little features that feel one or two improvements away from being much smoother. Is it worth its current price? No. I have seen games with far more content and complexity selling for $14.99, so if you are watching your budget, you are better off waiting for a sale. That being said, this is an indie studio, and smaller developers obviously need to charge enough to cover development costs and actually make a profit, so I can at least understand where the price might be coming from.

This plays very much like an unfinished demo than a full game. There is no momentum and the game cycles through the same few tracks, which are generic and not fun to listen to after 15 minutes of playing. A lot of the requests are stale, using a mouse for the enchanting puzzle signs is guaranteed to mess up somewhere, and there's no character development. The art is cute but feels hollow and unmemorable at the same time. This game does not feel rewarding to play and maybe the gameplay was diluted so it can be a "cozy" game, but it ends up being an extremely boring and stale game.