Stack your shelves, set your prices, open your store to the masses, and use your trusty abacus to calculate change – But be careful not to shortchange yourself! Alchemist Shop Simulator offers a satisfying mix of potion brewing and customer management, making you feel like a true alchemist at the heart of a thriving business. In saying that, if one more customer pays 20x the asking price only to demand nearly all of it back in change, I swear I’m flipping my brewing table!


🟩 Pros:

+ You’ve an abacus!
+ The knowledge tree is extensive, giving plenty to unlock
+ Special Orders add structure and give you goals to work toward
+ Previously set prices remain after restocking (huge QOL feature)
+ Running and upgrading both your shop and garden keeps things engaging
+ Potion brewing is genuinely fun and interactive, offering 12 pages of recipes to experiment with

🟥 Cons:

- Animations are rough, and the voices are somehow worse
- The lack of music and sound variety makes the world feel lifeless
- The limited branching paths in the Knowledge Tree make progression feel too linear
- No consequences for overpricing items or making customers wait, leading to no challenge
- If one more customer pays 20x the asking price only to demand nearly all of it back in change, I swear I’m flipping my brewing table

🏷️ Suggestions:

~ Allow shop customisation so we can personalise our store
~ Introduce market trends to create dynamic pricing and strategy
~ Introduce alchemy upgrades e.g. A larger cauldron for increased brew output
~ Add a dynamic risk vs reward system with theft mechanics if prices are set too high
~ Introduce a relationship mechanic by implementing customer patience and rapport systems
~ Introduce manual ingredient collection through gathering, fishing, or mining instead of relying solely on merchants
~ Let me hire assistants (elves, goblins, or even a co-op mode) to help with customers, stacking shelves, or tending to my garden


Alchemist Shop Simulator is yet another entry in the ever expanding, oversaturated simulation genre. At first glance, the rough animations and… interesting… voices don’t inspire confidence, but as the saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover. Beneath its unpolished exterior lies a surprisingly engaging shopkeeping experience, though a few key ingredients are still missing.

The gameplay loop is familiar – Buy items, stack your shelves, and sell them for profit, with the added element of maintaining a garden for key ingredients. What sets Alchemist Shop Simulator apart, however, is its brilliant potion brewing system. Instead of simply clicking a button, you follow a checklist of steps, using intuitive mouse movements to create one of many potions (seriously, there are 12 pages of recipes) – It’s easily the game’s strongest aspect.

Outside of brewing, though, the game lacks challenge or consequence. Special orders have deadlines, but there’s no pressure elsewhere. Pricing and wait times don’t matter, as there’s no customer satisfaction system to consider. While the core loop is addictive, the game desperately needs more depth and difficulty, for me at least.

While, to my surprise, I kept saying ‘just one more upgrade’, ultimately, it’s a fun but shallow experience. If you’re looking for depth and difficulty, this isn’t the game for you. However, if you can look past the rough presentation and want a relaxing shopkeeping sim, this one is worth a try.

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This is a good shopkeeper game in which you sell potions and potion-related items. You'll also brew your own potions and grow the herbs yourself. There are no missable achievements, and completion takes around 15 hours.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: Around 15 hours
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don't need a guide, but I wrote this one [www.missitheachievementhuntress.com]
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: Yes, it can feel quite grindy. What I can tell you is that when you unlock the option to make potions automatically, use that and start selling potions. You'll make so much more money that way! And get that last garden upgrade to have an easy way to earn a lot of experience through harvesting plants.
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty setting
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

Alchemist Shop Simulator is a good shopkeeper game in which you run a shop and help customers while also making custom orders and growing herbs to brew potions with. A funny thing is that when you deliver custom orders with potions, you'll see the effect of the potion play out, which is always a weird and crazy effect.

While playing this game, I sometimes felt it was a bit boring, but on the other hand, I kept playing and playing. The next level or shop upgrade was always just very close by, and I wanted to keep playing that session till reaching that point, but then the next one was close by, so I kept playing till that one and the next one, and the one after that. So, while I wish it had a little bit more Quality of Life upgrades, like, for example, the option to hire a staff member to stack the shelves for you... I clearly also couldn't stop playing and kept going and going.

While playing Alchemist Shop Simulator, I think I was a bit too ambitious and not playing it the smart way. With store upgrades, the shop gets bigger and bigger, so you can stock more items in your store. But stocking them back up also costs a lot of time, especially if your store is bigger. At one point I realized that maybe I should stock up my shop full with items from the merchant outside your store but more with potions, the game is called "Alchemist Shop Simulator for a reason, right? And that was indeed right; potions sell for so much more profit, and if you have all the garden upgrades and the skill in the skill tree that is at the right side of the screen, it is just so much easier to have some potions in your shop. Also, my prices were too low. I was scared of customers not buying items, but I should have just tried to go for the highest rounded-down price for which it might sell and just wait a little or kept busy with other things.

One of the things I'm a massive fan of is that the game remembers the price you put on items. So even when you deplete the stock and buy/brew new ones days later.. the game still remembers the price you put on it before and instantly puts it up for sale for the same price when you put that item on the shelves. Also, the auto-brew option later on in the game is such a blessing!

Alchemist Shop Simulator has no missable achievements, so you can just play the game without a guide or worrying about any of the achievements, and a lot of them you'll unlock without focusing on them. Unlocking all the achievements takes around 15 hours. While you don't need a guide while playing through the game, I highly recommend writing down which potions you manually made, as there is an achievement to make all 30 of them manually at least once.

I give Alchemist Shop Simulator 4 out of 5 stars.

good game with a lot of potential
feels unique and not a re-skin like most shop simulators